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Mary Clare had her first Ruth’s hot dog this weekend, and as you can tell from the photo above, she thoroughly enjoyed it!  If you know Hartsville, you know Ruth’s Drive-In, or Doc’s, as most Hartsvillians would say.   Nothing fancy.  Just hot dogs and hamburgers and many familiar faces.  It has been around as long as I can remember.  As Mel and I sat in the booth snapping photos, several patrons said they remember seeing the two of us at her age eating Doc’s dogs.

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Mary Clare ate her entire hot dog with chili.  McCanless ate two!

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Check out the Mel’s Special in the photo below.  (One of my hubby’s creations when he was on the Atkin’s Diet.)  Ruth’s now has several signs advertising it, complete with a paper bow tie attached!

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Mel even blogged about it on melpennington.com back in February.   “Living in a town of 7,000 means that celebrity status comes in really unique ways.  Mine came last week via Ruth’s Drive In and a very special culinary delight…”

2 Comments

jan tompkins  on May 3rd, 2009

Oh my gosh, Doc’s reminds me of Mac’s in Pendleton. I love Mac’s so I know I would love Doc’s. Your kids are just adorable. MC is soooo cute and her hair is getting so so long. Found you through Annabelle’s blog.

KATE  on May 4th, 2009

look at MC with a ponytail!!!