A Sad Day Indeed

I have no idea exactly when this happened, but it came to my attention today that Guthrie’s is no longer in Athens, GA: either location, Baxter or East Athens/Cedar Shoals.

I almost cried.

That place was a fucking institution, how could it have perished? Even stranger, how can it survive as a company with franchises in 4 states but close it’s doors in A-Town?

I am personally very sad that whole new generations of University Of Georgia students will not know the wonder of 5000 calorie GutBoxes as a part of their UGA experience. I think my first 2 years in Russell & Creswell I probably spent as much time sitting in the booths at Guthrie's on Baxter as I did in the Library.

Damn that shit was good.

They even had the crushed/shaved ice that us ice crunchers love so much, and made sweet tea taste even better than with regular ice.

This is even worse than not having Chick-Fil-A readily available on a daily basis.

I'm off to find some The Cure to listen to to appropriately channel my melancholy.

"Remembering you, how you used to be,
so proud you were angels, so much more than everything..."

That is all.

***Update***

My sister was kind enough to remind me that it's even worse than I originally thought: there are still not 1, but three Guthrie's in the center of hell Auburn, Alabama. That's almost as bad as losing to them in football. Almost.