We’d planned on having lunch in this little town in Kansas but were nearly through town before we saw anything that looked like lunch. Just as we were about to give up all hope we spotted a little hamburger stand called the Frigid Creme, right there on the corner of East Long Street and North Wichita Avenue. A smartly-executed high-speed turn and there we were – ready for an old-school burger!

The place is called the Frigid Creme, which is the model name of the particular burger-restaurant kit that the original owners purchased in the 1960s. I’d tell you more about that, but my Google search took me to a company that makes “premium embalming cosmetics” (also known as “mortuary makeup”) and now I’m traumatized.

Dighton, Kansas
photographed 9.5.2024