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Tasty Diner Returns to Harvard Square
You slog along Mass Avenue toward the center of the Square. At Holyoke Center, the snow-confounded shouts are becoming sharp and insistent. Around the corner of JFK Street, there is the gaunt preacher with a Rudy Vallee megaphone, churning the blizzard with his own steaming howls, in a Harvard Square apparently deserted but, in fact, crowded with familiar spirits.
Cambridge, MA: At 3 pm on Sunday, February 12, 2006, The Tasty—a beloved diner from the heart of old Harvard Square—returned to its homeland after years of exile.
Long thought to have been destroyed in a "coup" that left 6 J.F.K. Street under the occupation of Abercrombie & Fitch, The Tasty has survived to see that store routed (its old territory is now under the provisional authority of a Citizens Bank.)
The Tasty was supposed to serve hot dogs, hamburgers, and coffee outside its former compound at 6 J.F.K. Street, surrounded by a "cardboard hologram" that simulated the feel of the original diner.
As it turned out though, the only sustenance available was a dark liquid contained in two boxes labeled "1369." We had to serve ourselves. We could not say for sure whether the number referred to an Inman Square coffee house or the vintage of the potion; but we were grateful for it nonetheless.
Commandante Alan Nidle issued a communique which declared, that The Tasty would be deployed as a "forward firebase" in the "Battle for the Brattle" that began last fall as a people's war to defend the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square.
With things looking up on the Brattle front, Zeitgeist Gallery has decided to take the offensive and liberate all of Harvard Square.
Around 17 people—18 if you count Cambridge Chronicle reporter Chris Helms—and three dogs participated in the Sunday action.
The next day, a spooksman for the Department of Homeland Security whispered that he did not wish to be quoted or identified.