{"id":354,"date":"2009-03-17T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T05:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-03-18T22:34:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T03:34:02","slug":"s-s-cafeteria-gervais-street-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"S &#038; S Cafeteria, Gervais Street: 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/sscafe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/03\/sscafe_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today's picture comes from reader Thomas who says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHere is a pic of the old S&S on Gervais.  I took it in 97 when I was USC and they announced it was closing and would be torn down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can only recall eating at this <i>S & S<\/i> once.  If I remember correctly, we took my aunt from Florida there for some reason -- perhaps after shopping downtown.  What always impressed me about cafeterias as a kid was how different the rice was from what we got at home or family gatherings.  Family rice was very sticky and fluffy.  Cafeteria rice, on the other hand, was a dish of discrete rice grains which did not stick together at all.  I suspect now that cafeteria rice is parboiled or <i>converted<\/i> as Uncle Ben might say.  Why anyone would prefer it that way I can't say, but it would make it easier to clean the dishes at a commercial establishment, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p><i>S & S<\/i> still has an operation at Richland Mall, where it replaced the old <i>Morrison's<\/i> cafeteria, which in turn replaced the older <i>Redwood<\/i> cafeteria (which was the cafeteria we mostly went to when I was a kid).  For some reason, there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/74.125.47.132\/search?q=cache:qoTeymZcgFQJ:ja-jp.facebook.com\/pages\/Columbia-SC\/S-S-Cafeteria\/59134794104+%22s+%26+s+cafeteria%22+columbia+gervais&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us\">Japanese facebook page devoted to the Richland Mall operation<\/a>, though I can only make it come up in English if I use the google cached version.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Thomas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's picture comes from reader Thomas who says: Here is a pic of the old S&#038;S on Gervais. I took it in 97 when I was USC and they announced it was closing and would be torn down. I can only recall eating at this S &#038; S once. If I remember correctly, we took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,3],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}