This Saturday, it was ‘Pulp Fiction’ for breakfast

I think it was when I heard Chuck Berry singing “You Never Can Tell” that I looked up from my scrambled eggs, expecting to see Uma Thurman and John Travolta dancing the twist. Which is one reason why you eat at Hogan’s , the throwback eatery that sits in the Lincoln Heights Shopping Center. Ambience that includes a juke-box sound system simulating something from a 1950s diner (or a Quentin Tarantino movie).

Hogan’s is one of the spots that my friends and I regularly frequent for our Saturday-morning breakfasts. And while the photograph — which shows one order of bacon, scrambled eggs, hash browns and sour-dough toast, plus an order of scrambled eggs, pancake and bacon — could be described for men of our age as heart attacks on plates, the food it portrays certainly was delicious.

And our collective cholesterol count? Hey, we’ve lived this long. As the great Berry sang, ” ‘C’est la vie’ say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell.”