"When you go to the Hole, you smell like the Hole." It's a reliable prediction regarding The Watering Hole in Lincoln, Nebraska. But the Hole's clingy aroma of grease pales in comparison to that of Salina, Kansas' Cozy Inn in both pleasantness and potency. When you go to the Cozy, you smell like the Cozy ... as do your clothes, your car, and any room you enter for hours thereafter.
Cozy Inn's been around since 1922 and they're still using the same tiny grill to fry up slider-style burgers. In the tee-niny cooking area behind the six-stool counter, the cook presses small balls of fresh hamburger meat into a bed of sizzling onions. The resulting odor is captivating, but will stick to you like glue. Do not eat there prior to a business meeting. Four sliders, chips and a pop will run you $5.74, if I remember correctly. There's nothing else on the menu. Highly recommended.