There’s a soda fountain in Scottsboro where the milkshakes taste like your grandmother’s kitchen smelled, and Payne’s Sandwich Shop has been perfecting this magic for longer than most of us have been alive.
This place doesn’t announce itself with billboards or highway signs screaming for your attention.
It just sits there on the street, quietly being excellent, which is perhaps the most Alabama thing imaginable.
We live in an age where everything demands our attention with the subtlety of a car alarm at three in the morning…