Lowe's Chinese Food has been serving at the Salem Willows 40 or 50 years, said the lady at the take-out restaurant's open window.
We heard about Lowe's chicken chop suey sandwich a couple weeks ago.
It was a local grandmom's favorite. A visit to The Willows amusement park, a seat on a bench and a chicken chop suey sandwich.
On Tuesday not long after Lowe's raised it window at 11 am we ordered the funnel-shaped sandwich. It cost $2.10. That's right, $1.97 plus tax.
We ate the lunch on a bench dedicated in memory to the grandmom and her husband.
We give the sandwich and experience, on a pleasant summer mid-day, a forks up.
Maybe it should be a chop sticks up but we've never got the hang of them.
The chop suey was pretty standard Chinese restaurant chop suey.
It sat inside a standard hamburg roll placed on its side and opened forming a bowl of sorts.
We ordered ours in paper. The sandwich was wrapped in the light wax paper forming a cone, it's edges pointing out like petals.
A paper napkin was wrapped around the restaurant serving paper.
A brave gull walked by the bench looking for a handout.
The Willows is a step back in time, a New England seaside amusement park in miniature. A small scale Salisbury or Hampton Beach from a generation ago.
The chop suey sandwich was a new experience from no special time but memorable for its novelty.
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