Corbin, Kentucky, in Appalachia’s Cumberland Plateau has a wide range of interesting eats, from the Root Beer Stand car-hop drive-in where the specialty is chili dogs and chili buns accompanied by frosted mugs of root beer to You and Me and Coffee and Tea, which offers worldly coffee and sophisticated variations of rustic fare. Corbin also is home to the original KFC, called Sanders Cafe, and to the personality-plus Smokey Bear’s BBQ, where the law-enforcement theme features such menu items as the Prosecutor Burger and the Prison Yard Salad, and where side dishes are titled “side arms and appitasers.” BBQ pork is great on a plate, in a bun, or piled up on tater tots and called a Pigtator.
"Drive-in" has come to mean just about any cheap-eats restaurant with car-friendly parking. A genuine drive-in is a place where customers park and are waited on and eat in...
