Mom & Pop

Diners, Dives, Local Favorites -- you know, the small places you see on the side of the road that just beg you to stop and try the pie.

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Drive Interstate 155 from Hayti, Missouri to Dyersburg, Tennessee, crossing the Mississippi River on the historic Caruthersville Bridge.

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