Status: Hoax
The Butter Trough, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a great concept for a restaurant. First of all, the menu is simple. They only serve bread, butter, and sweet tea. But best of all, it's all free! It's the world's first advertiser-supported restaurant:
The Butter Trough is the world's FIRST 100% advertisement supported restaraunt. Come down to our Atlanta Facility to enjoy food and fun with friends and family all for free. We are able to bring this great value to YOU, the consumer, through the use of directed advertisements from corporate sponsors. This means that while you are enjoying your bread, butter, and tea you will softly hear advertisements playing in the background via the tabletop speakers, multipatron television sets, and the butter trough multimedia displays scattered throughout the establishment.
Is this place real? I don't think so. Clues that it's fake include the google ads on the website (though this would make sense given that the restaurant is advertiser supported), and the obligatory CafePress t-shirts they're selling. But the biggest clue is the address: 6346 Lynch Avenue, Atlanta GA. There doesn't appear to be such a place. At least, nothing comes up on Google Maps when I type in that address.
I'm guessing that the Butter Trough site was created by
Joseph Donaldson, because a) Joseph Donaldson's homepage is hosted on the same server as The Butter Trough site and b) he links to the Butter Trough. A few other sites (all of which link to the Butter Trough as well) hosted on that server include:
Circus of the Damned, and the
Just Ducky Guild. (Thanks to Doug Nelson for the link)
Comments
I have to live there
And if you are gullible enough to drive around trying to find this place, then I've got a bridge to sell you at a great price, but not quite free.
Give me a call 404-555-duhhhhhh
But seriously, yes, there is a Lynch Ave, but his directions are complete crap, and you wouldn't exit off 85 onto anything close to Howell Mill. It is off 75 after the split from the south.
Lynch Ave is in what is affectionately known as "Home Park," an area of older houses typically inhabited in group fashion by Georgia Tech students. Ahhh, the memories. 😊
Let us know how the butter tastes!
The address not appearing in Google Maps doesn't mean that it doesn't exist (although I realize there's other evidence that the restaurant doesn't exist). My address, the one the Post Office uses, can't be found in Google Maps, either. It certainly exists, GM just can't process it or something.