Patriotic scrap.

August 26, Renseelaer.

On highway 41 a guy in a small white truck painted with "Patriotic Scraping" and the dutiful American flag passed us. Shortly thereafter he stopped at a road-side restaurant called "USA Family." You couldn't make that one up.
Culinary habits notwithstanding, the patriotism of the scrap metal business remains doubtful, as the vast majority of this country's scrap metals are shipped to China, where they are melted down and sent right back to the U.S. as toasters, coat racks and the like, thereby further contributing to the rising national trade deficit.