The history of Downtown Lansing restaurants is a checkered one, and today, we take a stroll through the graveyard of 25 years of Washington Ave. eateries.

Dusty Fancher of Midwest Strategies Group, Rob Macomber, Chief Deputy Clerk of Kent County, and Zach Gorchow of Gongwer News Service are our hungry historians.

What’s your favorite sandwich place?  The boldest flop?  The fastest flame out?  Place to go for an incognito meeting?  Most cursed location?

It’s time to talk turkey.

Order up! It’s the Cold Oatmeal podcast.