The Inland Empire Food Wars

Amusing article in the San Berdoo Sun contrasting the Inland Empire being known for both fast food and health food.

We have San Bernardino, known all over the world as the birthplace of the fast-food industry, and we have Loma Linda, which enjoys an international reputation as a bastion of vegetarianism. [...]

It's an interesting historical dichotomy that during the late 1940s, the '50s and the early '60s, when San Bernardino entrepreneurs like Richard and Maurice McDonald, Glen Bell and Neal Baker were opening their McDonald's and Taco Bell and Baker's restaurants, the predominantly Seventh-day Adventist community of Loma Linda, a mere six miles away, was sailing innocently along as the only town in America where you couldn't buy a hamburger anywhere.

Continued: "I.E.'s a veggie good place"

The article then goes on to list some of the best vegetarian options available at various restaurants around the area.