Everybody has it—the one food they love to indulge in more than anything else. The menu item that they’d want to be their last if they were on their death bed.
For Emily Pomeranz, it was a mocha milkshake from Tommy’s Restaurant in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
As her friend Sam Klein writes on Facebook, Tommy’s is famous for both its food and milkshakes. It’s the hometown favorite that calls him back every time he visits home.
“Recently, a dear friend of mine, Emily Pomeranz, who also grew up in Cleveland Heights (and also lived in the D.C. area) was moved to hospice as she had pancreatic cancer.”
It was her third bout of cancer in just 50 short years of life.
Sam went to visit his friend in hospice a few weeks back, and like anyone would do, he asked Emily if she needed anything.
‘“A Cleveland Indians hat,’ was her first response.”
The next day, Sam brought her one.
As the two friends talked, Emily revealed the one thing she really could go for was one last mocha milkshake from Tommy’s.
“Knowing that she couldn’t travel to Cleveland, I emailed the general information email address on Tommy’s website, asking if there was a way to get a milkshake the 375 miles from Coventry Road to Arlington, Virginia, where she was in hospice.”
Sam knew it was a long shot, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
To his surprise, he received a phone call from Tommy Fello—the owner of Tommy’s Restaurant.
He told Sam, “Yes. We will figure out a way to do this.”