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At a truck stop Krass meets Johnny, a waifish, boyish-looking hash-slinger played by Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg’s wife at the time.

On the other, it celebrates the American vernacular in the form of Central California whistle-stops, working-class bungalows and Joan Blondell’s impersonating a tipsy hash-slinger out for a night on the town.

Whether it was a Frisco hash-slinger or a refined bar-lady along the seaboard made no difference to Klondyke.

The pudding-faced man in the hash-slinger's hat and white starched jacket was blowing his heart into an old World War I bugle.

It was inconceivable that Birdie––or, as he mentally apostrophized her, “this blamed hash-slinger”––should so flout him.