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Where Is It?

August 6, 2008
Eric Barton,

By CHARLES FERRUZZA

In the 1959 movie Gidget, future Academy Award-winning actor Cliff Robertson played the sexy, tan Big Kahuna, the surfer king of Malibu Beach. The “Big Kahuna Sand” at this Kansas City location has nothing to do with the soft stuff that gets kicked up at the ocean, but an abbreviation for something good to eat.

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Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Tags: Big Kahuna, Gidget, Where is it?
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