Emily Pomeranz had a real hankering for her favourite milkshake but she was 370 miles away from her hometown diner…
A diner in Ohio has granted a sick woman’s dying wish after she started to crave a special milkshake from her hometown.
Emily Pomeranz, who was in a hospice near Washington DC with pancreatic cancer, had a hankering to taste a mocha shake from her hometown diner.
Somehow the impossible was made possible, and the milkshake was shipped to her deathbed across the United States.
Pomeranz had told her friend, Sam Klein, about her craving and he contacted Tommy’s diner in Cleveland Heights to arrange the long-distance order.
The drink reached her bedside four days before she passed away last Friday, the BBC reported.
Klein, who also grew up in the Cleveland area before moving to Washington DC, had asked his old friend during a visit to her hospice if she needed anything.
“She said with a smile, ‘I wish I could have one more Tommy’s mocha milkshake,'” Klein said.
He said he contacted the general information email address for the restaurant.
“A few days later I got a call from Tommy Fello, the owner of Tommy’s. ‘Yes. We will figure out a way to do this,’ is what he said,” Mr Klein said in a Facebook post.
Fello told Cleveland’s Fox 8 News that he had never dealt with an order like this one in the restaurant’s 47-year history.
“I wasn’t even sure if we’d be able to do it,” he said, adding that those involved had dubbed it the ‘milkshake mission’.
The diner owner put the beverage on dry ice and paid $123 (£93) for overnight shipping 370 miles (600km) across the country.
Klein said Pomeranz, 50, was overjoyed to taste her favourite shake.
“I know Emily would love the fact that she’s making people feel good even though she’s not here with us anymore,” Klein added.