Rained out fishing, a friend was just here drinking coffee. I asked about a local restaurant that has been going local for many years, but has changed hands. He said, I was there a while back, and told them, I've been here twice now, the first time, and the last time."
Frisch's "Big Boy" restaurants are alive & well along the I75 corridor, especially in the Lexington-Cincinnati area. Had one of their burgers when my age was single digits & still crave one every couple months. Watch it when you get further south, the Cinci big boy has tarter sauce, in Georgia they use thousand island. (trying to copy a frikken Big Mac I guess)
But if you tire of those, they make a pretty good chicken fried steak & gravy.
Two gone and very badly missed ones are Stubb's Ranch Kitchen in Spencer and Ken-A-Bob in Storm Lake. To have not experienced them is to have a large hole in one's existence.
When I was a kid in Houston, we went to the Chuck Wagon drive in. Menu included Hub Burgers, Wheel Burgers and Spoke Dogs. Root Beer in paper tubs, printed to look like barrels.
Burger Queen turned up in towns not big enough for a Burger King, I kinda liked them. They had to regroup & changed to Druthers. Still fast food crap as far as food goes but their fish sandwiches & especially their onion rings were very good for the type of place.
Gone 25 years & I still miss the rings.
But.... living my life in a rural setting, the places I miss most are the mom & pops. They just can't seem to make it anymore or the younger gen doesn't care. Thirty years ago, going to a bar & grill on a Sat & getting a hand pattied burger with hand cut fries all cooked the way you wanted it, a treat for sure, Americana gone.
The original Sambo's on the beach in Santa Barbara is still going strong, we drive up there for breakfast a couple of times a year.
Bet they don’t still have paintings of a Tiger chasing little black Sambo around on the wall or menus like the ones here had when I was a little kid in the 1960’s.
Burger Queen turned up in towns not big enough for a Burger King, I kinda liked them. They had to regroup & changed to Druthers. Still fast food crap as far as food goes but their fish sandwiches & especially their onion rings were very good for the type of place.
Gone 25 years & I still miss the rings.
But.... living my life in a rural setting, the places I miss most are the mom & pops. They just can't seem to make it anymore or the younger gen doesn't care. Thirty years ago, going to a bar & grill on a Sat & getting a hand pattied burger with hand cut fries all cooked the way you wanted it, a treat for sure, Americana gone.
You need to check out Fava's in G-town,...been going since 1910. They make those big home style burgers that are so big you have to dislocate your law to take a bite of 'em. They also make a good hot brown.
Henry's Hamburgers - you got some number of hamburgers (4or5?) and something like #25 pounds of fries in a brown paper bag. After it was empty, you could wad up the bag, stick a wick into it, and use it for a lamp for a number of hours.
burger chef when growing up. see all the muscle cars there on the wknds.
don't know if Shoney's is still around or not. lot's of time there in the past.
too many local bbq joints have come & gone to even count.
thankfully they were always replaced by somebody.
Around here 'back in the day' DQ was where the high school "Elite" and wannabes hung out and BC was where kids from blue collar families hung out on evenings and especially weekends. Evey one in a while some kids from one or the other would get liquored up a bit too much and circle the other's 'turf' stirring up crap and then the fight would be on.
I'm pretty certain there's some Shoney's buffets still operating here in western KY. Wife and ate at one last fall. Extra good fried chicken, the rest was okay but nothing special. Pretty puny dessert choices, too.
Many California oldtimers might remember this one depending on where you grewup and lived in the 70's and 80's. This was when they still cooked real food in their kitchens not just heating up precooked crap in some off site facility.
Best Mother Cracking Corn bread and honey butter in the frigging world ever served in a restaurant.
Keeping in mind that I've never been arrrested... The only time I've ever been arrested was for expressing that exact opinion... in front of a lady... in the South. Disorderly conduct. And I was just speaking the truth!
I've never found them to be that bad. That said, they're not my favorite. First one I ever ate at was in a suburb of Dallas. There are quite a few around here, but none in small towns. The locator says five in KC and it looks like three in the Tulsa area. I've at at the one in Broken Arrow and it's okay.
There's still a Shoney's here, as well as in Clarksville, TN, and a few other towns in this part of the world. They're just so-so in my opinion.
There used to be a family/buffet style restaurant chain named Ryan's that operated in a number of cities back several years ago. It was a toned down version of Golden Corral. It was pretty decent when it first opened, but soon went downhill. Anyway, in this area Blacks flock to places like that, and one day I was eating in there, and was going through the line and got the last fried chicken leg. A Black woman and little boy were in line behind me, and as I was walking off, I heard the kid say "mama, dat man got de last chicken leg."
I still think about every time I eat at a buffet style restaurant.
There's still a Shoney's here, as well as in Clarksville, TN, and a few other towns in this part of the world. They're just so-so in my opinion.
There used to be a family/buffet style restaurant chain named Ryan's that operated in a number of cities back several years ago. It was a toned down version of Golden Corral. It was pretty decent when it first opened, but soon went downhill. Anyway, in this area Blacks flock to places like that, and one day I was eating in there, and was going through the line and got the last fried chicken leg. A Black woman and little boy were in line behind me, and as I was walking off, I heard the kid say "mama, dat man got de last chicken leg."
I still think about every time I eat at a buffet style restaurant.
Rained out fishing, a friend was just here drinking coffee. I asked about a local restaurant that has been going local for many years, but has changed hands. He said, I was there a while back, and told them, I've been here twice now, the first time, and the last time."
Renegade loves that golden corral. He blows up their breakfast buffet.
But he also eats MRE beef stew cold.
*barf....
Hahaha!!! Oldest daughter got done with her nursing tdy assignment at ft knox yesterday . Here for a couple of days till Friday when she goes back to ft Carson ( and grand dog Brady finally)
She brought me 7 mre dinners.
Yep.... Had 2 of em for dinner last night. Chill mac x 2
Cold .....
They was fugging awesome. I have ate so much cold food under more fugged up conditions my whole life . I dont know any better.
Golden Corral is food of the Gods. Specially the breakfast buffet!!!
In the pain clinic in Antioch for 2 back and 1 neck shot.
What a fugged up cross section of humanity this waiting room is.
There's still a Shoney's here, as well as in Clarksville, TN, and a few other towns in this part of the world. They're just so-so in my opinion.
There used to be a family/buffet style restaurant chain named Ryan's that operated in a number of cities back several years ago. It was a toned down version of Golden Corral. It was pretty decent when it first opened, but soon went downhill. Anyway, in this area Blacks flock to places like that, and one day I was eating in there, and was going through the line and got the last fried chicken leg. A Black woman and little boy were in line behind me, and as I was walking off, I heard the kid say "mama, dat man got de last chicken leg."
I still think about every time I eat at a buffet style restaurant.
How many of you had to go to White Fence Farm every Mother's Day?
I lived in Bolingbrook for 30 years. White Fence Farm was THE place to go! Second was Family Square or Portillo's for the beef sandwich. Just a snack? White Castle!
How many of you had to go to White Fence Farm every Mother's Day?
I lived in Bolingbrook for 30 years. White Fence Farm was THE place to go! Second was Family Square or Portillo's for the beef sandwich. Just a snack? White Castle!
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