Yumm..stuff

[SwampDonkey]

OneWith Wood:

We still make your Boston Brown Bread up here in winter months with the beans. I bet termite has ate a few steamed loaves. ;)

[pappy]

Corn bread and bean hole beans too --ployes and beans -- or if cold enough just beans and biscuits will do

 fuuurt--fuuuurt  :D :D

[etat]

I'm really don't care that much for dessert, or sweets.   I do like good food, just about any kind.  Vegetables, most any meat, seafood, heck, I even like Chinese food occasionally.  Or when I'm feeling real brave maybe some Mexican food.  I also like trying new dishes, but don't worry, if I don't like it after I try it I won't be afraid to say so, I'll just tell you that it just ain't agreeable with my ole taste buds. What I really don't much care about, is fast food hamburgers.  First year or so of roofing, plumb burnt myself out on em and ain't ever got over it. .

 Here's a tip for ya.  If you're ever in ANY strange town around dinner time and want a good meal, not fast food, look for where the guys that drive the construction trucks go eat.  Just watch the parking lots. You ever pass a little rinky dink place and lots of these folks in there eating, that's where you'll probably find a good plate lunch that'll beat them fast food places all to pieces.

[Rocky_J]

Aw heck, CK. Any traveler worth his AAA card knows that trick. I learned that one from my dad when I was a kid and we drove to CT and back during summer vacation. Most workin' folks know good food and good value.

I also learned how to change a flat tire on that trip.  ;D

[Bibbyman]

Come to think about it,  we have a whole thread under the travel topic listing places to eat.

Where to eat

Maybe you've got a couple to add to the list or find one of these along your way someday.

[SwampDonkey]

When travelling in the states I find that most good places feed well. We used to go to a takeout just over in Mars Hill Maine for Clams (The Lobster Pot) and they were good tenderloins. Over here all ya get is the crumbs form the bottom of the bag. Yuskstuff, mostly batter. And you'de think you could get good fish in NB restaurants along the coast its all that battered processed stuff. I was on a trip around the Gaspe in Quebec and we found a nice restaurant in the Mall and I had a full plate of fresh fish. There was salmon, herring, scallops, 2 or 3 others. Way more than I could absorb. Then on the Charlottes, at the Raven restaurant I had a huge platter of fresh fish. There was stuff on there with a 100 tentacles even :D :D all good eatin, brought right in to the warf. There was probably 10 different fish and enough for 4 people, but I had it to me self. :D There was only one good seafood restaurnt that we ate at in NB, that was Cyes, which I think is gone now. We used to go by Train to eat there while shopping in Town. Don't even have the train now.

[Bibbyman]

You know,  of all the things that have changed since I was a kid,  one thing ain't - A&W Root Beer.  I meen the real stuff you get at and A&W in a frosted glass mug.

Mary and I sawed all day today.  We're that far benind.  Get done,  I said to Mary,  "Lets take a shower and go to A&W and get some fish and root beer." (The local A&W is also a Long John Silvers).

We did.  They hand out the frozen mugs and you just help yourself.  I drank 3 and Mary 2.

Maybe I'm just fond of A&W Root Beer because my first real girlfriend worked at an A&W back when they had carhops. ;D  

I remember one evening droping in at A&W to say Hi to Nancy but she but her shift didn't start until later.  But two of her girlfrinds were working the early shift.  They were getting tired of being pestered by boys so they came up with the idea that if they were wearing a boy's high school ring,  the boys would leave them along.  So they talked me into loaning me my highschool ring and another big ring I wore at that time.  When Nancy came on her shift, it wasn't long until she spotted the rings and know where they came from.  I got them back real soon.

[Buzz-sawyer]

BIB remember the baby burger, moma, and the popa burgers....they had a taste all thier own and delicious with thier onion ring and frosty mug!!

[Jeff]

We were at Dennys today in Saginaw and they serve grits there! Did I get em? One Word.  HASHBROWNS

[Tom]

Is that what you call grits up there?

[Jeff]

Yes! They are just like your grits except with a couple differences. They are shaped different and taste good.

[Tom]

 :DI'll have to try some when I get up there.  ;D   Northern Grits, eh? :D

[chet]

Eh!   ;)  And dar even better wit fried onions mixed in.  

[Bibbyman]

Hay!  What's going on here?  Grits invading yet another topic! :D  

They're everywhere! They're everywhere! 8) 8) 8)
Useta' be able to buy A&W Rootbeer in a gallon jug.  Dad always wanted me to pick up a jug of Nancy's rootbeer - as he called it.  If you took your own jug,  it think it was about $3.00.

[Stan]

Like Bibby's grandmother, mine had a wood stove until her husband died and she moved to town and an apartment. They got electricity and running water for their 50th wedding anniversary. It took all 10 of their children chipping in to pay for the power poles.  :-/ She didn't miss the coal oil lamps, loved the wrestling on TV, and kept her wood cook stove.  ;D

[CHARLIE]

The closest A&W was a 15 mile drive from Fort Pierce to Vero Beach. It was always a special treat. If you bought a quart of Rootbeer to go, it came in an inverted cone like waxed cardboard container. If you ordered a gallon to go, it came in glass gallon jugs. It was always a treat for Tom and I when Mom would take us to the A&W in Vero. Grandaddy would always want Mom to bring some home. I remember once, we left the gallon jug on the back porch and we were all in the living room when we heard an explosion. We all went to the back porch to see glass and Rootbeer everywhere. The gallon jug of Rootbeer exploded.  Several years later, the people that owned the A&W in  Vero, closed it and opened a larger one not far from the railroad tracks on south US 1 in Fort Pierce. It became a real hangout for us teenagers.  Everyone had to "Circle the A&W" at least once a night.  It was hard to get a spot to get some vittles. When I could, I liked a Rootbeer and a chili dog.  Sometimes, lines of cars went around the drive-in and down the highway. The traffic around the drive-in got so bad on the weekends that they had to have a cop directing it. Good memories.

[Bibbyman]

Oh yea,  I remember those chili-dogs. Didn't they have a special on Tuesday nights of something like 6 chili-dogs for a buck?  

We had a couple combinations of "cruse loops" in Fulton.  The short one was up Main (US 54), turn on 7'th, down Court (one way),  turn on 5'th back to Main,  back out of town to Dog-n-Suds where everyone parked to hang out because they had the biggest parking lot.  

The larger loop was from A&W on the south side of town on Main, turn on 7'th, down Court, turn on 5'th but then turn left on Main and go north out of town to the King-Cal drive in restauraunt that was outside the King-Cal drive in theater.  There was a DQ on Main but only the old people stopped there.

Dog-n-Suds set in about the middle of a hill (now the site of a McDonnel's) with park area on both side of the street below it. This section was about 1/4 mile long with only one side street right across from it.  It was where all the guys with hot cars showed their stuff. There was a trick to it - If you had much of a car at all you couldn't "get on it" until you where out into the lane and square to the highway  - THEN stick your foot into it.  Where some got into trouble was they'd try to light it up pulling out.  The crown in the road and such, you'd end up throwing a doughnut - or at least part of one.  

The kids driving their mom's slant 6 Valiants and such would have to do their thing going up hill.  They'd pull out, slip the automatic into nutral and reve it up and pull it back into drive just to get a short little "ERK" from the tires.   :D

All this accounted for at least one good finder bender a weekend and a bad wreck once a month. A lot of old-timers got rear-ended because they were going the speed limit. The really bad accidents happened when someone would lose it and get hit by an 18 wheeler or smack into the rock bluff just down the hill.

[SwampDonkey]

Stan:

I hear ya on the wood stove bit. Both my grandmothers wouldn't part with those. I used to stay nights with one of my grandmothers as she had bone cancer for a few years. I was only around 12 years old when we had to bring her to father's, as her cancer was getting worse.  Those old folks like their independence you know. ;)

She bought us a pine tree before she passed away, we planted it in the back yard. The DanG sap suckers seem to have an affinity for it and won't leave it alone.

[Bibbyman]

We know a place within walking distance that has about a dozen big patches of tame blackberries.   Tame may be accurate as to distinguish them from the wild ones we use to have but tame in attitude they are not.  Some of the plants reach a height of 10' and are defended top to bottom with nasty fishhook thorns.  But they are loaded with plump, heavy berries.



They are normally ready for poaching about the 4'th of July but this year being cooler and damper,  they were a bit late.  This evening I introduced Alex to picking blackberries.  Someone had been there before us and had trampled spots to reach the berries.   I've got to say,  it was THE most comfortable blackberry pickin' experience of my life.  The temperature was low 70's,  no mosquitoes or deer flies,  and I haven't noted any chiggers yet.

Alex held up to the task better than I figured and didn't complain about the one stick for each berry she was getting.  We had my small bucket full and half of her bucket when I said we had more than enough and could head back.  But she wanted to fill her bucket.  We lasted a little longer then decided we needed to go to my folk's house to get a drink so we quit.

Now,  it's up to Mary to make a blackberry cobbler.

[Tom]

My blackberries were poached.     .......sniff......... :'(

[SwampDonkey]

Dig in



Leave my cranberry colored mixing bowl though ;)

[Bibbyman]

I got my blackberry cobler and all to myself.  Mary don't like the thousands of little hard seeds. 8)

[Larry]

Kathy went to visit some of her kin up in Richardton ND a few days ago.  I felt obligated to load the van with a lot of produce for those poor northern people.  Plenty of tomatoes, cucumbers, and these things.



I was really planing to send some raspberries but just couldn't  find any room to fit them in the van. :D ;D :D ;D :D

[dail_h]

   Someone at work gave Donna a bunch of blueberries yesterday,cobbler is finishing up even as we speak. Got the ice cream all ready ;D

[sprucebunny]

Larry Is that okra? Is that yum or yuk? ???