I can't keep up...last week it was Olive Garden, this week Cracker Barrel

[KitchenWitch]

HELP!

:hide:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I have learned to stay the heck out of those threads!

They are scary!

:scared:

[RevCheesehead]

2. But it will NEVER be Culver's!!

Kitchy - where are you now? (which state?)

[Writer]

3. Hi, kitchenwitch...

how's your back?

[WCGreen]

4. Fuckin' cracker barrel......

It make Olive Garden look like haute cuisine....

[Floogeldy]

5. Olive Garden wasn't last week. It was last month.

:smoke:

[ContraBass Black]

6. Nice to see you back.

We should start planning the next one.

[matcom]

7. i'm launching a tirade against Sizzler starting next week

don't say you haven't been warned :D

[idgiehkt]

8. why not bring up Hooters?

I bet that one would be the best of all.

[matcom]

10. don't you FUCK with Hooters!

:grr:

just kidding

been there once. went for the Wings. REALLY! the "wings"

the "wings" were pretty and firm and supple and.....

oh I had beer too

[idgiehkt]

12. I don't care for the pantyhose with shorts.

But every since Shavonda from The Real World talked about it on tv I've seen it in a different light.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

13. It's happened before.

You think Cracker Barrel is bad. Hooters is worse.

[idgiehkt]

15. I had a feeling.

But the girls they hire are so 80's/middle america/concrete hairspray-hair kind of girls that they are almost asexual to me. Except Shavonda, she's hot. And that Melanie girl looked really cute in her uniform too.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Yep, and the best are the Hooter haters that think they're a horrible

company but then go on to insist that all the waitresses are really borderline retarded or something.

[idgiehkt]

22. I don't know for sure, because I've neve been in those shoes

but I have a hard time believing that girls who do that kind of thing are stupid. You have to be smart, at least in a shrewd, conniving way, to make your living doing something like that.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. The one by me is almost entirely staffed by area college students.

They all seem to be of at least normal intelligence.

[Jamastiene]

38. Is the food reasonably priced?

I may want t:bounce::bounce: try them sometime.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

39. Yeah, it's average chain prices for wings & burgers.

I've ended up there with friends a few times. I don't eat meat, so I've only had fries and beer there.

[swag]

18. Push-up teats.

Reelly Greet!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

21. Ugh...now you're just as offensive as Henry Miller.

Disgusting.

[swag]

25. Well I've already been laid.

At this point, who gives a shit who finds me disgusting?

The DU love doesn't exactly pay tax-qualified dividends.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

30. It would be nice, if it did though.

[swag]

32. No kidding.

We'd both be drowning in that shit.

Until then, ADVDX.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. Ha...I got a letter from the IRS today.

Apparently, I owe them $0.53, but since the amount was so small, the government will cover it for me. Apparently, they just wanted to let me know that they spotted me for $0.53.

[swag]

34. Shit!

I should have deposited that cheque from Allstate for $0.04 and started a fundraiser on your non-needy behalf.

Would have provided a temporary purpose.

Better luck next time, I guess.

Please keep me advised.

[Kali]

36. Ha I got a check from State Farm for $0.01 - endorsed it over to my

sister for a gift. hah.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

40. Why do companies waste money this way?

Can't they just credit it on your next bill as opposed to wasting paper and postage on mailing a $0.01 check.

[Kali]

41. It is stupid isn't it?

Although I think this was a "refund" on a policy I canceled so concievably there might not have BEEN a next bill. And I gotta say they have been real good about paying for towing!

[auntAgonist]

9. yikes ...

what IS this world coming to?


or going to ?

:shrug:

aA

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Never mind that

Where you at? You Kollyforniyacated yet? :bounce:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. Food places that suck...

Olive Garden
Cracker Barrel
Culver's (don't know it, but it has a ButterBurger and that scares me)
Red Lobster
All fast food
Any chain pizza place
Ruby Tuesday's
TGIF
Chili's
Applebee's
IHOP
Denny's
EatNPark :puke: (The dinner I was served there was obviously a tv dinner thrown on a platter)
Stuckey's

[idgiehkt]

17. I agree with and expecially loathe these:

Ruby Tuesday's
TGIF
Chili's
Applebee's


Hate, hate, hate. They play the music too damn loud and you can't talk. I like to talk when I go out to eat. I always piss of the waitstaff by asking them to turn the music down. Why are they trying to make me go deaf, so I want be able to hear when people say their restaurant sucks?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. I never found the music loud, just that their food sucked.

I play a lot of loud music and spend a lot of time in bars though.

[idgiehkt]

24. I don't mind it in a bar, and I

do the loud headphones every day. But sucky loud top 40 over dinner has got to go.

[Karenca]

23. Don't forget Sizzler's!

:puke:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

27. How could I have forgotten Sizzler's, especially with my buffet hatred?

[Karenca]

28. Buffet! Ewwwww.

On Long Island there's these horrible
chains called China Buffet.

All you can eat for something like 11.99.

So gross!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

31. Chinese buffets are the worst.

Disgusting people gorging themselves on disgusting Chinese food. Okay, I can understand people in the middle of nowhere, not having real Chinese food around, but in the NY/NJ area, you can find good Chinese food. There is no excuse for Chinese buffets.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. Look on the bright side...when you get to Cali

we have In-n- Out

[Midlodemocrat]

44. I LOVE In-n-Out.

[merh]

29. I love Stuckeys

So sue me :shrug:


:hi: Hope you are doing better :hug:

:loveya:

[jobycom]

35. Same old DU. If someone else enjoyed it, you better not!

[liberaltrucker]

37. In the immortal words of Roger(Airplane!)

HUH???

[Whoa_Nelly]

42. Just know you can always stop at Denny's along the road

and always get a Grand Slam that is the same everywhere!






And good thing thier are Dairy Queens with Dilly Bars



and Buster Bars

everywhere!

Stay cool on the drive...that's what I always say!

[Bridget Burke]

43. But you'll miss the ambience of fine local establisments!

From houstonpress.com
Originally published by Houston Press 2006-08-03
©2005 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved.

Chicken-Fried Breakfast
The "grand slam" at this eastside diner will easily feed a family of three
By Robb Walsh

There were half a dozen cop cars and at least a dozen motorcycles, most of them Harley-Davidsons, in the parking lot of Kelley's Country Cooking on the Saturday morning of my first visit. I walked in the front door of the restaurant half expecting to see a major bust in progress.

Instead, I found a special private dining room reserved for bikers and a whole bunch of cops and ambulance drivers having breakfast. There was also a big group of senior citizens on some sort of an outing. The rest of the seats in the large high-ceilinged dining room were filled with plain old chowhounds, carving up enormous pancakes and giant ham steaks.....

When the waitress came by, I made things easy by pointing to the first thing on the menu. It said "Kelley's grand slam breakfast, our specialty." There were three plates involved in the grand slam extravaganza. The first, which arrived with the coffee, held a hot biscuit about the size of a hamburger bun and a bowl of golden-colored gravy with a soupspoon in it. This was evidently intended as a small snack to tide you over until something more substantial arrived....

The second plate arrived a few minutes later. It was covered from rim to rim with one of the best chicken-fried steaks I've eaten in Houston. If you ever have to explain to a visiting foreigner what "chicken-fried" means, let the crust on this battered steak, fried crisp and brown with lots of crunchy bits, provide the explanation for you. Not only was the crust perfect, the meat inside was juicy. The whole thing was covered with the same tasty gravy that came with the biscuit.

The third plate was loaded with three eggs fried sunny side up and a major pile of Kelley's handmade, never-been-frozen, hash browns, which are grated from Idaho No. 1 potatoes.

www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2006-08-03/dining/cafe.html

(I like the Dairy Queen blizzards.)