No door dash or Uber. Traveling to eat is a lengthy ride in any direction (no, I don’t live at the center of the universe. I just think I do! ).
We’ve had well pump issues. This morning the water was off while the guys replaced a part on the pump. This has been the hang up. Getting the part needed.
Mid-dau says no cooking this morning. So breakfast was cereal and a banana. The troops were restless. They demanded pancakes.
She says “take your problems to a professional”.
Well, the thing is, you see we have no real breakfast restaurants anywhere near. Eh, you can go to Micky Ds. or Sonic. I’m sure other fast food places. But that ain’t ever a good choice for breakfast. IMHO.
I’m a happy refugee who escaped from behind the orange curtain, but I have to admit no place in the world has nailed breakfast dining like the beach cities of Orange County, CA. I don’t even eat breakfast anymore…except when I am in proximity to Sugar Shack or Harbor House or Cappy’s or…
We’re in rural New Hampshire, and there’s several places nearby that make breakfast sandwiches, bagels or burritos. Unless you have your heart set on a full-on sit-down breakfast, maybe something like that would scratch your itch.
There are some great tips in the USS Abraham Lincoln thread on resupplying: helicopters, Grumman C2 and Osprey VTOL airlifts; heck, a couple of bundles parachuted out of a Cessna might do it for emergency rations. Think big, Beck!
One of my friends, living the bachelor life, got it and enjoyed it. But he had noticeable complaints. It didn’t get very warm, so he often had to preheat or even pre-cook most of the components. The packaged ham that fit the device tended to be pricier than the norm as well, so the per sandwich cost ended up being a LOT higher than expected, and with precooking or preheating, it created extra dishes to be washed. And of course the device itself was hard to get really clean between uses, especially when adding cheese!
And, probably worst for your household, if you were making sandwiches for more than one person, or maybe a couple, the time taken was excessive. So, the final result was it failed at being fast, hot, or cheap!
He used it for a year before coming to the conclusions above, then it went to Goodwill.
I recently found out that my wife, who’s lived in the south or southwest her whole life had never been to a Waffle House! There’s a shiny new one just a few miles away, I may have to correct that.
But man, I can’t imagine being in a place that doesn’t have hot and cold running breakfast tacos on every corner. Thank jeebus I live in Dallas.
I would have bet any amount of money that Camden had a Waffle House, after hearing my best friend’s tales of debauchery, insanity, and general craziness from growing up and going to high school there in the late 80s/early 90s.
That described things when I lived in Las Cruces, or Albuquerque NM. Here in white-bread Colorado Springs? Sadly short on good breakfast burritos, though they’re a bit more available south in Pueblo, where there’s a major chile producing area.
But we have a plethora of breakfast places, from Waffle House, to Village Inn, to a surviving Mimi’s (last I checked) as well a bunch of fast casual places. Just relatively few of the greasy diners I also enjoyed. And no decent Tex-Mex, much lest New Mexican style places.
Thankfully, I can cook! And buy at least one bushel of roasted chiles annually.
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There’s a shiny new one just a few miles away, I may have to correct that.