I likes me a meat an' three

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=whole bean]
Do you?

If so, what and where are your favorites? What’s your favorite order?

I like a nice country fried steak, fried okra with Crystal sauce drizzled on top, mac n/ cheese and turnip greens with about three shakes of Texas Pete’s pepper sauce. And yes, I’ll have a biscuit with butter and some sweet-tea. For desert – the blackberry cobler with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream looks good.

Could be at Carver’s on Marrietta St. or the Silver Skillet on 14th, maybe Ace’s down in sweet Auburn. Durn, I’m hungry now.[/QUOT

Chicken fried steak, squash, string beans and macaroni & cheese. Part of the beauty of the South is that macaroni & cheese counts as a vegetable. :smiley:

VCNJ~

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Fried chicken, corn on the cob, cucumbers 'n onions, cottage cheese, potato salad, hot buttermilk biscuits, gallons of sweetened iced tea, and for dessert my mom’s homemade angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream.

I’m hungry.

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Filet mignon, iceberg salad, creamed spinach, and mashed sweet potatoes.

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you haunt some pretty toney meat and threes

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I’m sure everyone who lived in Atlanta in the early '90s or before will join me in a Moment of Silence for the passing of Junior’s down on North Ave. Sigh.

And the Buntyn, here in Memphis, has closed as well, taking with it the most divine dinner rolls ever to grace the planet. There’s still Barksdale on Cooper, though. Thank heaven.

Man, I’m hungry now. Chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, and then I vary on the third veggie: Sometimes fried okra, sometimes mac ‘n’ cheese (which I just this moment realized is not actually a vegetable), sometimes turnip greens, corn, black-eyed peas, succotash…

I gotta go get something to eat. I brought meat loaf to work. Mmmm.

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Get with the program, people. It’s okra that’s the Devil’s vegetable!

Chicken-fried steak (buried under real cream gravy and heavily peppered), greens, mac & cheese, and something yellow (either corn or squash, depending on my mood). Have a big bottle of Crystal’s on the table, and keep the sweet tea coming. Muffins are a given, and save me a piece of chess pie for dessert.

Damn, I miss Southren food!

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The Buntyn closed ? :eek: sigh

If any of y’all get down to Oxford, MSPI, The Ajax Grill has a great meat-n-three, or for veg’s, a worthwhile four. It’s less than a decade old, but right up there with the best of 'em.

The best dessert for me is Nanner Puddin’. MmmmmHmmmm!

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Had some Cracker Barrel a while back (not my favorite place, but it ain’t bad.)- Fried Country Ham Steak (the big steak-bone-in), Mashed potatoes and white gravy, turnip greens (w/ tabasco -that’s all they got at the barrel), fried apples, and corn bread. Like I said, The Barrel ain’t my favorite place, but if you go, this is what they do best.

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I never thought The Buntyn lived up to its rep. One of my family’s famous stories is when my sister asked the waitress there whether there was some ingredient or other in the mashed potatoes. The waitress said “I don’ know honey; they jus’ come out of the box.” Maybe it was better back in the day.

Anyway, why would you go to Buntyn’s when the Cupboard is just 15 minutes further downtown? :wink:

Chicken-fried steak, macaroni & cheese, corn pudding if they got it, and I suppose I have to at least get one actual vegetable. But whatever it is, I’m sure there’ll be a big piece of bacon in with it!

Oh, man. We decided to go to Mrs. Cliffy’s folks this Christmas (North Jersey) instead of mine (Memphis). But now I’m regretting that decision.

–Cliffy

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Hmmm…

Meatloaf, boiled cabbage, butter beans, smashed taters, cornbread, tea (I prefer it unsweetened, which is heresy down heah, so that’s why I’m whispering abput it in parenthesis), and some ‘Nanner Puddin’ for desert.

Fried chicken, string (not green, this is the south!) beans with new potatoes, squash, fried okra, cornbread, tea and ‘Nanner Puddin’.

Fried catfish, cheese grits, french fries or onion rings (aw heck, bring 'em both on), hush puppies, onions and sweet pickles, lots and lots of lemon, tea and Lemon Icebox pie for dessert.

Country fried steak and gravy, smashed taters, creamed corn, fried okra, butter beans, cornbread, tea and ‘Nanner Puddin’.

Fried pork chops, pinto beans, rice and gravy, collard greens, cornbread, tea and ‘Nanner Puddin’.

Chicken 'n Dressing (it’s cornbread dressing chock full of chicken so it is to a main course!), giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, string beans with new potatoes, squash casserole, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, cornbread, tea and ‘Nanner Puddin’.

There are a variety of peas, beans and so forth one could substitute in any of these except the catfish, of course.

Did I mention that I’m craving some ‘nanner puddin’? :smiley:

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[QUOTE Texas Pete is abyssmal (Didn’t know that til I lived in MS/LA for awhile)[/QUOTE]

their hot sauce ain’t great, but their pepper sauce is as good as any.

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You know, the Cupboard just doesn’t do it for me, and I don’t know why. I think it’s the look of the place; even though the food is good (and plentiful), the building itself looks exactly like you’re having lunch in a Shoney’s. I prefer Barksdale, where the walls are plastered with pictures of past U of M athletic teams and the floor is creaky. It feels like I’m eating at Grandmom’s house.

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True. But I remember it from before they moved into that building and it was a little hole in the wall a couple blocks east, so the original picture is always in my head when I go to the spruced up place.

–Cliffy

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Grandma’s secret recipe fried chicken (dark meat, of course), homemade mashed taters with cream gravy, string beans (into which I will delicately chop an appropriate portion of sweet onion), and some lightly fried yellow squash. Don’t forget the large sweet tea and a couple of bisquits.

And a big bowl of Swampbear’s Nanner Puddin’.

Oh, and don’t forget the 'lasses and butter for that second biscuit I saved for after dessert.

Jammer

PS. Anybody else who speaks against Dukes will be on The List. Don’t make me do this.