I am now thoroughly confused by what Swampbear considers lunch.
While I understand that Long John Silver’s is a restaurant… I grew up in a place where Hush Puppies are children’s shoes!
Oh and Shibb, while I have never been to California or indeed anyplace further west than Connecticut, I do remember Shasta from my youth as well 
I feel quite chagrined that I forgot to comment on the cuteness of the kitties that Stargazer so kindly posted! They really are cute kitties!
tanookie, Hushpuppies.
Ummm…hushpuppies, I loves me some hush puppies, having grown up in FCM’s part of the country. I used to eat them all the time as a chile. I also have a pair of the other kind on my feet at this very moment, and I am definitely not a children. If I were subdivided, I would probably make 5 or 6 children.
I am definitely not imagining Swampy nekkid wrapped in bubble wrap, seeing as how I am a Very Straight Male[sup]TM[/sup] and all, but if he wants to kit himself up like that for Shibb and FCM, I’ll gladly go along to take pictures, for umm…historical purposes. Ther will be no thoughts of future blackmail involved, I promise.
-Bumb (doing my best to drag this thread back into the gutter, where it belongs.)
You’ve never been west of Connecticut? What a sheltered existence! Not even to visit NYC? Wow.
Hushpuppies are dumb
Iwas told that hushpuppies originally were just things you cooked to keep the dogs quiet, i.e. you’d throw them this little fried thing and say “hush, puppy”, thus the name. So, does this mean you all are eating glorified dog food?
Kallessa (perhaps causing the South to rise again)
P.S. I have had Shasta cola while in Shasta, Calif. So there!
Ok my geography is a bit off… I blame this cold. hang
I’ve been a bit more west than CT… I was born in NY. I’ve also been to Canada a few times Just not sure how far west in Canada.
I’m also the chick who can’t find her way across the town she lived in for over 28 years if I don’t start from a certain street. I have no sense of direction at all. sigh
I remember Shasta. Although Faygo was more prevalent around here. There was also Big K, but that was just the Kroger store brand.
RC Cola is pretty good too. It’s not as good as some better known soda pops, but still pretty good. Dr Pepper is about my favorite second tier cola(ish) soda. I also like the flavored fizzy water you can get at Thriftway, it’s loaded with high fructose corn syrup so you know it’s good.
A ice cold Dr Pepper and a Dolly Madison chocolate pudding pie is just a treat. If you like that sort of thing of course. If you DON’T like that sort of thing it’s pretty much a torment. So it’s all in what you like.
I like White Castle cheeseburgers. It’s got to have the cheese. And the onion chips. Katcha really likes the onion chips too, although he’s not big on the burgers. Soupo, now he can plow through a mess o’ White Castle cheeseburgers, but he’s not that big on the onion chips. So we have to get a lot of the cheeseburgers and a lot of the onion chips and we split them up. I get most of everything because I’m biggest and the two boys split what’s left. It’s a good system.
-Rue. (bubbling to the top)
I feel compelled to admit I pictured Ellen doin’ nekkid yoga.
It was nice.
(unsigned for shame)
Hush puppies are good (for the best hush puppies in the world, may I recommend Old McDonald’s Fish Camp in North Augusta, South Carolina), but there is nothing like GRITS. Yumm! Had me some deee-licious cheese grits with my breakfast this morning. A little salt and pepper and they positively melted on the tongue!
stargazer, your kitties are ADORABLE! Makes ME want more kitties, except that my dogs would probably think they were a special snack I brought in just for them. So I just have to admire other peoples’ kitties now. Except for my own, but she has her own Private Suite in the master bedroom (with an open bathroom window for easy egress to the whole great outdoors) and avoids the dogs like the plague. For which I can’t blame her. I think they just want to play with her, but if I was a 6-pound kittie and had 130 pounds of dogs running at me woofing furiously, I’d hightail it outta there, too!
Ok thanks for the indigestion B]Rue**!
I’ve had whitecastle once in my lifetime and it was one time too many.
When I was in college I was on the bowling team (no snickering! - I like bowling and was sorta good at it.) Anyway we had a tournament at the Showboat hotel in Atlantic City and the coach decided to play a little joke on us and so he took us for ‘the best burgers we would ever have!’ Said burgers were whitecastle burgers!
Anyway they totally sucked (IMO) and the onion/grease combo made me sick to my stomach. So after returning to school I went to tell Parallax of my ordeal (7 hour drive home from NJ in an overloaded van in the middle of winter sick to my stomach from these death burgers) and at the mention of the name whitecastle he perks up and asks ‘did ya bring me any?’
:smack:
tanookie, the trick is, apparently, to drink a lot of beer or other alcoholic bevvies before a trip to White Castle (or Krystal’s, if you don’t have White Castle available). I like to drink, but not that much, mainly so I don’t have to eat White Castle food.
And I really didn’t just picture you bowling in the buff. Really. Okay, but a just a bit. Nice form.
No Shibb, the trick is to take off the pickle. It’s the pickle that gets you into trouble. Down with the pickles! Pickles are eeeeeeee-vil! The rest of the burger is pure steam-grilled bliss. With a side of onion chips.
The Red Squirrel also makes some derned good onion rings. Right up there with White Castle’s (What you CRAVE! chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp) onion chips. The only problem is since I moved, there’s not a Red Squirrel around here. They are a sandwich shop chain down in the Greater Cincinnati area. (Greater Cincinnati= not here. Although I can still get goetta at the grocery store, so there’s that.)
They are building up a lot around here and they put in a new theatre. (Moving Picture House if you prefer.) In the same Complex of Consumerism they’re putting in a Red Robin. Not a Red Squirrel, but the one time I was out in Colorado we ate there and it was good. I hope the one here is good too.
-Rue. (good)
What is the link between movie theatres and Red Robins? We have them in Allentown, too, right next to the theatres. I haven’t eaten in the one on Airport Rd., but I have eaten at the one on Tilghman several times. The onion rings are good, especially with the southwestern dipping sauce they give you. I like onion rings to actually be onion rings, battered and fried, not chopped up, reconstituted onions breaded and fried, just so you know where I stand on the onion ring thing. Their buffalo burgers are good, too.
My only comment about White Castle is: yuck! Although I like their cheese fries. My sister says the chicken rings are good, too. I have also been told that vast amounts of alcohol helps in appreciating them, but I have never in my life been drunk enough to appreciate their burgers. Nor, quite frankly, do I ever plan to, so the fact that there is not one for miles and miles of me is not a problem. Now, if I could just find a good deli that’s open late…
I had Gold Star for lunch today, spurred by talk in this thread and others of Cincinnati type foods. Now I don’t have to eat it for another year or two.
There is a Red Squirrel* by Tri-County mall, but across the street between Barnes & Noble (or is it Borders, I can never remember) and AAA. Just behind the Pier 1, Wendy’s and Big Boy. Not too far from Liberty Township, I reckon.
11711 Princeton Pike, aka 747
Red Robin uses shredded lettuce, and, as that I have little use for lettuce on bugers to begin with, shredding it just makes it worse. Yes, I can order it without, but my experience with Red Robin is that special orders (i.e. cheeseburger with just onions please) get them very confused, and I have more often than not gotten my burger with all the usual fixings, regardless of what I ordered, so the shredded lettuse is a problem. Oh, the trials and tribulations of being a picky eater in fast-food America!
Really, I Like my burgers naked.
Kallessa (staying with the overall theme)
Okay, I’ll bite on the overall theme thing, but not on any fast-food burgers. Since I got the gout thing, I don’t eat fast-food beef of any kind. Although, as I recall, the Bungle King in our little town makes a great Whopper. So if I were to suddenly get an urge to take a chance, I’d go there.
On the rare occasion that we decide to cook burgers on the grill at home I will sometimes have one with nothing but a nice thin slice of red onion, and, if the bun is dry, a little mayo, to help the bun go down. That’s all.
Anyway, I don’t do fast food much. I do like Wendy’s Southwest chicken salad though. And some of Subway’s sandwiches, except that every time they come out with one I really like, they discontinue it, Bastids!
Red Robin I can take or leave. I used to go there occasionally with a couple of wimmins I worked with to watch them drink their lunches. They ate too, but mostly they drank there, and they were very funny drunk, although the ride back to work was sometimes problimatical.
I remember Krystal burgers from my kidhood. Never liked 'em much. Greasy. I also remember Whataburger. They had these burgers that were about 8" across. I could get a great big burger and a quart of Coke for a buck.
I don’t go to McDonalds. I worked at one as a teen and don’t feel any need to ever go there again.
Red Squirrel sounds too much like Roadkill Cafe.
There, now everybody should be thouroughly sick and tired of fast food.
-Bumba (urp)
Warning: post below kinda gross…
So this is when I mention that my brother and sister(yeah the same ones who tried to get me to play soap opera games, but I do have others) used to tell me that hush puppies were so named because a truck driver got sick of his dogs barking one day, ground them up, battered them up and fried them? I told you mine was a strange childhood. I think that explains a lot.
-Lil
I just noticed that we had, as of Bumbazine’s post, almost exactly ten times as many views as replies. Pretty cool, huh!
I think you’d have to be a nut to eat at a place called Red Squirrel, but then, with that reasoning, you’d have to be a bird-brain to eat at Red Robin.
I know, I know, I know–that was a very, very weak attempt at humor, but I used up all my good comments at the Cher concert last night.
And, for the record–Cher is fabulous!
Now, if I was motivated or really really really bored, I’d do a study to determine if this has been the most hijacked Rue thread. But I’m neither motivated nor that bored, so I’ll just muse to myself. [sub]musing[/sub]
I don’t think I ever posted a pic of our boatcat. I’ve got a bunch. They’ll get on the boat website eventually, but I’m not motivated enough to do that either. But speaking of cats, there were two outside my house when I left for work this morning. Both gray. Both sitting at the edge of my yard staring at me. Once I started the car, I saw one running up a driveway across the street. I have no idea where the other one went.
That’s my cat contribution. I won’t discuss fast food because I pretty much don’t eat it any more. I do need to water my house plants - I should probably do that tonight. And I have to pack my lunch. So why, you may ask, and I goofing around on line. Good question.
Quit nagging me. I’m an adult. I don’t have to put up with your nagging! Sheesh.
I like to play canasta.