For Old Guys Only

[Greg58]

Some people come up with crazy ideas or ways to bring in people to their business, we stopped at a place in north Georgia called " Goats on the roof" . From the name you can see the theme, its a restaurant/ ice cream shop with a game room. You can also buy food for the "kids" to feed the goats which to the eye never go hungry. Our grand daughters loved the place, the feed comes in ice cream cones so there is no waste, the goats eat everything.

 

[Greg58]

Some of us get special parking too!

 

[xseler]

I was in SE Oklahoma a couple of weeks back. Around lunch time the only small town nearby had just one cafe open. It was called the Hateful Hussy. Had a bunch of sayings on the wall pertaining to men in general.......but that hussy could certainly cook!! It would be worth a trip back just to eat!

 

[fasteddy]

Here's one for you old timers.

Steve.

https://vimeo.com/110260174

 

[2door]

Here's one for you old timers.

Steve.

https://vimeo.com/110260174

Thanks, Steve. Here was my high school hang out. http://www.pbase.com/image/76912936

If you read the text they mention the Palace on 49th steet. I was one of the "Back Crowd". That's where everyone parked, opened their hoods and showed off what was under them. And yes, there was a Hialeah cop who used to hide and wait for us to do a burn out when leaving. The neat part was that I was friends with most of them and mowed grass for four of them that lived in my neighborhood. It saved me a few times because they knew me and my car.

My gosh. I haven't thought about that for years. I also have some fond memories of Shoney's in Valdosta Georgia. In 1966 I was stationed at Moody Field just outside Valdosta and Shoney's was our place to go. According to the Interweb, it's still there, but the prices are a little higher.

Tom

 

[xseler]

For those of you that still go to the movies, I just saw a great one!! A Walk in the Woods with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte was an absolute hoot!! 5 thumbs up for this one.

 

[Ludwig II]

My father was a barman/resident here.

 

[Otero]

Greg, Nice to know they've saved me a spot. Eddy, reminds me of another
burgeratorium next to a drive-in back in Colo. Sprs. Micheles'. home of
the 10 cent burger & the 'saucer sandwich', great place to cruise for chicks.
carhops on skates & the whole 9 yards.

 

[Allen_Wrench]

This place is no longer standing. The old Stewart's Root Beer Stand had the greatest burgers, fries, shredded chicken sandwiches, and of course root beer that I ever had. They made it on site. It used to be so cheap too. I'd often take my dates here. They'd hang my tray of food on the window of my old Mercury, and I'd leave the money and tip on it.
I always thought of going back someday. Now it's a bit too late. But at least I've saved this pic from Google Maps. Good thing too, because I haven't found another picture of this exact Stewart's anywhere online.

 

[Tinsmith]

Yep AW! Had one like that in my town in Ohio back in the mid 1900's. Best shredded BBQ sandwiches around. And of course the Root Beer!
Dan

 

[Allen_Wrench]

Yep AW! Had one like that in my town in Ohio back in the mid 1900's. Best shredded BBQ sandwiches around. And of course the Root Beer!
Dan

Oh yeah. It was all that. And it stood for SOOOO long! It was there when my dad was a teen. Its parking lot once held my dad & uncle's souped up Fairlane. And it later held my Mercury XR7, Camaros, 260Z, and that gawdawful Eagle AWD (sometimes) wagon.

I got to thinking it would always be there to come back to. Let that be a lesson; don't wait too long on the roadtrips to your favorite places.

 

[Otero]

Ah. A&W, in summer we often walked 2 miles to get a frosty cold quart
of root beer. I still love the stuff,but it'll never taste that good again.
Oh great, now I'm thirsty.

 

[KCvale]

Ah. A&W, in summer we often walked 2 miles to get a frosty cold quart
of root beer. I still love the stuff,but it'll never taste that good again.
Oh great, now I'm thirsty.

A&W root beer, man that brings back memories.

It was the frosty mugs that did it, so cold they almost made it root beer ice cream.

I tried the caned stuff, pffttt, it's not the same but that's OK with me, my tastes have changed in so many ways over the years.

I love things I hated, and lost the taste for things I once loved.
2 things that never changed however is my disdain for meatloaf and tuna noodle casserole with green peas.

 

[2door]

Do the flavors we cherished as youngsters change.......or is it our aging taste buds?

There are things I remember enjoying so much that just don't have the 'zing' they had when I was a kid. But then when I was young I hated onions. Now I can't get enough of the things. What's with that?

Tom

 

[Otero]

Funny you'd mentioned onions. That's one food that to me has lost flavor over
the years. It's not just my fading taste buds, depletion of soil minerals had made
many vegetables more bland. Wild onions & carrots, try them if you like onions.
they've got 3 or 4 times the flavor of store bought.

 

[2door]

Eggs. I remember when they were full of flavor, the yokes were deep yellow and the whole egg would come out of the shell if it was cracked. Eggs today seem to be made of something like innertubes. There's a thick membrane just under the shell that is sometimes so thick that you can peel the shell off leaving it intact.

I was once told that the FDA allows eggs to be stored for as long as 24 months, two years before they hit the store shelves. Maybe that explains these rubber eggs.

Tom

 

[KCvale]

Meat, dairy, poultry and produce are greatly effected by where you live, especially in the winter.

Here in Phoenix most everything is local year round so it's not so much the quality or different flavor of the food or even beverages, it's just a 'change in taste'.

My wife is a gourmet cook.
Ya, I am really spoiled that way but remain thin (na ne NAA na) ;-}

It seems our tastes seem to change together for most things.
There are some things that have never changed however, like my BBQ Shish-Ka-Bob.

28 years cooking and eating together tends to do that I guess, but we both have our different cravings.

My latest lunch thing is Groton's frozen fish sticks with a 60/40 malt vinegar and lemon dipping sauce, a baby 8oz Bud for the beverage, and salt and vinegar kettle cooked chips on the side.

Weird huh?
I always hated fish sticks and now I can't get enough of them when cooked just crispy right.

 

[mapbike]

were eating loads of GMO veggies, chickens are genetically modified, pumped full of growth hormones and never once ate a single thing they were created to eat and we wonder why our food in America taste like crap and we have more desease here than just about anywhere else on earth......

 

[Otero]

One more reason I'm getting more & more into wild foods. Earthworms, yummy!

 

[GearNut]

When I was in the Boy Scouts we had earthworms omlettes, cricket omlettes and even grasshopper omlettes. For some reason I couldn't get myself to try the grub omlettes though. You can decide which ones were crunchy, but all in all none tasted awful, just different.
As for GMO, I can't stand the notion of us all being poisoned by the garbage products flooding the supermarkets these days. Also, I am frightened by the notion of eating anything that lived in the Pacific post-Fukushima. Fish farm food is still ok though.