If that was Atlanta, they could have been at the same exit. Many overpasses have an Awful Waffle on both sides.

They have a strict model for traffic count/volume. They can run a full restaurant with one cook and two, maybe three waitresses. If a location is getting overwhelmed they build another one.

I had a friend who took a job with their construction/architectural department years ago, and he had to visit random Waffle Houses and record the number of customers vs the number who used the restrooms. I guess they were deciding if they'd go to two-hole restrooms or not.

I've never been to a WH. I used to have a terribly negative opinion of Cracker Barrel due to eating there once for lunch about 12 years ago and it being disgusting. But I had breakfast there a few times in the last two years and that was excellent.

I'm not a big fan of Cracker Barrel, primarily due to the clientele and the wait. But their breakfast is solid. So are their chicken and dumplings. If you go again for lunch, try that.

Waffle House and Cracker Barrel are amazing. Living overseas, I really miss them. Are there still Bob Evans restaurants?

No Bob Evans in my area.

Yes, we have Bob Evans in Ohio.

Is that reason enough to visit Ohio? I think not.

North Carolina and I think the other was in Georgia. I never seen a Waffle House up here in god's country. I was at a Shoney's up here that was sub par compared to those in the Mid West.

My dick gets hard thinking about all you can eat breakfast buffets, like Shoney's. All you see up here are Sunday Brunch Buffets, but I don't need to spend $25 for eggs and pancakes, so some yuppie cunt can stuff her pie hole w/ crab legs.

EDIT: Yeah, I think Faceblaster hit it. Outside of Atlanta is the one I'm iffy about. The other one was in Nags Head/Kitty Hawk or some shit.

Is there any reason to visit Ohio other than a $4 hair cut? I think not.

Trailer Park Meth

Trailer Park Whores

Reds games

Bengals games?

They got some big antique auctions.

Browns, Indians, Rock n Roll HOF are all shit.

Visiting Badstreet USA?

A wedding, Buckhead, and Stone Mountain. Traffic on the way back from Stone Mountain made us late for the wedding.

I had one of my best conversation ending moments at the party after the reception. We are drinking with all these former Jersey residents that moved to GA like 3 years before. They are going on and on about how great it is down there, and I got sick of it. "You guys are 0-3 vs us."

What are you talking about?

"You lost a Civil War and 2 World Series to Yankees, that don't seem so great to me."

And everyone left the room........

They hate it when you call it a prison colony too.

Wait, they moved from Jersey to Atlanta and you were giving them shit? Plus, they're still Yankees...why are you talking like they're southerners?

Next time you want to give them ATL shit, just call the perimeter "the ring around the congo" or ask them how that Buckhead redevelopment is working out for them.

Cleveland : Pere Ubu house and the ghetto parts of Euclid Ave. And some killer Jewish deli's and Polish joints.
Cinci: chilli parlors and the Vernon Manor (unless they've torn it down by now)

OOOH NOOOO. They were talking like their great grand pappy's served under Gen. Robert E. Lee, instead of moving to GA 3 years prior and living in development houses. That is what annoyed the fuck outta me.

People don't seem to understand that I-85 and I 95 run North, too.

What Yankees don't seem to understand is we took your jerbs. The mid-South, especially, seems to be gobbling up tons of foreign investment. I hardly recognize Nashville and Chattanooga these days. Well, that's a bit of a stretch, but they sure are more prosperous and bustling. Meanwhile, the Blue model cities of the Northeast and Upper Midwest look more and more like Escape from New York.

This is why Kansas City is the crossroads of America. They have Waffle Houses, Cracker Barrels, and Bob Evans. None of which are as good as the burritos at Panchos.

(24 hour local chain Mexican restaurant with the best bang for your buck burritos you will find anywhere. Both breakfast burritos and regular burritos and they serve both 24 hours a day. Their burritos are about the size of a brick and cost no more than five dollars a piece. Carnitas burrito is filled with perfectly marinated and cooked pork, guacamole, and pico de gallo.)

Kansas City also has Gates and Sons, my fav BBQ sauce. And tons of hookers too. We get KC whores out here in LA all the time, seems like the farm system for Humaniplex hookers.

my familys coming over so my moms cooking the cows tongue and making more salsa verde.i hope she bought more tortillas for the rest of the cabeza.the kitchen smells like freshly chopped cilantro right now.tasty.

I always like the Hereford House in KC as a kid.

Congratulations Frankie. You invented this new food called Oven Fried Green Tomatoes.

It's mostly the Mesticans that call them green tomatoes and they are, of course, wrong. Tomatoes are related but different fruits.

Fried green tomatoes are actually very good but probably don't fit in Frankie's diet plan. I never tried a baked one.

They weren't green and had too much breading, but the bar down the street had some good fried tomatoes, topped w/ prosciutto, fresh mozzarella and roasted peppers.

sounds tasty^.so fried green tomatoes have cheese in them?i just remember the boring movie that had mary louise parker before she was hot.

We have Cracker Barrel and Waffle House here in Saint Louis as well. I loves some cracker barrel, but to be fair, it's my absolute favorite type of food. The waffle houses here suck fucking ass. I've also been told by out-of-staters many times that I'm damn lucky to live in a city that has White Castle and Jack In The Box.

The little town nearby me is 50 miles from an interstate but recently got a Cracker Barrel. It stays packed. Never expected they could get them to come there.

what kind of stuff they have there?^never been to one.

Mostly "country" cooking. Mashed Potatoes, pork chops, chicken fried steak, pinto beans, cole slaw and such. They have a country ambience with big fireplace and all kinds of Americana shit hanging on the walls as well as a store that you walk through to the dinining room. It has a lot of old fashioned stuff, salves, candies, jams, nick nack paddy wacks etc...... All the CBs I've been in are pretty much the same. They have rocking chairs on the porch which they sell as well.
Take a visit

By the way, their breakfast is all day and the sampler is more than I can eat. It's fucking great !

I don't think Cracker Barrel serves CFS. That's something worth a drive to Texas anyway.

They have Country Fried Steak on the menu, though I've usually seen CFS refer to Chicken Fried Steak so I don't know if the two are prepared differently or the exact same. I'm a northerner.

We're going for CFS for breakfast.

"Country Fried" is the way you describe it to Northerners who get confused by there being Chicken Fried Steak and, most perplexingly, Chicken Fried Chicken. How can chicken be "chicken fried", they ask. Oh, but it can, and it's wonderful.

I remember being in Lousiana or Alabama, I really don't remember, and eating at a Waffle House because that's where the other trucker stopped. I ordered an omelet. I was kind of freaked out about the butter dripping out of it, but it was really good after I got over the butter cooking.

And the best buffet is at "The Flying J". It's loaded.

You also gotta love The Cracker Barrel's long history of discrimination against blacks and homosexuals. Multiple lawsuits. They were seating people by race and allowing waitresses to refuse service to black customers, as well as not hiring black folk, and treating the ones they did hire like shit.

I'm kind of torn on this one. I mean, after taking a stroll around youtube, I'm not sure I'd want to wait on a table of black folk or not. I guess I'd have to test the waters and make my decisions at the first signs of hostility. If they start throwin they napkins and telling me I aint refillin' they goddamn dranks fast enough, I'd have to give it a big ole' NOPE. There's some irony there, as a waitress at Red Lobster in my vincinity was beat for refilling the dranks too much.

My girl used to wait tables at an IHOP in North County here (black region) and oh the horror stories she brought home. She called me crying multiple times, because a table of black folk would insult her and throw things at her.



In July 1999, a discrimination lawsuit was filed against Cracker Barrel by a group of former employees, who claimed that the company had discriminated against them on the grounds of race.[59][60] Two years later, in December 2001, the same attorneys represented 21 of the restaurant's customers in a separate lawsuit, alleging racial discrimination in its treatment of guests.[61][62][63] Regarding both accusations, Cracker Barrel officials disputed the claims and stated that the company was committed to fair treatment of its employees and customers.[60][62][64]

In 2004, an investigation by the US Justice Department found evidence that Cracker Barrel had been segregating customer seating by race; seating or serving white customers before seating or serving black customers; providing inferior service to black customers, and allowing white servers to refuse to wait on black customers.[65] The Justice Department determined that the firm had violated Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The company was required to sign a five-year agreement to introduce "effective nondiscrimination policies and procedures". The terms included new equal opportunity training; the creation of a new system to log, investigate and resolve complaints of discrimination; and the publicizing of its non-discrimination policies. They were required to hire an outside auditor to ensure compliance with the terms of the settlement.[66]

In 2006, Cracker Barrel paid a $2 million settlement to end a suit alleging race and sexual harassment at three Illinois restaurants.[67][68] Following the suits, Cracker Barrel stores began displaying a sign in the front foyer explaining the company's non-discrimination policy,[65] and added the policy and details of how to make a complaint to its menu and website.[69]

Since the early 2000s, Cracker Barrel has provided training and resources to minority employees, to improve its image on diversity. These efforts involved beginning outreach to minority employees, along with testing a training plan to help employees whose first language is Spanish to learn English.[49] As of 2002[update], minorities made up 23 percent of the company's employees, including over 11 percent of its management and executives.[50] Cracker Barrel is on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Texas Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),[70] and is a corporate sponsor of the NAACP Leadership 500 Summit, where three of its officials were moderators and panelists in May 2011.[71] The company has been praised for its gender diversity, particularly on its board of directors, which includes three women out of eleven total board members.[72] Its chief executive officer, Sandra Cochran, is the second woman in Tennessee to hold that office in a publicly traded company, as of August 2011[update].[72]

Well it IS a barrel for Crackers after all !

I tried Cracker Barrel for the first time several months ago out here in Texas. Even though I'm not familiar with country food so-to-speak I went with an open mind always wondering what it was all about.

My expectations were heavy food with overwhelming flavor. It was definitely very heavy and I felt like crap the rest of the day. It lacked flavor other than a pronounced flavor of fat that coated my tongue. Very disappointing to me.

There's a fine line between "comfort" food and going over the line to "heavy".

I made pignoli's. I finally made them. Every Xmas my family makes them. They're one of my most favorite cookies ever. I've been wanting to make them so badly for the holidays but I've been out of commission. But today I toughed it out and did it. This helps to make up for not being able to be with family to have them.

Words to live by.

Pignoli cookies are just as expensive as veal cutlets, $20/lb. Veal cutlets are money better spent.

^yeah, but, assuming Padover baked those, and that seems to be the case, that's pretty god damned impressive for a recent stroke victim.

They are expensive. The pine nuts and the almond paste (not to be confused with marzipan). My Dad bought me a pound of almond paste, pistachio paste and a bunch of pine nuts for the holidays. He knew I've been wanting to make them so he had them shipped to me

I made orange scones early last week and while it's an easy recipe I clearly wasn't ready to be baking as I got measurements all mixed up that I had to go fishing for the extra pieces of butter out of the flour. Luckily pignolis are pretty simple with very few ingredients and with a mixer it takes a few minutes. The time consuming part is the baking.

You probably won't ever hear this from me again but Tylenol has helped a lot. I can't take anything else and not that I would take a prescription either if I could.

I'm wondering why you wouldn't take ibuprofen instead? With what you are trying to eat to get healthier it shouldn't present a stomach issue and with what you are drinking to get healthier the acetaminophen could.

I was told no ibuprofen either. Can't remember why. :-/

I'd ask them again Gen, because it's infinitely safer than Tylenol/acetaminophen

Will do. Thanks, Borny.

I ate a pignoli for breakfast. Had leftover pot roast for dinner last night that I had sitting in the freezer. You never know when you're gonna need good home-made food waiting for you in the freezer. :)Stock up!

I'm going to make another 2 gyros of mine. Home-made gyros that I make are favorite food of mine, in terms of taste, filling and price. In the past 10 or so months, I have made at least 40 of them.