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learnedaxPlaces we ate down south:
- Golden Corral
- (something) Jamaica
- Sonic
- Angeli on Decatur
- Elizabeth's
- [House of Daiquiris, or some similar name]
- Cafe du Monde
- The Checkerboard Southern Kitchen
- Sunny's Real Pit Barbecue
- Waffle House
An all-you-can-eat Virginia buffet. It's a big ol' plate of southfulness.
As you might guess, Jamaican food. This was in Atlanta's Underground, which is supposed to be modeled on the streets of New Orleans but isn't so much. It does create a kind of nice outside-inside effect, but neither the whole nor the set of clubs at its center were outstanding. Neither were they actually underground. The Jamaican food was pretty good, though. I thought it was about on par with what you can get in Dorchester.
A kind of drive-in Dairy Queen chain. The one in (South Carolina, maybe?) had dispensed with rollerskates for its waitstaff, but the one incongruously gleaming newly-built in the middle of Waveland had the traditional chicks on wheels. Fun.
Apparently the best pizza in New Orleans. I would have preferred something more unique Louisianan, but my gumbo desire was denied. I have to say the pizza was very good. I had some kind of chicken and feta thing.
They make a banana french toast that can smother creatures 2d6 and smaller. We were eating here at 11:11 on Armistice Day, so the Bloody Marys were a ritual obligation.
Tasty, and distinctively New Orleans to have a drive through daiquiri place. Although they seem a little unclear on what a daiquiri actually is, since you can get your alcoholic slush in flavors from Margarita to Cajun Eggnog (we never found out precisely what that meant). So basically they're slurpees with booze.
Beignets on the levy (at dawn! Ok, they weren't, but wouldn't that be the best duel ever?). The powdered sugar is a cunning foe, but I escaped nigh unscathed.
Alabama showed us that they know how to make some great corn bread. Also enjoyed the fried green tomatoes. Their food was actually quite good all around for some random place we found - provided you can survive the (tasty) cholesterol.
Knoxville BBQ. Good stuff. Pax and I both had the brisket, which he was strangely unable to pronounce.
Ah, the Waffle House. I'd never heard of them before, but pretty much as soon as we got south of DC they started popping up. And not once in a while. They own the south. If an exit from Florida to Pennsylvania doesn't have one there's something weird about the town. Those cheery yellow letters showering waffly imperialism were a constant and frankly disturbing fixture of our journey. Once in a while we would see a Mr. Waffle, or Waffle King, and for a while in Virginia the plucky Omelet Shoppe battled fiercely with the waffle overlords, but in the end the yellow face ground them all down. We knew it was inevitable that we would face the Waffle Wizards, but we held out until the eve of our return, and we faced them on our own terms. Nonetheless, the encounter left us undeniably scarred. I will spare you the worst of it, but some parts must be told. There is a Waffle House theme song that plays at random intervals in the background, of which only the chorus ("It's Waffle House Time!") can be discerned. One of the menu items is pitched with the appealing comment "Bert loves it!". There is a Casa de Waffle house sauce brand. Interestingly, they also seem to have a minor specialization in hash browns. You can get your Single, Double, or Triple hash browns Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, Diced, Peppered, Capped, and Topped. This last conjured amusing visions of starchy dominatrices. Overall, for being a dive waffle joint it wasn't too bad.
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Date: 2005-11-16 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-16 01:22 am (UTC)not pro-teen
Date: 2005-11-16 02:31 am (UTC)- Cookie LaCrumb, Starchy Dominatrix
Re: not pro-teen
Date: 2005-11-16 04:24 am (UTC)- Bloodhound Gang, The Bad Touch
Re: not pro-teen
Date: 2005-11-16 05:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-16 04:24 am (UTC)Sonic isn't half bad either.
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Date: 2005-11-16 06:04 am (UTC)The powdered sugar is a cunning foe, but I escaped nigh unscathed.
You say that, but even in death, the sugar often still has the last laugh, wreaking its revenge across the span of time and space.
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Date: 2005-11-16 01:17 pm (UTC)"So, I was in a Waffle House the other day...I mean, I'm not proud of that, but I was hungry." - Some PA commedian I heard 10 years ago.
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Date: 2005-11-16 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-16 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-16 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-16 08:19 pm (UTC)mmm... waffles...
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Date: 2005-11-16 08:30 pm (UTC)