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We don't really recognise vegetarians in Scotland:rolleyes:
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We don't really recognise vegetarians in Scotland:rolleyes:
Reminds of when I lived in Dallas(actually Garland) about 20 years ago. My uncle was a member of the Pizza Hut club!:) Only there, you had to show your membership card.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
Oh I just had that the other night right after we went and beowolf and we were waiting for our little home town christmas parade to start. it was super chilly out so I added some hot pepper to it. MMMMMMMMM so yummy! Add a little rice to it and you really got something!Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
But my favorite at home meal would be hmmmmm let's see probably teriyaki pork chops with sticky rice and a big side of fresh farm picked broccoli with a pinch of lemon juice on top (of the broccoli that is). But when we are in our home town and we go out we go to this little sushi place that is sooooooo yummy we pine for it when we are on the road. And no other sushi place we ever go to seems to come close to this place for us. We always go sometime the week before christmas to give me a break in the kitchen. I do a lot of cooking and baking. I just feel so good after we eat a meal there!
It is such a charade. I don't know who in the world signs those books...we've never signed one, but there are signatures on it. Back in the '80s, when I just was getting legal to drink, I remember there always being cover charges ("membership fees"), too. I'm sure the state taxed those cover charges--but I think just to be like the restaurant in the next town over, some restaurants built the "fee" into their cost of business, and it be came common practice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fredwina
But what a charade! ah don't get me started on the small mindedness of my little town, which will likely rally the churchgoers to defeat the wet proposition if it ever gets on the ballot.
Karen
FWIW, Liquor laws are what I've found that vary the most from state to state
PA : no grocery store sales of any liquor - only at state shops . The minimum quantity of beer you can buy is a case unless you go to a tavern -see link
VA: gorcery store can sell Beer and Wine, but "hard" liquor is sold by the state.
Also remember when I was a teen, and the drinking age in MO was 21 , but 18 in IL. Going across the river bridge late at night, there was usually two or three cop cars sitting on either side waiting for drunk drivers.
My favorite is North Carolina, where you can drink at a bar on Sundays but you can't buy package beer. I call it the law that says if you want to drink, you must drive. :(
In Minneapolis proper, these would be my picks:
Matt's Bar for their famous Jucy Lucy burger and fries
Psycho Suzi's motor lounge for their Heart Attack on a Plate pizza and their tots
Pepitos in South Mpls for their tacos and margaritas
Brasa for southwestern/carribean food
Gosh, I wish my class weren't coming in...I'd be able to list a whole bunch more.
'Round this part of NC, you can buy beer and wine, just not before noon on Sunday. Yeah - we're backwards. We still have lots of dry counties too. Thankfully none where I live.Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
Beer, wine and fortified wine (e.g. sherry) are sold in grocery stores. Other, hard stuff is only sold by the State. We did *finally* pass a law that lets us now have the higher alcohol content beers. Some of those are yummy!
CA
Hey I've been to Bentonville! I was even an invited guest at Helen Waltons home. Pretty home. A creek crosses under the house- literally. A Frank Lloyd Wright home if I recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuckervill
I worked for the mart for a few years back in the early 90's. When Sam was alive (he died while I worked there). Different place back then that's for sure! Back then they proudly proclaimed how much of the store had items made in the USA. HA! Now it's all China... sigh...
You know what's awesome about that? I've never known ANYONE who's been to Mr. Sam's house! You'd think that 6 degrees thing wouldn't have to stretch so far across the country, huh?
It could also be that everyone who was Mr. Sam's contemporary is also mega-rich, too, because they got in on the "ground floor", and I just don't run in their circles. lol.
Karen
Nettie's Mexican Restaurant in Bellevue, Nebraska, yum. (You can't tell where Omaha ends and Belluevue begins.)
A family owned place in what used to be a filling station/cafe combo building from the 1950's. Nettie passed away a couple years ago but worked late into her 80's there, as did her boyfriend. Pictures of Nettie and all the generations of Escamillas all over the walls. Also pictures Nettie with some world famous people who find theirway to her when they are in town for a concert or game.
These days her daughter Cathy and her family continue to put out the same high quality food. I always get the potato and pea enchilada plate, smothered with lettuce and tomato. DH always orders the beef enchilada plate. They remember their regular customers. Everything is made from scratch including salsa, chili, and menudo. The chili is painfully hot with a wonderful flavor. We get a cup and spoon it judiciously over our enchiladas.
You come in the door, work your way to the cash register, put in your name, then stand in line until a table is ready. Or sit at the bar if there's room . A very basic looking place that people flock to for the great food. You're more likely to see well known Omaha faces there than about any place else.
Hmmmm, must be Virginia then. Sorry for the slander :oQuote:
Originally Posted by CA_in_NC