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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:23 pm
by dragon wench
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:24 pm
by fable
Originally posted by Chanak
What was interesting about the place (besides the burgers) was that each table came equipped with it's very own bottle of Tabasco, and two pots near the drink machines were filled with complimentary barbecued beans. Hell, even the guy behind our table was wearing a big hat.
That was an interesting experience.
Sounds like capitalism, Texan style: where there is a demand, supply will follow.

If I should make it down to anywhere in Texas soon, I will have to look for Juicy's or it's local equivalent. I'm sure the Texans couldn't allow a genuine tradition like cholesterol poisioning vanish.
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:28 pm
by Chanak
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:31 pm
by Chanak
Originally posted by fable
Sounds like capitalism, Texan style: where there is a demand, supply will follow.
If I should make it down to anywhere in Texas soon, I will have to look for Juicy's or it's local equivalent. I'm sure the Texans couldn't allow a genuine tradition like cholesterol poisioning vanish.
Oh, btw...it's "Jucy's." Yes, I had to look twice myself at their sign to make sure.

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:33 pm
by dragon wench
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:37 pm
by fable
Originally posted by Chanak
@fable: Be sure to bring your overalls and straw stetson with you.
Overalls? What do you take me for. I'm a Wiccan! We do everything skyclad!

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:39 pm
by VoodooDali
Yummy, Chanak. Where are you in Texas? You ever been to Charlie's Chat 'n' Chew out on the road from Austin to LaGrange?
I sure miss Tamale House #3.
Right now I'm craving a nice juicy Nathan's hotdog though.
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:56 pm
by fable
Originally posted by VoodooDali
Yummy, Chanak. Where are you in Texas? You ever been to Charlie's Chat 'n' Chew out on the road from Austin to LaGrange?
Austin: how I loved that place when I lived in the hellhole called Dallas. Beautiful town-city at the time, though everybody tells me it's lost its fresh, college town atmosphere thanks to over-development. Sad, really. I used to go there for weekends to spend with other writer friends.
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 11:14 pm
by Scayde
Originally posted by dragon wench
lol!
sounds a bit like a place a few blocks from where I live actually, they have fantastic burgers, all made with kosher meat, and real onion rings. The place is called "Vera's Burger Shack," and a sign outside reads "You Can't Beat Vera's Meat"
We're both LOAO to that...it is right up there with "The Curl Up and Dye" Beauty Salon...
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 11:16 pm
by Scayde
Originally posted by fable
Sounds like capitalism, Texan style: where there is a demand, supply will follow.
If I should make it down to anywhere in Texas soon, I will have to look for Juicy's or it's local equivalent. I'm sure the Texans couldn't allow a genuine tradition like cholesterol poisioning vanish.
When ever you do head down this way, don't waste money on a hotel..you have a room here..hell..I'll even clean up the house
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 11:19 pm
by Scayde
Originally posted by VoodooDali
Yummy, Chanak. Where are you in Texas? You ever been to Charlie's Chat 'n' Chew out on the road from Austin to LaGrange?
I sure miss Tamale House #3.
Right now I'm craving a nice juicy Nathan's hotdog though.
We're in North-East, Texas...but we do enjoy the ocasional jaunt to Austin..this is definately on the list of places to go next time we are down that way...Do you remember "The Elite Cafe" ?..Fantastic onion rings.....a landmark in Waco...sad to say, it closed down a couple o months ago....after 75 years...*sniff*.the demise of another great Mom and Pop shop...
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:54 am
by fable
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:58 am
by dragon wench
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 12:03 pm
by Gwalchmai
If you people are going to Texas for its fine dining, you might as well swing by Tucson on your way back (okay, its not really 'on the way') for some additional high-fat, high-carb, high-cheese, high-flavor food. Not only do we have some excellent Sonoran cuisine, we also have Pat's chili dogs. . . .

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:33 pm
by fable
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 11:04 am
by dragon wench
We'll have to put you on speaker phone so you can join the fun
lol!.. not a bad idea, and being on speaker phone rather than attending in person would spare me from being caught in any possible crossfire....
*seees herself narowly evading a BBQed rib being hurled across the dinner table, when politics enters the discussion*
I think it would be fun. I know that Texan hospitality is truly generous, and I suspect yours wouldn't let your side down, either. Particularly when it comes to searching out dodgy eateries filled with arterial-clogging monstrosities.
lmao ! Somehow the phrase... "killing your friends with kindness" suddenly leaps to mind
You know.. maybe we've hit upon something here... Perhaps the Texan tendency to ply visitors with heart-stopping food platters is actually an insidious ploy to finally succeed in world domination!
Quite seriously, I really wish I lived closer to my fellow SYMers

.... Being out here on Canada's west coast feels pretty isolated sometimes.
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 1:28 pm
by dragon wench
Originally posted by Scayde
LOL.....I see you're on to us..You must admit it is a subtly delicious plot
But didn't you know? You're house is the ultimate destination of said "trip out west" I mentioned to Gwally
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lmao...

Well I guess there are worse ways to encounter one's doom than being on the receiving end of of a bliss-inducing dinner
lol! Why do I suddenly have this mental image of you and Chan heading West and then Northwards.. and leaving a trail of coronary victims in your wake... the Heart and Stroke foundation hot on your trail
If you are able to make it, that would be much fun
