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Big Sky Redneck
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When I look forward to stopping somewhere for a meal like a big name truckstop with a big fancy restaraunt the food is either so so or outright lame? Them I go to some small greasy spoon diner and the food is excellent and cheaper than the big name place!
Iowa 80 Truckstop, the worlds largest truckstop, just had breakfast that the Army cook at Camp Cobra would have put to shame and this cost me $15.00!!!
Iowa 80 Truckstop, the worlds largest truckstop, just had breakfast that the Army cook at Camp Cobra would have put to shame and this cost me $15.00!!!
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The best Mexican food I ever had was at The Taco Palace in OKC. A tiny, 7-table place that was run by a family that immigrated from Mexico years ago. It looked like a dump, but the food was better than anything I've had at Corporate places costing 5-times more.
A truck stop is going to pull customers under just about any circumstance.
The wife and I were out goofing off one day and saw a tiny little restaurant in McDonough, GA that we decided try since there were a lot of cars in the parking lot. It looks like an old time company house that's sorta run down. That turned out to be the best country home style food on an all you can eat buffet that we've had out in a restaurant in many years. For $7.50 you have a choice of 4 or 5 different meats and to many vegetables to count with a salad bar and desert bar and it also includes Tea and taxes. It's out of our way but we go back quiet often.
If I may offer a slight correction Smitty...
That old country place has become a "DESTINATION" for y'all.The other places and things y'all see on the way there and back,THEY are "kind of out of your way"...[:D][^][:p][:)][;)]
http://www.truckntravel.com/
But if you want good
http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/134/907663/restaurant/Eugene/Sunrise-Cafe-Pleasant-Hill
The bad waitress reviews have changed they changed ownership and the old owners wife was that waitress she was the reason I quit eating there. The cook bought them out so same great food and a new waitress who does her job.
Just have to walk a bit is you drive a truck. Nearby side street or the parking lot of the store next to it.
Kind of Spendy, been trying to talk myself into joining their shooting league.
They also sell guns not to bad of prices.
This the place.
http://www.thebaronsden.com/
Also have to ad right up the street is the Tannerite store Buy Direct.
Also have you noticed that Rice Hill is in a Valley and Rice Valley is on a hill.
I drive that way a lot so my mind goes off on things like this.
But just a little south of there is Sutherland. I stop at this place most trips to the VA Hospital.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g52086-d4065889-Reviews-Apple_Peddler-Sutherlin_Oregon.html
There is truck parking there.
The smaller 'mom&pop' places use family recipes that have been passed down for years. The larger corporate places use 'corporate generic' recipes that were developed to be passable, but nothing special.
The best Mexican food I ever had was at The Taco Palace in OKC. A tiny, 7-table place that was run by a family that immigrated from Mexico years ago. It looked like a dump, but the food was better than anything I've had at Corporate places costing 5-times more.
I had that experience at a small hole in the wall that was bought by a Guatemalan family. The menu was handwritten on a chalk board and was whatever grandma was cooking that day. It was like taking a 45 minute mini-vacation to central america. Food was delicious and after I finished she brought me out dessert that I didn't order and gave it to me. Some kind of banana/plantain dish with a sour cream sauce. One of my favorite desserts I have ever had and no idea what it was called.
quote:Originally posted by Tech141
The smaller 'mom&pop' places use family recipes that have been passed down for years. The larger corporate places use 'corporate generic' recipes that were developed to be passable, but nothing special.
The best Mexican food I ever had was at The Taco Palace in OKC. A tiny, 7-table place that was run by a family that immigrated from Mexico years ago. It looked like a dump, but the food was better than anything I've had at Corporate places costing 5-times more.
I had that experience at a small hole in the wall that was bought by a Guatemalan family. The menu was handwritten on a chalk board and was whatever grandma was cooking that day. It was like taking a 45 minute mini-vacation to central america. Food was delicious and after I finished she brought me out dessert that I didn't order and gave it to me. Some kind of banana/plantain dish with a sour cream sauce. One of my favorite desserts I have ever had and no idea what it was called.
Little Dive of a place.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/korea-house-restaurant-eugene
But talk about good. There is always Koreans eating in there. This is where the Foreign college students eat to get a taste of home.
Tomahawk Cafe & Truckstop, Hershey,Nebraska
http://www.activediner.com/tomahawk-truck-stop-kitchen/restaurant/hershey/ne/us/map/492024
He loaded me in his car and took me to this crummy looking little place that I figured should have been condemned for a half dozen reasons.
To this day I have no clue what I was eating, but it was spectacular. He told the owner that I was a Newbie and to impress me. He darn sure did.
I agree with the basic rules to avoid the big places and chains and find the little places. Those little places live or die on their food and service....and they act like it.