Leppotone

Elastic waistband. The American Legion down here puts on an awesome breakfast the second Sunday of every month. It is an eclectic mix of Sunday best and Nascar sweats. Since it is across the street I have been known to show up in PJ's and house shoes. After eating my weight I stumble back home and fall into a pancake coma (assuming I don't have to work) and awaken sometime after noon.

Except for Indian buffet I'm not much for feeding troughs. Both the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo MENSA chapters meet at their respective Old County Buffets. I can't hang with the OCB, the clientele frightens me.

We would go nuts with the “ice cream” machine. Instead of using the little cups meant for the ice goo, we’d get the soup bowls, throw in cookies, brownies, that weird banana-in-red-strawberry syrup, and then ooze out a mountain of ice ooze. Then we’d sip our dainty cups of weak tea and dig in.

Miss Info and I rode our bikes to OCB for breakfast last summer. That was probably a first in the history of OCB (except for the cooks or dishwashers sans license).

OCB and other American food buffets can be pretty nasty. I do love the ethnic food buffets.

There was a little Chinese restaurant in the Otsego-Allegan 'taint called CHINA Q. They served ice cream and Chinese food, according to the signage. The building that housed it had been home to an ice-cream shack. Did they thus feel compelled to offer ice cream with their Chinese food, or is the dairy phenomenon a foreigner's interpretation of American desires?

Has anyone here ever eaten at the Hong Kong Restaurant near the same 'taint? I ate there once and thought it was good, but I was pretty pregnant at the time, so not only was it a lo-ong time ago, but also anything remotely edible in my path was snarfed down and declared great.

Arngie… I will henceforward refer to any turf nestled betwixt two li'l country towns as the TAINT.

Again, thank you.

I'm guessing the Mexican food story would be similar.

I get pickier and pickier, the older I get. And yet, also more tolerant. For example, I tried to make a turnip galette yesterday. Unsurprisingly, when fried in butter, turnips are awesome! But I certainly did not grow up eating turnips, I learned about them later. And probably, only because the vegetable box comes every other week with strange new vegetables. How will the OCB crowd ever eat a vegetable that's not frozen brocolli / cauliflower / carrot mix covered in "cheez"?

Then again, I only ate the turnips fried in butter…