Subj : Popeyes was: Greasy Spoon [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Tue Apr 22 2025 20:31:33 Hi Dave, DD> Chicago campus/school. And S.I.U. whose main campus is in Carbondale a DD> long way from their medical campus in Springfield. RH> And I've never had need of any of them. Passed thru the state a number RH> of times but only stopped for longer than a few minutes was when we RH> stopped on our way to AZ in 1993 to visit my sister. Came thru south of RH> Chicago a few years ago with the camper--roads were horrible! DD> In the Chicago area that's sorta, kinda understandable. Huge metro DD> area full of people w/car or trucks, corssroads of a bunch of major DD> interstate highways ... and lots of low RRunderpasses. When I drove DD> semi trucks I tries as best I could to stay away from Chiciago. And DD> totally refused to return to NYC after one load there. We've gone a more southerly route back across the country since then but for that trip, we were starting from West Yellowstone and Steve wanted to try I-90 for a bit. I forget where we dipped south but do know we went thru IL south of Chicago. DD> The roads in my part of the state are *much* better. And the Cracker DD> Barrel where we first met is still there and serving Mama's Pancake DD> Breakfast - even is the fruit selection is down to peaches or apples. DD> I miss the berries. Bv(= If we stop at a Cracker Barrel, we usually get supper there. It's easier to do a fast, in the camper breakfast than a fast, with no hook ups, supper. Besides, it gets us on the road earlier since we don't have to go in and wait on breakfast. Are they doing a per egg surcharge like a number of places are? DD> 8<----- CLIP ----->8 DD> As their e-mail "specials" say at the bottom - "prices may vary". I've DD> been taking advantage of the Eaqster/4-20 special of a #1 in the US DD> rated chicken sandwich for U$4.20. Monday the price goes back to U$5. RH> Too bad they can't be (at least the chicken part) frozen to enjoy RH> later. Or is it something easily copu-able? DD> They (Popeyes) have come up with another new "special" flavour for DD> their chicken sandwiches .... according to their e-mail solicitation DD> "Make it tangy too with our NEW Pickle Glaze." I'll give it a shot DD> I tried it yesterday at the currently discounted price. Along with a RH> On the side sounds much better than glazing the chicken with pickle RH> juice. DD> Did a side-by-side comparo yesterday for lunch. Bought one each of the DD> "regular spicy" and the pickle glazed and cut them in half when I got DD> home. Dennis had one each of the halves and I had the other. Hard to DD> tell the difference between the two ... so I thing I'll keep the spicy DD> chicken in my mix and ditch the pickle glazed. If I want pickle DD> flavour I'll ask for extra pickle slices. Bv)= OK, enough of a critique to let me know it's not worth trying. We were in Raleigh today, getting stuff for our upcoming trip and stopped at BK for lunch. Steve had a Baconator, gave me his tomatoes for my original chicken sandwich. He ordered some mozzerella sticks but, after looking at them, wasn't sure if the coating was corn meal or something else so passed them over to me. TBH, I'd rather have had the Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich but BK was closer and we needed lunch so.............. DD> I go Tuesday afternoon for a "hips to throat" body scan - so they'll DD> have the latest data to work from. Then present myself at 0515 DD> Wednesday morning for what is *supposed* to be an out-patient DD> procedure. DD> Toughest part of the whole mthing is having to hold my arms above my DD> head while the slide me back and for through the machine and they tell DD> to breathe or hold my breath. Holding my arms in that position for DD> more that 30 seconds always gives me cramps. Saw a comic today, patient going down a slide, arms up, into a CT machine and one tech saying to another about it being more enjoyable for the patient that way. Thought of you, knew you didn't have a slide but hope it wasn't too bad. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... I hit my CTRL key, but I'm STILL not in control --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .