Subj : Texas Roadhouse was: KFC
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Jul 23 2025 14:06:16

Hi Dave,

 RH> Whichever way it's going, we shouldn't need to obsess about it. I
 RH> figure I'll be out of here one way or another before the planet blows
 RH> into smithereens.

 DD> Kind of my take on it. But, I can still attempt to leave something for
 DD> posterity. Or before some whack-o politician decides to pull the
 DD> nuclear trigger.

And best dropped there.

 DD>       8<----- SNICK ----->8

 DD> The only steak place I have eaten in Texas is the "Big Texan" just off
 DD> of Route 66 (now I-40) where the offer a "free 72 oz steak" (4 1/2 lb
 DD> roast cooked on the grilll). To get it free you must finish it in one
 DD> sitting along with the baked potato and side salad. I managed it. But

 RH> I've seen the signs for that approaching, then in, Amarillo. The place
 RH> is just off of I-40, and no, we've never stopped there. Only times
 RH> we've stopped in the city have been for fuel and visits to a (now
 RH> deceased) aunt of Steve's. There's no way I could finish 4.5 pounds of
 RH> meat, a potato and salad (especially if the salad is brought out first)
 RH> in one sitting.

 DD> There used to be billboards up and down Route 66. And since Route 66
 DD> has its beginning in Chicago and terminus in Santa Monica I saw
 DD> several near my town since we were astraddle of Route 66.

Sounds like the Buc-ee's or South of the Border signs. When Steve's
parents lived in Florida, we made a number of trips there. SotB signs
all up and down I-95!


 DD> an hour
 DD> or so further west I was getting hungry again. Seems all that food got
 DD> my stomach stretched out of shapen and when it passed on down the line
 DD> it left an rmpty feeling.  Bv)=

 RH> I'll stop at comfortably full, like I could eat dessert but if I did,
 RH> I'd be overfull. Taking home a lot of leftover boxes these days.

 DD> I had to finish the deal. If not I would have had to pay enough that
 DD> I couldn';t have made it to Califunny. I wouldn't even attempt it now.

I know better than to try to attempt a meal like that.

 RH> bagged peanuts (shells go into buckets) only a couple of years ago.

 DD> We used to have a chain place called "The Ground Round" a family
 DD> casual place that offered the p-nut shells on the floor deal. The

 RH> I've heard of them but don't recall ever eating at one. Sounds like
 RH> they were trying to be a TR clone.

 DD> Nope. They pre-dated Texas Roadhouse. G.R. began in 1969. T.R. in
 DD> 2003. If anything T.R. is the copycat.

OK


 DD> chain, a part of the Howard Johnson's family went bust in 2004. Our
 DD> local store is now "The Dublin Pub" with not an Irishman in sight.

 RH> Does it offer Irish beer?

 DD> Just Guiness stout. They do offer one of the better bowls of chilli in
 DD> Springfield.

You should know. Steve has ordered the TR chili a few times and has said
it's "ok but not as good as yours".

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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