Subj : Re: Golden Corral
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Dave Drum
Date : Fri Sep 12 2025 05:21:00

-=> Sean Dennis wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 SD> (I'm testing the W door on my system with this message so if anything
 SD> is weird, including the date due to Y2K issues, I will fix it.)

Everything look hunky as well as dory.  Bv)=  Nothing munged AFAICS.

 DD> My local G.C. seldom does steak at lunch. But that's all right because
 DD> there is enoough other tasty stuff to cause culinary overload. After 1
 DD> o'clock mine also does an "Early Bird Special" which is the dinner meal
 DD> at a discoounted price. I try to get there about 3:30 so I get the low
 DD> price AND my senior discount. Then at 4 o'clock they go into full steak
 DD> mode.

 SD> These were, for the lack of a better term, "lunch steaks".  If I was
 SD> going alone or with someone else, I'd do like you and go at 3:30 to get
 SD> that double whammy of a good deal.

Just to be sure I called Blondie (owner's wife) who works as a fkoor
attendant, filling drinks, doinf fetch & carry tassks almost every day 
for a while. It helps her and her ol' man keep an eye out for things 
that need fixed. 

She told me that while some GCs do small steaks at lunch their GC's only
lunch steak is pork steak. They do offer freshly carved ham and roast
beef.

 DD> I don't go as often as I used to because I *always* hurt myself by over
 DD> stuffing. I really like the weekend breakfast buffet. All the bacon I
 DD> can stuff in my face. And on Veteran's Day (and sometimes the day
 DD> before) the buffet is free to serviceman/women - current of veteran.
 DD> The hassle is I stood on enough chow line when I was in Unk's Yacht
 DD> Club.

 SD> I try to not overstuff myself.  I pay for it dearly if I do.

I know the words to that song   Bv)=

 SD> I love their breakfast but rarely do I get to go except if I go by
 SD> myself.  All of our local Shoney's shut down so GC's breakfast buffet
 SD> is the only game in town now.  I also do stuff myself with bacon if I
 SD> get to go.

We had a Shoney's here for a while which w3as a part of their "Big Boy"
burger snatcher franchise. It converted to just "Shoneys" and ditched
Dolly and Big Boy. Their breakfast buffet was pretty good. But their old
stand has been an insurance and real estate office for nearly 20 years. My
search engine tells me they have done from 3K locations down to 50 or so
left.  Sad.

 SD> As for the Veterans' Day lines, my parents and I try to get there
 SD> early. Our local GC usually will allow people in early unofficially.  I
 SD> don't usually wait more that 15 minutes in line anymore.

If it's on a weekend I am at, or near, the front of the thundering herd
when they unlock the doors at 0700. Regular weekdays they open at 1100
and the line is already spilling into Wally World's parking lot by 1030.

Learned about Hardee's biscuits & gravy yesterday when I took advantage 
of a freebie offer. Hardee's has the bestest biscuits in the fats food
business. But their gravy??? Oy! Jasper and Eva liked it well enough but
they're pooches and not very discriminating. 

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Dutch Oven Sausage Gravy
 Categories: Five, Pork, Dairy
      Yield: 1 Batch
 
  1 1/2 lb Breakfast sausage
      2 c  A-P flour
      4 c  Milk
      2 c  Water
           Salt & coarse ground pepper
 
  Brown sausage in Dutch oven. Add milk and while milk is
  still cool, mix flour and water thoroughly and add to
  milk. Stir constantly as it thickens to desired texture.
  Salt and pepper. Serve over biscuits.
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
 
MMMMM

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