While out and about in pursuit of pokemon, I risked being shot by police to take this picture
Maria’s Mexican Restaurant used to be an iconic chain restaurant on former US 21. The sign over the building is original, but the name has been changed to protect the guilty.
Anyone recognize it? I’m sure what it was because I used to eat there 😉
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Jack In The Box???
http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/03/arthur_treachers_remembering_t.html
I remember them, but only ate their once or so. My parents preferred a chain called Cape Codder.
We have a winna!
I lived in Charlotte from 1977-1981
We still have Captain Ds – I have been there a couple times. It was a competitor
Early on, I dragged my niece to Captain Ds. Captain Ds doesn’t have an imported French wine list. In retrospect, I see the problem we had. My niece wants to take care of poor people as if they are pets, just not interact with them socially.
Aha – was it Murphy’s Mexican? I am pretty sure it isn’t a Shoney’s 🙂
I learned today a few of them still exist in Cleveland. Part of what did them in was overfishing of Atlantic Cod. Pollock and Pacific cod are nothing like Atlantic Cod.
One of McDonald’s problems is they are such a huge consumer of products, offering something new can take a decade to prepare a supply chain that won’t collapse.
True, Pollack is no Haddock or Atlantic cod. There was a Arthur Treachers in Roanoke VA.
Pollack is cheap at Costco.
Fred you let us know if you find a ‘Rays’ Kingburger.
“If its good enough for Richard Petty , its good enough for me !”
Maybe your neice would like to eat where the ‘King’ eats? : )
parrott
I ate at a Ray’s King burger once, maybe twice. There was one in Salisbury where I went to college. I remember where it was, but the only thing I remember was they were using mechanical cash registers, about 20 years after they were obsolete. McDonald’s was about three blocks away and at the time was experimenting with optical mark sensing, which was a stupid idea. It greatly increased accuracy in managing inventory, but was a problem because half of the time the machine would reject the order form.
Everyone who has never worked in a restaurant thinks they want to own one. Stick to things you know about.
Alcohol is a theme of the problems we had. The Stienings were Presbyterians, the Christians who most fiercely adopted alcohol prohibition. Presbyterians used to fight over whether it was against God’s law to have wine in communion. Most churches used orange juice. Communion in the church I grew up in consisted of the deacons walking around with tiny chalices that held about the amount of grape juice in a Skittle™ and a “loaf of bread” about the size of a cough drop. There was no communal chalice, no breaking apart and sharing an actual loaf of bread, no walking up to the minister, etc. The entire process was very sterile and odd to me as a child.
Anyhow, my father apparently liked wine, but one of the ground rules of the marriage was Dad would never consume alcohol. The only time I ever saw him drink was when we visited my mother’s sister they would offer him booze – which was hard for my mother to object to.
My own attitude about alcohol was that I grew up selling newspapers on the street with a lot of bars and watched the alcoholics coming and going. I also recognized that my brain was the only thing I had going for me and I wasn’t going to rot it out or get myself in trouble by losing control of my emotions.
So my sister (their mother) went to a VERY strict Christian college named Geneva college in Beaver Falls, PA. It makes Bob Jones University in SC look liberal. She had to give up playing Contract Bridge because playing cards were the work of the devil. She found her husband there.
So at some point, he developed a fondness for expensive imported wines. At least two times, he ran up credit card debts of over $10,000 that he concealed from her. Most of that was wine, some of it was classical music CDs. He eventually lost his job, left home and wandered around their small town in the middle of the night. His house got foreclosed, then he got evicted from his apartment. They ended up divorcing, although she got a lot of religious pressure to stay together.
So both of the kids have the same fondness for expensive imported wine. They got one shot of trying to get me to “try this great wine” ?, but I made it pretty clear that I had no objection to them having wine, but they should not expect me to join them.
She at one point made a comment somewhat in anger – “what’s the deal with all of my mom’s family not drinking?” Well my cousin in Boston is very angry at his father (my dad’s brother) being an alcoholic.
So there you go. One of my disappointments about 2016 Charlotte is the change in attitude about wine and booze. This has everything to do with the Northerners moving here, and the Convention bureau and big banks finding it hard to make money when out of staters would arrive and find they could not get sloshed over dinner. Liquor laws in NC are determined at the county level. There are some counties that are still completely dry. In Charlotte, other than the burger chains, most restaurants serve at least beer and wine, if not more. Places that do tend to pay much less attention to the food and the wait staff becomes inattentive once you indicate you won’t be buying that $20 bottle of wine.
Have I rambled enough?
That’s cool. I only seem to only like wine from Duplin Winery down in Duplin county just off I-40 north of Wilmington NC. They make sweet wine.
I dislike that kerosene from CA. Harsh.
yeah a lot in my family have issues with alcohol.
I’d like to think I learned from mistakes that my relatives have made. Yeah root beer with dinner while out at a restaurant. Unless its Mexican, then I like that mexical beer Sol or Pacifico, with spicey food. In the winter its good.
I respect others alcohol choices, you don’t know what they have encountered unless you walked a mile in their shoes
parrott