The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Observed
"Menu board" type sign on the side of a downtown filling station, below the gasoline company's flamboyant logo:
REGULAR $3.55 PAY INSIDE CHESTER CHICKEN
I would not care to even begin to speculate between that last line's being a signature or identifying the guy who's going to have to pay inside, but it sure looked like one or the other.
Kurt's actually right; I rarely get the gizzards anymore but that's just because the truck stop on my route between here and mom's house in AZ is distanced such that they're always gone by the time I get there. As are the livers, which I like more.
Ironically both are significantly better than most of the rest of the sides.
There's a little diner about a mile south of where I live that's been owned by the same folks for about ninety years. They like to profile specific menu items on their sign board, which makes sense, but they also like to cram in as many as they can, without punctuation. My favorite, by far, was when it said this:
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Oh dear!
ReplyDeleteChester's Chicken just so happens to be in a lot of stations I've very familiar with.
I'm
ReplyDeleteGrr...
So, not a nickname, then?
ReplyDelete...FWIW, I think it's "I'm" while actually eating the chicken and "I've been" afterwards.
Me, I figure if it had a first name, ya prolly should not eat it.
The chicken is not bad.
ReplyDeleteThe rolls I'm not sure if I would dignify as anything other than "glucose product".
You need to try their gizzards- srsly!
ReplyDeleteGet there before noon or they'll be gone.
It's a franchise located in a ton of truck stops and convenience stores. It is better than the standard "broasted" chicken one usually finds.
ReplyDeleteUmmm, gizzards! I'm tempted; the Colonel dunno from gizzards, dammit.
ReplyDeleteKurt's actually right; I rarely get the gizzards anymore but that's just because the truck stop on my route between here and mom's house in AZ is distanced such that they're always gone by the time I get there. As are the livers, which I like more.
ReplyDeleteIronically both are significantly better than most of the rest of the sides.
There's a little diner about a mile south of where I live that's been owned by the same folks for about ninety years. They like to profile specific menu items on their sign board, which makes sense, but they also like to cram in as many as they can, without punctuation. My favorite, by far, was when it said this:
ReplyDeleteBUCKET OF
CHICKEN
SUNDAES
I'd try it.