Where Norm may not care to eat...

[Plymouthy Adams]

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[Norm's Coupe]

Tim,

Ever watch Jay Leno? Has a segment every now and then on "What not to name your product". Think that's when he's showing things he bought at the Dollar Stores. Well................paper towels aside, if I saw a place named Sow Bellies I'd probably keep on driving, based on the name of the place.

That said, I'm not into BBQ ribs, or BBQ anything. It's rare I eat any meat with BBQ sauce on it. About the only thing I'll eat that has BBQ sauce is shaved pork & BBQ sauce on a bun. Don't need napkins or paper towels for that. If the sandwich comes with too much meat and sauce, I simply take the top half off the bun, cut it with a knife and eat it with a fork. No mess that way.

As you know, I grew up in the south. We always ate fried chicken with our fingers. However, I started using a knife and fork for that years ago too. Don't need napkins or paper towels for hardly any type of food that way.

If we have ribs, we always get the boneless ones. You can cut them with a knife or fork and use a fork to eat them. Plus there's more meat without the bone.

[Merle Coggins]

I like the galvanized bucket for the condiments too. Do they bring out another bucket for the bones and such? Those are the "classy joints".

Merle

[Brad Lustig]

Man, if I drove by a place called Sow Bellies, I'd HAVE to eat there.

[Don Coatney]

Sow Bellies sounds good to me. My ex brother in law opened an eatery a few years ago in Ohio. When it came time for the lisencing and permits he was asked to name his establishment. He replied "I dont care"! The name stuck. What other good names are out there?

[Young Ed]

We have a place here called "the bad waitress" I haven't tried it yet though. I'm sure Norm would drive right by that one too

[Merle Coggins]

What other good names are out there?

There used to be a restaurant in Fennimore (SW Wisconsin) called "The Silent Woman" Their sign was a cutout of a woman serving food. However, this woman had no head. It created a lot of contraversy in the area, or so I was told. The food was good though. Seems that they went out of business a couple of years ago.

Merle

[Don Coatney]

[Norm's Coupe]

Ed,

I have heard of "The Bad Waitress". Actually we use to have a similar place here in town. Now, that one I would probably go into as the waitresses are usually a little sarcastic, and you can have a lot of fun with them.

Tim,

Now, if those ribs are smoked I know I wouldn't want to eat there. Don't care for that smoked flavor in my meat. I once received a nice Thanksgiving Turkey from a vendor. They shipped it to the house without asking if I wanted it. It sat in the freezer for about 6 or 8 months, then we threw it away. Something about smoked flavor that upsets my stomach when I eat it. Same goes for smelling food cooked on an outdoor grill. If that smokes comes my way, I'm outta there. That's why we don't even have a grill on our patio, or around the house. Once in awhile I get some smoke from the neighbor grilling. I have to move or come in the house when that happens. That grease falling into the grill, then mixing with the smoke will make me blow up the thrown if I stay around it too long.

All that said, your spaghetti sauce sounds good. Don't care for the elbow stuff though, just plain spaghetti noodles.

[55 Fargo]

Ain't nuttin wrong wit sow bellie, but I prefer pork bellie, maple sugar cured and hickory smoked. I worked in a Packing House for 12 years in my younger days, so believe me I saw lots of jowels and sow belly.......hee haw

[55 Fargo]

Norm I grew up in the south also, Southern Manitoba that is, we have a Miami, a Hollywood Beach here too, but heck there frozen 10 months out of the year. Now I know a few dishes you gents probably never tried or even heard of , unless your from Chicago or New York. Perogies and Kolbassa, the perogie is a dough wrapped , with potato and ceddar cheese inside. You boil them first like ravioli or tortellini, then you fry em in a pan, with real butter, bacon bits and onion if you like, then you eat them topped of with sour cream. Kolbassa is Ukrainian sausage, garlic sausage made with pork, ham chunks, and man is it finger lickin good on the barbeque or done in the oven,it is also smoked first. My relatives from Europe brought these cusines with them to North America, as well as the hooch (shine), they used to drink.............Fred

[55 Fargo]

Here is a a photo of my Mom, it was taken in 1951, she had just come to the big City of Winnipeg, as a young woman.

[Allan Faust]

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Ever watch Jay Leno? Has a segment every now and then on "What not to name your product". Think that's when he's showing things he bought at the Dollar Stores. Well................paper towels aside, if I saw a place named Sow Bellies I'd probably keep on driving, based on the name of the place.

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Guess you won't go to one Jay showed on the tube a while back..... "The Poo-Ping Palace".....

Allan

[Allan Faust]

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I have heard of "The Bad Waitress". Actually we use to have a similar place here in town. Now, that one I would probably go into as the waitresses are usually a little sarcastic, and you can have a lot of fun with them.

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Up here in Quebec (not where I am, but more round Montreal) there is the Pere Gedeon restaurants..... (Pere Gedeon was one o them known womanizers) and all the waitresses are in bikinis..... get a nice roast beef or steak for next to nuthin cost wise, and an eyeful to boot.....

Allan

[BobT-47P15]

We have a local place called Big R's Bar B Q.......their motto is "you can't beat our meat". They bring you real napkins here. They got lotsa stuff hanging on the ceiling and walls, including this guy......

[PatS....]

A good friend, tired of the healthy food craze and no smoking everywhere wants to open the Artery Hardener Smoke House.

No salads and smoking is mandatory!!!

[Charlie Olson]

And does anyone remember the name of the alcoholic brew these keel boats were known for? I have read many an antebellum stories of the south where these colorful characters were well covered.

Tonight's menu is a sorta Tim special..nothing elaborate..I start with browned ground beef (97% lean), once browned I throw in a quart of my favorite Classico spaghetti mix for a starter, open a can of Contadina Itlalian seasoned tomato chunks, can of mushrooms, little gralic to keep the bugs away and a few diced Jalapeno' pepper for zip. As for noodle...never but never do I use spaghetti noodles...un-civilized nasty way to eat pasta..use elbow macaroni instead..(personal quirk)...when all blended together and served with some buttered garlic bread...gooood...however as with most sauces, better the next day...I usually make a huge porotion and put half away in the freezer for a quick weekend lunch or sometimes a meal to carry to work.

If you get here within the hour...your's for the eatin...!!!

Tim, add one more step, put all of your fixins in a baking dish, cover with your favorite grated dry cheese and bake uncovered for 30 minutes at 325 degrees. Baked pasta, it'll do ya good.

[Norm's Coupe]

A good friend, tired of the healthy food craze and no smoking everywhere wants to open the Artery Hardener Smoke House.

No salads and smoking is mandatory!!!

Now that sounds like my kind of place, as long as they are not talking about smoked food.

Many of the so-called, non smokers who preach about second hand smoke being bad for you in public places are hypocrites anyway. I know one such couple myself. They complain about other peoples smoke in public places (they are non smokers of course). However, they then go to parties at some doctors house for a party. Then at that party you will see them smoking cigars (with the doctors) and even a few of the women do it. Cigars are worse than cigarettes, so where's their logic?

[Norm's Coupe]

when kissing butt..the effect of smoke is negated

Well said Tim.

[Charlie Olson]

Tim, the baked cheese covered method turns good stove top cookin into aromatic cassarole time and worth the wait. Enjoy, Buddie.

[blueskies]

My favorite burger joint in college was a place on the edge of town, Moscow, Idaho, called the "Slurp and Burp".

The local drive-in here for years was the "H in H" (Healey's in Hailey). But it was more commonly known as the "Huck-n-Heave".

Pete