Proper Pickle Protocol June 20, 2007
Posted by carpebanana in : Ramblings , 3commentsToday we were in the Big City for a medical appointment. On the way home we stopped for dinner at a Steak’n'Shake. I had not eaten at one since visiting my grandparents in Florida when I was a little girl ~ and then my brothers and I would get to eat our burgers and shakes in the back seat (folded down) of Grandad’s Squareback. That is so long ago air-conditioning was unusual in homes, even in Florida, so those shakes were appreciated and the burgers always tasted real good to me, too.
I was a little nervous about going today. What if the burgers did not taste how I remembered them?
Well, it was fine. They did not taste quite the same but then we were not laying on our bellies in the back seat of the Squareback next to hippies in their van with peace signs and Flower Power flowers painted on the side and a bumper sticker about “Don’t come knockin’…”
And the kids’ menus were fun. Mr Music and Miss Dog Lover each had one with a Mad-libs kind of fill-in-the-blank fast food story. Miss Language really liked a line we created on Mr Music’s where someone replied to a suggestion with the phrase “sloppy idea.” I have a feeling that may become a family quote. And Miss Dog Lover’s menu featured some tongue twisters, the most interesting is: “Please place particularly perfect pickles perpendicularly.”