My Dad would have loved Del Rancho, and I’m sure if he ever spent enough time in Oklahoma City to need a meal, that he ate there. Dear old Dad had a homing beacon for greasy dinners and most of my fondest memories of Dad are of my brother, me, and Dad sitting in a small booth with a tiny jukebox. It’s worth noting Dad died of multiple system failures at the ripe old age of 62. Anyway. Del Rancho is famous for it’s Chicken Fried Steak Sandwich. For those of you North of the Mason Dixie Line, a chicken…
Category: food
Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma
Pops reminds me of the gas station from the first Toy Story. A kind of futurist place with tall white gas pumps and a very high slanted roof. Of course, the most distinctive feature of Pops is the giant Coke bottle sculpture out front, which is lite with bright colors at night. Pops is on Route 66 just a few miles north of Oklahoma City. It’s easy to look out at the tiny road out front and image that going one way you would end up in Chicago and going the other was you’d end up in Los Angeles. Of…
Hot Sauce, Real Hot Sauce
If the only hot sauce you’ve ever heard of is Tabasco, you need to get out more. Not that there is anything wrong with Tabasco, I love the Chipolte flavor and I have a soft spot for the plain old orginal Tabasco. But once you become a serious chilihead, you find that there are a lot of other fish in the sea. Like Blair Hot Sauce. Blair’s Hot Sauce is the most recent hot sauce to get some fun buzz with the name Blair’s Death Sauce and the fact that it is the hottest thing around. But it far from…
Your Gonna Die
Being a man, I have only gone to see doctors when there was no other choice in the matter. Being a poor man, I have not had insurance for most of my life. Being blessed with a high metabolism, I have always eaten whatever I wanted and not gotten fat. Well, not very fat anyway.So now I have a job with benefits, how weird is that? I am making a fairly good living, and still bitch and moan about it every single day. Health insurance is one of the benefits. Now I have mixed feelings about the whole health care…
Travel To and Travel From
I’ve done a bit of traveling over the past few years and have plans to do a good deal more. Travel, for most people, is easier to remember than the normal day to day life. It has a beginning, and middle, and an end. Like little movies in our minds. That seems to be the way we want to recall them. But after a while, the beginnings and the ends and middles and get muddled.I remember the first time I visited Galveston Island with my family, but it is only bits and pieces, little snatches of the trip that have…
Steak & Ale
Steak and Ale was started in 1966, according to the back of the menu I read the other day, and it looks like they haven’t changed a thing since. Which is a good thing, mostly. I don’t eat here often, as I have never been one of those people that love steaks above all things. I had the Prime Rib and baked potato, and had the general feeling that I could have made them at home and they would have been just as good. Maybe that is my trouble with steaks in general, I want to go to a restaurant…