Registered: Aug 2000
Location: baton rouge, la
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there's this place in town that opened up a few years ago, Raising Cane's, and in that few years they now have 8 locations around town. they sell chicken fingers, and thats all. there are two choices on the menu: the chicken finger box and the chicken finger sandwich. sure, fries and toast come with it, but people go for two things.

one is the chicken. it's freshly cut and friend every day, nothing frozen. the second is the cane's sauce. i really don't know how to describe it's taste, though i can express my feelings toward it.

given the chance i would drink it straight. i think they put crack in the stuff. right this very moment i'm trying to convince catfat that exchanging her sexual favors for cane's would be a good idea.

they've been local for years and have no intentions of branching or changing formats.

aside from feeling the need to create a monument for this wonderfull place, do any of you lot have local places like this?

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: California
Posts: 4252

No, most of the food here is...eh.

Nothing to write home about.

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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Posts: 1480

hmmm could it be from the cane toad? we had to watch some video in biology last week about cane toads. people smoke them over there. im sure some of our ozzys can tell us about it.

as far as local food here we have tons of good seafood places, all damn expensive though. i only get to go for seafood on special occasions.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: LfuckinA
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In N' Out. The name alone is something to tell people about. This place has the best damned burgers you can get. And there are many that are not on the menu that you can order if you know how. Like the 4X4, or the animal style or the protein style. MMMMMMM, I think I'm going to have me a double-double now with fries and a dr pepper. Their fries are fresh too. They peel and cut them there in the store. Nothing's frozen here. You get one thing: burgers. Well, you can get the aforementioned fries but they're really part of the whole deal. And they have awesome milkshakes. This is definitely more than enough reason to stay in California...well, if you like this sort of thing.

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Octopus's Garden
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In N' Out. The name alone is something to tell people about. This place has the best damned burgers you can get. And there are many that are not on the menu that you can order if you know how. Like the 4X4, or the animal style or the protein style. MMMMMMM, I think I'm going to have me a double-double now with fries and a dr pepper. Their fries are fresh too. They peel and cut them there in the store. Nothing's frozen here. You get one thing: burgers. Well, you can get the aforementioned fries but they're really part of the whole deal. And they have awesome milkshakes. This is definitely more than enough reason to stay in California...well, if you like this sort of thing.

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Ok I knew about the Animal Style but you gotta tell me about the 4x4 and the Protein style.

I was all about a double double animal

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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At home we've got... well... chains. Nothing really great, that I can think of. I mean, I like some of them, but nothing that's just "so damn cool and nobody else has one!"

Ermm.. There's a restaurant called the River's Edge near where I grew up that's just WONDERFUL. It's got the best hush puppies I've ever had, and they're all you can eat, along with a killer vegetable soup. I believe they come standard with anything you order. The rest of the food I remember having eaten there is really good as well.

That's pretty much the only real restaurant (non-fast food) I can remember eating at until I moved to SC.

Here in Tempe.. well, I don't know the place well enough to say. Besides, in the short time I've been here, I've watched small shops and stores pushed out of business by larger chains. It's sad, sometimes.

Oh well.

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Ok I knew about the Animal Style but you gotta tell me about the 4x4 and the Protein style.

I was all about a double double animal

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Octopus's Garden
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Well I got two places that comes to mind.

While living in San Diego there was a burger place that was just the best in the world. The place is called HoDads and is locatione in Ocean Beach. This place had the biggest burgers for like a really small price.

When you got any onions, tomatos, bacon or pickles on the burger, you got like these huge hunks of veggies or meat. Nothing like what you get in a fast food place. A double everything was to big to take a bite from bun to bun. It was massive. I will get one in 8 days. YAYYYYYYY

Now that I live near philly, I have switched to cheesesteaks. The two places to really get them at are Pat's or Geno's. Pat's is the original and a few years later Geno's opened up basically across the street.

When you get up to the window it is generally good to know how to order them. I prefer a cheeze without. Meaning a Cheesesteak with Cheese Wiz and no onions. You can choose cheese wiz, provolone or american cheese. Then you can add onions and or mushrooms.

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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Octopus's Garden
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A 4X4 is just like the double-double but with 4 patties and 4 slices of cheese instead. I've eaten a few of these in my life (I'm a large man). I've heard someone who once worked in an In N' Out tell me about a man who ordered a 26X26. They made it for him and he ate it all. That man is probably dead now. Anyway, the protein style gets rid of just about everything. It's the patty and onions (I think) wrapped in two leaves of lettuce instead of a bun. That way you get more burger for your buck. They also have veggie (everything sans patty and cheese). Though, I tend to not ever eat that. I did once and I found it very bland. I have, however, enjoyed the grilled cheese animal style. Now that is pretty good eatin' right there. Now that I'm thoroughly hungry and my school day is over, I'll be heading over to the In N' Out for real.

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I'll be in Cali next week. After Hodads I am gonna make sure I go for a 4x4...NICCEEEE

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Bangor, ME
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wouldn't that burn?

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Oakland-ish
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Caveman Kitchens in Kent, Washington.

The Caveman was (is) a dingy little smoke house that sits alongside the road in the tiny town of Kent. It is take out only, although there is a small patch of grass with some picnic tables and an old covered wagon type dealy that you could sit in. Chickens wander loose scravenging for ground score. Close by is a little store where you can buy a can of beer to drink with your meal.

The Caveman was run by Richard Donelly, a retired Boeing machinist, who built this special smoker. In the beginning that was all he did: custom smoke meats. He attracted the attention of Julia Child, who brought her wild game to the Caveman to smoke.

Caveman advertised his smoke house by word of mouth. On the walls surrounding the order counter there were tons of frames filled with signed photos of big rock bands, who, while in Seattle had their meals catered by the Caveman, or letters from people around the world singing the praises of his BBQ. Many letters from Ms. Child thanking him for the wonderful smoked salmon or ham that they had served at Christmas that year.

But for the most part it was the regulars who kept the place going, all the folks from Boeing and the large industrial complexes located nearby. The food brought them there and kept them coming back.

The food....mmmmm....

I always got the chicken dinner. Half a chicken smoked so that the skin was kinda crisp and greenish, the flesh full of flavor and so moist and juicy it just fell off the bone. A container of baked beans, potato salad and a big chunk of hot buttered white bread. Oh yeah, and a big cold bottle of beer.

And BBQ sauce. LOTS of it.

It just didn't get any better than that.

Caveman was a family business and they knew how to treat their customers...like family. When you placed your order the girl would write your name and your order on the paper bag it would eventually come to in. Most of the time there was a line up, and now and again she would stop taking orders for a minute and grab some tasty thing they had just made and hand it out to everyone to try. Or tell us to guess numbers between one and one hundred and she would pick 5 of us and give us something special in our bag. The she'd holler out your name when your food was ready, and maybe even flirt with you a bit as she handed you your bag, you know, a wink and a "come back soon, darlin'", that lovely warm American hospitality. One night my battery died in my old Bug and the staff dropped everything to come out and push my car.

Donelly swore he would never franchise his business, and he died keeping his word, although his family did open another small Caveman in Seattle, it was never as good.

Any time I pass through Kent I go have some Caveman chicken. When I lived there I had it once a week, at least. It was just that good.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Delaware
Posts: 5704

Post House in Wilmington. The BESTEST breakfasts in the world!

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I'm hungry now.

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Location: zanzibar
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In N' Out.

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One of my favorite places to get a burger is at the Lindell AC in Detroit. It was like the first sports bar in the area. It is where the Red Wings, Tigers and Lions used to hang out after games years ago. I think Alex Karras once got in a fist fight there.

Now its kind of dingy, but you can go in and get a fresh burger and hot fries and sit amongst all these faded photos of 1960's Detroit personalities. I once took a girl there and there are only like 4 things on the menu, Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Steak Sandwich, Grilled cheese. She was a vegitarian and got a grilled cheese, which turned out to be a hamburger bun turned inside out and grilled with the cheese in the middle. She hated it. I still love the place.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: LfuckinA
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You bastard! There is no In n' Out (that I know of) within 2000 miles.

Damn.

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Mmmmmmm, that double-double I had for dinner was great! I remember living in the dorms at college. There was an In N' Out across the street. Late nights, you could smell the air and it was good. Sigh, I miss university. It was great, walk across the street, pick up a late night burger and pretend to study. Damnit, now I am all depressed about missing university. I hate you now.

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Van Diemen's Land.
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hmmm could it be from the cane toad? we had to watch some video in biology last week about cane toads. people smoke them over there. im sure some of our ozzys can tell us about it.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: I don't fukn' know!
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there was this japanese restraunt that we used to get takeout from when I was in HS.

there was something about the sezshwan (SP i know) shrimp sauce that was THE BESTEST! I have never had it's like! then the chef left it's never been the same.

Dagwoods has this awsome chocolate chip french toast, they make a special syrup in the restraunt that is SOOooooooGOOooooooD!

I also like the fishermans warf, they have the best seafood, I dig their crabcakes, and they have this lovely desert wine.

... I dont go out to eat anymore

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