Let's Eat

My wife and I like to travel. We not only like to travel, we like to take our friends along. When you travel you have to stop along the way to eat. We do not just stop anyplace to eat on our travels. We find a Mom and Pop Restaurant to dine in.
Part of the fun of dining out is enjoying the local culture. Besides the fact of the local culture you can get some of the best food you have ever eaten.
One time a few years ago we went into a Mom and Pop restaurant in Pennsylvania.This place was right out of the program Happy Days. The waitress come over and brought our menu's and poured us some coffee. My Buddie Dan spotted something on the menu he had never seen before.
SCRAPPLE! When the waitress returned to take our order Dan wanted to know what scrapple was. The young lady did not know. There was a gentleman siting one table over from us listening to the whole conversation. This man tried to explain what scrapple was but really was not sure himself. It was time to get the cook so he could tell us what scrapple was. Scrapple is made of Pork sausage, corn meal and grease. We ordered our breakfast enjoying the local culture while we ate it. Yes Dan did order the scrapple. Compliments to the Chef.
Quite a few years ago I, my wife, and a friend were traveling through the South. We stopped at a Restaurant in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. This was a Mom and Pop place and it was packed with local folks. The gentleman that owned the place said he bought it when he was sixteen years old and he had owned it for forty six years. We ordered our breakfast; I asked for Toast, Eggs, Grits and Bacon. While we waited we made small talk and watched the other folks in the diner. The locals would get up and go behind the counter and get more coffee. They shared each others pitcher of cream off the tables. They talked, joked and enjoyed each others company. The owner of the place brought our breakfast to the table. Being a gentleman, he placed the ladies meals before them first. After he put my breakfast on the table he slapped me on the back and said " You know if we would have had more Grits we would have whipped you Yanks". Of course he was teasing me, we both had a good laugh. What a wonderful man. Till next time. Norm