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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby Meteornotes » Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:03 pm

^Same. Scrapple is just, um, not good...

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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby esvadj » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:13 am

MMMMMmmmmm Scrapple, I love scrapple!!!

Great report. I seem to end up in Crisfield with an hour or more to kill waiting for a ferry to Tangier, so I had seen that Mexican place a few times - but never eaten there. My next trip I am going to find that Pizza place for those twisty breadsticks for sure!
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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby printersdevil78 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:39 pm

^Definitely check it out. Its at the corner of Richardson Avenue (AKA Maryland Avenue, AKA Crisfield Highway, AKA the dual highway) and Potomac Street, across from Shore Stop and behind PNC Bank. It's really easy to miss unless you're looking for it.

While waiting for the boat to Tangier, I assume you've already checked out Gordon's Confectionery near Ninth and Main? If not, add that to your list, as well. Fried hot dogs, scrapple sandwiches and hand-mixed Cherry Cokes over crushed ice. Hands down the best soft drink I've ever had, and I've been drinking them since I was a kid. The coffee usually gets high marks, as well, though I'm not a coffee drinker, so I wouldn't know. Supposedly they made it with rainwater for 50+ years until the health department put a stop to it.
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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby jray21 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:44 pm

Never had scrapple, but everything else looks amazing. Now i'm going to have to find a place that has it!
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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby printersdevil78 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:14 pm

^I really like scrapple, but it's an acquired taste, and it's much better if you don't know what's in it.

If you do want to know what's in it... think of a pig. OK, now remove the parts that make up the ham, bacon, pork chops, ribs and sausage. Now take away anything that is used to make pressed lunch meat (bologna, souse loaf, etc.) or glue. Now grind up everything that's left, add a healthy dose of cornmeal, boil it in water and let it "gel" for a couple days. Then slice it and fry it, and you've got scrapple.

It's not easy to find outside the Mid-Atlantic, so good luck!
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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby printersdevil78 » Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:13 pm

After a few months’ hiatus, the Roadfood thread returns! But this time, the reason for the delay is more than just my usual busy-ness. In late January, I started a major diet and, save for a few weekend trips, vacations and special occasions, I really haven’t gone to many Roadfood-style places. In fact, with the exception of my weekly bar trivia night and a few work-related events, I really haven’t dined out much at all this year.

The good news is, a couple months ago, Kelly decided to make it a “family diet,” and in the past couple months, she and Lauryn have lost weight, as well. Then a few of our friends joined in… so we have kind of a “Biggest Loser” thing going on.

That said, I do have some fun places to report on… and they’re 100 percent scrapple-free! Enjoy!
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I’m not sure how this place has escaped the Roadfood thread thus far, but Thrasher’s French Fries is an Ocean City, MD, tradition dating back to the 1920s. This was the “crowd” when I stopped by during a visit to the boardwalk the first week of January to take a photo to enter into one of Big Mike’s contests. In the summer, the line can stretch for what seems like a mile. However, there is a dirty little secret: Besides the main location pictured here, there are other Thrasher’s locations further down the boardwalk that almost never have lines… and the fries there are just as good, no matter what anyone tells you.
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This is a “small” (sizes go all the way up to a popcorn-style bucket) with sea salt and vinegar, the way God intended Thrasher’s fries to be eaten! The only items served besides fries are Pepsi and Diet Pepsi, poured into cups from two-liter bottles. And don’t even think about asking for ketchup. It’s not available at Thrasher’s, and the Boog’s Barbecue restaurant next door (owned by and named for Baltimore Orioles Hall-of-Famer John “Boog” Powell) has signs sternly warning patrons that its ketchup is not to be used on Thrasher’s fries… or else.
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In early March, Lauryn started talking about how much she wanted to visit New York. I have no idea what prompted this sudden urge to see the Big Apple, but I suspect it was because the main characters from “iCarly” or “Big Time Rush” or “Victorious” or some other interchangeable show probably went there. Kelly and I started talking about a visit… then the next day at work, a friend of mine who runs bus trips told me she still had tickets available for her next trip to New York a few weeks later if I knew anyone who was interested. It was kismet! Kelly wanted to spend the day taking Lauryn shopping in the Times Square area, and I reluctantly agreed… provided I got to choose the restaurants. First up: John’s Pizzeria.
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I came thisclose to changing my mind once I realized that Shake Shack was right across the street (and the grill smell coming from there was amazing), but since I had been denied a chance to visit John’s once before during a group holiday trip when the wait proved to be too long, I had incentive to see what I had missed out on. Next time I’ll visit Shake Shack to see what I missed out on this time!
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How many pizza joints have you been to with a ceiling like this? This particular branch of John’s (with several locations throughout the city) was built inside a defunct church!
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The view from our table. Not too shabby!
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Stained glass windows on the other side.
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But forget about the view… this is where the magic happens! On Scott’s Pizza Tour last year, I learned that the best pizzas come from coal-fired ovens like this.
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Lauryn had a bad experience with pizza last year (she will forever associate tomato sauce with the flu), so she doesn’t particularly care for it anymore. However, she is a garlic bread fiend. Personally, I thought John’s’ variety was a little bland, but she enjoyed it, which is what counts.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this pepperoni-sausage-garlic-cheese, coal-fired, thin-crust pizza from John’s is quite probably the best pizza I have eaten thus far in my life. Kelly said the same thing… and we’ve eaten a <i>lot</i> of pizza! Maybe it’s because it was the first “junk” food I’d had in more than two months at that point. Maybe it really was that good. I don’t know. But to this day, I still have dreams about that wonderful pie.
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Originally, I wanted to go to the Carnegie Deli for dinner. However, in researching the trip, Kelly decided it was too far to walk. Plus, she really hates crowded, chaotic places, and neither of us was sure how well Lauryn would do in that type of atmosphere after getting up at 4 a.m. and spending the day walking several miles through New York. I wasn’t sure how long our wait would be, and I read a lot of mixed reviews online. Ultimately, we decided it would be best to skip it this time and try something else. When I read about Junior’s, it sounded like the perfect substitution.
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How can you have a Brooklyn-themed restaurant without featuring Ebbets Field?
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“Forget Ebbets Field… where’s the food?”
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Our meal began with complimentary sour pickles, beets and coleslaw.
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I had read good things about the matzo ball soup, so Kelly and I each got a bowl. They were huge! I really wish we had just got one to split; it was a meal unto itself.
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I got the half corned beef, half pastrami sandwich. It looks good here… but in actuality, it was pretty dry. I’ve had better.
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Kelly went for the pastrami burger with fries and onion r.ings, which she thoroughly enjoyed. Lauryn got the same thing, only without the pastrami and r.ings.
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The onion r.ings were the size of doughnuts! That’s not an exaggeration.
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Full as we were, we weren’t about to leave without sampling a slice of Junior’s’ famous cheesecake. They’re even sold on QVC, according to my mother. We got a piece to split three ways.
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Om nom nom!
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At the Toys “R” Us in Times Square, I picked up some bacon-flavored jellybeans and cheese-flavored fried worms. The worms tasted like… nothing, really. The jellybeans, on the other hand, were absolutely horrible! Kelly got mad at me after she ate one on the way home. I still have most of them left… though I did palm some off to the kids who attended Lauryn’s birthday party last month (they got mad at me, too).
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In April, my friend from whom we bought the New York tickets called and let me know she had a few empty seats left on her bus trip to the 100th anniversary of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., that she was willing to give away, lest they be wasted. Lauryn was spending her spring break with her father in Kentucky, and Kelly wasn’t really interested, so I went solo. After the massive parade, I made my way to the Sakura Matsuri street festival. I was looking forward to sampling authentic Japanese cuisine…
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…like Big Macs!
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Um… let’s go with whatever this guy is making instead.
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The lines for the Japanese food vendors were insane and not even remotely organized. You would stand in one line for 20 minutes only to find out it wasn’t a line at all, but a dead end. In the end, it was more of a “next person who shouts their order is the next person who gets waited on” deal.
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This pork bun was OK. Not really worth waiting 45 minutes for, but… OK.
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I had better luck at the pre-packaged, grab-and-go booths. I’m not really sure what these things were, but they were incredible! Far and away the best food I had at the festival.
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Unfortunately, I pushed my luck too far. As a fan of “Lost,” I certainly wasn’t going to pass up on the opportunity to try an actual fish biscuit! It was filled with bean paste, and didn’t have much taste. I’m not sure what those things next to it were called, but they were kind of like a dense marshmallow-flavored dough coated in chunky Karo syrup, if that even makes sense. By the time I finished all three skewers, I felt pretty sick.
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That was the last “cheat” day until Memorial Day weekend, when I made a special trip to Bethlehem, PA, to see Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica perform during “Luau at Levitt” at the Levitt Pavilion at the SteelStacks arts and entertainment complex.
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This was the snack bar inside. Apparently the Just Born candy company, maker of Peeps and Mike and Ikes, is a big sponsor.
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These were the benches!
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I opted for the outdoor catering, which was a bit more luau-themed!
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Roast pig sandwich with mango chutney (pineapple salsa also available), taro chips (listed as “homemade,” though they obviously weren’t) and a mai tai… now that’s living!

That’s all for this installment. Stay tuned for more!
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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby grimby » Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:26 pm

Oh my. Some of that looks delicious :b :p . If not very unhealthy :|
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Postby gisco » Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:21 am

Someday I will learn to stay out of the food threads an hour before lunch!
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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby printersdevil78 » Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:38 am

In early June, I completed a nine-day, 10-state driving vacation that took me to amusement parks, roadside attractions and restaurants in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. During that time, I managed to gain no fewer than 14 pounds! Here’s why.
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Not counting a Hardee’s breakfast sandwich that morning (all diet bets were off for this trip), my first stop of the vacation was Cumberland, MD, for… Coney Island hot dogs?
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Oh noes!
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Fortunately, Curtis’ was the place I had intended to go to all along. I didn’t even know that other Coney Island place existed until I ended up parking in front of its now-empty shell.
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“When Johnny was marching off to war… we were making Coney Island sauce!” Check out the menu.
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I had actually been to Curtis’ a few years earlier. Beneath the piece of cardboard listing Cherry Coke is a portion of the sign that reads “Cherry Smash,” a Virginia-based soft drink that was quite good. I was sad to see they had taken it off the menu. Apparently the change took place shortly after my last visit; the waitress said Curtis’ was the only restaurant in the area that was still stocking it, and the company stopped sending delivery drivers all that way for a single order.
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My regular order at Curtis’: two with sauce, hold the onions. They were as fantastic as I remembered. I also got to see the cook (but alas, failed to get a picture) line a quantity of them up his arm and dress them in bulk. Fun stuff!
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Several hours and several antique stores later, I pulled into Huntington, WV, where my first stop was the Frostop Drive-Inn.
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Check out the giant root beer mug on the roof! It rotates. Much like A&W, Frostop was once a drive-in hot dog and root beer chain that later bottled its brew for sales in stores. Today, only a few individual restaurants remain.
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It looks just like the one on the roof!
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The hot dog was great! The chili actually tasted just like its counterpart at one of my favorite hot dog joints, Ann’s Dari-Creme in Glen Burnie, MD, which I’ve written about elsewhere on TPR, if not in this thread. The slaw (a traditional hot dog topping in West Virginia) could have been a little better, but it was still good. And the carhop was very friendly, welcoming me when she found out it was not only my first time at a Frostop, but in Huntington, as well.
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Let’s talk about this root beer for a moment. It was quite probably the best root beer I’ve ever had! Very sweet, with a strong hint of vanilla, served in a chilled mug. What’s not to like?
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Next up on the hot dog trail was Stewart’s Hot Dogs.
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There are several branches of this very local chain in Huntington, but this little orange stand is the original. In fact, it’s so small, I accidentally drove by it during my first pass. And contrary to popular belief, it’s not related to the Stewart’s bottled sodas or the Stewart’s Original drive-ins of New Jersey.
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As good as Frostop? Let’s find out.
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OK, the root beer was really good, if not quite as good as Frostop (and not served in a frosted mug, obviously). The dogs were… not great. I really liked the coleslaw, but the chili just kind of tasted like “glop,” and the dogs were nothing special. The onion ringy dingy ding-a-ling dings were 99 percent grease, and I ended up leaving most of them behind. Honestly, I probably would have gone with the one-dog, one-root beer order here as I did at Frostop had I not had a coupon for the extra dog and onion ringy dingy ding-a-ling dings.
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My last stop before checking into the hotel after a long day: Jolly Pirate Donuts…
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And gyros!
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Retro packaging!
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The doughnuts here were pretty good overall. The glazed wasn’t half bad…
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…while the apple fritter was great! I saved mine for breakfast the next morning.

Up next: Hillbilly Hot Dogs! You won't want to miss this one.
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Re: Photo TR: Jason's Roadfood Adventures

Postby larrygator » Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:07 am

Ah, just noticed you brought back this thread. I would have thought the Stewart's were related due to the similar color scheme. Unfortunately, I'm a hot dog snob and rarely try them outside of New York.
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