Anx said:

It is too! It's on CNN.


Grace's hat is actually just a giant dust mite.

minneapolisgenius said:

that is just scary

AnckSuNamun said:

What, my dream or the furry lobster?

Anx said:

man that looks nasty. this whole thread is gross. clam strips at white castle

minneapolisgenius said:

both

brownsugar said:

Wendy's has furry blonde lobster strips.

minneapolisgenius said:

Since it looks like no one here has tried White Castle's clam strips it seems I will have to take matters into my own hands.

If I don't return in a few days, would someone please get in contact with my family and tell them I would like to be buried in my best MEGADETH T-Shirt? Specify that it is the spaghetti stained one with Vic Rattlehead in a General's uniform.

Thanks in advance.

My card has been drawn, friend. I cannot reverse what has already been put in motion.

Good bye, all.

HobbesLeCute said:

endorphin74 said:

just make sure you aim ok. Getting that stuff in your mouth will just make you retch more.

I love me some WHitey One Bites...but all I really get is the burgers or Cheese Burgers (with EVERYTHING...gotta tell em cuz they don't know)

Now Clam Strips...why does that sound disgustingly sexual.

Anx said:

Anx said:

she'd accidentally read Breaded as Bearded

AnckSuNamun said:

I discovered the joy Of Chick 'N Filet. YUM!

Anx said:

Cuz we don't have them out here, I sometimes crave in to the frozen White Castles. I actually have their cooking time down to a science.

Zelaira said:

Currently there is a grand total of five Howard Johnson's restaurants left. (This is a chain that, 40 years ago, was doing more business than McDonald's, Burger King, and KFC combined.) In a nutshell, circa 1985, Marriott bought HoJo's and split the restaurants and hotels into separate companies. The hotels owned the name and licensed it to the restaurants. While the hotel chain seems to be doing okay, the restaurants started dying off.

In 2002, there were about 10-15 locations left, and I went out of my way during a road trip to get dinner at a HoJo's in White Haven, Pennsylvania. (Ironically, it was attached to a Comfort Inn.) At this point, it looked as if the restaurants were dying a slow death, and so I figured I'd better go there while I still had a chance. The next year, by pure coincidence, I stopped in White Haven to refuel, and the HoJo's had become an independent restaurant.

The good news is that Cendant -- which now owns the Howard Johnson's name and hotels -- regained complete control of the name last year. They then licensed it to La Mancha Group, LLC, for food-related purposes. La Mancha intends to "bring back the glory of Howard Johnson's" restaurants.

Howard Johnson's makes the best macaroni and cheese, and at least in New England, you can buy it in the frozen foods section of supermarkets. It's made with the original recipe and in the same Massachusetts facility that used to produce food for HoJo's all over the country. It even comes in those old-fashioned aluminum TV dinner trays.

Visit http://www.hojoland.com for more information on the restaurants.

matt said:

You are the KING of obscure/odd information.



That's why I love you!

endorphin74 said:

Thanks. I've had various people suggest that I try out for Jeopardy! or another trivia-based game show. Alas, thus far I've only competed in a public-access television game show for charity (adult literacy). Our team did pretty well in the first few rounds, in part due to our diverse makeup (Generation X'er (me), university professor, etc.), but we got knocked out of the single-elimination competition by a team of four dentists.

My "consolation prize" was a pen, BTW.

matt said:

You have to much useless info stored into your brain.

matt said:

I'm guessing sales went way down once they got rid of all of the Oasis' you'd see while driving cross country.

minneapolisgenius said:

it better not try to come sit on MY head, i'll smack it with my swiffer!!!

superspaceboy said:

The "Oases" still exist. All of the major toll roads I've ever driven still have "service areas" with food and fuel. For example, the New York Thruway has tons of them.

Anyway, HoJo's was hurt by the expiration of some of those contracts. Also, even though HoJo's still had some of those contracts at the time of the Marriott sale, Marriott converted the toll road HoJo's locations to other restaurant brands (usually fast food).

BTW, I take it you have some connection to Chicago? The only place I've seen the word "Oasis" used to describe the food/fuel areas on toll highways has been around the Chicago area.

that's gorgeous!!! what a pretty

endorphin74 said:

matt said:

Yes I am from there. Good observation.

I tried the clam strips and somehow I still live. I made sure to take my first and only bite in the bathroom in the likely event of vomiting (I came close.)

I fed the rest to the dog although she was initially reluctant to eat them. They are that foul. The taste is still in my mouth and I want to die because of it.

On a side note, you can now get the Crave Case with a variety of burgers for all of you psychopaths out there who enjoy them.

Hey!

White Castle has been selling clam strips for as long as I can remember.
It's the only thing I eat there, and it's not-so-bad.

My kids actually LOVE going to White Castle.
Maybe it's because we go there so RARELY that they consider it a "treat". Just last Friday we gave them the choice between Friendly's, Applebee's and IHOP...and they all wanted White Castle.

superspaceboy said:

They're actually almost finished with rebuilding all of the Oases. For the six that are over the road, they demolished them down to the bridge deck and constructed new buildings on top. There's even a Wikipedia article about the Illinois Tollway Oases.