HBE4 Posted December 24, 2020 #4526 Share Posted December 24, 2020 22 minutes ago, Milwaukee Eight said: You should try Cracker Barrel or Metro Diner. Lots of specialty local diners/cafe around that have much better breakfast than Denny’s. IMO M8 Cracker Barrel is good comfort food. Also, good old fashioned, down home gift shop. Great way to have a meal and knock off half of my christmas list in one shot. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaniDanielle Posted December 24, 2020 #4527 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Love Cracker Barrel but we don’t have any nearby. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare xpcdoojk Posted December 24, 2020 #4528 Share Posted December 24, 2020 So, yes those of you from non American shores, if you are at a freeway interchange and you are wanting breakfast, I can steadfastly recommend you stop at Cracker Barrel. I would not recommend any other meal at Cracker Barrel, but breakfast, I can and will. I took a customer, my salesman and his main guy to breakfast for about two years almost every week, and of all of the greasy breakfast places I had to go to, Cracker Barrel is the best. We did IHOP. We did Denny’s. We did Village Inn. We did several local joints. We did the Waffle House. We did the Belgium Waffle House. Etc. etc. etc. The gift shop is for Baby Boomers and it is quite nice if you want some Route 66 Americana, excellent choice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken at the beach Posted December 24, 2020 #4529 Share Posted December 24, 2020 10 minutes ago, xpcdoojk said: So, yes those of you from non American shores, if you are at a freeway interchange and you are wanting breakfast, I can steadfastly recommend you stop at Cracker Barrel. I would not recommend any other meal at Cracker Barrel, but breakfast, I can and will. I took a customer, my salesman and his main guy to breakfast for about two years almost every week, and of all of the greasy breakfast places I had to go to, Cracker Barrel is the best. We did IHOP. We did Denny’s. We did Village Inn. We did several local joints. We did the Waffle House. We did the Belgium Waffle House. Etc. etc. etc. The gift shop is for Baby Boomers and it is quite nice if you want some Route 66 Americana, excellent choice. Went once for dinner on our drive down to Florida many years ago. Dinner took well over 2 hours....that was the last time that we ate there. Might have to give them a try for breakfast. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare xpcdoojk Posted December 24, 2020 #4530 Share Posted December 24, 2020 9 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said: Went once for dinner on our drive down to Florida many years ago. Dinner took well over 2 hours....that was the last time that we ate there. Might have to give them a try for breakfast. Ken, would you please reread my post. I said and I quote myself....”I would not recommend any other meal at Cracker Barrel, but Breakfast” So, if you had asked me... Hey JC where would you recommend we stop for dinner on our way to Florida... I can assure you CB would not have been my recommendation. 🤣😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken at the beach Posted December 24, 2020 #4531 Share Posted December 24, 2020 1 minute ago, xpcdoojk said: Ken, would you please reread my post. I said and I quote myself....”I would not recommend any other meal at Cracker Barrel, but Breakfast” So, if you had asked me... Hey JC where would you recommend we stop for dinner on our way to Florida... I can assure you CB would not have been my recommendation. 🤣😂 I know, that’s why I said I might have to give them a try for breakfast. I wasn’t impressed with the one and only time we went for dinner. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare xpcdoojk Posted December 24, 2020 #4532 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Breakfast can be a bit slow too... but the food is really good if you like pancakes, bacon (streaky bacon to the Brits) hashbrowns, omelets and that sort of thing. It is not a cheap breakfast, but everything is well prepared. At our CB, on the opposite side of town off one of those freeway interchanges, so it is really inconvenient for me. That said, the 4 to 5 of us that I bought breakfast for once a week for a couple of years it is the best of the chain restaurants. My in-laws, want to go there for lunch or dinner... I am like really do you people not have a clue. Yet I dutifully go when they are in town. Sigh... freaking ... sigh. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukee Eight Posted December 24, 2020 #4533 Share Posted December 24, 2020 51 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said: Went once for dinner on our drive down to Florida many years ago. Dinner took well over 2 hours....that was the last time that we ate there. Might have to give them a try for breakfast. Seldom do we eat dinner there but they do have good Southern Fried Chicken. They can get very busy at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken at the beach Posted December 24, 2020 #4534 Share Posted December 24, 2020 7 minutes ago, Milwaukee Eight said: Seldom do we eat dinner there but they do have good Southern Fried Chicken. They can get very busy at times. The other thing we realized is that with driving 24 hours straight through a big sit down meal at any restaurant does not work for us. Too much food and an after dinner nap while driving don’t mix. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mets07 Posted December 24, 2020 #4535 Share Posted December 24, 2020 6 hours ago, Sunshine3601 said: I, too, will have to check out Turn the Key - sounds very intriguing. I finished the Will Robie series on my last cruise this year and this summer I started the Amos Decker series. Reading the last book of the series now, The Redemption. I asked for several James Patterson books for Christmas. We'll see what Santa brings. Just read Patterson's Deadly Cross. Great as usual. Awaiting Baldacci's Daylight from the library. I started reading him more recently and this is the Atlee Pine series. Merry Christmas and happy reading to all. 🎄📚 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare A&L_Ont Posted December 24, 2020 #4536 Share Posted December 24, 2020 3 hours ago, John&LaLa said: Went out on cart to see Christmas displays Photo posted for effect: I would see these tea lights as a slalom challenge for the golf cart. I wouldn’t last long in the neighborhood.😉 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted December 24, 2020 #4537 Share Posted December 24, 2020 (edited) 1 minute ago, A&L_Ont said: Photo posted for effect: I would see these tea lights as a slalom challenge for the golf cart. I wouldn’t last long in the neighborhood.😉 10 lights in a 30' string A little tighter than Rory's cones Edited December 24, 2020 by John&LaLa 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey & Sophie Posted December 24, 2020 #4538 Share Posted December 24, 2020 35 minutes ago, mets07 said: Just read Patterson's Deadly Cross. Great as usual. Awaiting Baldacci's Daylight from the library. I started reading him more recently and this is the Atlee Pine series. Merry Christmas and happy reading to all. 🎄📚 I love Atlee Pine. She's a little rough around the edges and sometimes not very likeable but that makes her interesting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vettprincess Posted December 24, 2020 #4539 Share Posted December 24, 2020 20 minutes ago, Bailey & Sophie said: I love Atlee Pine. She's a little rough around the edges and sometimes not very likeable but that makes her interesting. HI: Thanks for all the book ideas. Here I am stranded at my daughter's house for days and did not bring one book from home. Never thought this storm would turn out so, so bad. I have taken notes on all the books everyone recommended and have read many of them. So everyone have a Warm and Healthy and Merry Christmas. And book cruises for the next year and year after and year after. Keeps us happy. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRMO12HD Posted December 24, 2020 #4540 Share Posted December 24, 2020 7 hours ago, dani negreanu said: Amos Decker -- check. Did u try the "John Puller" series? Excellent. J. Patterson (Women's murder club) - check. I remember in one of the cruises, someone saw me binging on Robert B. Parker, RIP. She asked me if I knew T. Jefferson Parker too. I said "no", but went on to check and also enjoy his books... Lee Childs' Jack Reacher books -- especially the early ones. If you've seen either of the movies with Tom Cruise, strive to read the books without his image in your mind. He's about as far from Jack Reacher as you can get . . . I think his earlier books were better. Now he's passed the reins to his son; I have yet to read any of the new ones. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey & Sophie Posted December 24, 2020 #4541 Share Posted December 24, 2020 43 minutes ago, IRMO12HD said: Lee Childs' Jack Reacher books -- especially the early ones. If you've seen either of the movies with Tom Cruise, strive to read the books without his image in your mind. He's about as far from Jack Reacher as you can get . . . I think his earlier books were better. Now he's passed the reins to his son; I have yet to read any of the new ones. Tom Cruise's expiration date was about 20 years ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted December 24, 2020 #4542 Share Posted December 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Milwaukee Eight said: You should try Cracker Barrel or Metro Diner. Lots of specialty local diners/cafe around that have much better breakfast than Denny’s. IMO M8 Next time we come to Orlando we will check them out. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted December 24, 2020 #4543 Share Posted December 24, 2020 5 hours ago, xpcdoojk said: So, yes those of you from non American shores, if you are at a freeway interchange and you are wanting breakfast, I can steadfastly recommend you stop at Cracker Barrel. I would not recommend any other meal at Cracker Barrel, but breakfast, I can and will. I took a customer, my salesman and his main guy to breakfast for about two years almost every week, and of all of the greasy breakfast places I had to go to, Cracker Barrel is the best. We did IHOP. We did Denny’s. We did Village Inn. We did several local joints. We did the Waffle House. We did the Belgium Waffle House. Etc. etc. etc. The gift shop is for Baby Boomers and it is quite nice if you want some Route 66 Americana, excellent choice. Thanks for the recommendation. We usually stay at the Hilton lake Buenavista Palace and Denny's on the SR535 is only 5 minutes drive and Pauline loves the Fit Fare Veggie Skillet and I usually get one of the omelettes usually the Philysteak omelette. Graham. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare JamesEM Posted December 24, 2020 #4544 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I live by myself since my wife passed away and my children decided to visit this Christmas, so I spent the day running errands, bank, gas station, liquor store, grocery store, and then on to shop for presents, HO, HO, HO.!!!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted December 24, 2020 #4545 Share Posted December 24, 2020 There is a thin covering of snow outside this morning. It is our special niece Sarah's 40th birthday today. We have a car full of presents for her birthday and Christmas so will take them through for her later. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare h20skibum Posted December 24, 2020 #4546 Share Posted December 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Ourusualbeach said: The other thing we realized is that with driving 24 hours straight through a big sit down meal at any restaurant does not work for us. Too much food and an after dinner nap while driving don’t mix. Driving straight through is brutal! We did that a few times, but now we have lengthened it out to a more relaxed three days. That way we can explore some areas on the way down. Yesterday afternoon hike in NC Not sure what the high risk was. Maybe it was the few deer we encountered. Supper last night, from a place we found years ago in NC. We are still doing takeout, so the plating is not the best but the food is so good. Hush puppies 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken at the beach Posted December 24, 2020 #4547 Share Posted December 24, 2020 41 minutes ago, h20skibum said: Driving straight through is brutal! We did that a few times, but now we have lengthened it out to a more relaxed three days. That way we can explore some areas on the way down. It is but with DW being a teacher and the kids in school we travel at Christmas and Match break which means leaving on a Friday at 4pm and getting down to Miami around 5 or 6 on the Saturday for a Sunday cruise. Looking forward to when we have more time and can actually see some sights. We pass through some of the nest scenery in the middle of the night both on the way down and back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dani negreanu Posted December 24, 2020 Author #4548 Share Posted December 24, 2020 11 hours ago, Milwaukee Eight said: Denny’s is just above McDonalds. IMO 9 hours ago, xpcdoojk said: So, yes those of you from non American shores, if you wanting breakfast, I can steadfastly recommend you stop at Cracker Barrel. We did Denny’s. Thanks. Last times we were in the Orlando area, to celebrate the bar-mitzvas of our boys at Disney and the water parks instead of a big party, were 1994 & 1996. All the family enjoyed Denny's for b'fast, and.... Burger King for lunch.... Other times, other diets... I can only imagine that the quality of food [like the RCL food's quality 😉] has diminished since then..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare h20skibum Posted December 24, 2020 #4549 Share Posted December 24, 2020 14 minutes ago, Ourusualbeach said: It is but with DW being a teacher and the kids in school we travel at Christmas and Match break which means leaving on a Friday at 4pm and getting down to Miami around 5 or 6 on the Saturday for a Sunday cruise. Looking forward to when we have more time and can actually see some sights. We pass through some of the nest scenery in the middle of the night both on the way down and back. That cruise is the thing we will miss this year. We are always on one the day after we leave the rental in January. We have been doing remote learning with two young grandkids this year, so we return to that in January this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukee Eight Posted December 24, 2020 #4550 Share Posted December 24, 2020 8 hours ago, Ourusualbeach said: The other thing we realized is that with driving 24 hours straight through a big sit down meal at any restaurant does not work for us. Too much food and an after dinner nap while driving don’t mix. I agree. Having a big breakfast at Cracker Barrel would definitely require a power nap. Lol First Restaurants/Stores open in TN 1969. We used to go North to KY for Christmas and summer vacations. Dad always made it a point to stop at Cracker Barrel on our trips. Good memories. Love their Country Ham. Dennys is a step above Waffle House and a step below IHOP for breakfast. In my opinion. Denny’s was great for breakfast after late nights out and about. 😇 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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