Plate lunches is a meat & three. I had no idea what this meant when I moved here from Vermont. I was asked by my southern co-workers if I wanted to go out for veggies for lunch. I thought it would be a salad type place. No. No, it was a choice of meats simmering in a pan, the veggies were from a can & had been stewing since 1967. The restaurant decor gave me a sort of outer body experience…It was a high school type lunch line with people in hair nets slapping overcooked…food onto a plastic trays, which I carried to a formica glittered table, sliding across the brick floor covered in…gosh, i don’t know.veggies, tomato pie, Key lime pie, citrus trees & bananas, eggplant, collard & turnip greens. See these signs up North maybe California?If you are wanting to fit in, slap a University of Alabama or Auburn sticker on your car & go to a meat & three. try the key lime pie, make sure you don’t slip on the floor goo.
Yup! We do say that often. Although we may have to pay attention to a lesser known Alabama school in the fall. My daughter has chosen University of South Alabama for its science & its closeness to sand. 🙂 ~amy
I agree with you, Reggie. But that is the deep south. I assume things were cooked so long because they put everything on & went to swim away the heat. Slowly the chains of regular American type food is invading the south. I cannot tell you how happy i am about that! ~amy
I bicycled the Natchez Trace Parkway a few years ago and such signs were always welcome. Most times the food was great (especially after cycling 60 miles): fried peach pie, lots of great BBQ, strawberry cake, and catfish breaded with regular flour up north but with cornflour in Louisiana. 😀
I do love some southern cooking, but my body doesn’t. The food always turns to stone in my stomach an hour later & I feel full for about three days. My favorite Southern food restaurant is…the one from the movie, Fried Green Tomatoes. Its in Irondale, Alabama. I can’t remember the name! YUM! I love fried green tomatoes & fried okra & pies…everything else, not so much. Thank you for your comment! ~amy
No ~ but have travelled a lot across Mississippi -Alabama- Georgia… I live in a more rural area that I moved to from a big city and it was a HUGE adjustment for me LOL~ it was the first time ever saw a restaurant named, “HAYSTAX” …. and paid to eat canned green beans!! 😀
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Yup! We do say that often. Although we may have to pay attention to a lesser known Alabama school in the fall. My daughter has chosen University of South Alabama for its science & its closeness to sand. 🙂 ~amy
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Such interesting signs! The meat-and-three sounds yuk. I wouldn’t call that homestyle cooking.
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I agree with you, Reggie. But that is the deep south. I assume things were cooked so long because they put everything on & went to swim away the heat. Slowly the chains of regular American type food is invading the south. I cannot tell you how happy i am about that! ~amy
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You describe it well. The local meat and three is Momma Ree’s.
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Thanks, jr cline. Do you know the name of the place that was in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes? In Irondale? ~amy
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Yes. It’s the Whistlestop.
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That’s it!! Thank you, jr cline! ~amy
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I bicycled the Natchez Trace Parkway a few years ago and such signs were always welcome. Most times the food was great (especially after cycling 60 miles): fried peach pie, lots of great BBQ, strawberry cake, and catfish breaded with regular flour up north but with cornflour in Louisiana. 😀
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I do love some southern cooking, but my body doesn’t. The food always turns to stone in my stomach an hour later & I feel full for about three days. My favorite Southern food restaurant is…the one from the movie, Fried Green Tomatoes. Its in Irondale, Alabama. I can’t remember the name! YUM! I love fried green tomatoes & fried okra & pies…everything else, not so much. Thank you for your comment! ~amy
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awesome!! I am very familiar with these types of signs — LOL
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Are you in Alabama too? ~amy
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No ~ but have travelled a lot across Mississippi -Alabama- Georgia… I live in a more rural area that I moved to from a big city and it was a HUGE adjustment for me LOL~ it was the first time ever saw a restaurant named, “HAYSTAX” …. and paid to eat canned green beans!! 😀
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Ha! Huge adjustment is the perfect way of putting the deep south. ~amy
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Not to belabor it but…I called Subway’s HQ the first time I visited a Subway and it was closed at 8pm~ LOL
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That is funny! Good for you! ~amy
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