On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:06:48 -0500, "MareCat"
> wrote:

><sf> wrote in message ...
>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:25:25 -0500, "jmcquown" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>IMHO this woman's taste must be in her ass. She's all for ruining a
>>>beautiful area by making it look just like every other cookie-cutter town
>>>with chain restaurants. There are a lot of wonderful restaurants in the
>>>area, she apparently just doesn't know how to recognize them.
>>
>> She's probably been out in the boonies so long that she equates big
>> box stores and chain restaurants with being cosmopolitan.
>
>That's my mom, who lives in a very small town in PA (the town where I grew
>up)--population of about 4,000. There are some family-owned restaurants, a
>McD's, a Pizza Hut, a Subway, a Dunkin Donuts, a couple of local chains,
>some hotel/motel restaurants, and that's about it as far as restaurants in
>town go. She (and many others who live there) think that places like OG, RL,
>TGIF's, Applebee's, Chili's, etc. are *wonderful*. None of these chains are
>less than an hour away from the town, either north (Elmira/Corning, NY area)
>or south (Williamsport, PA area). It's a real treat for my mom to head to a
>mall (also an hour away), then out to dinner at an OG or equivalent place.
>
>Mary
>
I fully understand. Really! I lived in the boonies at one time in my
life and if that sort of restaurant was an hour away, it would have
been considered fine dining. Now, I can turn my nose up at them and
scoff....

We didn't have many real restaurants within 30 minutes, but we had a
few "coffee shops" (which people today might call "diners") that
served wholesome food, however plainly it was served.

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