On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:00:49 -0500, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>MareCat wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>LOL... my mother in law was from PA too. She was so impressed when she
>told us a new ice cream shop had opened near here and "they have 31
>flavors!" LOL LOL LOL

She's never been to a Howard Johnson's? They had (have?) 28 flavors of
ice cream! I remember road trips (from Michigan to Florida) where my
mom planned at least one break per day at a HJ like people do with
McDonald's today. Air conditioning was a major reason for it. In any
case, IMO, Baskin Robbins 31 is just a weak replication of the HJ of
olden daze.

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