On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:28:53 -0500, "Jean B." > wrote:

>Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 29/01/2013 1:24 PM, gtr wrote:
>>
>>> I eat both French toast and pancakes with a drizzle of molasses. Though
>>> I spent my early years in Oklahoma and Texas, I was relatively surprised
>>> that molasses simply could not be found at Norm's, Denny's or even
>>> IHOP. That makes no sense to me.
>>>
>>> So I only eat it thataway at home. At restaurants I sulk.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I rarely get either in restaurants. They are almost always a
>> disappointment, and especially disappointing in places that specialize
>> in pancakes. I was raised with a decent syrup hat was a mix of real
>> maple and artificial. I later developed a taste for real maple. The
>> pancakes and french toast in restaurants are disappointing in their own
>> right, but the horrible syrup served with them makes them even worse.
>> There is one local place that has acceptable pancakes, but not as good
>> as my home made.
>>
>Ah, back when my daughter and I would go out for breakfast, we
>brought our own syrup as self-defense.
>
There used to be a truck stop on the Interstate about 50 miles from
here. Just about everyone was willing to make the trip to eat there.
They made everything from scratch. My husband always had the
pancakes. There were three of them the size of dinner plates on the
plate. They were perfectly moist. I always got the biscuits and
gravy. The portions for each came on a platter. There was real
sausage in the gravy. They made their own pies (20 different kinds)
The truck stop was small then. Then it grew, and grew, and grew until
it was a typical Interstate truck stop with showers for truckers,
stalls for 50 trucks to fuel up, phones at every table, gift shop,
yadda, yadda, yadda. Then it burned down and was never replaced.

We still reminisce about that great place.

Janet US