On 11/18/2013 3:16 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On a sight seeing road trip I much prefer buying my meals at a large
> chain supermarket... testing restaurants on a road trip is Russian
> roulette... it's too easy to contract a food borne illness at a
> strange eatery along a main interstate that mostly caters to tourists
> that neither will ever meet again. And I'd much rather a stupidmarket
> deli than a fast food joint. Delis have pretty decent hot and cold
> foods, that they typically prepare right in front of your eyes...
> before I'll wait on line at a strange restaurant I'll take a number at
> a deli.

When we drive to Florida, we often buy sandwiches at Publix. Sometimes,
we'll stop at a Sam's Club and buy a pizza. Sometimes we stop at fast
food places but usually, we like to eat at local places if we have the
time and do a little homework.

On our recent road trip, we found two new places and one old favotite.

If you are ever in Mobile, Alabama, check out Dick Russell's BBQ
http://tinyurl.com/qb3tt5t We stopped there for breakfast and it was
excellent.

And if you are ever passing through Pensacola and like
Vietnamese food, stop at Tu Do... http://tudopensacola.com/ Order the
Pho (#99 on the menu) and thank me later! We ate there on a road trip a
few years ago and am glad to say that the food is still as good as we
remember.

The other new place we found was also in Pensacola, FL... Philly's
Cheesesteak and Hoagie http://www.phillysonline.com/ The cheesesteak
was very good and I liked the Italian sandwich but Becca thought it
needed more oil and vinegar. They make a big deal out of getting their
rolls from the Amaroso Bakery in Philadelphia.

AND... this is blasphemy coming from people who live in TX where every
town has at least 437 Mexican Restaurants... but one day we stopped for
a quick lunch at Taco Bell. We ordered the 12 pack of tacos for $10...
6 soft and 6 hard. They weren't terrible. They may not have been real
meat... but they made a passable, quick and cheap lunch. We couldn't eat
them all and were going to take the rest in the car for "later", but
there were two young men sitting nearby who gave the appearance of being
homeless (they each ordered an 89 cent burrito and glass of water) so we
gave them the tacos we had left. They appeared to be glad to get them
and may have eaten half of them before we reached the door.

George L