"Richard Kaszeta" > wrote in message
...
> "Darkginger" > writes:
> > In the UK there's a sort of tradition - when you're in the 'after pub'
> > stage, you go for an Indian, and often order something far too hot for
human
> > consumption (the Phall, or Pall is the usual menu description) -
something
> > you'd never deam of eating when you're sober. What's the USian (sorry
about
> > that term, it helps me to distinguish 'tween Canadians and the rest of
you)
> > equivalent? In other words, what do Americans eat when they're drunk
that
> > they wouldn't dream of eating when they're sober? Kebabs? (another
drunken
> > Brit favourite), McD's?, Chinese food?
>
> When I lived in Tennessee, the answer for this was inevitably the
> Krystal (fast food place that sells nasty little steamed hamburgers).
> In fact, I'm pretty certain that no sober person has ever eaten at the
> Krystal in Oak Ridge, TN.
>
> Similarly, in Minneapolis, a popular sobering-up hangout was the White
> Castle (near-identical fast food restaurant to the Krystal[1], except
> that the little burgers have five little holes in 'em and are called
> "Sliders").
>
> [1] Now I've done it. Any minute the rabid Krystal and White Castle
> fanatics will beat down my door and tar and feather me for daring to
> equate the two, and then attack each other.
>

Belly Bombers.