On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:11:49 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>We ate at some Roadhouse tonight. Not Texas. Uh...Jimmy Macs. Not sure if
>they are a chain or not. I had the chili and it was good although oddly a
>bit too salty. But...
>
>They offer you free peanuts in the shell. If you want them, you use one of
>those bamboo salad bowls and scoop your own from a feed trough. Then you
>eat them and toss the shells on the floor. The filthy, uneven, cement
>floor.
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>What is with this stuff? Can we not serve our food on plates? And why do
>we throw the trash on the floor? Am I being a stick in the mud? Or do
>people really like this?


I'll join you in the mud. It has no appeal to me at all. I don't
mind a burner in a plastic basket at an outside stand, but at the
table, I prefer traditional plates, not a hubcap. I don't want to
walk across nut shells and other garbage either. It is supposed to be
rustic and give you some sort of old time wild west experience, but I
prefer sanitation in the 21st century.