"Andy" > wrote in message ...
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>> I just looked it up and I didn't know this, but they also own Perkins
>> which is also closing. AFAIK there are no more Perkins in this area.
>> But we sure ate at a lot of them making cross country moves. And they
>> were one of the few places we could go to eat on Staten Island that
>> wasn't Italian.
>
>
> Julie,
>
> A Perkins in Florida was where I first had biscuits and sausage gravy.
> Great stuff! We'd go there for the Sunday all-you-can-eat breakfast
> buffet and I'd eat nothing else. Easily the best/worst dish ever created,
> imho! :9
>
> There was a Perkins a few towns away from home that I tried but they only
> served a milk (no sausage) gravy. Whether it's still open is of no
> importance to me simply for them dumbing down the gravy!

Hmmm.. I didn't know they served that. I used to get it sometimes at work
and would make it at home. Then there was the Schwans stuff that they used
to make. All good. Got it at some truck stop once during a cross country
move and it was sooo spicy I couldn't eat it. Had red powder in it of some
sort. More recently tried some at Shari's, a local chain. Not good at all.
After I got it my mom said she had tried it and it wasn't good. If there
was any sausage in there you could have fooled me! No flavor at all. It
was just gooey.