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Italian Chicken Melt

A golden-fried chicken breast on a grilled hoagie roll with a

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

zesty garlic spread, lettuce and tomato. Topped with melted Swiss cheese and marinara sauce.

I'M SO EXCITED I FORGOT TO FINISH TEH POST

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I once had a large black woman chase me around a Denny's parking lot with her shoe yelling "WHO'S A BIG-ASS BITCH? WHO'S A BIG-ASS BITCH?" You see, I had called her a big-ass bitch. Since then, Denny's hasn't been the same for me.

― Lifted, or, the story is 'neath my ass (kenan), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really sorry, that's awful : (

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Denny's. Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe take their kids there every Sunday, I hear.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Marinara sauce? What, like clams in it? That ruins an otherwise seeminly good (if kinda ordinary and usual) sanger.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

No, marinara sauce. Like, red pasta sauce.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I have eaten at Denny's in my day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Marinara is seafood sauce. Plain tomato pasta sauce is margarita.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Well where I come from it is, anyhoo.

I'm hungry now :(

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 22 October 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The club sandwich at Denny's is actually pretty decent, though I know of local establishments that serve better club sandwiches. (Naturally.) However, the Denny's closest to the house gets mad props for playing some pretty good '80s music through its intercom system, including some great rarer '80s tracks. (I've heard "Killing Moon" and "Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)", among others.) Which makes me happy happy happy.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Margarita sauce on pasta sounds excellent. Hope it doesn't clash with the wine, though. Denny's is OK, better than IHOP but they have nothing on Waffle House.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I must live in the sticks. I couldn't find a Denny's if you paid me.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Moons Over My Hammy is the best sandwich known to man.

― Camtron (Cameron), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I like their country-fried steak.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Wish we had a Denny's. Don't know what the glasgow equivelant is..

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to love dennys in my meat eating days, my favorite thing there had like 85 grams of fat. it was so good.

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the new mini cheeseburgers they have are the BOMB.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Denny's, I wish we had it here.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Also the Sundays thing makes me like Reese & Ryan even more, yay

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Something even better: FUDDRUCKER'S

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The last time my family went to Dennys for dinner, my father decided he was in the mood for pancakes and ordered one of those big-ass breakfast specials. When it arrived, he picked up the syrup jar and started pouring it over everything, only to discover that the syrup was full of DROWNED ANTS, hundreds of them.

But it is one of the only locations open 24 hours in my area, so it's a good place to go at 3 in the morning for onion rings and the drunken abuse of strangers.

― brooke edel (brookedel), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Where can I find a good 'chicken-fried steak' these days?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Omigod, I miss Denny's... there is nowhere better in the world for that post-gig drunk comedown fried grease binge. Gravy fries with cheese, oh yeah, come to momma...

(I can still remember an interview from the first time Ride toured the states, and asked what they liked best about America, they all replied "DENNY'S!!!")

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

HERB
Why did you want to go to breakfast if
you're not hungry?

DAN
I just wanted to come here.

HERB
To Denny's? I wasn't going to say
anything, but why Denny's?

DAN
This Denny's.

HERB
Okay. Why this Denny's?

DAN
It's kind of embarrassing but,

HERB
Go ahead.

DAN
I had a dream about this place.

HERB
Oh boy.

DAN
You see what I mean...

HERB
Okay, so you had a dream about this
place. Tell me.

DAN
Well ... it's the second one I've had, but
they were both the same......they start
out that I'm in here but it's not day or
night. It's kinda half night, but it
looks just like this except for the
light, but I'm scared like I can't tell
ya. Of all people you're standing right
over there by that counter. You're in
both dreams and you're scared. I get
even more frightened when I see how
afraid you are and then I realize what it
is - there's a man...in back of this
place. He's the one ... he's the one
that's doing it. I can see him through
the wall. I can see his face and I hope
I never see that face ever outside a
dream.

Herb stares at Dan to see if he will continue. Dan looks
around nervously, then stares at his uneaten food.

DAN (cont'd)
That's it.

HERB
So, you came to see if he's out there?

DAN
To get rid of this god-awful feeling.

HERB
Right then.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the wonderful things about L.A. is that there is one Denny's at the corner of Sunset and Gower, and if you look down east you can see YET ANOTHER DENNY'S WITHIN VIEW at the corner of Van Ness and Sunset, I believe. It's sort of bizarre.

the Denny's I went to tonight is next to my workplace in Burbank. There's another, scarier Denny's in North Hollywood on N. Lankershim Blvd.

those fries were fucking fantastic tonight.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I once spent five hours in a Dennys in San Antonio killing time after a train journey and before the hire car place opened. i went a bit mad. the waitress added about $5 to the tip i left on my credit card.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i fucking hate denny's. you know why? i'll tell you:

where i grew up (scarborough, ontario), there was this groovy old-school 70s roller-skaiting rink (the 'scarborough roller palace', appropriately). it was a place where us kids could come together, have a soda, share our world views, and really feel like we were part of a community. (or as it were, huff solvents and roll around like mad knocking people over).

then it was closed down and turned into a goddamn DENNY'S. to make matters worse, some friends and i went there one night, and even though i'll admit we were a little rowdy, we were pretty well-behaved compared to the normal riff-raff (there was something like 2 shootings there around that time). anyway, the staff got nasty with us, and kicked us out before i got halfway through my burger. fuckers.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

we used to make super late-night denny's runs during final exam periods for onion rings and strawberry milkshakes. i have a certain nostalgic fondness for it, but i definitely wouldn't want to eat there now.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The latter half of my senior year in high school, me & my crew had a weed connection that worked third shift at Denny's. We'd go in there and he would oh-so-sneakily place the dopesack in one of the folded (and now BULGING) menus. We'd leave a $30+ tip. This worked out for at least a couple weeks, until one day he got pulled over with five POUNDS of herb disguised as a BABY resting in a car-seat. What a mulleted douchebag.
-- nickalicious (nza2342...), January 15th, 2004 11:39 AM. (nickalicious)

In retrospect though, he was a magnificent mulleted douchebag.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Marinara is seafood sauce. Plain tomato pasta sauce is margarita.

Everyone knows marinara is only made as MOZZARELLA STICK sauce.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, I've only been to Denny's once in the last four years (in New Orleans, and I had a Moons Over My Hammy), but it was great in high school for staying up all night and drinking coffee. Even if you didn't want to be there for four hours it usually worked out that way, since it took about that long to get an order to one of the grumpy waitresses that had to work all night for bitch-ass non-tipping high-school students (not me or my friends, of course).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Dennys Curly Ringer

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"Some days are a good day to die, and some days are good to have breakfast."
I think I will go to Denny's at 2 am this morning and eat pie and drink bad coffee. But I think, as lauren said, the nostagia will be better than the experience.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned to drink (bad) coffee at Denny's.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I learned to drink bad coffee at Utopia, this great diner that served the biggest milkshakes I have ever seen in my life, and they didn't care if you pushed the tables back and danced to the music on the jukebox at 3am. Most of my friends learned to chain smoke there. Sadly, it is no more. ahh, the memories.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ten years or so ago, Denny's was slapped with a $50 million class action suit over systematic racism. If I was black, I'd go in and ask for a free Moons Over My Hammy every fucking DAY, lest I sic my legal team on 'em.

― briania (briania), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

In my college town, Dennys was like the only place to eat after 10 PM. So I ate there a fair amount, usually cheese sticks. There was this one waitress we always got who was this fat middle aged lady with a huge hairy mole on her chin, which she wore a band-aid over, and half the time the band-aid would be half falling off and dangling and you would always worry that it would fall into your coffee.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I got banned from Denny's for three months once because I was idly fiddling with the salt and pepper shakers, and the nazi hostess thought I was mixing them up (i.e. putting salt in the pepper and vice versa, oh no!). I went back the next week to find out that she had a stroke and would be out for months. Karma ain't nuthin' to fuck with.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. i noticed this when i was outside Dennys having a smoke.

this happens in boston with dunkin donuts. not enough dennys around here though

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, for three months I worked the graveyard shift (11PM - 7AM) waiting tables at a Denny's. This was in 1994, shortly after the final settlement of all the racism litigation. Worst job I have ever held, bar none -- but hilarious in so many ways in retrospect.

Story 1: forced to watch Denny's new racial sensitivity training video on day 2 of my "training". Title of video: "What Color Am I?" Content of video: mostly just multicultural groups of happy people frolicking in meadows and enjoying delicious multiracial meals at Denny's, served by smiling multiracial waitstaff. Comment made by Barb, 60+-year-old lifer waitress as she walks behind me in the break area while I'm watching this: "Christ, that thing [the video]; don't worry, you'll learn quick enough that the niggers won't tip you no matter how nice you are." Thank god they took care of the problem with that video!!

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

More disgusting Denny's roffle:
My best friend took up a flirtation with a portly young lady working the counter at a local Kwik-E-Mart, leading ultimately to an after-work invitation for drinks, followed by breakfast at Denny's. Without checking the menu, she orders the ham-n-cheese omlette with pancakes, and a CHICKEN FRIED STEAK in gravy on the side! When the food arrives, she proceeds to put the pancakes on top of the omlette, and the gravy-slathered chicken fried steak on top of of the pancakes, then carefully cuts the whole mess into little bite-size pieces. This operation complete, she liberally pours maple syrup over the whole platter and slowly, deliberately devours the entire thing, chewing each bite 50 times. Took her over an hour. Gotta love a gal who's not afraid to chow down on a first date!

― briania (briania), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

story 2: a destitute Hurlothrumbo finds his job in jeopardy because his manager discovers that

a) Hurlo is NOT counting to make sure there are always 7 Sweet'n'Lows vs. 21 sugars in the sugar caddy;

b) Hurlo is NOT ensuring that when he sets a booth table, the salt is always on the near side of the pepper;

c) Hurlo is NOT replacing tabletents [the little paper foldup ad things) as soon as they've begun to list, worn by the fumbling hands of late night post-last-call drunks (whose ranks Hurlo would dearly love to join);

d) Unfortunately, the correct answer, all of the above.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

When the food arrives, she proceeds to put the pancakes on top of the omlette, and the gravy-slathered chicken fried steak on top of of the pancakes, then carefully cuts the whole mess into little bite-size pieces.

RESPECT.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Let me tell you a story about what Irvine, where the campus where I work is located, is like:

College campus, right? So theoretically, a twenty-hour place where you can get cheapish eats and endless coffee refills that is RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET from said campus will never go bust. It's exactly what people should need.

It opened about five years ago. It closed two years later.

How the hell can a DENNY'S fail across from a campus?!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

story 3: one night, around 3:30 AM, I get a table of giggling, loudly obnoxious drag queens, for which I'm thankful -- I know they're gonna hassle 20-year-old, square-looking me all night, thinking I'm gonna be scandalized, and then they're gonna tip me well. I approach the table, one fine statuesque lady introduces herself as Denise -- I introduce myself, everyone explodes into laughter. The meal progresses the usual way (ie, someone at the table forces the waiter to say "Moons over my Hammy," everyone changes their order five times and then forgets what they ordered anyway, nobody eats much of anything). At then end, Denise beckons me over and asks if I'm sure I don't know her already. Everyone laughs again, and I'm just confused (and exhausted). Denise leans in, and intones in a male register "it's Dennis, darling" -- the only other male waiter at this Denny's, with whom I work at least three nights a week on the graveyard shift. I have been hoodwinked by excellent drag. They tip me very well.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that's a beautiful story, it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

last story: before Hurlo quits his job to drive out to LA with a friend and learn to surf (incredibly ineptly, lest anyone think that somehow heroic or redemptive), he is advised by management, perhaps because he's one of two male floor employees, that it will be unacceptable to wear any professional sports paraphernalia on the floor (this is not a problem for Hurlo, since there is not yet a professional potsmoking league). The reason? The owners of Denny's have purchased one of the NFL's new expansion franchises, the Carolina Panthers. Only Panthers paraphernalia will be permitted; and, it is now revealed to the wonderment of Hurlothrumbo, it is actively ENCOURAGED that male employees sport some Panthers logos. Perhaps to demonstrate that we're not all drag queens and faggy potheads. Tough shit, we are. (note: they have the audacity to suggest a corporate-manufactured Panthers NECKTIE, which I can purchase "at cost" -- no lie.)

Worst job ever.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Do they still do the free birthday meal at Denny's?

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

If any of you live in Austin TX and have spent time at the Denny's of I-35 south of the river, well, my ghost haunts that fucking joint.

x-post, I bet they do. They were damn proud of it.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

In the suburban California of my youth, there were always lots of goths hanging out at Denny's late at night. I always thought it was funny because the Denny's aesthetic is about as far from the goth aesthetic as you can get. I guess they had nowhere else to go (and back then you could smoke there).

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

In the suburban California of my youth, there were always lots of goths hanging out at Denny's late at night.

It ain't just California. But that does seem to be ground zero. And yes, 24 hours = goth perfection for coffee in the DEEP BLACK INKY NIGHT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess the Denny's lighting can make your skin look extra pale, too.

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Just out of curiosity I put "goth denny's" into google, and it returned two pages, one of which refers to a KUCI program guide calling the Denny's in Huntington Beach the "goth Denny's." Was it you, Ned (as I see that your e-mail address is from KUCI?

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the worst meals of my life was at a Denny's in Colorado Springs. This is the only restaurant I've been in where the vinegar carafe (from the salad dressing) had a film of gnats floating on the top of it.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. i noticed this when i was outside Dennys having a smoke.

I realize it's California and all, but there is something sad to me about not being able to smoke in a fuckin' Denny's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Dark, Dark Clouds of Chicken-Fried Vapour Pass Before the Moon Over My Gothic Hammy.

― briania (briania), Friday, 22 October 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.jp/tfkyg294/dennys.jpg

― Laura E (laurae55), Friday, 22 October 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My vampiric brethren and I have tonight found no prey to slake our thirst for blood. So I'll have a patty melt and a cup of coffee, please.

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 22 October 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

We ate there on our wedding night with a bunch of drunk stragglers from the wedding party, such as it was. I regret this.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 22 October 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how the night menu is all pictures so when you're drunk, you can just point.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I also secretly love the Buffalo Chicken burger. I used to go to the one in Emeryville, CA all the time.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 22 October 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. i noticed this when i was outside Dennys having a smoke.
I realize it's California and all, but there is something sad to me about not being able to smoke in a fuckin' Denny's.

I was just about to say the same thing.

I used to work at this Kinko's on the other side of town. All around us were hotels, Office Depots, and chain restaurants, such as Denny's. I had to share color copying duties with this one guy. We didn't get along very well, but hey, we were both color copy guys. One night, it started snowing, which in my southern town, shuts everything down. This dude and I got off at the same time, walked out into the snow, and decided to go to the Denny's down the street.

The streets were desserted. The only people inside Denny's was the staff. We sat down in one of those half-circle booths. The head waitress told us that the kitchen guy didn't want to cook anymore, but if we could wait, we could have some of their pizza that they had ordered. We waited with them, drinking whisky and cokes. I traded my stupid Warner Bros tie with one of the girls who had a plain yellow one. The pizza came, and we stayed there into the wee hours by ourselves. The manager came in at one point, and handed out hotel keys to some of the girls. It got a little weird after that, but I made it home okay.

It's a good story, but I'm glad that I don't have nights like that anymore.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 22 October 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to work at a Kinko's, too, and would sometimes stop at Denny's after a late shift. Goths hung out a Kinko's, too (making spooky collages and sub-Propaganda zines and reeking of rosewater).

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite trip to Denny's occurred in Burlington, VT, November 23, 1996, which was the day I met BB King. He had a show there, and after the show I took some memorabilia backstage because I was scheduled to have him sign the stuff for a friend's radio show. Along with a couple other friends who went to Middlebury College, I was ushered onto the bus. BB was sitting in the back, listening to Memphis Slim on a big reel-to-reel audio deck of some sort. We sat down, chatted with him for about three minutes, he signed the stuff, then we got off the bus as it pulled away. We all looked at each other and shouted, "To Denny's!"

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

There were no Denny's near my college. We had to go to actual Jersey diners!! Oh, and Friendly's.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

what college?

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The one James Van Der Beek dropped out of.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 23 October 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

directed by Roger Avery who played Long-Hair Yuppie Scum in the Dennyesque place in Pulp Fiction.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 23 October 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I once saw a Denny's WITH A BAR somewhere off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

The Denny's that I mentioned above once experimented with serving beer. THAT did not last long.

My prom date and I slammed Miller Lite parked behind a Denny's.

My father still thinks that I hang out at Denny's because that's what I did in high school. (I am now 32, married, and living in a city without a Denny's.)

What used to be the Denny's in my city is being turned into a Hooters.

So I shouldn't look at my wife funny when she inspects the marinara sauce for seafood?

This video is why I tend to tip a bit more than usual at Denny's.

I once found a Denny's in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, that was the old-style seventies kind. I stole a menu from there, but I haven't been able to find it since I moved.

I was able to partake of the "Free Birthday Dinner" two years in a row (1992, 1993).

The Denny's in my college town was located down the street from a 24-hour bowling alley. It's no wonder why I never got any work done.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

awww...you had moons over my hammy last time! with the hammy.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

"Thanks! We'll see you again soon!" = BOOT TO THE FACE.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dennys.com/LiveImages/enProductImage_46.gif

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 January 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

dood the dennys in simi valley used to have a sports bar inside.. damn that was awesome

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

ah, high school. the host at our local Denny's looked like an 80 year old Perry Farrell. despite all the times I hung out at Denny's back then I don't think I've ever actually had a meal. only fries, lots of coffee, sometimes a strawberry ice cream.

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

whenever i'm in a restaurant like this i always remember the "may i advise the lady against ordering the chowder?" scene in fight club.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

this is my favorite denny's, the one at the Angola rest stop on the New York Thruway.

http://www.thruway.state.ny.us/travel_plazas/photos/angola-interior.jpg

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

What? It looks like a Brentanos!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

I once saw a Denny's WITH A BAR somewhere off the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
the Denny's on Market (I think) in Seattle totally has a bar. And pull tabs. Probably.
My mom always makes us eat at Denny's when I visit her 'cause she says if they treat us badly we can play the race card! Umm, yay. Of course, Denny's used to be called Sambo's, so it could be worse.

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

gear, i have been to that rest stop SOOOO many times in my life, but never eaten at the denny's!

also, that bench in the middle has been removed and there is now a coffee shop there.

also, back from '04, milo is SO fucking otm that waho is better than all those other 24 hr breakfast spots.

― tres letraj (tehresa), Saturday, 14 January 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

This was a good thread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 14 January 2006 02:57 (twenty years ago)

So I shouldn't look at my wife funny when she inspects the marinara sauce for seafood?

Heh. No! You see, we have it the right way round. Marinara = marina = sea! SEAFOOD. Hence my complete bafflement in many US food threads about "marinara sauce" being, as y'all cutely call it, "red sauce". :)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 14 January 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

"red sauce" is an old-school brooklyn/boston/chicago italian term that everyone else adopted. :-)

these days it's kind of a euphemism for what they serve at non-posh sicilian-style spaghetti joints. as opposed to classier, more expensive northern italian cuisine (which relies on lighter, healthier sauces).

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 14 January 2006 03:35 (twenty years ago)

put it this way... people who are pro- red sauce don't call it red sauce earnestly.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 14 January 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

I like it, it does have, like you suggest, that kinda more down to earth cheap diner sound to it =)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 14 January 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

yo t, they have this crazy smoking section at the denny's, which is like this sealed-off room with glass walls and like four booths. there'd always be truckers in there, smoke filling up the space. i would always go there during the road trip from ithaca to chicago or vice-versa. the last time i was there was during a BLIZZARD at 2am. i didn't stop there longer, like i should have, instead i continued on to ithaca, which took me another ten hours!

― gear (gear), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)

haha last time i was there was during a crazy snow storm on a drive to floirda... we stopped quickly and got back on the road, only to encounter insane snow until we made it past 90 and got to 79.

this rest stop has senitmental meaning to me because for my entire childhood, we drove from sc to my grandparents' in hamburg, and seeing that stop meant we were like 10 miles from our exit.

i wonder if they still have the smoking section... probably not, since smoking in almost any building in ny state is now illegal.

― tres letraj (tehresa), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah that place was good to see because it signaled the final leg of my trip on the way back to college. kind of like how the bob's big boy in the middle of ohio was like the halfway mark of those trips.

and i had this tendency to stop at the media play in buffalo and buy CDs on the way back to illinois, just to load up on new music for the long drive.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:28 (twenty years ago)

i will drive by that place in the next week or so. maybe i will investigate the smoking room situation!

― tres letraj (tehresa), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:30 (twenty years ago)

yes, i'm very curious about this now!

― gear (gear), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

Of course, Denny's used to be called Sambo's, so it could be worse.

Sambo's changed their name to The Jolly Tiger, although some of the locations probably closed and were re-occupied by Denny's. The original Sambo's is in Santa Barbara, and may still be called Sambo's, but I think the chain part of the business is long dead.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

oh moons over my hammy, so so so good

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

-ie?

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 14 January 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Hence my complete bafflement in many US food threads about "marinara sauce" being, as y'all cutely call it, "red sauce". :)

I still don't get why Australians insist on calling ketchup "tomato sauce". Tomato sauce is what you put on pizza!

There used to be a Sambo's over where the Walgreen's is now. They tried to pass off Sambo as being some sort of Indian boy, but we knew.

The high school Denny's was never the same once they replaced the cigarette vending machine with one of those stuffed animal crane games.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 14 January 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

gear went to cornell? wait, i think i knew that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 14 January 2006 06:47 (twenty years ago)

I still don't get why Australians insist on calling ketchup "tomato sauce".

by australians do you mean "my wife"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 14 January 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Tomato sauce is different from ketchup in any case; we can buy ketchup here as well.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 14 January 2006 06:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm just saying that the waitresses would look at me dead-eyed when I requested ketchup with my fries (chips) until "my wife" would say, "He means 'tomato sauce', please."

Why I would have to request ketchup to accompany my fries, I don't know... They also thought that I was Canadian, too.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 14 January 2006 06:59 (twenty years ago)

she is a fictional character. i understand. we have all been there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 14 January 2006 07:01 (twenty years ago)

She also makes her own soap. What are you trying to say, jay?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 14 January 2006 07:05 (twenty years ago)

how does she feel about lush®?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 14 January 2006 07:10 (twenty years ago)

I think tomato sauce is more tomato less chemicals made to taste like tomatoes. McDonalds has ketchcup which is perfect for McDonalds food.

Jaymc, Lush is no different to a coffee store to me. I need to hold my breath when I walk passed either otherwise I'll puke from the foul stench. Coffee is bad (SO BAD) but the Lush smell might be worse. Its like you poured a pixie stix up your nose.

OTM Trayce on the marinara sauce. Why call it marinara if there isn't anything from the sea involved?? When I order spaghetti marinara I wanna see a whole lotta octopus and crab in that bitch.

US Marketing people seem to think ameicans are pretty stupid. Red sauce sounds like something a two year old would call it and Spaghetti Bolognese is called 'Spaghetti with Meat Sauce' like Bolognese is just too hard a word for most people to comprehend.

― sunny successor (katharine), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I miss the Breakfast Dagwood.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

bolognese isn't just spaghetti with meat sauce.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

"meat sauce" can just be sauce with meat (usu. ground beef) -- bolognese refers to a sauce that has meat (which can include beef, lamb, bacon), carrots, celery, onion, wine, etc.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

US Marketing people seem to think ameicans are pretty stupid. Red sauce sounds like something a two year old would call it

but "red sauce" is just a vernacular term! there are no products out there that actually have "red sauce" written on the label!

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

true. i'd say tomato sauce or marinara sauce show up more frequently on labels and menus. i'm now going to get annoyed everytime i see 'marinara' sauce in reference to a sauce without seafood in it, though!

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

anyway, see what i said above. "red sauce" is just a cutesy way to differentiate between casual sicilian-style food and more white-tablecloth northern food.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

ok, not that wikipedia is the final word on everything, but they say that "marinara" means "sailor style," not "with seafood." you can make an easy leap from one to another, but they're not necessarily the same thing.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Marinara sauce (from Italian alla marinara 'sailor style') is another term for a simple tomato sauce for pasta made without meat and usually including tomatoes, onions and herbs. This strongly seasoned sauce is spicy, but not to the degree of fra diavolo. It can be used for any dish that requires tomato sauce, but is primarily for dipping.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe we've made it through this whole thread without someone mentioning the cultural oddity that is Denny's in Japan. From the outside, it *looks* like it's a Denny's. It's open 24 hours, the logo is the same, etc. Inside, however, it's completely different.

You can't find a single American dish on the menu, certainly not the Grand Slams or cheap prime rib or chicken strips. It's all Japanese food. I had a breakfast combo with a single fried egg, a single strip of bacon, a bowl of rice, some miso soup, and a bowl of sticky soybeans. And the coffee was all serve-yourself at this coffee bar.

Random link that seems to explain this better:

http://www.p7a77.net/dennys/viewer/view-ja.html

― mikef (mfleming), Sunday, 15 January 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

i miss not having a denny's within walking and/or driving distance. and the denny's closest to my hometown has been shuttered and closed for years now :-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:52 (twenty years ago)

too much yello + too much booze.

i can not read that page.

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:21 (twenty years ago)

these are the types that frequent the denny's near my house and the reason i never go there.

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

Is that the dude from Adult. hanging with on of the dudes from Sunn 0)))?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Red sauce sounds like Napoli sauce?

After reading this entire thread, I'm still not sure I understand exactly what Denny's is. Is it like, say, TGI Fridays but with less crazy crap on the walls, or an upmarket McDonalds with no drive through?

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Hey, at least that one guy is using one of the phones I spent 4 years of my life working on...

― mikef (mfleming), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

think a nicer version of ihop but a bit nicer and with better food (but not that much better). like a chain diner, sort of.

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

it's like perkins only a bit less shitty and with a kick ass fucking egg and ham sandwich called "moons over my hammie"

haha xpost

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

think a nicer version of ihop but a bit nicer and with better food (but not that much better). like a chain diner, sort of.
-- tehresa (boringstandardaddres...), January 18th, 2006 3:31 PM. (later)
it's like perkins only a bit less shitty and with a kick ass fucking egg and ham sandwich called "moons over my hammie"
haha xpost

-- geoff (gffcnn...), January 18th, 2006 3:34 PM. (later)

Thanks! Now, please explain 'ihop' and 'perkins'.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PANCAKES

PERKY NIPPLES

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

i would so patronize a diner called 'perky nipples'

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)

ok: shitty chain restaurants. sit-down, abt 2-3x as much as fast food.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

2-3x as much $$ as fast food (though portions too i guess)

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)

you forgot the surly disaffected waitresses and the surly disaffected teeangers

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

+ AA types playing magic the gathering at 3 am

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

+ after-bar crowd gorging on the tremendous twelve and then "leaving" it the parking lot.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

+ band camp types with nothing better to do on saturday night *cue 'st. elmo's fire'*

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

the last time i was at a diner at 2 am (not a denny's) (all a matter of degrees, really) this guy seized up and fell out of his chair and onto the floor, unable to move. the had to call the paramedics. the entire time he was totally beligerent to his girlfriend and the paramedics. he kept telling her to give him his wallet because he didn't trust her with it after they wheeled him out. once they did, she finished her meal and drank not one, but two leisurely cups of coffee.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)

haha awesome

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)

these places are pretty great for college all nighters but for that reason real people should stay away from a campus one after 11pm. but then you should stay away from a campus anything after about 7pm so eh

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Where do you live, Sasha? A POINT OF REFERENCE IS NEEDED.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:57 (twenty years ago)

the time before that (same diner) i was eating with my mom. (this was at a more normal dinner hour.) towards the end of this meal a gaggle of teenage girls piles into the booth behind us. i get up to use the rest room. once gone, the waiter (the entire staff is middle eastern) is taking their order. on the sign outside it says "open 25 hours a day" as a small joke. one girl asks why it says that. waiter attempts to explain it's a joke. girl replies with, "oh, i thought maybe you didn't understand the language." waiter shares conspiratorial sigh with my mother as he walks away. i return to find my mother seething at these girls. as we get up to leave, to my bewilderment, she tells them, "you better hope you get off lucky and he doesn't urinate in your food."

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)

fin.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:59 (twenty years ago)

i'm fkn hungry!

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

just don't order the soup.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Because foreigners are dirty people and can't control where they make waste.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

thing to keep in mind: if not eaten while hot (that is, GOBBLED IMMEDIATELY) the gravy on the various chicken fried whatever stuff can congeal a bit and resemble a particularly thick load of jism.

denny's was kind of expensive and weird.. we went to bickford's before there was a denny's in warwick, RI. cheaper. more options (bickford's in CRANSTON!! bickford's in EAST PROVIDENCE!@!!). i haven't been to either in a long time, though. creepy waitresses, surly drunkards, teens stoned and on prescription ADD meds, food you could cook at home for a fraction of the cost.

I think because I had fairly liberal parents (read: absentee parents), I could just hang out at home with my friends and get stoned and order a pizza and it was better than denny's... usually. cuz you could get drunk. and not have to drive anywhere.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:09 (twenty years ago)

We were at the point in high school where at times when the waitresses were busy, we'd grab the pots of coffee and serve ourselves along with the rest of the smoking section.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:24 (twenty years ago)

man the closest we had in my home town was a happy chef (more like crappy chef lol amirite) 20 mins away.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:26 (twenty years ago)

Were those the square buildings with the marquee lights on the edges? And the restaurant's font was in a kind of handwritten way?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:36 (twenty years ago)

i am totally going to waffle house when i'm in sc next week. can't wait!!!!!

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1931788340.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

You can't judge a book by its cover, but if you could...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 19 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I love the mere concept of a restaurant named "Sambo's". I'd like it even more if cook came out and put you in an armbar if you thought the food sucked.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

TS: Denny's vs. IHOP vs Bickford's vs Friendly's vs. Brighams, etc.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I go to Denny's an unhealthy amount because they give out these coupon books to students for food (at places where they never check for student IDs) so I always grab loads and enjoy the buy one entree get one free (normally the burger) between the hours of 2-6 option. There are some crazy people there. We saw this one old woman with pasty white skin, magenta highlighted hair, black eyeliner, and jowls down to her shoulders. She was like an aged goth in a christmas sweatshirt.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.alamedainfo.com/Ken_Prag_12_sambos_1919_Webster.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 19 January 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Friendly's!! I haven't been to one in forever.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

What enterprising buisnessman decided that building attractive restaurants like the one pictured above and then calling them all TAR BABY'S made socio-economic sense?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Here's Ultimate Counterexample To Marketing 101 Corollary #1: Don't Associate Your Product With Shit

http://cowchipcookies.com/

(they are the best cookies ever made)

― Dom iNut (donut), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

HOLY SHIT, I just read the ingredients of the cookie.

INGREDIENTS: Wheat Flour, White, All-Purpose, Enriched, Unbleached, Sugar, Granulated, Candies, Semisweet Chocolate, Butter, With Salt, Eggs, Chicken, Large, White, Raw, Fresh or Frozen, Vanilla Extract, Imitation, No Alcohol, Salt, Table, Molasses, Baking Soda.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCKING FUCK?

Aaaaaaagh!

(well, it could have been something else I guess.)

― Dom iNut (donut), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

and for the Oatmeal Raisin Cookie:

INGREDIENTS: Wheat Flour, White, Bread,, Enriched, Sugar, Granulated, Shortening, Cake Mix, Soybean (Hydr) & Cottonseed (Hydr), Oats, Raisins, Seedless, Eggs, Chicken, Large, White, Raw, Fresh or Frozen, Nulomoline-liquid Invert, Lsi, Cleargel, Molasses, Cinnamon, Ground,, Salt, Table, Baking Soda, Vanilla Extract, Imitation, No Alcohol

OK, I'm thinking someone used freetranslation.com or something when they made the ingredients list.. I feel better now.

― Dom iNut (donut), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Kinda like how for some reason, Chit's went out of buisness.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

An incredible amount of time, effort and brainpower has gone into blatantly juvenile sniggers. Menu items (pardon us for sinking to the restaurant's level of vulgarity) have names like Chit on a Stik (an appetizer), Tuff Chit (a chicken sandwich), Smokin' Chit (a pepperoni pizza) and Chit Floats (vanilla ice cream in root beer).

BEST RESTAURANT EVER!

― Dom iNut (donut), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

You can't judge a book by its cover, but if you could...

i have that book! it's a treat! but i wish there were more pictures like that one inside...

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

but you can tell a restaurant by its matchbook cover (sorta)

http://www.alamedainfo.com/sambos_matches.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 19 January 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if somewhere in the world there's a restaurant called Punjab's featuring a rascally little negro character.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 19 January 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/9468/51kh.jpg

(From the always entertaining, sometimes disappointing, Lileks.com.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

i have investigated the angola denny's smoking room situation: it is no longer, but i think i saw remnants of it - half a glass wall divder thingy near the back.

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:36 (twenty years ago)

tehresa thanks for the investigation. i owe you some mini-burgers.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:43 (twenty years ago)

food i remember from denny's after high school dances: mozzarella cheese sticks, blueberry muffins

― youn, Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)

it was good timing for a pee break - i hadn't stopped since i crossed the wva-pennsylvania border, so it was no problem at all!
xpost

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)

cheese sticks at the angola denny's en route to ithaca from chicago...good times.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

also, i was really curious!

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 2 February 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

does dennys got wolf meat chili

― ath (ath), Thursday, 2 February 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

at dennys greek salad = code for heroin

a greek guy gives the heroin to you

― ath (ath), Thursday, 2 February 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Doom

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

I'd eat it. And those Strawberry Pancake Puppies look amazing.

― Red Hot Chili Peppers ‘I’m With You’ is a buffet of preposterous noise (crüt), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Pretty sure I passed a pimp and his two hoes paying their check as I walked into this Denny's.

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 October 2012 05:17 (thirteen years ago)

I've had that happen. But Route 130 in central Jersey seems to be the pimp/ho corridor between Trenton and Philly.

― Half Jaglom Half Winkler (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 1 October 2012 07:27 (thirteen years ago)

Once, a guy got shot and killed in the parking lot of a Denny's near my house. Every time someone mentions Denny's, I get to thinking about someone spending their last moments on earth there...so sad and horrifying.

― how's life, Monday, 1 October 2012 13:26 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

COCKTAILS

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/09/19/denny_s_drinks_menu_new_york_city_restaurant_has_superfluously_good_cocktails.html

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 September 2014 20:20 (eleven years ago)

i ate lunch at the nyc dennys today

― adam, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:24 (eleven years ago)

coworker farewell lunch at it is next door to my office

― adam, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:24 (eleven years ago)

they have edison bulbs and a fake pressed tin ceiling. my diet coke tasted sweaty.

― adam, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:25 (eleven years ago)

Just realized that a Denny's I drive past every day is the Denny's that discriminated against the black Secret Service mem back in 1993, prompting the huge lawsuit. Guess the company doesn't burn these things down after the trouble has passed.

― how's life, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:27 (eleven years ago)

Men

― how's life, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:27 (eleven years ago)

pretty sure today this would've been settled over aperol spritzers

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 September 2014 20:29 (eleven years ago)

no fewer than 4 (!) different managers (presumably at different points on the managerial spectrum) came by to check on us and our satisfaction level during the meal.

we were upsold some pancake puppies in both cinammon and strawberry. the whole experience was basically this but in food form.

― adam, Friday, 19 September 2014 20:30 (eleven years ago)

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