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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)

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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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