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| Brain Food | Music Scene | Around Town | The BUZZ In... | Arts & Entertainment |<br />
August 2009<br />
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Features:<br />
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Custom Explosion Graphics<br />
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Home Is Where the “Hooters” Is<br />
I love chain restaurants. Many people will argue that<br />
they are killing the American culinary landscape<br />
and robbing individual regions of their gastronomic<br />
identity, but I don’t care. When you have a couple of<br />
hungry toddlers in the car for seven hours and a wife<br />
with low blood sugar in desperate need of a “Bahama<br />
Mama” served in a take-home souvenir glass, it’s nice<br />
to know that you can find an Applebee’s or a Friday’s<br />
pretty much anywhere.<br />
From the moment the waitress puts the kids menu<br />
and crayons down on the table, I am <strong>com</strong>forted in the<br />
knowledge that everything will be all right. Grilled<br />
cheese sandwiches and margaritas in collectable<br />
glasses are just a few feet away.<br />
The inviting atmosphere is a huge part of the<br />
attraction. Most chain restaurants are covered<br />
entirely in schlock. Old washboards, toy fire trucks,<br />
fishing tackle, skis - bolt it to the wall of a chain<br />
restaurant and your junk is instantly transformed<br />
from trash to design treasure! I imagine one of the<br />
coolest jobs in the world, next to mine, is “guy who<br />
buys crap for restaurant interiors.” How cool it would<br />
be to search America’s yard sales and consignment<br />
shops looking for old Coca-Cola signs and used<br />
band instruments?<br />
Cracker Barrel is a favorite stop on road trips, not for<br />
the food, but because they have clean restrooms with<br />
baby changing stations, a store full of candy and toys,<br />
and enough rocking chairs out front for the Jaguars<br />
entire roster to take a load off. And every Cracker<br />
Barrel is the same everywhere in the country. Every<br />
table has the little triangular peg game. Every porch<br />
has the giant game of checkers. The only difference is<br />
the college paraphernalia they sell inside. Here in Jax<br />
the Cracker Barrel is stocked with Gator hats, Gator<br />
handbags, and specially designed Gator rocking<br />
chairs. Head north about thirty miles, and the Gator<br />
swag has been replaced with Georgia Bulldogs merch.<br />
Keep traveling north and you’ll find Cracker Barrels<br />
hocking rockers for the Gamecocks, Tarheels, Blue<br />
Devils, and Cavaliers. In fact, you could blindfold me<br />
and dump me in any Cracker Barrel in the country<br />
and I could tell you which state I was in, thanks to<br />
their team spirit and brilliant marketing.<br />
One of my family’s all time favorite theme restaurants<br />
is Joe’s Crab Shack. Why? We’ll because we are from<br />
Maryland and everyone from Maryland loves crab.<br />
(Just like everyone from Philly eats cheeseteaks and<br />
everyone from New York cusses. Stereotypes <strong>com</strong>e<br />
from somewhere.) Also, my kids love corn on the<br />
cob and eating with their hands. Plus, there are a<br />
plethora of large alcoholic beverages to choose from<br />
so, it’s pretty much fun for the whole family. We eat<br />
their whenever possible. Besides, who doesn’t enjoy<br />
watching their waiter and busboy stop everything<br />
to line dance half way through dinner service?<br />
Although, I do wonder who is fetching food and<br />
taking drink orders when the whole staff is taking<br />
a “Macarena break.” Plus, the sexual innuendos on<br />
the Joe’s Crab Shack t-shirts make me giggle. “Don’t<br />
be Shellfish!” “Hot Legs and Great Tail!” “<strong>Bite</strong> Me.”<br />
(Giggle, giggle.) You won’t find shirts like that at<br />
Nobu or Tavern on the Green.<br />
Mark Kaye is the award-winning host of The Big Ape<br />
Morning Mess on 95.1 WAPE. Email him at mark@<br />
wape.<strong>com</strong><br />
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