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Nashville hot is for a limited group IMO, and I am not a part of that group. There is a difference between hot and spicy and moronic. Making food better tasting is the goal of a cook, not getting it as hot as possible.

I could make my chicken hotter than Ms. Hattie, but I want to eat and like what I am eating. But, they have them lined up down the street with out of towners who want to try it....I bet most never go back.

God Bless America....if it sells, keep selling it.

That's funny.

Going to be in the Nashville area in June -- family members tell me I have to try Hattie B's. I assume that's the 'Ms Hattie' you're talking about? It's not all super-spicy, is it?

Also: We love independent joints; if you and Pit have any recommendations, please let me know.

Same place.

Go try it. You tell me.

I have lived in Tennessee since the middle 70's. I have been going to Nashville for as long. I have been eating...or have eaten Nashville hot long before the world heard about it. I had a Cajun Grandmother. She cooked with spice. Hattie just dumps Cyanne in the sauce.

Some might call that cooking. I don't. Had I cooked in your restaurant, you wouldn't have fired me because I am such an overall swell guy, but you would have said a few cuss words in my direction.


Just saying.

I'm fine with hot... but not just for the sake of being hot. If your creativity level is dumping in some cayenne, well, that's not really my cup of tea.

I had a bar too, so we had the obligatory hot wings and super hot wings (called Agent Orange). Caramelize honey and brown sugar... Toss in fresh garlic and orange rind... Quickly add our house bbq before the garlic gets bitter... then ground red savina peppers (hot as hell). Very hot... but so tasty you could not quit eating them, even if you weren't really into hot-hot. Simple ingredients and a little creativity are not akin to digging a damned ditch. When all I can taste is cayenne or Red Hot, I lose a lot of respect.

I don't really go into the city of Nashville very much per say. Mainly just for concerts which I'm very picky about who I go to see. Four major concert venues are all very close together and there are so many events held in Nashville it's often a chaotic mess. To give you an example the last time I went to the city for a concert was to see Joe Bonamassa at the Ryman Auditorium. The Stones were playing just a few blocks away at Bridgestone Arena. Just getting into the entertainment district and getting parked was a huge mess much less trying to dine there.

I wish I could be of more help to you.

If you like hot, you may like it. I don't.

As for other places...the ones I liked are now closed post covid. One I like in West end, where I usually stay is the Mid Town Cafe. The place is always packed, so get a reservation. I am sure you will like that place. It's a top notch place that isn't too fancy, but the food has always been first rate IMO. I eat there both breakfast and Lunch/Dinner. Again, reserve, they are jammed at all hours.

If you stay out there, the rooms are a bit cheaper, but not much. There is also a hattie B's about 40 yards from the cafe, just down the street.
West end is about 3 miles from the main strip, out near Music Row and Vanderbilt.

https://www.midtowncafe.com/

Excellent, thanks!

We're going in blind and have a few days before a family reunion in the Gatlinburg area. That place looks legit, already wondering how to narrow my choices lol.

It's become touristy but its also great spicy fried chicken. I've only been to the original location and this was in 2014 and 2018. Located in midtown in between the Gulch and Vanderbilt. If I recall there are 5 spice levels. Like a Thai food menu! You can order mild to flaming.

This place is a good time... https://www.pinsbar.com/nashville

Have fun!

Nashville has an incredible dining scene. My brother, two cousins, aunt and uncle all live there now.

My order...

That is why we sometimes eat there 2 times a trip. We always stay at the Courtyard next door except for the times we stay out at Opryland.

Pins looks like fun, Milk. Thanks! I think Hattie's will probably be a must-see (taste).

'Peen -- leaning toward Opryland. I stayed there once in the late eighties for $125... looks like there's been some "inflation".

I was a big fan of Monell's. Quality home-style cooking with family-style dining. You're seated with a bunch of people you don't know at a huge table and whatever they're cooking is what you're eating. The dishes come out in bulk and set on the table, and you'll get scolded if you try passing them the wrong direction, lol.

Oh yeah...We usually stay there once a year. It's one of those places you need not leave. All of the restaurants are good. None all that noteworthy. The mall across the way, Opry Mills is pretty cool, even for a non-mall guy like myself.

Depending on when you go, i would recommend going to the Grand Old Opry. Country music fan or not, it is a cool experience everybody should take in once. It is a live radio show that has been on air maybe 80 years now .

Just looking ahead, some pretty good shows starting to take shape in June. Pat and I just went 3-4 weeks ago. Had a great time, as usual. We usually see 2-3 a year.

If you don't know the format, it is a current star, a past star or two, an Opry member, an up and comer, and usually some sort of comedian or story teller as some fill.. There are usually 6-7 acts and all sing 3 or so songs. It's a good 2+ hour show. When we went
Darrius Rucker was the current star, I liked John Connely, Mark Wills, Jr. Brown, and Riders in the Sky. Can't remember the newcomer and the story teller...he seemed popular with the younger crowd. He had a big following that night...some podcast dude.. All were good.

Just do it, I promise you will like it

You can ask Columbus, I don't make bad recommendations. I take restaurants, hotels, and shows pretty seriously. If i tell you a restaurant or hotel is good, it is good. You won't find yourself in some Motel 6 type joint, or Dennys to eat.

Shows are a bit subjective, but I promise you will like it, even if for no other reason in this case the historical value. It's just a slice of Americana. We all like that pie once in a while. It's the grand old Opry. You are in Tennessee. What's more Tennesse or American than that?

When you go to NYC, you go the the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and maybe catch a Broadway show. When in Tennessee, the Opry is a must see.

Back in the day, the Loving Spoonful sang "Nashville Cats" and said there are 1352 guitar pickers in Nashville.

They were wrong. There are 13052 guitar pickersin Nasville, and "And any one that unpacks 'is guitar could play
Twice as better than I will"

Pfft... Now that I'm looking, someone who spoke to my wife waay overstated the price of rooms at Opryland. It's a no-brainer. I paid double to stay at The Grand on Mackinac Island.

My wife has never been there -- it will blow her away. Pretty excited now. And if you say "just do it", I'm in. Not a big country fan but I'm sure it will be a fantastic night.

I'll PM you dates when I have everything worked out, maybe you and Pat will be in the area for a show or lunch -- no pressure.

Hope you and your wife have a great time Fate.

You mean you don't like music where your dog just died and your wife took off with your best friend....lol

It's not your mom and dad's country music anymore. It's closer to pop for the most part. And a lot of those mom and dad's aren't happy about it either.

David Allen Coe knows everyone likes that.

I remember telling my grandpa to listen to Luke Combs, one of the more popular country stars … he listened for 10 seconds and laughed and laughed

I’ve mentioned this before but I’ll do it again… do a YouTube search for ‘Bo Burnham country music’. I can’t post the song here because of language but it’s a pretty hilarious take on modern country music.

I told him he had not written the perfect county and western song because it didn't have anything about.....

And I didn't even have to listen to it. For me it's a classic country song.

You mean to tell me that for as long as you have been posting here you haven't figured out how that works?

Holy crap would you look at that mullet!

Update…. Had a quick procedure done this morning and talked with my doctor about my diagnosis and expected outcomes. His words were "likely you're already cured.
(Meaning the initial colonoscopy and removal likely got it all.) The rest of these tests and procedures are to verify that information and reduce the chance of recurrence."
So, that's promising.

I have my MRI tomorrow night. A CT on the 24th. If those come back clear I’ll be scheduled for an outpatient surgery to remove the potentially compromised tissue in my colon wall… and with everything staying in the positive, this will be a footnote in my much longer life.

I have to say, this has been one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever dealt with in my life. I’ve rock climbed and taken a 12’ fall that chipped a tooth while 110’+ off the ground. I’ve gotten ‘lost’ back country skiing, and had to self rescue. I’ve scuba'd in the open ocean at night, with sharks around. Nothing comes close to the anxiety and fear that this diagnosis has brought to me. Nothing.

Please, please get screened. My doctor said this has likely been growing in me for 3+ years… if I had waited another 1-2 more before getting my colonoscopy… my entire world would be turned upside down.
I’m not in the clear yet. Let’s hope the MRI and CT are clean.

Keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

Hopefully your doctors comment that "likely you're already cured" holds to be true. Until I know all is well you will certainly be in my prayers. Thanks for the update.

Hoping for the best Portland. Keep. Us updated

Of course! You got this Portland....

Seems like just about the best news possible, eh?

Hopefully the MRI and CT are clear, the minor surgery goes well, and this is just a blip on the screen in the long run!

Got mine scheduled for June 19th. Question about the colonoscopy, do you still have to drink that gallon of golitely, or have they changed to some other method to clean you out? How often after getiing one done is another one done? This isn’t a yearly thing is it?

There are other preps to drink. I get the gallon jug deal due to other health issues. I get it done every 3 years due to them finding polyps the first few times.

Tackman got it right.

I did a different bowel prep. Magnesium Citrate based stuff. Two small bottles. It’s a low residual diet two days prior to procedure. Then clear liquid diet the day before. One bottle of the prep that night. The next one taken the morning of the colonoscopy. Like 6 hours before. So it’s best to schedule the procedure around, or after, 10am. Or you’ll have to get up at like 3am to drink the other bottle.

If your svope comes back clear, you go back every five years.


Onto my update…

Had my MRI last night. Already got a call from my doctor. The cancer hadn’t gotten into my lymph system. I still have a CT next week. This’ll give my liver and lungs the all clear. The doctor said he’d expect those to be clear too based on the ‘no lymph involvement’ from my MRI. They do the CT just to be sure.
With that, I’m schedule for outpatient surgery next month to remove the compromised tissue. Once done, this dark chapter can be behind me.

Back to the colonoscopy frequency topic… I’ll now go back at one year, three years, and five years. Meaning I’ll have three more in the next five years. If I remain cancer free for five years I’ll be officially ‘cured’. Then I’ll only have to be scoped every five years.


I’ll just leave you with this.. No amount of bowel prep is worse than cancer.


Plus, how often in your life will you get to legally be put to sleep like the King of Pop? Propaphol is a light switch. Enjoy the dark.

Hey Portland. I didn’t know you had cancer - like jfanent, I avoided reading this thread.

But now I know, and all I can say is fight the good fight, and get well soon man.

Yes, you drink something. I didn't think it tasted as bad as some say.

As for frequency...it depends. If you are pretty clean with a few minor polyps removed, every 3 years. If you seem higher risk, then maybe every year. You age might increase things as well.

It doesn’t taste great but I found a way to make it go down. It’s a really sickly sweet lemon lime flavor. Since I all ready had to be on a clear liquid diet, I just made some lime jello and chased the prep liquid down with a few bites of that. The jello tempered the taste well.
Note that I made lime jello. The clear liquid diet can’t include anything red, purple, or blue as that can read as blood in the GI tract. So lime it was.

This whole conversation affirms we are getting old.

I had colonoscopy's every six months for 4 years, and had them every year the last four years. Getting another one next month. Tell (don't ask) you DR that you want to use 3 dulcolax, and a mixture of miralax 8.3 oz bottle mixed with 64 ounces of gatorade. (no red or purple, I use either G zero orange flavered) Do not, I repeat do not wait till everning the night before to do your prep (unless you want to sheet yourself during the night before. I take my dulcolax about 9 AM the day before, followed by drinking my prep between noon and 2 PM. By 9 PM I am pretty well cleaned out and can get a good nights sleep wake up early go get my colonoscopy then stop for breakfast on my way home from the hospital.

Thanks for all the advice and helpful info.

I work in a prison, that caters to sick inmates. I cant count the times Ive seen inmates have to choke down a gallon of golitely and the kind they got tasted like chalk Ive been told. And boy did they struggle to get it down. They had no flavors to choose from.