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(This is a story unrelated to your post but from the parking lot of a fast food joint)...

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Also unrelated, but ddubia's story reminded me of a time in Kroger's parking lot with one of my daughters....

She was 4 at the time and sitting in the back of a VW Rabbit we had. My wife only had to quickly pick up a few things so I'm sitting the fire lane directly in front of Krogers. As we are waiting a well endowed young woman walks out. From the back seat I hear her high pitched 4 year voice exclaim, "Oh, look at those "<slang for bobbies that begins with "t">". OMG. All the windows were down in the Rabbit and the woman looks directly at me. I am caught between laughing out of surprise and knowing that I need to admonish my daughter for saying such a thing. I have no idea what prompted her observation or where she even learned the "t" word. I certainly may have used some explicit language on occasion, but that was not part of that vocabulary. She is one of three daughters and she was always the one that could have been a star on Art Linkletter's, "Kids Say The Darndest Things" (now that is old school)

On topic....

Red Barn - yes, great chicken.

Burger Chef - As a kid I always preferred Burger Chef over McDonalds. Don't really know why.

Bill Knapps - We had one in town for years, but I never ate there. I suppose Frisch's would be comparable?

Rax - I do miss Rax. The BBC was one of my all time favorites. Of course one can't go wrong with bacon, the nectar of the Gods.

ddubia also mentioned chili dogs. Funny thing, but it seems that the best one's seem to come out of the strangest places. My fav was from a drive thru with an attached kitchen.

Pizza - Cassano's or Donato's. Cassano's is a pizza chain headquarted in Dayton. I grew up on their pizza and ended up working at a deli venture that they tried. Their pizza had a thin, salty crust with a great sauce. My favorite at this point is from Walmart from all places. It is a "ready for the oven" type and I don't think the Chinese make it.

Muni......I do remember Brown Derby, but never ate there.

If I had to chose a favorite burger joint now, I suppose it would be Steak n Shake. The truth is I don't care for fast food much anymore.

Finally, a couple of regional favorites...

Mumford potato chips. Made in Urbana.....best I've ever had.

Schuler's doughnuts. Located in Springfield and simply the best. Forget about what you think is the best made doughnut if you have never tried them. Let me put it this way, when I meet St. Peter at the Pearly Gates my only request is a Schuler's bismark and a decent cup of joe (black and bitter, please).

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A&W Root Beer Stands.. There is still one in Tallmadge.. good food.. My wife loves thier Chili Dogs

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Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips... The last one I knew about was on Northfield road down by Northfield Park.. But that franchise moved near South Point Hospital on Harvard and warrensville...and that's pretty much the only one in Cleveland that I know of.. at one time, there seemed like there was maybe 20 or so here.

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For a quick snack and something to drink....Lawson's was on about every other corner....Roll on Big O,,,,get that juice up to Lawsons.

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Oh man, I remember Red Barn,,, great chicken man...

Also, I remember Roy Rodgers too..

Anyone remember Beef Corral

I only now of one A&W drive in and it's in Tallmadge..

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Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips... The last one I knew about was on Northfield road down by Northfield Park.. But that franchise moved near South Point Hospital on Harvard and warrensville...and that's pretty much the only one in Cleveland that I know of.. at one time, there seemed like there was maybe 20 or so here.

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There's some in the Youngstown area. In fact, there's one about 3 minutes from my house.

Odd thing about the Arthur Treachers here in Austintown. They sell baby back ribs.

The owner also has a restaurant, and I guess they sell ribs from the restaurant down at his Arthur Treachers.

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When I lived in Canton, OH there was a Pizza place called Noble Roman's. I loved that place. You could actually go to the window and watch them make the pizza's. I used to just be in awe as the would toss the dough up in the air and catch it. Does anyone remember this?

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I don't know where it is, but i saw it last fall when up for a game....was staying in Middleburg Heights...may be the Southland location you mentioned....I had to rub my eyes to make sure I was seeing clearly.

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We used to always eat at Parasons (sp?) it was an Italian restaurant on Rt. 62 between Columbus Rd. and Harmont Rd. Used to love to eat there. Pretty sure they got shut down by the health department.

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The original Parasons is still open on Darrow Rd over in Hudson or Stow. It is not real cheap like it used to be. They got kind of big for awhile,probably had about 10 locations. They didnt get hut down by the health Dept., but they did get busted re using food that had already been served.

I have told the story here before about what happened when I ate a big spaghetti dinner from Parasons and then went to a party and got trashed drinking grape Mad Dog.


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Where were you staying?? Bagley Road??

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Of the priginal car hop A&W's there is that one in Tallmadge, and there is one on RT59 right past downtown Ravenna, right before RT14 crosses. I think the one down in Kent on the way to Stow is still open too.

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Cassano's is a pizza chain headquarted in Dayton

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Schuler's doughnuts. Located in Springfield and simply the best.

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Missed this one earlier. Those doughnuts are unbelievably good. I'm glad they aren't closer to us.

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We used to always eat at Parasons (sp?) it was an Italian restaurant on Rt. 62 between Columbus Rd. and Harmont Rd. Used to love to eat there. Pretty sure they got shut down by the health department.

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The original Parasons is still open on Darrow Rd over in Hudson or Stow. It is not real cheap like it used to be. They got kind of big for awhile,probably had about 10 locations. They didnt get hut down by the health Dept., but they did get busted re using food that had already been served.

I have told the story here before about what happened when I ate a big spaghetti dinner from Parasons and then went to a party and got trashed drinking grape Mad Dog.


KING

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Arthur Treachers was pretty good for fish and chips.

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You're quiet right, and there was an AT's a few blocks up from Stevenson's, however at Stevenson's you could get cold beer with you sandwich and play the bowling machine, plus they had beer to go

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There's an Arthur Treacher's about 1/2 miles from me and there's one about a mile and a half from Mom's house too (S. Akron)

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Cassano's is a pizza chain headquarted in Dayton

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Yeah, they always had really good pizza. The one in Xenia sucks though....not sure if they've all gone downhill or it's just here.

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Their pizzas were bad for some time. I can't necessarily say why other than they just weren't the same. This seemed to coincide at a time when one of the top execs got in trouble for embezzlement. After he was gone they improved greatly. I think the business is completely back in the Cassano family.

....and over indulging on Schuler's doughnuts is a temptation better resisited, but they just seem to have both the dough and icing just right.