Speaking of hungry...

Darn it, Mason got me hungry with his own recent article about food stuff and more.

It did remind me, though, of a happy coincidence while visiting the beach this past week-end.

If you know me, you'd be aware I'm a self stated meat-a-tarian.  No, that knucklehead on the commercial didn't come up with that term.  It's mine, mine, mine!!! All mine!

I've said for years that the people that eat 'rabbit food' and 'salads' are eating my food's food and I wish they'd stop it.  Leave that green stuff for the animals that I'm gonna eat to consume.  They need to be fattened up and loaded up on that stuff so they'll be tastier when it's time for me to eat them.

Anyway, this all dates back to my youth.  I was never that big on green stuff, or even non-green stuff veggies.  Meat, potatoes, and not much else.  Well, not much else other than Pizza.  Yummm, Pizza and pasta.  Mac and Cheese, oh yeah, that sort of stuff.  Chicken and Dumplings maybe.  Chicken and Rice type stuff too, but that's about the extent of the diet.  I've got a nice round belly that needs to be fed this stuff to maintain it's lovely figure, and I my best at that task.

One of the items that used to be my main staple and standard order when going to restaurants when I was a youngster was open-face roast beast with gravy and fries, and oh, yeah, gravy on the fries.  Only, sadly, the American Heart Association or others have basically wiped that sort of food off the menu at most places, and/or the restaurants that I would go to have determined that I'm not coming in enough and they instead offer other foods that are there for people that eat mushrooms, or guacamole, or things I find disgusting.  So, instead of open-face roast beef, you get salads, Monterey Chicken or other things that I don't eat.

Well, late on this past Sunday evening as my wife and I got hungry and wanted some dinner a little after most restaurants at the beach community had closed and stopped their regular food service, we wound up going to a lovely little diner that was still offering food service.  Imagine my surprise to see open-face roast beef on the menu!  Yummm.  While it wasn't the greatest, it wasn't bad at all.  It really hit the spot and satisfied a craving for good old comfort food.

I could rant for long periods about the menus at most restaurants and how far off they are from being laden with foods that myself, and a lot of other regular joes like me, would eat.  Make things a bit simpler and watch the sales at these places go up.  Unfortunately, I expect these places don't want to do that because they really don't need/want a bunch of regular joes in there buying food.  They'd rather see us going off to greasy spoons while they serve the yuppie type crowd and count the money from sales of alcohol infused beverages.  Oh well, their loss.