Poolhall food...
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At Miceks' bar and grill on the wrong side of the tracks in Columbus Nebraska I was often forced into a few of these when the grill was closed.
I can still taste them and it has been 35 years.
Ain't nothing better than those little sausages, a hard-boiled egg, and some saltine crackers. Oh yeah, and beer. Lot's of it.
I ate a few of the eggs also:embarrassed2:. I would skip out of my last class in Jr high just to get one of the snooooker tables before the big dogs got there. I don't think my parents ever new
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Tramp, my mom showed me that trick when I was young. To this day, every so often when I'm having a Coke or Pepsi and I have a bag of peanuts, I'll drop a small handful in the glass. Works with beer too.
But other than that, chicken wings or a big honkin plate of nachos at the hall.
But other than that, chicken wings or a big honkin plate of nachos at the hall.
Blue, I'll tell ya there wasn't nothin' finer. On a Saturday evening my buddies an me would leave Joe's place and either cruise the Stake and Shake, or go down to the drag strip and watch 'em light up the night. TV Tommy Ivo came in one time with his new four-engined (Buick nail-heads) four-wheel drive dragster. I never seen so much tire smoke. One of Garlit's Swamp Rats was there to.
It's amazing what kind of memories a pool hall, a bottle of pop, and a bag of peanuts can stir up, ain't it?
It's amazing what kind of memories a pool hall, a bottle of pop, and a bag of peanuts can stir up, ain't it?
So many pool rooms have GREAT food its a shame that pool hall food has such a bad rep. THe Roasted Red Bell Pepper Bisque at Sams Hollywood Billiards in Portlan, Or. Anything at Paradise in Corpus Christi and Starship Billiards in Decatur, Il also have great everything. Oh there is another one I cant remember in Florence Alabama a 100yr old pool room awesome stew.
Can you imagine. A bowl of stew in an old poolroom. Makes your mouth water just thinking about it.
One of our poolhalls here has great food service. They have 'Hustler Clubs' that melt in your mouth. Wings. Outstanding burgers and fries. And for the past several weeks, on Wednesdays, they've been serving a lunch special of roast beef, slathered in gravy, with mashed potatoes and green beans cooked with a bit of bacon. All for $5.95.
Now, if you will excuse me, I'm feeling a might peckish. I think I'll head over to the poolhall. :smile:
the great thing about having food in a poolroom-besides eating it-is that when I lose, instead of telling my wife I lost 50 bucks at the poolhall, I tell her I ate and drank too much...for some reason she dosn't care if I eat and drink myself to death, but losing money gambling at the local poolroom is anathema to her.
funny but good!
Funny that this old thread came back to life because somebody objected to the avatar of a banned member but since we are talking about pool room food I have to talk about Buffalo Billiards. Usually some free grub floating around, I've ate a bunch there and rarely buy anything solid. Today there were mudbugs boiled up hot and spicy right around the corner at Metairie Seafood. Another trip, a great gumbo. Sometimes pizza, sometimes pastry in the mornings, never know what you'll find there. They have food they sell too but I'm like a blue tick hound, I don't hunt good on a full belly so I try to stay away from much of anything.
Hu
Funny that this old thread came back to life because somebody objected to the avatar of a banned member but since we are talking about pool room food I have to talk about Buffalo Billiards. Usually some free grub floating around, I've ate a bunch there and rarely buy anything solid. Today there were mudbugs boiled up hot and spicy right around the corner at Metairie Seafood. Another trip, a great gumbo. Sometimes pizza, sometimes pastry in the mornings, never know what you'll find there. They have food they sell too but I'm like a blue tick hound, I don't hunt good on a full belly so I try to stay away from much of anything.
Hu
Then consider yourself fortunate. Everytime I pass any kind of a buffet, my car automatically turns in that direction. :frown:
And to think, a guy named Jimmy invented those.
I knew there was a reason I like his music.
I knew there was a reason I like his music.
all you can eat specials ruin me
The all you can eat deals ruin me, it seems the only way to get your money's worth is to be a pig. I like seafood, Chinese and Mexican, good TexMex, but what really does me damage is Shoney's breakfast bar. About two pounds of breakfast meats, a few eggs, grits, biscuits and gravy, and a quart or two of orange juice and water. Add some kind of little sweet to finish things off, or maybe a couple of pancakes and syrup.
A major shooting event had the Shoney's Inn as the official lodging and of course I had to walk past the restaurant every morning. I knew I was doomed from the jump and hit the buffet every time I passed by. The matches started at eight AM and I became functional about one or two PM, skipping lunch since I was on a diet and I figured the 18,000 calories I took in for breakfast would probably carry me until the days activities were over and I caught the evening buffet.
Hu
The all you can eat deals ruin me, it seems the only way to get your money's worth is to be a pig. I like seafood, Chinese and Mexican, good TexMex, but what really does me damage is Shoney's breakfast bar. About two pounds of breakfast meats, a few eggs, grits, biscuits and gravy, and a quart or two of orange juice and water. Add some kind of little sweet to finish things off, or maybe a couple of pancakes and syrup.
A major shooting event had the Shoney's Inn as the official lodging and of course I had to walk past the restaurant every morning. I knew I was doomed from the jump and hit the buffet every time I passed by. The matches started at eight AM and I became functional about one or two PM, skipping lunch since I was on a diet and I figured the 18,000 calories I took in for breakfast would probably carry me until the days activities were over and I caught the evening buffet.
Hu
It depends. If I am playing I will get a Snickers bar (or in the words of Tulio Antonelli "a Nickers"). If it is before or after I play it would be a burger. A few of the places around here have some really good food so I may change that normal order.
One place I used to frequent I would order a French dip hoagie and it was served with real au jus.....not the powdered crap....and the roast beef was sliced prime rib cooked in that real au jus.
One place I used to frequent I would order a French dip hoagie and it was served with real au jus.....not the powdered crap....and the roast beef was sliced prime rib cooked in that real au jus.
The fried rice at the old Hollywood Billiards was the nutz.....
I never really got into eating while I was playing.