The good people at Blue Bell invited some local media to come out to Hal’s Kitchen in Brookhaven to enjoy a nice lunch and to talk about the rollout of their summer lineup of new flavors. Blue Bell, based in Brenham, Texas, recently expanded into Richmond, Virginia, and into Wilmington, North Carolina. Amazingly, this company only has a presence in fewer than half the states, but it is ranked third in sales volume nationwide. That seems to be because it inspires great brand loyalty in its customers. It is what we bring home from the grocery store, after all. Continue reading “Summer Flavors for Blue Bell Ice Cream”
Month: May 2013
Joe-Bear’s and Sons Bar-B-Que, Macon GA
I finished up my trip to Macon with yet another visit to a place that cooks their pork – in this instance called “chipped pork,” as you see around the Columbus / Phenix City area – in the sauce. I’d tried the barbecue at three places already that day and each restaurant’s offering had been a little less memorable than the one before it, so my heart sank a little when Leonard Joubert, owner of Joe-Bear’s and Sons, told me that I couldn’t get his chipped pork dry, but it turned out more than all right. This was the best meal of the day by some distance. Continue reading “Joe-Bear’s and Sons Bar-B-Que, Macon GA”
Photo Post 11: Mini Putt Golf, Warner Robins GA
How neat is this? Driving up US-127 from Bonaire, we found this abandoned mini-golf on the right. Of course, I had to get some pictures of it before it all gets bulldozed for condominiums. Of course, this is hardly prime real estate. It’s more likely that it will be swallowed by nature first. Continue reading “Photo Post 11: Mini Putt Golf, Warner Robins GA”
Getting Sauced in Middle Georgia
Dear Middle Georgia,
We need to talk. Continue reading “Getting Sauced in Middle Georgia”
Photo Post 10: Where We Did Not Eat
In this entry, a few very short recaps of some places that we photographed. Longtime readers might recall that I have a soft spot for old-fashioned walk-up dairy bars. Very few of these have survived into the modern day, particularly in Georgia. One of the few that we’ve found in Georgia, and the nearest to us, is the Jiffy Freeze in Canton. Earlier this month, Al.com had a short feature about five others in northern Alabama and one near Chattanooga, half of which we have featured here and one of which I hope to see next month. Continue reading “Photo Post 10: Where We Did Not Eat”
Grillmaster, Perry GA
Let me take a few sentences to recap the background and reasoning behind this trip to middle Georgia. Marie’s mother and her father live on Saint Simons Island, and we often go and visit them. For many years, we had been taking various long ways, to see different places and things more interesting than I-16. Since we had the baby, however, I started to rethink our policy and decided that, in future, we should hammer down and stick to the interstate and get down there as quickly as possible, so the grandparents get more good baby-time, and so the baby doesn’t have such an incredibly long and meandering car trip. Continue reading “Grillmaster, Perry GA”
El Pollo Dorado, Marietta GA
About a year ago, Marie and I visited a restaurant on Collier Road in Atlanta called Patrick’s Sub Shop. It is set up in a former Shrimp Boats building, one of an estimated 95 that were erected around the southeast in the 1960s and 1970s, before the chain, a small-player rival to the likes of Cedric’s and Captain D’s, folded. When I wrote that entry, I wondered whether we would run across any other repurposed Shrimp Boats buildings. Continue reading “El Pollo Dorado, Marietta GA”
Marie, Let's Eat! 