• Favorite GAMEDAY food ? ..... Dine in, carryout, *delivery or make at home.

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

Yeah the hangouts from my youth, work and others - GONE:

JIMMIE'S INN, Niles, Tony's Hide away YSU, Bavarian House YSU, Victory Tavern Steel Street Youngstown and plenty others including the Strip in Niles. (used to be 19 bars on short Steel Street alone, wow, very few left)

Despite that there are still some good survivors in the Italian restaurants and pizza joints in the Youngstown/Warren area.......great for football meals!

Well....Fat Albert's ain't around any more either.  (NOrton).  NOr the Machine Bar (Barberton)

Nor is Schroeder's  (Akron U)

Nor is the North Union Grist Mill bar...aka Humps  (near Shaker Sq)

And ask Steve about all the clubs he used to play around Akron/Cleveland.

[mjp28]

@flyingfooldoug said:

Sure does. I never had the red hot till I moved south of Cleveland. French onion dip is good on most anything. At one time I think it was Lawson's that had the best dip......waaaaay back

Oh yeah Lawson's from my youth a friend and I used to collect bottles by the road, on our bikes go to Lawson's and get the deposits buy two large RC Colas 13 cents each plus occasionally other goodies nearly every summer night.

And Lawson's chip chop ham (like Isaly's) Wisconsin brick cheese oh yeah, the -BIG- bags of chips for great midnight snacks.......ummmm.

[flyingfooldoug]

@mjp28 said:

Oh yeah Lawson's from my youth a friend and I used to collect bottles by the road, on our bikes go to Lawson's and get the deposits buy two large RC Colas 13 cents each plus occasionally other goodies nearly every summer night.

And Lawson's chip chop ham (like Isaly's) Wisconsin brick cheese oh yeah, the -BIG- bags of chips for great midnight snacks.......ummmm.

Don't forget the Sunday beer. 99cents and a friend's draft card was all it took for a six pack at 16. Redcap!...lol

[flyingfooldoug]

@tour2ma said:

As h informed and then proved to me last year (by bringing me some to Florida)... it's still sold at Circle K's... and it's every bit as good as you remember.

I never thought to check circle k for dip. I only stop there for gas. Thanks for the heads up. I'm gonna check in a little bit here.

[flyingfooldoug]

@mjp28 said:

Yeah the hangouts from my youth, work and others - GONE:

JIMMIE'S INN, Niles, Tony's Hide away YSU, Bavarian House YSU, Victory Tavern Steel Street Youngstown and plenty others including the Strip in Niles. (used to be 19 bars on short Steel Street alone, wow, very few left)

Despite that there are still some good survivors in the Italian restaurants and pizza joints in the Youngstown/Warren area.......great for football meals!

Go to the little grocery store in Mecca. They have a deli and sell pizza there. It's friggin great. A couple of Amish women do the baking there.  Nuff said

[Westside Steve]

@tour2ma said:

Lawson's I assume...

Lawson's brings back great memories. I don't see it in the stores very often.

I can't tell much difference between the rest, usually heluva good..

WSS

[flyingfooldoug]

@westside-steve said:

Lawson's brings back great memories. I don't see it in the stores very often.

I can't tell much difference between the rest, usually heluva good..

WSS

Some of the stuff from local dairy's is pretty good. It doesn't have the preservatives that the national brands do. Deans is real good here. Smith's too.

[flyingfooldoug]

@westside-steve said:

Lawson's brings back great memories. I don't see it in the stores very often.

I can't tell much difference between the rest, usually heluva good..

WSS

Take and stir in a tablespoon of dill weed into some french onion dip. Chill it overnight. Makes for a very tasty variation.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@westside-steve said:

Lawson's brings back great memories. I don't see it in the stores very often.

I can't tell much difference between the rest, usually heluva good..

WSS

I was really surprised that Lawsons are in Japan (still there):  I used to eat Obento (lunch box) from them quite often.

[The Gipper]

@westside-steve said:

Lawson's brings back great memories. I don't see it in the stores very often.

I can't tell much difference between the rest, usually heluva good..

WSS

You can still get Isaly's brand Chip Chop Ham at Acme!

And...oh, yeah:   Roll On Big O

[Westside Steve]

And it has occurred to me that if, in fact, one man sleeps while the other man drives, that it should be a relatively easy task to get some orange juice from Florida to Ohio in less than 40 hours.

WSS

[The Gipper]

@westside-steve said:

And it has occurred to me that if, in fact, one man sleeps while the other man drives, that it should be a relatively easy task to get some orange juice from Florida to Ohio in less than 40 hours.

WSS

This was in the 1960s,   Remember, the likes of i-75 and I-77 were not completed...or perhaps even started then.  They had to drive through the hills and mountains of Georgia/Tennesse/Kentucky/Virginia/West Virg.  on back highways like US 21.  And those were some nasty roads through there in those days.

I know that I-77 anyway was not complete through WVa. until about the late 80s.

[LondonBrown]

Hungry and wishing I was American after reading this

[Westside Steve]

@londonbrown said:

Hungry and wishing I was American after reading this

We wish you were too mate!

WSS

[mjp28]

@dutch-oven said:

I was just going to say that Heluva Good is a good fill-in for Lawson's.

Smith's French Onion dip, sold in certain gas stations? Virtually tasteless.

My wife knows shopping and deals and makes the rounds of local stores like Marcs and Aldis which has their store brand for dip, pickles, etc. HEAVENLY FARMS (from memory) quite good and a decent price. Try it!

[mjp28]

So what’s on the menu today? Oh let me guess 

Well is anyone NOT having turkey today? Anyone working? (In 11 years of working in Mill maintenance I missed many holidays.)

[Westside Steve]

@mjp28 said:

So what’s on the menu today? Oh let me guess 

Well is anyone NOT having turkey today? Anyone working? (In 11 years of working in Mill maintenance I missed many holidays.)

We aren't. Lots of different family things going on and nobody can all get their shitt together to have Thanksgiving at one place. So her family will have Thanksgiving on Friday I will go to a movie and down to Carrollton for the last Coley's reunion, and later, and catch up with them sometime in the afternoon.

http://www.coleystag.com/

Traditionally on Thanksgiving Day we go to buca de Peppo in Strongsville.

They purchased a Char-Broil smoker roaster Tru infrared device at are going to roll the dice cooking the turkey in that.

WSS

[mjp28]

@westside-steve said:

We aren't. Lots of different family things going on and nobody can all get their shitt together to have Thanksgiving at one place. So her family will have Thanksgiving on Friday I will go to a movie and down to Carrollton for the last Coley's reunion, and later, and catch up with them sometime in the afternoon.

http://www.coleystag.com/

Traditionally on Thanksgiving Day we go to buca de Peppo in Strongsville.

They purchased a Char-Broil smoker roaster Tru infrared device at are going to roll the dice cooking the turkey in that.

WSS

Wow how cool is that? Nice.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Getting the grill ready to go.  Notice I have the beer cooler built into the grill.  Who said people from Parma were stupid?

[Westside Steve]

@mjp28 said:

Wow how cool is that? Nice.

I purchased my first beer there a can of Old Dutch when I was 16 years old. Henry looked at me and said are you 18 Simmie? In Carrollton  most people's nickname  was the first few letters of  their last name with an ie at the end . I said sure. He kind of squinted but gave me the beer anyway. Russ and Henry Cole we're both a few years older than my pop and my pop worked there when he was a kid, sold popcorn hot front of the place. Coley would come out and say put more salt on it Simmie if they don't get thirsty they won't drink beer.

There was a narrow chalkboard along the top of the bar painted with cross hatches 4 9 + tennings and a spot for the teams names the Indians and whoever the opponent might have been. There is a ticker tape machine in the bar and at the end of each inning Coley would stand on a bar stool and right in the score. This was well before I was born.

WSS