[RogMar]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Frog legs aren't soul food, they are what the doctor ordered for all of us to learn to LOVE!!!! Nita

Testify, Nita!!

I can't tell you how many of them boogers I've gigged.

There's a "lotta" frogs out there on skateboards, pushing their little froggy torsoes down the street because of me & my friends.

Best one's around here are the "Evening Shade Cafe" on 167 just on the north side of "town", and "The Down Home Country Kitchen", in Hardy, which is truely a southern restaurant, and a *very* good one at that.

[hotair2]

Originally Posted by RogMar

Testify, Nita!!

I can't tell you how many of them boogers I've gigged.

There's a "lotta" frogs out there on skateboards, pushing their little froggy torsoes down the street because of me & my friends.

Best one's around here are the "Evening Shade Cafe" on 167 just on the north side of "town", and "The Down Home Country Kitchen", in Hardy, which is truely a southern restaurant, and a *very* good one at that.

I have no idea where Hardy is. How far from Fort Smith.

[hotair2]

Originally Posted by RogMar

Then your life is not complete.

Seriously, pickled tomato relish, and fried green tomatos, are truely taste treats.

Now.....here's what I have discovered as far as where to get southern cooking.

First of all, go to a southern town. That is a town that doesn't have a lot of retirees from up north, or a demographic of people that are urban. Places in locales like that must please the masses, and that's not good, you're going to lose a lot of that "south in your mouth" flavor.

I have eaten at a number of restaurants in those kind of towns, and they just ain't got it down.

Go to a small town, where everybody knows everybody, so they know you're "not from the neighborhood". When you walk in, and notice that people aren't ordering, the waitress just brings their regular eats, that's a good thing.

There are probably.............a dozen restaurants locally that I have access to. Three of those are "southern", the rest are good but of a more vanilla stream.

I could give you a couple of suggestions if you come around north central, but good restaurants are so localized and the best ones don't even advertise. They don't have to.

Oh..yeah..don't overlook "fillin' stations" that serve breakfast, dinner, and supper. We have one in the area that has a seperate smoke house behind it. Chicken and barbecue that's slap-your-mama good.

That's about the best I can offer, although I would venture a guess that you're not going to get authentic southern cooking in Fayetteville, or anyplace that big and health concerned.

Southern cooking is good.....nobody said anything about good for ya.

Well. Give me the best place you can think of for Southern Food and I will make a road trip...not as far as Texas.

[RogMar]

Originally Posted by hotair2

I have no idea where Hardy is. How far from Fort Smith.

Long way, hoss.

However, when I sit in the gazebo in "old town", I frequently see license plates from New Jersey, Montana, California.....

I'm thinking they're coming for the food.

[photobuff42]

There used to be a place called Calico County in Ft. Smith across from Central Mall. Don't know if it's still there. You might also try looking downtown. As far as a road trip, if you don't find anything in town, you might drive down and check out cafes in Ozark.

Here is the Calico County website:

http://www.calicocounty.com/

[AllenKarber]

I just miss Worldburger.

[hotair2]

Originally Posted by photobuff42

There used to be a place called Calico County in Ft. Smith across from Central Mall. Don't know if it's still there. You might also try looking downtown. As far as a road trip, if you don't find anything in town, you might drive down and check out cafes in Ozark.

Here is the Calico County website:

Calico County.net

I have eaten at Calico. Good breakfast.

[Dr. Foosball]

Originally Posted by photobuff42

There used to be a place called Calico County in Ft. Smith across from Central Mall. Don't know if it's still there. You might also try looking downtown. As far as a road trip, if you don't find anything in town, you might drive down and check out cafes in Ozark.

Here is the Calico County website:

Calico County.net

Ahhh, Calico County. Nothing better than those cinnamon rolls for the appetizer. Oprah ate their a few years ago too.

[nmnita]

BAck to froglegs, Rog, I bet you can catch and fry them with the best. I always thought we would have to go to LA to get um cause the first time I have one was in New Orleans when my mom ordered them. I was just a kid and I will not tell you what year that was, but I loved um then and still do. When we moved here I was shocked to see how many places have them.

Nita

[RogMar]

Originally Posted by nmnita

BAck to froglegs, Rog, I bet you can catch and fry them with the best. I always thought we would have to go to LA to get um cause the first time I have one was in New Orleans when my mom ordered them. I was just a kid and I will not tell you what year that was, but I loved um then and still do. When we moved here I was shocked to see how many places have them.

Nita

Oh yeah....you can sure get them. I love them, Nita. Cut up more than a few. I used to hang out at a country bar when I was living up north that had frog legs, *and* had big ol' jars of huge dill pickles, hard boiled eggs, and pickled pigs feet.

I ate monkey in the Phillipines, dog in Viet Nam, rattlesnake in Arizona, 'gator in Louisiana.....but I passed on the pig's feet.