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mhogan......I am from WI, living in High Point, can u tell me where this diner is so I can go visit the sisters from WI? Thank You
I tend to agree with all of you.......I miss my long johns, peanut persians, and peanut squares.....do any of you want to open a bakery with me? Just homemade treats, fresh from the oven.
Also, I have tried to get some of those delicacies shipped down here, talk about desperate ha? LOL.
never heard of OldFort, how far is that from me here in High Point, I would head out Saturday also, or maybe Sunday after church depending on how far it is.
never heard of OldFort, how far is that from me here in High Point, I would head out Saturday also, or maybe Sunday after church depending on how far it is.
Thanks for the info......Your profile says NY
It's a solid 2 1/2 hour drive due West from you. It is literally adjacent to I-40 about 30 miles from Asheville.
I have lived here for 7 years, but NC was always my second home. My parents grew up in the Old Fort/Marion area. The moved up to Detroit after WWII to find work, and lived up there most of their adult lives. Of course, we visited there often as a family. When they retired they moved back "down home" as they always called it. I moved there after college and lived in Western NC for 5 years and then in Eastern NC 7 Years. My mom still lives in Marion.
Thats exactly it.In the Northeast we used the diner as a food staple. Ehh I'm hungry lets go to the diner. Our diner was so close that we get to it within 3 minutes TOPS. And I can honestly say I must have had atleast 2 meals there a week, and that is ATLEAST. Food is good, hours are great, can get you want, they are clean, and the price is good.
Realistically because of the lifestyle difference I can see why things like Wawa arent here (although they SAY they are coming here). But I mean, i didnt realize how dependent I was on Wawa. But here people arent in nearly as much of a rush to get places. Sure they have places to be,and a schedule. But its tottally different. In Jersey, Wawa was crowded at 2 AM! Adn people were in a rush in and out. Here things close down at normal hours. People dont ahve to rush in to get a sandwhich and coffee. They'd only be busy maybe in the rush hours here. It just shows the difference in lifestyles. I LIVED at wawa. Most days were 2 stops. Weekends sometimes, as many as 3...
Maybe thats how we save money now that we moved..eating in more.
I know we're on the subject of bakeries, but how about italian ices? After reading this thread, I started to think of all the storefronts we saw while visiting the Greensboro and surrounding areas, and I don't recall seeing a bakery, or an italian ice store. In LI, italian ices and ice cream stores are on every corner, and we have 4 small children, so the trip to buy italian ices/ice cream is often. I do recall seeing a specialty coffee/ice cream shop, but not italian ices, even in the pizzeria we ate lunch in.....
I know we're on the subject of bakeries, but how about italian ices? After reading this thread, I started to think of all the storefronts we saw while visiting the Greensboro and surrounding areas, and I don't recall seeing a bakery, or an italian ice store. In LI, italian ices and ice cream stores are on every corner, and we have 4 small children, so the trip to buy italian ices/ice cream is often. I do recall seeing a specialty coffee/ice cream shop, but not italian ices, even in the pizzeria we ate lunch in.....
I would imagine the ethnicity of Long Island, NY is much different than here in North Carolina, hence a different food culture. NC is made up of mostly English, German & Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Ralph's Famous Italian Ices - Two stores, Apex & Cary, NC.
Carvel Ice Cream - Around 20 stores in NC with 3 in Greensboro.
Thats exactly it.In the Northeast we used the diner as a food staple. Ehh I'm hungry lets go to the diner. Our diner was so close that we get to it within 3 minutes TOPS. And I can honestly say I must have had atleast 2 meals there a week, and that is ATLEAST. Food is good, hours are great, can get you want, they are clean, and the price is good.
Realistically because of the lifestyle difference I can see why things like Wawa arent here (although they SAY they are coming here). But I mean, i didnt realize how dependent I was on Wawa. But here people arent in nearly as much of a rush to get places. Sure they have places to be,and a schedule. But its tottally different. In Jersey, Wawa was crowded at 2 AM! Adn people were in a rush in and out. Here things close down at normal hours. People dont ahve to rush in to get a sandwhich and coffee. They'd only be busy maybe in the rush hours here. It just shows the difference in lifestyles. I LIVED at wawa. Most days were 2 stops. Weekends sometimes, as many as 3...
Maybe thats how we save money now that we moved..eating in more.
2nd day driving about, I sort of automatically looked for Dunkin Donuts for my coffee for the ride. Didn't see one. Reached the destination in 7 minutes. Went home & made coffee. You see, if you are not going to be in the car for hours at a clip every day then why would you need as many coffee places?
Saving on gas, time & coffee!
Same with the diner. No need to eat out as much b/c we can be home more.
It is easy to imagine yourself down here living the same life from NY just in NC, and in a general way say,"my life will be less hectic" but then when you get here you see the little things that had made your life hectic.
For me, not having Dunkin on every other corner is a sign of how more relaxed it is here, so I do not see it as a loss anymore.
I was telling my friend about this post yesterday and she said one of her friends (a Jersey pizza maker) told her the reason why you can't get "good" italian bread, pizza, bagels, etc. outside of this area is because of the water-it doesn't react the same with the yeast or something like that. He went out to AZ and had water from here shipped to him to make "east coast" pizza. That business flopped too. Nobody other than a homesick NYer or NJian was willing to pay the price of the pie.
Makes sense, I know if I travel out of NY when I wash and dry my hair there is a difference of the water, does anyone know the difference beween our water here in NY and theirs?
I wonder if coffee tastes different too, many think the coffee is tast but 90 something percent of coffee is water -
Coffee definately tastes different. When we go to my in-laws house in the Poconos in PA the same coffee used here has a totally different taste.
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