Adventure

As I've mentioned before, I lost years of my life while I was in the Hospital, Continuing Care, and Home Hospice, so for me to get up and go anyway is an adventure.

Last week I was able to go to the Senior Citizens Hall of Fame luncheon here at Carroll Lutheran Village.  It was great to see that some old friends were still alive.

Today I ventured out again.  I had an eye examination.  Traveling on the Village's medical shuttle I could look out the windows and see how much this city called Westminster, Maryland had changed in just a few years.

Ah! Progress!

New Fast Food Joints everywhere.  Are we all becoming Fast Food Junkies? 

But I see that some of the "old" joints are still around. Let me critique those "restaurants" I frequented before I broke my face.  I'm sure that most of these "chains" are in your city too.

Starbucks - absolutely the worse cup of coffee I ever had.

Roy Rogers - (not many outlets left) - delicious cheeseburger with all the sliced tomato and onions that one could eat.

Burger King - good and cheap 'burger' and besides they give you a crown and recognize your nobility.

McDonald's - Pretty good burgers and fish filet sandwiches.  The Russians loved their McDonald's until their more beloved Vlad the Impaler invaded the Ukraine. Moscow life will never be the same!

Olive Garden - if I had the Italian relatives I once thought I had, they would be pleased with this restaurant.  

There are choices to be made.

1. Never-ending Italian Soup .. Fill up and have no room left for spaghetti.

2. Never-ending Salad Bowl .. Fill up and have no room left for spaghetti.

4.  Never-ending spaghetti .. Remember to roll the noodles with your fork. Forget about the soup and salad.. but remember the wine.

5.  Never-ending red Italian wine (Chiante?)  .. Drink up and forget the spaghetti completely, loudly bellowing "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me ..." in an Italian basso.

That reminds me of what a country singer once said.  He had a strange-looking little dog.  His neighbor asked him, "What's wrong with your dog?"

"Well, he's been in lots of accidents that left him with a blind eye, a deaf ear, only three legs, and half a tail."

"Wow!  What do you call him?"

"Lucky!"

If you want to eat "real" food, forget fast food and try the delicious food for sale at the many carnivals and fairs around the country right now.

If you live in New England, you should visit New Bedford, Massachusetts Feast of the Blessed Sacrament.  Portuguese food that is "out of this world," while being washed down by copious amounts of  Portuguese Red Wine.  People come from far-away places like California each year to enjoy the food and music.   (You don't have to be Catholic to participate.)

If you live in Maryland it's crabs, crabs, crabs, and crabs!

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