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NOTHING is stranger than Hardees/Carl's Jr.'s burgers topped with other meat products, like the new one - a burger topped with philly beef and served with au jus.
They have also served a huge burger topped with tons of ham.
For breakfast, there is often a sausage bacon and ham biscuit lurking around. It is disgusting to pair your meats, other than the traditional bacon pairing, or chicken cordon bleu

Tomato sandwiches are part of life here in western North Carolina. I've probably eaten more tomato sandwiches than anything in the world. When I was growing up in the 1980s, we couldn't afford to buy lots of grocery store food, so my mom planted a HUGE garden. Tomato sandwiches were cheap and we had so many tomatoes we almost had to eat them.
The perfect tomato sandwich:
1. DUKE'S MAYO - This is absolutely essential. I know you cannot buy this mayo in many parts of the country, which is so very sad, because there is no better condiment in the universe. You must try it if you haven't already. There must be mayo on both sides of the bread, which must be white bread or homemade sourdough.
2. A huge slice of a homegrown tomato. This is also essential. Store-bought tomatoes do not compare to homegrown.
3. Salt and pepper must cover the tomato.
This is it: The PERFECT tomato sandwich! Three steps to food heaven! I'm walking outside right now to pick a tomato and make one!

I love chicken noodle soup and a grilled cheese with havarti and granny smith apples.

I live in North Carolina, and I went to college at Appalachian State, which is in Boone, NC in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mountains. They have a Mellow Mushroom that has been there for years. I think it was one of the first ones. Of course, it was expensive for a college student, but it was a wonderful treat on occasion. I had a Modern British Lit. professor who treated the entire class to pizza, since the restaurant was just across the road for campus - we had class on their patio instead of in the classroom! This was a regular occurance for students at ASU. I won a local game show once that included a $50 gift certificate to Mellow Mushroom and my boyfriend and I were able to eat three times with it.... ahhhh... I love their soft pretzels, the delicious subs, the amazing White pie, and the Magical Mystery Tour pizza! Thanks for the website link - I just found out that there is one about 30 miles away from my small town!

I love New York Strip. The size is perfect and the one strip of fat on the side is easy to remove. This is my favorite cut!!! Mmmmm!

Cornbread stuffing with pecans and bacon sounds delicious! I would also like to try the Pumpkin Pie Brulee!

That isn't at all a real Hostess pie, so please don't judge too harshly! Come to the south (I'm in North carolina), and every gas station will have a big table of fruit pies near the cash register. If you are lucky, they are a local bakery or a local grandma who fries them and has her own little kitchen business, but they always have the Hostess kind too. Peach and cherry were always my favorite! The main difference is that a real Hostess fruit pie is one single pie in the wrapper, not two square ones.

Habit formed from age five
A grill on the back lawn
My mother patting fresh meat
Burgers sizzling in the summer sun
Up and down the tree i climbed
Ready to eat and eager to try
Gigantic burgers, too large for my girl mouth
Everyone laughing as three-year-old me stuffed
Round, juicy, perfect adult-sized burger...and always asked for seconds!