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There was a place on I-10 a number of years ago called Terrys. Incredible hamburgers and shakes. We used to have a Stuckeys on the interstate, but it closed down.

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There was a place on I-10 a number of years ago called Terrys. Incredible hamburgers and shakes. We used to have a Stuckeys on the interstate, but it closed down.

There is still a Stuckey's on I-10.  I miss Terry's.  I miss Shakey's Pizza too. 

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.  I miss Shakey's Pizza too. 

yes Shakeys was great, I loved the old time atmoshere and the food was great

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My great-grandmother's struffoli.  I have the recipe, but it calls for kneading five pounds of flour and, for some unkown reason, it doesn't work if you cut the receipe.  So far, I've been too lazy to make them, but I doubt mine would even be close to hers.

My grandmother's coffee.  I think--horror of horrors--it was actually instant coffee, but my mother forbid me from drinking it and it was always a special treat when my grandmother snuck me some. 

Spanking smoothies from this juice bar on Main Street in Northampton, MA.  I can't remember what was in them that made them so good, but half the fun was saying, "I'd like a spanking, please."  I think all the other smoothies had non-kinky names, but the spanking was the best. I haven't been back in years, so the juice bar and the spankings might still be there.

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There was a place on I-10 a number of years ago called Terrys. Incredible hamburgers and shakes. We used to have a Stuckeys on the interstate, but it closed down.

There is still a Stuckey's on I-10.  I miss Terry's.  I miss Shakey's Pizza too. 

Which Stuckeys? The one between Vidor and Orange is closed (but I thought there used to be one near Winnie??).
 
How about Burger Chef? The one we had here was the last one to close in the state. I remember getting an extremely intense bout of food poisoning from there once lol....spent hours throwing up and listening to Pink Floyd at home.
 
I remember Shakey's, but I never ate at one..... here's a link that talks a bit about why it went into decline, but note that someone has disputed part of the Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakey's_Pizza

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aileen said:  A good old fashioned egg cream.

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An egg cream (which has neither cream, nor egg in it) is not out of your reach, miss.  You just need to get the ingredients and plan.  Behold:

In a chilled 12 oz glass (really chilled - keep it in the freezer) add 3 oz of cold, whole milk (yes, whole milk.  No 2%, no skim.  You are making an egg cream, woman!)  Then fill the glass within 1" of the rim with highly carbonated seltzer water.  I make my own, in a charger.  If I know I'm making egg creams, I only fill the charger 3/4, so the carbonation load is enhanced.  I guess you could buy seltzer....if you have to.  Then, with a long handled spoon at the bottom, add 4-5 long squirts of Fox's UBet Chocolate Syrup.*   Stir quickly to froth it up, so you have a creamy chocolate drink with that incredible foam.  Serve and drink, quickly.

Tell me that doesn't get the heart of a Jersey Girl?

E.

(in the midwest, this is called a "chocolate phosphate".  But it ain't the same.  I think its the UBet.  See below.)

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*Fox's UBet Syrup is a chocolate syrup available on the East Coast, and through specialty stores.  It is supposedly just like other chocolate syrups, but somehow, when mixed with cold milk and seltzer, it takes on devine properties.  I don't know why, but an egg cream isn't an egg cream with any other syrup.  I've tried Hershey's, I've tried Bosco.  It don't work.  It is one of the great mysteries of the universe, like solving the four color map theorem, or understanding why some humans are attracted to others.  Don't ask.  Just use Fox's UBet.

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