One time a friend of mine told me “An aged wine is like a fine woman and an aged scotch is like an old woman.” After he said that I proceded to pretend to enjoy my scotch and sat there quietly. I don’t believe there is much to say about that. I hate it when my buddies get deep when they shallow by nature.
Special K, I don’t drink, but after the thought of that drink makes me rethink this non alcoholic life I’ve been leading.
I feel special b/c I know of Shoney’s. My husband used to eat there all the time when he was little spending summer time in Florida. He took me to one afew months back on our way home from Atlanta.
A little late joining the fray – in fact, it’s early Sunday afternoon – but here. Chocolate milk would be nice if I didn’t have a massive cold and was avoiding all things milky at the moment.
Chocolate cake? Now THAT I’ll have. Lots of. Actually, when my mom worked at the Ugly Mug in Cape May in the late 80s, she made the world’s best Chcolate Chip Bundt Cake with this creamy cocoa icing. I think she still has the recipe, but she hasn’t made it in forever. I shall have to bug her for some the next time I visit.
Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/28/2007 1:17 PM
Damn!! I passed out last night killing zombies in Dead Rising, and woke up this morning to find I had missed the SNT!! I gotta stock up on coffee next time instead of drinking rum and cokes all night.
Chestnuts roasted by Crassmonkey @ 01/28/2007 2:13 PM
I prefer pre-made A&E chocolate milk. But if I have to make it I go syrup all the way (brand doesn’t matter). You can make it really chocolatey. Powder mixes suck.
Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 01/28/2007 3:03 PM
Wait, most people DON’T know about Shoney’s? I’ve always lived in Florida, so I didn’t know it was a local thing. I had a Shoney Bear plushie when I was a little kid.
This thread has made me painfully aware of how bad X-E is when you’re trying to lose weight. I want chocolate milk and donut sticks now!
I like Hershey’s syrup with whole milk, but I am not against pre-mixed chocolate milk. Speaking of chocolate desserts, I used to like Bennigan’s Death by Chocolate. Haven’t been there in ages, so I don’t know if they still even make it.
So, is Shoney’s the place there are a bunch of off Route 95 when you get south of Virginia, that seem to all have gift shops that sell pecan-related products, or is that somewhere else I’m thinking of? (dim memories from a family trip to Florida in the ’70s. Every time I’ve gone to Florida lately, I take the plane)
Shoney’s are in Virginia, too. Went there religiously as a kid. There seems to be much fewer of them around here these days, though.
Po’ Folks had a gift shop. Now those completely disappeared.
Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 01/28/2007 3:56 PM
Oh, no, I remember the name of the other place… it was “Stuckey’s”. I remember my brothers and I wanted to stop at each one as the sign for it came up, but my parents were on a rigid timetable. It was lucky for us they stopped at each state’s welcome station. We would stock up on every free attraction brochure (in triplicate of course, because there were three of us boys) and as soon as we got home, my mom threw them out the first day we went back to school.
There was a Shoney’s in Lubbock, TX for a while (this was right before they started going out of business). So they got around…
Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 01/28/2007 4:17 PM
I’ve got an awesome recipe for Brandy Fudge Pudding Molten Spoon Cake (TM) that I make for peoples’ birthdays. It’s ridiculously tasty in its own right, but it’s legendary among my friends for inspiring the following exchange:
Friend 1: It’s like an orgasm in my mouth!
Friend 2: Yup, that’s the marshmallow creme.
Yeah, we’re a classy bunch.
So the good news is that all the parts which will eventually become my new computer are coming on the UPS truck tomorrow. Except that I’m back on the farm again, which means that our crappy boozehound of a UPS driver probably won’t manage to make it out to our house, and I won’t get my parts at all, and then I’ll just have to go punch a kitten in the face.
Well, I probably won’t punch a kitten. Maybe I’ll just talk down to a kitten. Say some terrible things about its mother.
Behind its back. Where it can’t hear me.
Okay, so maybe I’ll just go out to the barn and play with a kitten for a while and blow off some steam.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/28/2007 4:25 PM
Jedoc, so you’re going to brag about this awesome, orgasmic cake, then leave us hanging?
“I leave you all alone for 5 minutes and when I return, utter chaos!”
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 01/28/2007 5:42 PM
I demand Amazing Pudding Booze Spoon Cake Thingy recipe nownownow!
And there’s a shit ton of crazy gift shops along I-95, mostly offering pecans or oranges or some combination of the two. As a Floridian those always confused me, have people really never seen pecans and oranges before??
There’s an I-95 exit a few minutes from where I live, and there used to be a “welcome station” with a big sign that said SEE LIVE SHARKS! Except a couple years ago, they painted over the word “LIVE”. So I guess you see… dead sharks? Plastic sharks? No one knows!
Now they’ve torn that down and put a gas station there, but the sign is still up for some reason.
A lady I used to work with told me that when milk expires at the grocery store, they take it back and make it into chocolate milk. I don’t know if that’s true, partially true, or not at all, but I haven’t had the pre-mixed stuff since then.
BTW, any syrup or powder mixes better if you just fill your glass like 1/4 to 1/3 full, mix in all the chocolate, stir the shit out of it, and then fill your glass up and stir it a little.
Chestnuts roasted by MaryJane @ 01/28/2007 6:24 PM
Fine. But it’s an ancient secret family recipe. So if you make it, and a bunch of old German ladies break into your house and start kicking you in your kidneys, you got it from a guy named “Eric,” understand? I’ve got a 20,000 acre inheritence riding on this one.
1 cup sugar, deftly divided into 3/4 cup and 1/4 cup portions.
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, divided with equal deftness into 1/4 cup portions.
2 teaspoons baking powder.
1/2 teaspoon baking soda.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
Pinch of ground cinnamon. Measure with care to avoid unmitigated disaster.
1/2 cup milk.
1/4 cup canola oil.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
1/2 cup brown sugar.
3/4 cup boiling water.
1/4 cup brandy. Christian Bros, if you really want to stay true to the spirit of the thing. Note: If you are under the legal drinking age in your area, you may need to find an adult or an easily-seduced liquor store clerk for this step.
1 1/4 hogshead raw determination
Part the first:
Grease a 9″x9″ square baking pan with your favorite cooking spray. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. This will come into play later.
Part the second:
In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, 3/4 cup of the sugar, 1/4 cup of the cocoa, the baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Add the milk, oil, and vanilla extract. Stir until it becomes a smooth, thick batter. A taste at this point would not go amiss, but be careful. It is rather important to the rest of the recipe that you do not eat all your batter with a spoon.
Part the third:
Spread the mixture evenly into the pre-greased baking pan. Sprinkle the top with the brown sugar and the remaining 1/4 cup cocoa and 1/4 cup sugar. At this point, the mixture can be covered and refrigerated for up to twenty four hours before bad, terrible things start to happen. It’s useless if it’s not served hot and bubbly, so if you’re waiting for your idiot friends to show up, this would be the time for a thoughtful pause and a small glass of brandy. Stupid friends, never being on time for the cake party. When you’re ready to bake the thing, pour the boiling water and the brandy over the top. Mmm, smell that.
Part the fourth:
Bake (ah, the shenanigans with the oven back in part the first are finally beginning to make sense, eh?) for around thirty minutes. The cake should be set around the sides, and the middle should be loose and bubbly. Like, the middle should have a crust on it, but if you tap it with a spoon you should definately get the impression that there’s some liquidy things going on underneath. Cool in the pan on a rack for at least 10 minutes to avoid yet more unmitigated disaster. To serve, use a big spoon to scoop out portions of pudding and cake. If you can’t finish it, it actually microwaves up pretty well in a ridiculously short amount of time. Like, 10-20 seconds. Magic, see.
Part the fifth:
Collect kudos. Polish off brandy. Formulate orgasm jokes. Take all the credit for yourself, you shameless person. Repeat as needed.
Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 01/28/2007 7:11 PM
I’m sorry, Jedoc, I didn’t get most of that. Could you repeat it, please?
Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 01/28/2007 8:22 PM
I have warm brownies with Reese’s peanut butter chips in them. right this second. Good times.
Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 01/28/2007 9:04 PM
I’m sick, soar throat, tired, achy. I’ve been going through “NON-MENTHOLATED HALLS Breezers tm†like crazy. Cool Berry flavored, of course.
Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 01/28/2007 9:43 PM
I’m not too big on chocolate milk, I don’t like chocolate cake, but goddamn if I don’t LOVE brownies.
but the weird thing is ive had brownies that cost like 2 bucks, but I think the 50 cent ones are like, 10000000 times better.
Chestnuts roasted by Phil B. @ 01/28/2007 10:01 PM
I don’t know what it is, but I’m not a big fan of chocolate. Unless you put it in a jell-o pudding pop. I would carjack my own grandmother for one of those. Does anyone remember the fruit Jell-o pops?
I’m in Virginia, and around here (at least my local area), Shoney’s is known as the place for senior citizens. There’s one near my house, so I take for granted that they’re hard to find nowadays.
I totally remember fruity Jello pops. Well, I remember seeing them. Add novelty ice cream to the list of “luxury” items that were seldom bought in my house.
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One time a friend of mine told me “An aged wine is like a fine woman and an aged scotch is like an old woman.” After he said that I proceded to pretend to enjoy my scotch and sat there quietly. I don’t believe there is much to say about that. I hate it when my buddies get deep when they shallow by nature.