FOOD FIGHT!!!!!

Got Your Attention, don't I?

One thing that Sojourners love to have is fellowship around a meal - "Bellyship" as Peter Manuel calls it.  Getting together around a table and practicing our "Turkey Talk" - "Gooble, Gooble, Gooble." Today about 18 of us went to a small hole-in-the-wall grocery/restaurant about 20 minutes from Marshall.  It's the home of the "Bubba Burger" - a 1/2 pound burger with all the fixins you could want on it. Irene ordered the "Bacon Bubba Burger" and small "extra-crispy" fries and crispy fried okra.  I'm not personally a big burger fan, so I ordered a fish sandwich with cheese, tomato and tarter sauce only on it and a large crispy fries.  Since there were 18 of us and only one waitress it took about 20 minutes to get all of the orders delivered.  While we were waiting Irene disappeared and I thought she'd gone to the little girls room.  After about 10 minutes she comes back and asks everyone at the table - "Guess how many different kind of hot sauces they have on the shelves over there?"  I hadn't even turned around and I just guessed 45.  Many guesses came in - 70, 28, 75, even a 125.  Irene said that the lady that had guessed 125 was closest but even she was "way off!"  It ends up that they had 224 DIFFERENT hot sauces in their collection (not for sale) from all around the world.

As we commonly do, we had to ask them to refry our fries to get them crispy.  Then they were excellent.

As we left - all stuffed - I suggested to Irene and the Blairs that, rather than go to dinner,  we all just go have a desert at dinner time.  I mentioned ice cream and then Dave and Brenda suggested Frozen Yogurt (which EVERYONE knows is better for you, right?).  So, this evening we went to Diddy's Yogurt Shoppe over in Longview.  I am virtually certain that if frozen yogurt is good for you than we are all V-E-R-Y good now. You walk in and walk over to grab what size cup you want to put your yogurt in - big or bigger (This is Texas, baby, they don't allow "small" cups in the state).  Then you walk over to where they have about 20 different frozen yogurts in 10 different "soft serve" machines where you can take one of 2 flavors or swirl the 2 flavors.  You can put as much of any flavor in your cup as you choose.  Then you walk over to the Toppings Bar - all kinds of fruits; sauces and other toppings - chocolate chips; cookies; coconut; cheesecake, etc. and you put as much of any of those as you want to.  Then you walk over to the cashier and you put your healthful yogurt concoction on a scale and they weigh it and charge you 45¢ per ounce.  Cheap at twice the price no doubt.

Well we finished round one and Dave and I decided - That was dinner, right?  So now let's go get our desert - DING, DING, DING! - ROUND 2.  It was just as good.

No doubt about it - our Nutrisystem diet took it in the teeth today.