Ryan's Steakhouses Are Closing
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anywhere till have a Ponderosa?
Dude when I was a young lad Ponderosa was the equivalent of doing MDMA now.
Dude when I was a young lad Ponderosa was the equivalent of doing MDMA now.
When I was a kid, our gay family friend who promised to take us anywhere we picked for our birthday dinner - refused to take me to Ponderosa.
I think the only place that I knew still had one was Greenfield
The other place was sizzler. Do they still have any sizzler joints around?
The other place was sizzler. Do they still have any sizzler joints around?
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Pretty sure Washington still has a Ponderosa, though I haven't visited since the Zeller years. Food was good. As a very young kid a trip to Ponderosa, with the big pictures of their various meals, was second only to a trip to Gray Brothers in Mooresville.
Did he have a van with a couch in the back? Just wondering.
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The Ryan's building on Grape
Rd. in Mishawaka was somehow
several years ago re-configured
into a Belle Tire or maybe it is
now the Corndance Tavern?
Rd. in Mishawaka was somehow
several years ago re-configured
into a Belle Tire or maybe it is
now the Corndance Tavern?
Hmmm. I don't recall having one in Peoria. It's possible though.
Right now Golden Coral is apparently booming here. I'll never go. I'll do the buffet at the local Vietnamese place and that's about it.
Obesity knows no limit.
I despise buffets. Crap food sitting out for hours under heat lamps, with endless dozens of fat slobs hacking up their lungs? Pass.
The last one I knew of was in Logansport.
Google says Ponderosa Steakhouse is head quartered in Kokomo IN.
Marion had one too, also closed around then I think. Only thing I remember about them was the did have really good buttery dinner rolls.
The current Corndance (was there last night, yummy) used to be the Lone Star Steakhouse.
Only times I've been to a Ryan's was when my son was in elementary school, and he would win certificates for a free meal there each grading period. I don't remember if it was for grades, perfect attendance, good behavior or what. But he would be really excited about winning that so we'd take him. It was disgusting. Of course, we'd have to eat too and let on like we were as excited as he was. The food was tasteless, the place was filthy and full of slobs.
Brings to mind another buffet we had in Marion in the 80s. Don't remember the name now, but I think it was a chain. Instead of traditional buffet lines, it had this big rotating turntable thing, with half in the kitchen and half in the dining room. you saddled up to the thing and filled your plate as the wheel turned. I remember fat-asses lining up at the first spot as the food selections entered the dining side, and loading their plates up with chicken and other meat before it got to the other customers who would get pissed and they'd fight over that chicken and ham like hogs at a trough. Sunday after-church crowd was the worse too. My girlfriend worked there and hated working Sundays but she'd let me in free so I did eat there some. But it was a disgusting place
Brings to mind another buffet we had in Marion in the 80s. Don't remember the name now, but I think it was a chain. Instead of traditional buffet lines, it had this big rotating turntable thing, with half in the kitchen and half in the dining room. you saddled up to the thing and filled your plate as the wheel turned. I remember fat-asses lining up at the first spot as the food selections entered the dining side, and loading their plates up with chicken and other meat before it got to the other customers who would get pissed and they'd fight over that chicken and ham like hogs at a trough. Sunday after-church crowd was the worse too. My girlfriend worked there and hated working Sundays but she'd let me in free so I did eat there some. But it was a disgusting place
MCL is a cafeteria. Not a buffet.
Still around, though. I know the guy who owns it...third generation of family ownership. He's moving it more towards the bakery and catering operations now..as the cafeteria crowd is rapidly dying off.
They do have pretty good food, though.
http://www.mclhomemade.com/locations.cfm
VanPastorMan
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My Dad is in a nursing home now, and when we visit him in Washington he usually wants to eat at Ponderosa. He likes the salad bar and the meatloaf. When I was a kid we would hit Grays just about every time we visited my uncle who lived in Speedway.
VanPastorMan
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You ever been to Knepps? It's on 50, not too far from where the old drive in used to be. Knepps is a little cheaper than the Gasthof,and it's very good.
