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Friday, September 24, 2010

Tar Babies Love Pancakes

Here’s a question for you. Why do pancake and waffle restaurants always have the word ‘House’ in the title? In Myrtle Beach, we ran into —

The International House of Pancakes
The Waffle House
The Huddle House
Plantation Pancake House
Hot Stacks Pancake House
Dino’s House of Pancakes

The only place we found that wasn’t a House was wrong for a whole lot of different reasons … Tar Baby’s. Look at the photo on the right. I don’t know what was more wrong — that image or the fact that we saw the image, read the name and ate there anyway.

Of course, we walked in and, besides the Tar Baby, Ashton and I were the only dark faces in the place (and it was packed).

Ashton did ask the waitress about the Tar Baby thing and she told us it was from an old Uncle Remus tale (read about it here). When she came back with our drinks, she had a copy of the Tar Baby story … which told me they must get that question a lot if they have printed copies of the story available. The waitress must have felt a little embarassed or ashamed or something because she gave us a run at the buffet for free.

Okay, so it's an Uncle Remus story - but you can't tell me they didn't get a kick out of putting that image up there looking like Al Jolson's baby in black face. In the spirit of Tar Baby's, here are a few other potential restaurant names I came up with.

Pick-a-Ninny's Chicken and Waffles
Sambo's Chitlin Chalet
Nigga Charlie's Neckbones and Ribs
Coloreds and Kool-Aid
Jigaboo Jones Jambalaya Jam
Coons and Collards
Big Mamma n' Em's (cuz you know it's always good eatin' at Big Mamma's)

Labels: Random Shit

posted by SDC @ 1:56 PM

2 Comments:

At December 8, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Mike Lowrey said…

Can I borrow a few terms for my blog?

Like Jigaboo Jones Jambalaya Jam
and Coons and Collards?

I must use those in a future post, lol.
At December 12, 2010 at 5:01 PM, SDC said…

Sure. Is it wrong that I got really hungry for soul food when I was coming up with those titles? LOL!