{AMISH COMMUNITY NEWS} Vol. 5 No. 6
May 8, 2013
Happy Mother’s Day!
Dining Out at Grandmother’s
Memories of Dining Out
By Barbara Ann Detweiler
By William Bender
When I was growing up, my favorite place to go for a meal was to my grandparents’. Grandmother was such a good cook and she did a lot of it. She had 10 boys and only 2 girls, so you can imagine the big meals she made. There was always some kind of meat and potatoes and everything that goes with it. And the best part was the pies. She had a whole counter full and you could choose which kind you wanted. Yummy! I just long for those days at times and I cherish the memories.
I don’t have many memories of eating out when I was growing up because we never did. If I went with Mother to Middlefield, I was lucky to get a 5¢ ice cream cone to eat on the way home. In my Sunny Acres days, I ate a lot of Manner’s Big Boys. If we went down to eat and they had some things that didn’t appeal to us … it was Manners here we come! Now, today, there are no more Manner’s Big Boys. And on my trips to Holmes County, I used to stop at a Red Barn. You don’t find any of them any more either. But going to Grandfathers for dinner, we always got a good cooked meal. Grandmother made the best chicken and dressing you ever ate.
Dining Advice:
After dinner, rest a while; after supper, walk a mile!!
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