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re: Great Italian food in NWA, plus the annual Grape Festival in Tontitown.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:10 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:10 am to Harry Rex Vonner
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We can buy marinara from certain friends here anytime, but they won't give out the recipe.
Not a shocker
FWIW
Gravy for East Coast Sicilians = what you call marinra
Gravy for Southern Scots - Irish = white / brown / red and can include pork
KY real country ham (the kind that goes with beaten biscuits and ages in your basement for a few years) is pretty much Prosciutto ham in Italy. Southern bologna is just thick sliced Mortadella without the fat bits and the nuts.
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Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:10 am to Cheese Grits
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Lexington had several "family" places in town if you knew where to look.
Joe Bologna’s
Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:12 am to ManBearSharkReb
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Joe Bologna’s
Not a "family" place
Joe B's is not bad, but you missed what I meant I guess.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:30 am to Cheese Grits
love it
my limited experience...
different category I know, but this place, Annabella's Pizzeria in Morristown NJ will always be remembered.
garlic knots the size of your fist
an out of the way spot I was lucky to experience with friends years ago, a place out of Moundsville (Wheeling), West Virginia, because it was Pittsburgh Italians less than an hour from Pittsburgh
In New Orleans, I've also basically been told "So here's your takeout, now GTFO" at a place in Metairie with Rocky Marciano pics on the wall.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:36 am to Harry Rex Vonner
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In New Orleans
Most folks have no clue the Mafia started in LA, not NY.
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Moundsville (Wheeling), West Virginia
Lots of places like that in the US, depends on where folks settled off the boat at Ellis Island (or earlier for the old Italians)
I love being Italian because I love to eat. 6 to 8 hours of "grazing" with extended family and friends. No wonder the Sicilians have some of the highest life expectancies in the world!
Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:41 am to Cheese Grits
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In New Orleans
Most folks have no clue the Mafia started in LA, not NY.
the Marcello's had I guess 3 restaurant hangouts in the area, two in Metairie (one was the one I got takeout at) and another in Fat City I realized later I lived very close to while there. The third on the West Bank in Avondale
I loved living there. Ate my first Muffaletta about 60 feet across the street from my apartment
Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:54 am to Cheese Grits
The Tyson's in Springdale/Tontitown are obvious Scots-Irish-Etc., but I guarantee you they are huge old friends with tons of Tontitown Italians whose got families there more than a century
That general crew will get Coach Cal in for some food in some exclusive neighborhoods
as an aside, many NWA true Republicans tried to get RINO dumb shite Steve Wommack unseated in the recent primary, voting for a state senator named Penzo who I'm sure is from a long time Tontitown family
we lost 30K to 35K so we'll be sending the RINO back to congress
That general crew will get Coach Cal in for some food in some exclusive neighborhoods
as an aside, many NWA true Republicans tried to get RINO dumb shite Steve Wommack unseated in the recent primary, voting for a state senator named Penzo who I'm sure is from a long time Tontitown family
we lost 30K to 35K so we'll be sending the RINO back to congress
Posted on 4/12/24 at 12:54 pm to AUTiger789
If you like Catfish then I would recommend Catfish John's on Hudson road in Rogers.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 1:45 pm to Cheese Grits
I got nothing against Italians, but a bunch of them opened an Italian joint in my mid-size town in Texas several years ago and my first visit there was kind of disgusting. Not because of the Italian guys running the restaurant, but due to the old horny white women that showed up in droves to drool over those dudes.
You'd see a table of 7 get seated and they'd immediately grab the waiters by the arm and start flirting with them. I swear they were probably grinding on the table legs under the tablecloth.
"Oh honey, ain't chew just the purdiest thing on Earth!"
"Now don't leave us, darlin. Cain't you just stay here and eat with us? Here, sit down next to me!" I got a little sumpthin for ya."
(((the whole table of horny granny's starts laughing))
You'd see a table of 7 get seated and they'd immediately grab the waiters by the arm and start flirting with them. I swear they were probably grinding on the table legs under the tablecloth.
"Oh honey, ain't chew just the purdiest thing on Earth!"
"Now don't leave us, darlin. Cain't you just stay here and eat with us? Here, sit down next to me!" I got a little sumpthin for ya."
(((the whole table of horny granny's starts laughing))
Posted on 4/14/24 at 6:50 pm to Sooner1984
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Not because of the Italian guys running the restaurant, but due to the old horny white women that showed up in droves to drool over those dudes.
Not just old women, my old man was Sicilian and women of all ages said he was the total hottie. Sadly I got my looks from the other side of the family tree. At least I was the life of the party and they made me king for Mardi Gras back in the black and white movie days. This is me back in the late 1930's. I was a sexy bastard!
I was the beast who could make 3 backs, not just two!
Posted on 4/14/24 at 6:55 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Any decent rivers up that way? Cal looks like a white water rafting kind of guy.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 8:11 pm to Sid E Walker
Screw Italian food in Fayettenam. I'm going to Herman's and hang out with John Daly again! Amazing both times!
Posted on 4/14/24 at 8:30 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Check out Zelli in Springdale. Has tons of hard to find Italian ingredients for cooking, and makes fresh pasta onsite
Posted on 4/14/24 at 8:37 pm to Sid E Walker
Buffalo River.
White River
Illinois River.
Kings River.
War Eagle Creek.
Elk River.
White River
Illinois River.
Kings River.
War Eagle Creek.
Elk River.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 8:38 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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garlic knots the size of your fist
Better than a fisted balloon knot.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 8:56 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
WalMart <<<<< Olive Garden.
Take the guy to the AQ Chicken House and don't pretend you are something you are not.
You're Welcome.
Take the guy to the AQ Chicken House and don't pretend you are something you are not.
You're Welcome.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:34 pm to Wildcat1996
Harps has pretty good chicken.
Fazoli's was good until it closed.
Fazoli's was good until it closed.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:36 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Wal-Mart Battered Chicken WIngs?
10/10
10/10
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:39 pm to Cheese Grits
Bread and Water?
You aren't a Catholic, lol
28 days.
You aren't a Catholic, lol
28 days.
Posted on 4/14/24 at 9:43 pm to Cheese Grits
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