I know I talk about honey from a ladder alot. It is one of my favorite things in life. I don't know why, I am not a particularly big fan of honey, but I think something changes when it is dropped onto your table from the top of the ladder. The only problem with honey from a ladder is driving an hour for the singular purpose of watching someone drop honey onto your table.
Today was a great day. Alissa and I made a wonderful new discovery! Someone at the hospital mentioned a place that has honey from a ladder. And it was less than a mile from our house, so we drove all around looking for it and didn't find the place, but found a different place and were so hungry for BBQ, we were willing to go for it, whether we got sick from trying a new spot or not, (and it looked a bit shady)
so we go in and poke our head through the window, which ends up being the kitchen, not where the greeter (who was nowhere to be found) was hiding out. the cook guy yelled across the restaurant to find her, and when she got there it was going to be a 30 minute wait, but we could eat in the "lounge." (for purposes of this description, "lounge" could be defined as "seedy bar with an excessive number of dart boards, the entire class of Mount Tahoma High School from 1982--not joking, they literally kept showing up and realizing they went to school together in a very loud, drunk fashion, and a pool table positioned just so that every time the giant man playing pool aimed he would almost bump into alissa's chair and come inches from beaning her in the head with his cue, and his opponant was playing with a broken arm in a cast and kept jumping balls off the table, and i was sure one would land in our food.)
So, we eat in the "lounge" and the waitress (who was obviously new, confused, slow, and very sweet) eventually brought us menus, and low and behold MILE HIGH HONEY for the cornbread! so i go out because, being the brilliant person I am, I doubt they will bring the ladder into the bar and drop the honey onto the table, so I was going to see if we could get a table after all, because what is BBQ without honey from a ladder? But the nice waitress said she couldn't do it for us (she hasn't hit the bowl YET--I think that is why she is in the "lounge") but for us, she would find someone to do it, so before we even ordered, we had a bowl full of honey dropped onto our table in the middle of the bar.
We have an excellent meal of BBQ (Alissa has rib tips, I have chicken. I ate a 1/4 of a chicken. I am full. I have another 1/4 of a chicken in the fridge. It was EXCELLENT food. Except for the mashed potatoes. They sucked. But then really, who cares, you order a baked potato next time. The only reason I didn't get one tonight is that i didn't want a baked potato that was as big as my head. By the time we had eaten, the waitress forgot her rag on our table as she went to wipe down another table, we didn't care, we had dirty hands and commandeered the rag (looked clean) washed our sticky hands, and waited for the poor girl to figure out the system to ring our orders, one of the cooks was now playing pool, they asked if we enjoyed our food. we said yes, but we liked the honey more. The cook said, come back any time, I will always find someone to bring the ladder to where ever you are :) we like their willingness to do the ladder. I guess they will also let you sign the ladder if you let them drop it into a bowl on your head :) they told us all about how they USED to be the place we were originally looking for but there was some sort of difficulty with the IRS... So the guy went under but someone else bought it, changed the name, and rescued the four cooks from fast food hell(who have been there together since the 70s) and re-opened it less than two months ago. so, no wonder the wait staff was slow and the food came super fast, the cooks could do this in their sleep and there is not an experienced waitress in the place.
So, all in all, it was a wonderful find, everyone needs to experience our new favorite place. it has character! and good food! Alissa and I even decided our new workout plan for the summer is going to be walk to BBQ, buy a piece of cornbread for $1.75, watch them drop the honey, and walk home (to replace last summer's walk to starbucks plan--walk a mile, drink starbucks while you walk home) I think both plans may (if we are lucky) come out neutral on the whole calorie-burning thing. We should maybe consider working out without involving food or coffee. but that is no fun...
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