In a message dated 3/16/07 2:38:22 AM, markrprice@earthlink.net writes:

i need barberton chicken bad

Maybe you do Mark, and maybe you don't. One pretty summer day, Dolli and I hi-jacked our new neighbor, Chris Butler. We went up to Rosatti's for the best soft ice cream anywhere, ever. I mean 'Higbee's Chocolate Malt!!!' Y'know?

Fueled by this grand infusion of sugar and high concentration of butter fat, we hit some yard sales in West Akron. Building up a whole new kind of appetite, we then headed off to Belgrade (or was it Hopokan?) Gardens. I honestly have to say that just as some people eat mashed potatoes for the gravy, some of us chosen peeps eat (or suffer) gefilte fish for the horseradish, Barberton Chicken seems to exist solely as a disguise for the ingestion of vast amounts of lard... and salt, if you want it to taste like anything whatsoever. Not unlike eating three bags of Thacker Burgers, or chewing up and swallowing all the red peppers in a Sechuan dish, it's less a meal than a gastric challenge. One invariably finds oneself driving on the highway, somewhere between 8 and 27 minutes later, when suddenly, you HAVE TO CRAP NOW! And if you hold it in long enough to consider whether you want to take the next exit hoping to find a toilet in time, it all stops, congeals like instant post hole cement, and you don't have a bowell movement for 3 or 4 days. So now, that being said... yeah, next time you're in town, let's do it.

How bout Michael B, Harvey & I open Lou & Hy's II..

Upon getting together wth my dear, dear wife, we considered "Harvey and Dolli's" or "Dolli and Harvey's" to be such the combo, that if we didn't open a Deli with that name, no further Deli's should be opened anywhere, ever. Apologies to everyone, everywhere. You KNOW with a name like that, the corned beef would have:

'... just the right amount of fat.'
-Gert

On the other hand, could be a whole new Jetson's style quasi Kosher carhop jernt with Mark generated ideas like:

offering free epitaphs and non-magnetic soda flange steak with grind piled fingers and humorless food refunds if you can still walk And the first (in America) cuisinery to offer free Customer Stacking Services in the waiting area (still waiting to hear from the Guiness people as to whether we'll get the first in Galaxy rating - there's rumor of a little place on Io - but they're quibbling over the definition of "stacking" - just cause they can stack sideways cause of the low gravity doesn't impress me.

OK, we're good to go, I think. The visual image of M . Baker and Pastrami is a good one.