Aging Hippie Onion Ring Adventure

D'Oh! I can't spell "Legends." Ha! I walked some 3 miles to get to Donut Man on Route 66 to get some special doughnuts and decided I would hit Clubhouse 66 just a little bit further down Route 66 for a margarita and some onion rings.

The Clubhouse 66 onion rings were yikes! I suppose that some people like their onion rings like that, thin sliced and seasoned rather than thick sliced and battered, it's all a matter of tastes. I paid for them but abandoned them uneaten.

Walking across the street and a bit West on Route 66 I went to Legends Classic Diner where the onion rings are solid and done right.

In fact the french fries at Clubhouse 66 are also sub-standard, they're on the order of "shoestring" french fries whereas Legends is a solid french fry. There was one year when Legends tried a different potato supplier and their french fries became utterly inedible yet people bitched and complained and sales dropped off so Legends returned to their standard supplier.

I guess it's all a matter of what you like and don't like. :)

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• onion
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[TheCurmudgen]

That first place was nasty. I hope you didn't have to pay for that shit.

[NotSoOldHippy]

@TheCurmudgen I paid for it since I ordered it, seems the right thing do to. Some people prefer thin sliced and seasoned onions.

[anmoose]

Those slimy nasty looking things were 8 bucks?? Godfrey Daniel!! They seriously do NOT look edible.

[NotSoOldHippy]

@anmoose Yeah, 8 bucks according to the slim menu I got, what looked like their after-hours menu. I thought that would be okay since I expected serious onion rings. :)

[keithrockerboblewis]

"I'm not gonna eat this!"  Classic

[NotSoOldHippy]

@keithrockerboblewis LOL! I watch everything I shove in to my orifices, I need to make sure that there is no animals in it. That makes me picky but yeah, the first onion rings just weren't what I'd expected. The first rings are basically what might be served as tempura soba, placed on top of noodles in a soup.

[ozmoroid]

I'm an onion ring slut. I woulda hit either order.

[cosmicskydaddy1]

My dog would turn his nose up at that first pile of garbage, and then I would eat it :P

[IDreamofWW]

WTF? Now where the heck am I going to get onion rings in WW??? You damned food pornographer.

[Desertphile]

@mobiltec ; yeah, eight fucking bucks for burned onion rings? I would have set the place on fire before leaving.

[Desertphile]

Eight dollars for a plate of over-cooked onion rings? Good grief. I wouldn't feed that to a starving dog, because I'm too kind.

[NotSoOldHippy]

@ozmoroid LOL! "I would have done both of them." LOL.

[NotSoOldHippy]

@SezSays I should have shown what the onions look like from Legends, they are cut and separated right there at the restaurant and battered right there, they are not pulped onion mixed with anything, they are thick sliced onions.

[NotSoOldHippy]

@micheal49 I should have shown what the onions look like from Legends, they are cut and separated right there at the restaurant and battered right there, they are not pulped onion mixed with anything, they are thick sliced onions.