Later, having worked up an appetite, we stopped at Fat Andy's burger joint, where the, er, elite meet to eat:
As you can see, they maintain a rigorous schedule:
Bit of a shack, but good burgers and delicious homemade fries.
Somebody, I think one of the employees, parked this cream-puff Chevy Impala out front. Sweet!
That was a great drive, Paco. I prefer little mom/pop eateries. You know it's bound to be good when the sign says,"...unless sold out". The Impala sure is sweet. Was somebody a Duke's of Hazzard fan, or is orange a thing down There?
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite place names is Witch Duck Road near Virginia Beach. Supposedly it was named because they used to toss accused witches in the creek there.
ReplyDeleteOf course I disregard WA place names. Many of them are in an entirely different category altogether.
Steve Skubinna What about the duck? A witch's familiar, perhaps? Never heard of a duck as a familiar, but who knows.
ReplyDeleteIn the lovely Texas Hill Country, there is Goat Creek Cutoff near Kerrville.
Etymology of 'duck' is apparently 'to dive' (replacing Old English 'ened')and the bird was named after its action. Then Urban Dict says witches were weighed with a duck to see if they both weigh the same, or something. Both supposed to float. So if she drowned we know she's not a witch. Trial by ordeal.
ReplyDeleteThat river view with the trees right up to the edge screams 'the American South' to me. I don't know what those trees are tho. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThen Urban Dict says witches were weighed with a duck to see if they both weigh the same, or something.
ReplyDeleteThat's from a higher authority than the Urban Dictionary. That's from Monty Python.
She's a witch!
Deborah, are you asking "Why a duck?"
ReplyDeleteI believe the word was used as a verb. Incidentally, my father once told me that there was a pond at Whitman College they called (unofficially) Lake-um Duck-'em. They would grab unwary students and toss them in. Today just the name would be a hate crime.
Bruce, they also "pressed" alleged witches. Could this have led to the culinary offering, pressed duck.
ReplyDeleteSteve, hahaha.
A favorite method of witch-hunting was to tie the suspect to a chair and lower said suspect into water as many times as it took for them to confess being witches. This was known as "ducking".
ReplyDeleteRegarding the beautiful photo of Lockwood Folly River:
ReplyDeleteIf I zoom IE Explorer to 400% zoom, I can see at least two Bigfoot hiding in the foliage and four alligators lurking along the riverbank.
Mike: Those photos of Bigfoot are worth a fortune. I need to send an expedition down there to round up the critters before the alligators get to them.
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