Fuel City - Mesquite

FUEL CITY IS CURRENTLY BEING GUARDED BY THE GOOD WITCH OF THE WEST.

SHE IS FACING EAST.

      YOU KNOW IT IS A GOOD PLACE WHEN THEIR LONGHORN HERD IS OUT FRONT IN THE YARD.
                      

BEEF FAJITA TACOS!!!!!!!!!!!

APRICOT FRIED PIE.

So one of the ministers in my church has been talking about going to Fuel City with me, but has never moved off dead center. So finally, I decided it was time to load up on some Fuel City Tacos. You know Tacos has basically taken over redneck food for the soul. So I gathered up the wifey and we did the Watusi over to Fuel City. It is hard to believe that one of the best tacos in Texas is sold in a truck stop, but her we are.

It is kind of different here, you buy the tacos at the taco bar and it is cash only. You buy your drink and fried pie from the truck stop. Also at the taco bar there is also corn and the corn sells rapidly. What is strange is the corn is one line and checkout and the tacos is a separate line, 5 feet from each other and the food is made by the same people in the same place, so go figure.

So I ordered beef fajita tacos, some on corn and some on flour. I have gotten into putting the lime on the beef. The salsa doesn't add much, but go wild if you want to. Man this is a good taco, the beef fajita meat has a good flavor and it is loaded with onions and cilantro. And you know Mitcho luves onion.

The fried pie lady made us fresh pies, so we had to wait 3 or 4 minutes for them to cool down. This fried pie is large and has a great crust. Of course the apricot filling is to die for. So basically I could eat one of these every meal from now. Shhhhh don't tell my doctor.

The only problem here is there are only 8 seats at a window bar inside and the rest of the seating is outside. So mid-summer and winter are not a good time to eat here. Of course you can take the fixins home and eat there and the fried pie will still be warm when you get there.

So before it gets too cold, grab your buddies, wifey, kiddos and other passers by and get yourself over to Fuel City for some Texas best tacos and don't forget the fried pie.

Givem a 8.27954

Mitcho
©2016

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SoCal Tacos - Food Truck

Mitcho goes to church at a happening cool church for millennials and 30 and 40 year olds. Shhh don't tell them they have been infiltrated by a card carrying redneck. You gotta like a church that pays for a food truck to feed the crowd after church. To make it even better there were a couple of bounce houses that kept the kiddos occupied and made lunch quieter. I am pretty certain that the bounce houses can also be infiltrated by us larger children.

So I lined up at the food truck. The options today were pork, chicken, black bean and fish. So when Mitcho arrived at the front of the line, there were only two tacos left in that batch and they both were chicken. So being the smart hungry guy I am, I went for the two chicken tacos. These guys were basically chicken, corn tortilla, and lettuce. Not much to them. They were pretty good, but if I am eating off a food truck, I am expecting some explosion in my mouth from a vast array of flavors. Not this time. Basically tortilla and chicken.

Through conversation I was told that the fish tacos were amazing. Now Mitcho had never had a fish taco. Just the thought of fish on a taco doesn't seem right some how. But the other guys at my table insisted that I taste the fish taco. So the taco lady came by with a batch of fish tacos. I broke down and tried one. The fish was a fried fish and tasted pretty good, corn tortilla and pink cabbage. It was ok, but Mitcho feels like it needed to be loaded with some spicey good stuff.

They also provided chips and salsa. The chips had a spice on them that made them more spicey than any of the tacos. The chips were a good.

Overall, the food truck experience is interesting, but the food needs some work. Of course it was free, so bring the food truck back next week.

Givem 7.128

Mitcho
©2016

McDonalds - Mesquite (Because my grandson said so)

What a way to start the week. I had an 8am dentist appointment this morning. You know growing up redneck, we didn't brush our teeth. Now many years later I am paying a heavy price in pain and dollars for it.

So since I had not eaten breakfast, I figured I would grab something on the way home. I remembered that Double Digits (oldest grand) highly advises Sausage McGriddles at McDonalds. Now DD is influenced by many different sources (TV, dad, and even sometimes Poppy), so his food choices are not always the same as mine. But travelling with him this summer I had watched him eat several and they did look tasty.

I did the Skank to McDonalds. I decided to order a Sausage McGriddle for breakfast. This is essentially a sausage patty in between two pancakes soaked in syrup. So pretty good fixins. I enjoyed it and recommend you try one also. Now you won't find any other suggestions for McDonalds on this blog, other than their Apple pies. But this is the real deal. So grab you one and see.

Giv'em a 7.5 (it would be higher  but it is McDonalds)

Mitcho
©2016

Lumberyard Cafe - Edgewood

So the wifey took the family chariot to be inspected. So it failed because the Mitcho had used one of them highfaluting gizmos to mess with it's computer and the mechanic said it had to be driven farther to reset the computer gizmo. So she comes home and says we have to go a ways for lunch. No problem.

So I started thinking about where we could drive 100 miles round trip to. I remembered that some of our campin buds go to the Lumberyard Café in Edgewood occasionally. Now these folks know good food. If they go twice or more, it is pretty good. So we decided to do the computer reset boogy to Edgewood.

So down I 20 we go to Edgewood. Edgewood is a small town, the kind you would find full of my redneck brothers.

So we drove up to the café and it was pretty cute. When we went inside it has been fixed up country nice. So several good marks up front.

When you are in East Texas, you test a café by how good it's chicken fried steak is. The rest of their food doesn't matter. So you guessed it, we ordered the full size cfs. Of course as you know, we are splitting it. But in Texas two can split a cfs and both get really full. I also ordered pinto beans.

The chicken fried steak was pretty good. It's breading was near perfect, a real plus. The steak was better than most, so this is a good. The pinto beans had a good amount of ham in it and they tasted better than most. You know Mitcho likes his beans. The roll was pretty good also.

So overall, this was a good choice. So get your best gal and tell her it's date night and get yourselves down to Edgewood to the Lumberyard Café. You won't regret it.

Givem a 7.993

Mitcho
©2016

Burger Street - Mesquite

We were in a hurry for lunch today because the wifey had some bidness to tend to. So she decided we were running to Taco Bueno for lunch. No this is not a review of Taco Bueno, even though maybe it should be. We went into the door, it smelled like a cesspool. Not real appetizing even for a redneck. Next she decided we would go across the road to Long John Silvers, but almost there she realized we were going to Doe Belly's tonight (fish). For some reason she has this idea that you can't eat fish for lunch and fish for dinner. So running out of time, we did the shuffle over to Burger Street. This place has been here forever, but this was our first visit.

At first glance on the menu, it is a little pricey for a fast food burger joint. You know us rednecks are tight with our money, you never know when a good used refrigerator will go on sale. So I ordered the normal, burger combo (burger, fries and drink). First of all they put mustard and mayo on their burgers. Come on, make your mind up, are you a sissy (mayo) or a real man (mustard). Don't be trying to walk a thin line in between because that line does not exist, it is a grand canyon in the middle. The next problem is the drink machine is behind the counter so you have to go back to the counter to get a refill. I strongly prefer getting my own refill instead of waiting in line again. Of course there was no one else there, so the line was not a real problem today.

The burger was large (Whataburger size) which is good, but my burger had one circle of onion and one or two pickles, plenty of lettuce. Come on, Mitcho likes onion. Whataburger loads their burger with lots of onion. The meat had a good taste and was plenty big. There was so little mustard on it that I had to look to be sure there was mustard on it. So basically there was not much to enhance the flavor of the burger. Mitcho likes enhancements. The curly fries were thin cut and crunchy, which Mitcho likes, but at their price they need to be seasoned fries also.

The one good item was the free ice cream.

This meal for me and the wifey cost $13.39, Whataburger for the same meal would be $8.50. I refer to Whataburger because they are the king of the fast food burger (sorry Burger Thing). Needless say, there will be no need to come back here.

Givem a 6.000001

Mitcho
©2016

The Wing Stop -Mesquite

It was dinner time again tonight, that seems to keep happening. The wifey suggested we go to Wing Stop. Now Yardbird is a redneck staple. When we would go to my grandparents, grandmother would go out and catch a chicken in the yard. Then she would go all Terminator on it. The next thing we knew we were having fried chicken for lunch. Pretty good fixins. So you know Mitcho will do the Wing Stop. So we did the Funky Chicken on over to Wing Stop.

So it was time to order and I just couldn't pass up the Louisiana Rub. You know our cousins over in the swamps of Louisiana are rednecks just like us, they just have more water to cause havic with. The Louisiana rub is a very spicy coating that is hot, but not real hot. Luv me some spicy. This is some good fixins rat here. We also got a serving of French fries. The fries here are seasoned (not like Burger Pop, they really are seasoned) and have a very nice taste to them. If the fries were a little more crunchy they would be near perfect. Overall, this was a very good meal and I didn't have to chase a chicken to get it.

Givem a 7.982

Mitcho
©2016

Burger Pop-Mesquite

This morning I worked like a rented mule in the yard. That's right I worked 10 minutes rested 20 minutes, etc and called it a hard morning. So at lunch time, I needed to be fed to get my strength back for a hard fought afternoon in the yard. So the wifey suggested we go to a new burger joint that just opened up in Mesquite. A very good friend told us she had heard of it and about where it was. So we did the Bunny Hop over to South Mesquite, next to the Tom Thumb to the Burger Pop.

This place is very small and no sign up where the other businesses signs are, so you can miss it pretty easy. So look at door signs, not the signs up above.

So we walk in the first thing I notice is all burgers are 1/2 pound. I knew right away I was going to be sharing, but you know there is always hope. I had zeroed in on a burger with jalapenos and two kinds of cheese. Looked interesting. Then of course here it comes, "do you want to share a burger". Ok, so just stop reading the menu. So SHE ordered a hamburger and seasoned fries.

Now this will only be 1/2 of a review, since I only ate 1/2 of the meal. So the burger comes and it is pretty big. The wifey cuts it into half and it no longer is very big at all. The meat was decent, but no special sauces, flavored meat, etc. Just a burger. My half had one pickle and very little onion. Now you know Mitcho likes a lot of onion. So basically just a plain ole burger. The seasoned fries had some pepper on them. Give me a break. Seasoned means some chili powder, meat seasoning, something, not just pepper. Also, the fries were thick cut. Mitcho likes thin cut so that each fry is crunchy. No crunch here.

Burger Pop is an attempt to be an upscale burger joint. You can tell by the prices. The only other thing they have going is the size of the burger. But upscale also means upscale taste. No attempt at that here.

If you are marooned (no pun on Mesquite High School Skeeters which are maroon) in South Mesquite and you have a hunger to solve, then Burger Pop is better than nothing. I am not aware of a Whataburger down here and the intersection before here has a McDonald's and a Sonic, so Burger Pop might be the best option.

Mitcho
©2016

Jeff Foxwothry's definition of a redneck "a glorious absence of sophistication".