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Announcer: This is the Huntington Tri State time machine brought to you by Realty Exchange, the top performing real estate company in the Huntington, West Virginia tri state area. Each week, your host, W G. Bunch, and his guests share memories and stories about the past, the present, and the future of the Huntington Tri State area.
Vanessa: Sets.
Announcer: Huntington, West Virginia. Ashland, Kentucky and in the Chesapeake and Proctorville, Ohio areas. If you used to live here or you currently live here, you're going to catch yourself saying out loud, wow, I remember that. Now, here's WG.
W.G.: Hey, what's going on? Hey, nice to see you. Here we are. There you are. It's the Huntington tri state time machine. I am your host. WG bunch. So nice to kind of see you again. And it took a lot of time, took a lot of money. Brought her back. Yes. Vanessa Hankins is back again. She's back for the attack. How are.
Vanessa: Like? It's beautiful out, and she has her.
W.G.: Safety town stop sign earrings in.
Vanessa: I came straight from work.
W.G.: Oh, my gosh. That looks like something Mr. T would have worn.
Vanessa: Only one of her, miss Frizzle. Thank you.
W.G.: Very sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker D: Yes.
W.G.: All right. Hey, thanks for being here. Uh, we're going to get right into it. We're diving into here's what our topic is today.
What do you think the difference is between a cafeteria and a buffet
W.G.: Cafeterias. Cafeterias are unique, to say the least. What do you think the difference what's your difference between a cafeteria and a buffet?
Vanessa: In my head of my, um, experiences with cafeteria, if we exclude school cafeteria, let's think about, like, the restaurant cafeteria.
W.G.: Okay.
Vanessa: Um, conveyor belts come to mind. The food is just placed out already. Precut pre portioned.
W.G.: Are you sure you didn't eat at the airport?
Vanessa: You never went to one of those kind of places? Where was it set out on the plates and you grabbed it off the belt as it passed you no. For what you were going to eat?
W.G.: I don't think so. Maybe. No. Is that what you think of?
Vanessa: And I've looked and looked. So somebody, um, chime in on Facebook and let me know. The only place I ever went to that was cafeteria style as a child was this place in Gallopolis. And it was kind of like, um, golden Corral situation. Now, Golden Corral's got their little stations. Okay, so you still had the stations, but it was one long belt of food that was under warmers, like, light warmers.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Vanessa: And the food would circle around so as you would take a plate off whoever, if it came from the dessert section, they replaced that. That way you could literally walk up anywhere in the line and grab what you wanted. So you didn't.
W.G.: Maybe I went to a place like that. Maybe I did, and I just maybe forgot about it. Maybe I blocked it out.
Vanessa: That's the only cafeteria type place that I went. And I have searched all of the Googles. I asked my dad he doesn't remember. Love the food, but can't remember the name of it.
W.G.: My thing with the difference between buffet, uh, with buffet and cafeteria is buffet, um, is here is your plate, here is your flat, or your flatware is already on the table. Whatever. Go get whatever you want, as much as you want. You don't like something, don't eat it. We'll give you a different plate, as opposed to a cafeteria, where it's like, we will be commanding what you are eating. We will be the one.
Vanessa: I see that.
In my day, elementary school was, this is what you're having
W.G.: Let me start with this. Let's start with, uh, and we're going to get into Bailey's and Morrison's and King's table and all this. But first, let's start where it all starts, school. And the way it started with school is in elementary school. And I know, ah, we've got a two decade difference in our ages and stuff. In my day, elementary school was, this is what you're having, and this is it.
Vanessa: Get what you get. Don't throw a fit.
W.G.: I like that.
Vanessa: Yeah, that's every day with children.
W.G.: That's exactly so it was like, here's what we're having. And they give you, like, a little heads up, here's what we're having for the week. Uh, maybe for the month. I don't know. I can't remember that part. But it was something where if it was like, oh, no, m if it was something you didn't want, then, okay, yeah, I'm going to take a sandwich or something. But the point being, you didn't really get to pick and choose. It was, here is your food. Then in middle school, junior high school, do you want the chili dog or the hamburger? And you're like option.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: And then it was like, oh, gosh. Can I have a cheeseburger? No, no cheeseburger. No cheebaga. Too big a too big a too bigger. No, it was chili dog or a hamburger. No cheese.
Vanessa: No cheese.
W.G.: And you're like, uh, I'm out. I guess I'll go with the hamburger. I guess. Can I get ketchup, mustard, condiments over there? Okay. Sorry. Thank you. Then when you get to high school.
Vanessa: They add the cheese.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: And the door opens a little bit more, and they're like, we've got chili dogs, we got ham bogos, we got pizza. Which one do you want? Choices.
Speaker D: Choice.
W.G.: Then when I got to college and living in a dorm, it was like a room and board. Oh. Then it was like eating in the palace. It was like, we have 75 different options.
Vanessa: Control of all of these choices.
W.G.: I know. They were like, yeah, that's fantastic. Cooks going, uh, what kind of pasta can I make you? I like the, uh, linguini Alfredo. All right, whatever. Sit down, punk. I've come a long way since just.
Vanessa: Uh since burgers and hot dogs.
W.G.: Yeah, exactly. Look at that.
Vanessa: That's hilarious.
How often did you eat cafeteria food when you were in grade school
W.G.: And the school situation. All right, now be honest. How often did you eat cafeteria food when you were, like, in grade every.
Vanessa: Day of my life.
Speaker D: Okay.
W.G.: And did you have a favorite and a non favorite? Was there something you got you pumped up and something that you were like yeah, absolutely.
Vanessa: Pizza, uh, day was fantastic. I, uh, will still go to Save A Lot and buy school pizzas.
W.G.: Square pizza.
Vanessa: Square pizza. Yeah, it's the best. Um, and then the worst was anything that had some kind of, like, cranberries or cranberries. And they always gave us every single day. And it's a requirement by the state now. As an adult, I realized that I didn't know it back then, but the mixed fruit, those were awful.
W.G.: That heavy syrup.
Vanessa: And then if you weren't, like, super careful with your tray, then it mixed with your other stuff, and then you couldn't eat it because now it's bad. It's got the fruit juices on.
W.G.: Yeah, that's a good point.
Vanessa: Any day we got the fruit was a bad day.
W.G.: Yeah, that's a good point. Uh, I don't know, really, what my favorite? I can't believe we're calling in them entrees, but whatever. I mean, they were yeah, whatever the main dish was. I don't know if I had a favorite, my least favorite, uh, they would.
Vanessa: Have Thanksgiving was great.
W.G.: Fried bologna. And I was like, fried bologna? It was, like, weird. And I didn't know how to eat it. And it was a piece of baloney.
Vanessa: You had never had bologna prior to having that?
Speaker D: No.
W.G.: Yeah, but it was always cold on a sandwich.
Vanessa: See, like, fried bologna was like a staple in our house.
W.G.: Yeah, I had bologna plant, but it was like, first of all, they would cut, like, a little slit in it.
Speaker D: Yes.
Vanessa: What was that?
W.G.: I guess so it didn't bunch up.
Vanessa: That's what you want. You want the bologna.
W.G.: Pun intended.
Vanessa: You want the bologna boat. That's the whole point of fried bologna.
W.G.: I think they always tried to compensate it with mashed potatoes.
Vanessa: Heavy on the carbs.
W.G.: Yeah, it was always like, fried, uh, bologna with mashed potatoes. And I'm like, weird mix. I'll take a bullet I'll take the bullet of fried baloney if I can get to the mashed potatoes. And the mashed potatoes, of course, were.
Vanessa: Just like, there's no taste there's bland.
W.G.: Yes, it was great. Um, and I also remember the vegetables were always awful plastic.
Vanessa: They taste like plastic. They would have peas, like frozen vegetables. They were always the worst.
W.G.: If you tried to eat the green peas, they turned into soup immediately. They were so mushy. I was like, no, I'm not in.
Vanessa: They were like, in those steam trays all day long.
the time we got in to eat at:Vanessa: Right.
W.G.: This is what you eat.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: This is what you drink. It's milk. Some reason, I don't know how it happened, by the end of, uh, elementary school, do you want milk or do you want chocolate milk? And it was like, why the hell would I ever choose milk, right, if chocolate milk is on the menu? Yeah, I think they must have ordered 20 times more chocolate milk than regular milk.
Vanessa: Well, and the thing is and I noticed this at work, because the schools pack the Cavill County has a lunch program where they pack every kid a lunch, whether they can afford it or not. Like, you are fed, which is fantastic. I think Wayne County has it, too. But, um, some schools, if they're smaller, they know their students a lot better, so they'll send, like, strawberry milk or they'll get Capri Suns. I guess now it's maybe up to the cooks of what they're ordering. So chocolate milk, white milk, sometimes apple juice, Capri Sun, and sometimes strawberry.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: Back in the days before we had color television, which is when I grew up. Yeah. By the time I got to junior high school, then it was a situation where it was, do you want milk? Uh, chocolate milk, or I think fruit punch got thrown into the mix, and it was like, well, why would I have milk or chocolate milk? If fruit punch fruit punch is an option, then you get to high school, and then, if I remember correctly, you.
Vanessa: Guys have soda machines.
W.G.: No, that was a big debate. Again, I'm an 80s boy. And that was a big thing, because they were like, should we put a Coke machine in the high school?
We all wanted all the vending machines as students
W.G.: And it was a big deal. It was like, oh, my gosh. It was like people asking, should we murder, uh, the three kids that have the lowest test scores? It was like people were like, well.
Vanessa: That'S how it was.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Vanessa: Like, mid two thousand s. It was like, obviously, vending machines are everywhere, but it was like coming into the era of the world's. Fattest city. Yada, yada, yada. All these things, um, that happened later on, but we all wanted it as students. We wanted all the vending machines. We wanted the food vending. We wanted the soda, we wanted the fruit juices, all the things, cigarette, anything, whatever. We want it all. We want it all. Um, but then when the healthy kick started and they banned them, so they were still there because we had the contracts, they had to be paid for, but then we weren't allowed to use them so the adults could use them. So they're in our cafeteria, but we're not allowed access to them.
W.G.: What?
Vanessa: Oh, it was terrible. It would suck.
W.G.: So they had vending machines not accessible to the kids, but they were at.
Vanessa: First, but they gave them to us and then took them away.
W.G.: Wow.
Vanessa: Terrible.
W.G.: Uncool terrible. I mean, so mean. Even as a grown ass man. Uncool. Yeah, I never heard of that. And then when I went to college, I remember they were like, this is a dumb thing. I'd go visit campuses, and they're like, oh, yes. And this is our, uh I guess I don't know if they call it cafeteria, our food court, whatever. Domino's and Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King, right? And I was like, Do I have to have milk?
Vanessa: And they were like, I'll take chocolate, please.
W.G.: They're like, I don't even think any of these places serve milk. We were like I was like.
Speaker D: Okay.
W.G.: All right. Um, that's cool.
I talked to my dad about his dining experience in grade school
W.G.: I've been talking to a few people about school cafeterias. One thing I thought was interesting I got to bring up is I talked to my dad about his dining experience in grade school.
Vanessa: Your dad always has the best input.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: Dad was born in:Speaker D: Right.
Vanessa: No vending machines. It was not even a side of lump of carbs, just the bread.
W.G.: I would think people in prison would go, uh, oh, for sure. And he was like, well, and then, of course, I had to get an ear full. Well, when you're used as what you're used to what? You are so spoiled, it's ridiculous.
Vanessa: And I was like, go both ways in snow to get there.
W.G.: I was like, bread and butter sandwiches. That's like the old blues, uh, brothers joke of have you ever had a wish sandwich?
Vanessa: No.
W.G.: You have two pieces of bread, and you wish there was something in between. A bow bow bow.
Vanessa: I've never heard that before.
W.G.: Yeah, that's an old never heard that one.
Debbie G was at Huntington High School when she started broadcasting
W.G.: All right. Uh, uh, before we move on from the high school and the school cafeteria things, uh, I was at Huntington High School, and Wanda Cummings was our film and television teacher.
Vanessa: Like audiovisual, that kind of thing.
W.G.: And I remember one, and I don't know if she's still with us or not, and I'm not going to say anything, but have you seen Lord of the Rings? She looks like a little Hobit. She was, like, 3ft tall.
Vanessa: She needs a booster seat.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Vanessa: And she would, like as an adult.
W.G.: She, like, walked like, uh, a, uh, cartoon character. But she was awesome. I love her. And I remember one day in high school, she went, debbie G, let me show you something. And I was like, okay. What? And she takes me through these, uh, the catacombs of Huntington High School.
Vanessa: You made me nervous. You go into these stories.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: This is like, on Eigth Street.
Vanessa: And she's like, oh, my building that's, like, still standing.
W.G.: Yeah.
Vanessa: By the y now.
W.G.: The Renaissance Center.
Vanessa: Yes.
s up. All of a sudden, that's:Vanessa: And so WG's life mission was born.
W.G.: Well, her thing she said, I know you're into this stuff.
Vanessa: That's awesome.
W.G.: And I know you have that show at the college radio station. I just want to let you know, this is just kind of sitting back here. We don't have any music or anything. Uh, they didn't even have a cassette player.
Vanessa: I love that she thought of you like that, because anybody else would have been like, let's get this out of here. Let's throw it away. That's awesome.
W.G.: And that's why I bring it up, is because she was like, I don't want this to go to waste because I used to teach, uh, students on it and just nobody has interest anymore. And she said, but the frequency only goes for less than one block. So if you picture where the Renaissance Center, the old Huntington ice. If you went to the YMCA, that's like, Caddy Corner.
Vanessa: Uh huh.
W.G.: You would not be able to pick up the signal.
Vanessa: So literally, right there in the nail salon, or like yeah.
W.G.: Yeah, exactly. You are exactly right. If you went over to that where.
Vanessa: I go get my nails done.
W.G.: That speedway over there probably out of, uh yeah.
Speaker D: Okay.
W.G.: Uh, so you'd have to be, quote unquote on campus or whatever.
Vanessa: So it was for basically a school.
W.G.: Yeah, it was for announcements. But they just stopped doing them. Well, I did the announcements at Huntington.
Vanessa: Well, they probably upgraded the equipment and had no use for the older.
Speaker D: Correct.
W.G.: And so she said, but it's just here. So my, uh, senior year I guess it was my senior year, um, I brought in my own cassette deck and hooked it into the system. And I would DJ it looked like this one over here. It looked very much like that one. Yes. And I would hook in and I would play cassettes during lunch.
Only place you could hear it would be in the hallways and in the cafeteria
W.G.: And mainly the only place you could hear it would be in the hallways and in the cafeteria.
Vanessa: Well, how cool, though, to be, like, just walking to the hallway with your friends at lunchtime, and you got cool music playing.
W.G.: And the problem was, uh, it was a single deck, uh, cassette player. So I'd have to play the whole and I would have to talk while I switched. Uh, first of all, the night before, I'd have to get on my cassettes, and I'm like, I got to queue it up exactly where it goes, right here.
Vanessa: So you were working for, like, hours every.
W.G.: Evening? Look, I had girlfriends every once in a while. It wasn't like I was that you.
Vanessa: Dropped off at the wrong house.
W.G.: Okay? Uh, and I would say hey. And here's Simple Minds. Don't you forget about me. This is from the Breakfast Club soundtrack.
Vanessa: While I'm putting I love.
Speaker D: It.
W.G.: And then I get mine next.
Speaker D: Yes.
Vanessa: That sounds fun.
W.G.: And the people in the cafeteria were the worst critics I had. Of course, there were a lot of people I didn't know, and they're like, are you the one that does that stupid show? Because I think what they did is they automatically piped it in. And I don't think the students had a choice of can you turn it off?
Speaker D: Right?
W.G.: And we had a diverse group of.
Vanessa: Students, and they were like your they.
W.G.: Were like, you're not playing enough of this. How come you don't play more of that? Too much of this.
Vanessa: We're tired of that.
W.G.: Everyone's a critic. Why do you have to talk all the time?
Vanessa: I was like, uh, it's his favorite.
W.G.: Obviously, I got to change the cassettes and whatnot. And then, uh, I can't remember exactly what was somebody went, why don't you just make a pre made cassette and go from that? And I went, because I'm dumb.
Vanessa: I hadn't thought of that.
W.G.: But now nice.
Vanessa: Thank you.
Speaker D: Yes.
W.G.: Thank you.
Speaker D: Yes. Nicely done.
W.G.: Yeah. And that was my step into fame. I love right before we start yes. We're going to talk about Bailey's. Hep. Yeah. Toys in a basket and all that.
Vanessa: I know.
Speaker D: Nothing.
W.G.: It's all coming in.
What is the best breakfast cereal? Everybody think at home and say it
W.G.: But first, game time. Um, all right, game time. Lots of good boy, oh, boy. So many people listen to this show, and we love it. And a constant thing we love it when you play a game that doesn't have anything to do with what you're talking about. Well, welcome.
Vanessa: Here we go. People like to hear me.
W.G.: Be not, and there's no right or wrong answer. All right, vanessa is going to be playing. Your call. Um, kind of food based a little bit. Couple maybe one or two. Maybe not. All right.
Vanessa: Uh, maybe not.
W.G.: Play at home. Vanessa, take your time. Think about it.
Speaker D: Okay.
W.G.: What is the best breakfast cereal?
Vanessa: The best breakfast cereal?
W.G.: Everybody think at home and say it.
Vanessa: Out loud on your best oh, that's hard, because I still am. Like, I get up after my husband falls asleep and sneak a bowl of cereal like I'm eight years old all over again. Um, I am going just because it's, like, the perfect mix after dinner kind of dessert cereal. Dessert cereal. Yeah, because, uh, that's when I like to eat cereal is after everybody's in bed, so I don't feel like the judgment I have.
W.G.: Why do I have a feeling I know what it's going to be?
Vanessa: Oh, no, I bet you don't.
W.G.: Does it start with the C? No.
Vanessa: Okay. Honey Nut Cheerios.
W.G.: Oh, I never would have guessed that.
Vanessa: Yeah. Now, if I'm actually having it for breakfast, I love Lucky Charms. Okay, got you. And Fruity Pebbles. Those are like front runners.
W.G.: You come across as a Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Vanessa: Oh, I love cinnamon toast crunch. But it's rough on my guts. It makes me feel sick. It's got too much sugar.
W.G.: There's a lot of sugar in those things. All right.
Is your favorite main character from the TV show Friends easy to guess
W.G.: Okay, next question. Is, um, your favorite main character from the TV show Friends? Stop. Think everybody at home.
Vanessa: I think it's this should not be hard for anyone. If you love Friends, you already every.
W.G.: And it's very easy to guess. Would, uh, it not be easy to guess who mine is? All right, hold on.
Vanessa: Yours is who?
Speaker D: Rachel.
W.G.: Oh, you're a Jennifer Anson.
Vanessa: Phoebe's pretty awesome, too, because she's freaking hilarious and I'm always jealous of funny people.
W.G.: Yes, back in my heyday, every once in a while, people are like, could you be more like Chandler?
Vanessa: I could see that.
W.G.: I could see it.
Vanessa: Uh, did you watch it? Were you religious?
W.G.: I wasn't religious about it. I watched it, but it was something where it was like, okay, I get it.
Vanessa: Super funny.
W.G.: See, the problem is I didn't have friends.
Vanessa: Shut up.
W.G.: So I was like, shut uh up.
Vanessa: Okay, I'm sorry. Well, it's super funny because my sister in law is obsessed with friends. So many of the episodes that I missed growing up, like when they were airing, she would watch the DVDs on repeat so she would finish the whole season and then just start over. It was like her background when she was doing her homework in college. So we shared an apartment. Uh, and she would just always have it played and so she loves it. And it's kind of rubbed off on my daughter. So now my daughter is obsessed with friends. So now I get joy out of like, when I see really funny things, I send them to both of them. So shout out to Erica. She loves the show, actually. So it's pretty funny that you came up with Friends of all the shows to ask about.
W.G.: That's very sweet.
Did you watch Saturday morning cartoons when you were growing up
W.G.: All right, last question. And yes, we're getting into the cafeteria stuff. Just pump your brakes, folks.
Speaker D: Wait.
W.G.: Here we go. Patience. Last one. Um, I've got a few to choose from, but I'm only going to ask you one. Um, did you watch Saturday morning cartoons.
Vanessa: When you were growing up?
Speaker D: Absolutely.
W.G.: Uh, and that would have been in the for you.
Speaker D: Okay.
W.G.: Your favorite Saturday morning cartoon? Flintstones. Saturday morning cartoon the flintstones.
Speaker D: Flintstones.
W.G.: The Flintstones were on in the 60s.
Speaker D: Flintstones.
Vanessa: I don't know.
W.G.: Did they have a new Flintstones on Saturday mornings? For real? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that.
Vanessa: Maybe I watched Flintstones.
W.G.: Oh, okay. Hey there's. I have no problem.
Vanessa: I don't know. I mean, I was a kid. I don't know how I was watching them. That's what I.
Speaker D: Watched.
Vanessa: I have no idea.
W.G.: But that's what I watched. Okay, that's cool. Hey, I watched plenty of flintstones.
Speaker D: Yes.
W.G.: I used to just yes. Pebbles and bambam. I remember the spinoff. Pebbles and Bambam had their own show.
Vanessa: Oh, I didn't want that.
W.G.: They were teenagers.
Vanessa: Oh, never seen that. Yeah, see, I was more of like a Simpsons gal myself. Later in.
W.G.: The yes, the best Saturday morning cartoon in the history of the.
Vanessa: World is Super Friends. And in all I totally see that.
W.G.: With you in the hall of justice. Yes. People now are like, hold on. There was a cartoon that had who, superman and Wonder Woman and Batman and Aquaman and those tag alongs wendy, Marvin and their dog, uh, whatever their dog's name was. Whatever that dumb dog's name was.
Vanessa: And I bet you I don't know. You might not know this. There was another show that I watched when I was a kid that was like, they saved the planet. They had the rings, and they like, with our powers, we Wonder.
Speaker D: Twin.
Vanessa: They all had these rings. One was like water, one was Earth. One was Fire, wind, all of it.
W.G.: But I know what you're talking unfortunately, uh, uh, I was sleeping in by.
Speaker D: That.
W.G.: Time because of Friday nights. I was sleeping in on Saturday mornings by that.
Speaker D: Time.
W.G.: Not, uh, the Power Rangers.
Vanessa: No. So Power Rangers was like my little siblings thing. I'm going to google it. I don't know, because I remember that show. And then I also remember.
W.G.: Um, were they Japanese or were they American?
Vanessa: No, they were American.
W.G.: Um, you know, right now, people are yelling at they're yelling at the radio.
Speaker D: Going, it's blah, blah, blah.
W.G.: I don't.
Speaker D: Know.
Vanessa: My thumbs are not going fast enough. I'm trying, I'm trying. I'm trying. Right? Captain Planet and the planeteers oh, I.
W.G.: Never would have got yeah, captain Planet and the Planet.
Speaker D: Wow.
Vanessa: Let me see the year on this. Let me see if this was like oh, yeah, this was in the talk.
W.G.: About the most unoriginal name. What are we going to name him? How about Captain Planet? Okay, well, what are we going to name the other people? The.
Speaker D: Planet.
Vanessa: Our world is in danger.
There are sent five magic rings to five special young people
Vanessa: Uh, the Earth can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. There are sent five magic rings to five special young people, and they're from all over the planet Earth. And with their powers combined, they summon the Earth's greatest champion, Captain Planet.
W.G.: And all five of the teens that they have to fill out applications, send.
Vanessa: In resumes, make sure they had good GPA.
Speaker D: Yes.
W.G.: And say, here's why I think I'm worthy of a ring competitive. All right, now.
rea, Bailey's. Established in:W.G.: All right, here we go. Here we go. All right, let's cafeterias. People are groaning all over the place. When are you going to talk about cafeterias? All right, we're talking about cafeterias now. Number one, the heavyweight in our area, Bailey's. That's the one when you talk about.
Vanessa: That'S the one everybody always talks about.
W.G.: Yes. And I ate at I remember eating at Bailey's a couple times, but not it wasn't like a favorite of mine.
Vanessa: Was it great?
W.G.: It was okay. It was very and everybody knows we're not a Wikipedia page.
Vanessa: No, we're not.
W.G.: You can tell by the way I talk I don't start looking up dates. And I opened here, and then I did this. And then all of a sudden, this is when they sold it to dust.
Vanessa: This one I actually looked up 19 six never mind.
W.G.: Wow. You're off to a good start there.
Vanessa: Okay. Established in:Speaker D: Okay.
Vanessa: And it was open for six decades.
W.G.: Okay. Well, what they were known for is, um, when I asked people and I kind of remember it, but not real big is I reached out to a couple of our listeners who said, are you going to talk about Bailey's? Yep. Is I don't know if it was one person or if it was everyone that worked the food line. Their saying was HEPIA like this real short. Yeah, HEPIA yeah.
Speaker D: Yes.
W.G.: Can I get the cream, uh, spinach slap. Why cream spinach? I don't know. Because that's cafeteria stuff. And then they slide your see, the thing is oh, this is a different thing. And I don't know which is which. Some cafeterias your tray stayed on the.
Vanessa: Side with the servers, and they add it.
Speaker D: Ah.
W.G.: Kind of like in school. Yes. Sometimes you had the tray.
Vanessa: I just plopped it on.
W.G.: But yeah. And it'd be a thing where it's like if it was already pre made in a little bowl. And they're like, hep, yeah. Can I get the cream spinach? They would just give you the bowl.
Vanessa: Of the cream spinach every time somebody.
W.G.: That was one of their big things. Their other huge, uh, claim to fame was they had a basket of toys that when kids came in, you could pick a toy out of the basket of toys. They were like, little a lot of our listeners referred to them as trinkets.
Vanessa: They were like McDonald's m toys.
W.G.: Kind of a even I think it was like an army man.
Vanessa: Or it was also like even like quarter machine. Yeah, yeah.
W.G.: Or it was like a fake ring.
Vanessa: A little mood ring or something.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: Or something like that.
Speaker D: Got you.
W.G.: Or a little frog that you pumped the little air thing, and it would kind of barely pop up into the air. You'd like, push the little thing, and they go like.
Vanessa: The ones also you can push through. It looks like a tail coming off a frog, but you flip it and it goes flying.
W.G.: Something that looks like it came out of a cereal box.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: Uh, uh, that's what I understand. I may be wrong, but it's not like they had game boys in there or something like that.
Vanessa: It was way before then.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: Now what doesn't make.
Speaker D: Sense.
W.G.: You didn't get to keep the toy.
Vanessa: Gotta give it back.
W.G.: Yeah, you had to give it like.
Vanessa: Imagine being the I would not want to go to Bailey's sorry. To any people that are still alive, connected to this family. But, uh, you're going to ask my toddler that just stayed calm enough for me to eat a meal to give the damn toy back.
W.G.: And the other thing is, think about this. When you go to a restaurant and you go to the restaurant, you order food and the food is not there. Well, that's idle time where I could see a parent saying, I wish my.
Vanessa: Child now, did they had to sell things, uh, when you leave, like Shoney's or that, uh, you could buy things.
W.G.: On your way out the door. I don't remember reading or seeing anything about that.
Vanessa: Got you.
W.G.: But it was something where it was like, okay, when you go to a cafeteria, you have your food, you sit down.
Vanessa: Oh, so you don't have that idle.
W.G.: Yeah, the food is right there.
Speaker D: Okay.
My biggest mistake at Morrison's was very close to where the theater was
Vanessa: I, uh, see what you're.
W.G.: Saying. I would think the parents would be more in a stage of eat your dinner, don't play with the for sure. It'd be different if it was. Hey, okay, what do you want while we're making your food here's? Something to entertain you. Yeah, but apparently that's not how it worked.
Vanessa: That's weird.
W.G.: I may be completely off my rocker here. Let, uh, me know, because I kind of don't remember that. I'm just going off of, uh, what people have told me. But yeah, Bailey's was big. A lot of people are like, oh, gosh, of course I remember we went to go eat at Bailey's, and I remember they would always just say, HEPA hep ya. I've never heard, um now, I've also never talked about Bailey. Morrison's was also a big one.
Vanessa: Now, that one I've heard about a lot because it was at the mall.
Speaker D: Yeah.
Vanessa: Well, shout out to my mother in law. Um, she is a Morrison now, so she loves having some of their old dishes. She's got them on for real?
Speaker D: Yeah.
Vanessa: Ah, interesting. Isn't that cool? Well, and what was funny is, when I first started dating my husband, I would see them, like, in her little displays, and I was like, well, that's fancy. She's got dishes with her name on it.
W.G.: They're from the cafeteria. Yes.
Vanessa: With mushed carrots. I was like, oh, Michelle's so fancy.
W.G.: Now, my biggest mistake at Morrison's was very close to where the theater was. And I remember, uh, going to a movie with it.
Vanessa: So was it like in a separate.
W.G.: Building outside of the mall? No, I ripped off some clip art from online. That was not our Morrisons. Okay? Morrisons was you had to go into the mall to get to it, and it's where the theaters are still.
Vanessa: Oh, okay.
W.G.: But if you just go down that little corridor, that's where Morrisons would have been. Okay. My mistake that I made is god, I've got a laundry list of mistakes.
Vanessa: And I know the regret on your.
W.G.: Face right now is insane. I'm not going to call her. Her name starts with S. She knows who she is.
Vanessa: Why would you do this?
W.G.: Uh, because it's just put yourself out there. I don't know how anybody ever went out. I don't know how I ever got married, got a date or anyway, here's the thing. Uh, I asked this lovely young lady.
Vanessa: This is high school, I guess. Lovely young lady.
Speaker D: Ah, yeah.
W.G.: And I said, would you like to go to the movies? Yeah, sure.
Speaker D: Okay.
W.G.: I don't have anything against cafeterias, but talk about a rookie mistake.
Let's go to Morrison's first. How did you pay for a buffet
W.G.: Let's go to Morrison's first. I don't know how she didn't go. Uh, yeah, I think my biggest mistake.
Vanessa: But wasn't it, like, trendy to go to those kind of places, though?
W.G.: Not really.
Vanessa: I assumed it was.
W.G.: I don't know if I was there, it was not trendy. The trendiness went out the door. When I showed up, they were like, this place used to be cool.
Vanessa: Now look, your dad had money, why.
W.G.: Are you taking me? But it was a thing where okay, I made the mistake of here's your plastic tray and here's my plastic tray, and I went in front of her. What? I know, I'm a dummy.
Vanessa: You take girls to the wrong house.
W.G.: I know. Don't let them go.
Speaker D: Okay.
Vanessa: Did you also stand with a coat on?
Speaker D: Why?
Vanessa: A girl froze to death on prom night. Is there anything else you want to add to that?
W.G.: I don't think I ever did that. But this poor girl here's why I remember it. I went in front of her, and as you're going down the line, it was like, yes, I'll have that. Yes, I'll have that. Yes, I'll have.
Speaker D: No.
W.G.: And then by the time we get to the end, I had, like, seven items. It's like two desserts.
Vanessa: How did you pay? Is it like per item or like pay when you go in or whatever?
W.G.: For Morrisons, it was per item. Good question. That's the difference between a buffet and a cafeteria. Cafeteria is what do you want? Okay, you want a dish of this, it's going to be a dollar. You want this, it's going to be.
Vanessa: A dollar is the scientific difference.
W.G.: Yeah, a buffet is flat fee. What do you want, like a golden corral thing or trough? Yes, exactly.
Vanessa: Whatever, you out of here.
W.G.: But I got to the end. And I had like, seven, uh, eight items. And I looked back at her and she had two. She had, like, a little thing of cottage cheese or like a garden salad and, like, a dessert. And that was it. And I had this smartest plate of I mean, it was like, oh, my.
Speaker D: Gosh.
W.G.: Is that all you want? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, this is good. Uh, this is going to be fine for me. I was like, oh, good. And you can't take it back. You can't say you can't say, I don't want this anymore. And I don't want that anymore. I'm stuck. And I was like and I ate nothing. I ate, like, one thing. And she was like, aren't you going.
Vanessa: To eat the rest of your food?
Speaker D: No.
Vanessa: Now I feel guilty because you're not eating.
W.G.: Yeah, something's going on. And now I'm like, uh, why didn't I think of this earlier? And the other trick that they play is you get there serious. Here is your plastic tray. Here's your empty plate or whatever. The first thing they hit you with. Desserts were first. And they're like, so which dessert would you like? And the desserts were so doctored in a beautiful way. It was like, would you like the strawberry cheesecake or the chocolate forever? Or the 17 flavored jello? And you're like, I want them all colorful. I want them all. Uh and then they would move you to the salads, and they'd have a big, huge bowl of that fruit.
Vanessa: They hit you with the desserts first.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: And so by the time you got to your entree, you didn't care. You were just like, I want the meatloaf. You've already mentally oh, my God. Uh, it was impossible to eat it all. And she knew better. She was so much smarter than me. Hi, I'm talking to you.
Speaker D: Yes.
W.G.: It was our little date in high school.
Speaker D: Yes.
W.G.: And I was just so embarrassed. I was like, oh, no. She should have gone first. All uh, right.
Tell us about your favorite cafeteria memories from 30 years ago
W.G.: Anyway, and then the last one I want to talk about real quick is you know where HIMG is now? Yeah, that's where East Drive in Theater used to be across the street. Not where Golden Corral used to be, but up there's, that commercial condominium building where there's, like, a lot of doctor's offices. That used to be a mall called the East Hills Mall. Yes, hills was like the yeah, I.
Vanessa: Don'T remember that, but I know of that.
W.G.: It was the anchor. And in that little mall, shopping center, whatever you want to call. They had, uh, a cafeteria.
Vanessa: Called like I Googled this, so I know he's not lying to me, but I thought he was making it up. King's Table if you're not from here and you're just listening because you wouldn't find out about us, king's Table that place is crazy.
W.G.: That place was easily my freaking favorite. It was like Game of thrones. Was it popular? Not really, but it had, like, such a train wreck.
Vanessa: I just, like, deflated your whole excitement at that little question.
W.G.: Uh, it had, like, King Arthur flags and stuff with, like yeah, wolf. It looked like something out of Game of Thrones. 30 years before Game of Thrones.
Vanessa: I don't know how I've gone my whole life without ever hearing about this.
W.G.: Place until everybody you ate at these big, long, dark wood picnic tables.
Speaker D: Right?
W.G.: It was like medieval nights. That tourist attraction. They have, like, at the beach and stuff like that, where they joust and all that stuff. It was like that restaurant without the jousting. You're like, Where's the jousting? Yeah, we didn't know. I don't think it was open back then.
Vanessa: So were these like, um I'm on Google now. These were not just here. These were a chain.
W.G.: I didn't know.
Vanessa: I think these were, like, everywhere.
W.G.: And you had these teenagers who hated being there going, good evening, Lord and ladies. What mouse did I get you from the, uh would you like iced tea, water, or coffee for you? And also the other thing about back then is yeah, I remember I used to have to wear a tie.
Vanessa: At least my dad would say, like to go places.
W.G.: We're going to king's table.
Vanessa: Put on a also wore one to the what was the place we talked about in the previous episode? Uh, that had the volcano.
W.G.: Oh, club pompeii.
Vanessa: Club Pompeii. You had to dress up there, too.
W.G.: I had a nice little selection. I had a nice little selection of clipons.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: Because that was all I could do.
Vanessa: Your dad was trying to make you an acceptable human being.
W.G.: And it was yeah, I remember. Yeah, the first time I went on a plane, I remember it was like.
Vanessa: Put your tie on.
W.G.: You got to wear a tie. And I was like, okay.
Vanessa: They're going to identify you if something.
W.G.: Happens about that tie. Yeah. You ain't going to church without a tie.
Speaker D: Okay. All right.
Vanessa: I love that.
W.G.: All right. Uh, hey, share with us your cafeteria memories and stuff. Um, I know we kind of went here, there, everywhere.
Vanessa: Oh, I like it.
What do you think the number one food item for elementary school kids is
W.G.: Let me get real quick question. I did do one more. This is a very quick question. What do you think today?
Speaker D::W.G.: What do you think the number one, uh, favorite food item? And, ah, if you want to call it entree or whatever, what do you think the number one food item for elementary school kids in the United States is? And I'll give you a hint. I thought it would be something like chicken nuggets, and it's not chicken nuggets. Um, the number one thing they're like, this is what I like to have.
Vanessa: So my daughter doesn't even eat school lunch, so I don't even have a touch base to go on. Uh, with this, I am going to guess based on the school lunches that kids bring to Safety Town. Um, I'm going. Hot dogs.
W.G.: Hot dogs.
Speaker D: Interesting.
W.G.: Hot dogs.
Speaker D: Not sandwiches.
W.G.: Uh, and what do you think the number one sandwich they like is? It's the classic.
Vanessa: I have a very many ham and cheese sandwiches that the kids bring to Safety Town. And turkey and cheese sandwiches.
W.G.: Wow, you're really striking out here.
Vanessa: Well, there's lots of bologna sandwiches, too.
W.G.: Peanut butter and jellies is number one.
Vanessa: Really? They've never brought peanut butter and jelly again.
W.G.: This is national.
Vanessa: I was going to say there's a lot of kids that have peanut allergies, so that shocks me.
W.G.: M oh, that could yeah, maybe that's.
Vanessa: Why Wayne and Campbell County have too many kids with allergies.
W.G.: Yes. That's a national thing.
Vanessa: That's hilarious. I wouldn't have thought that.
We've got another winner in our contest. Finally, another contest
W.G.: Before we wrap up, hey, we, uh, did this little contest we're giving away.
Vanessa: Finally, another contest. We've got another winner.
W.G.: Yes. Uh, tell us, uh, your favorite funny movie that's from a couple of episodes ago. And we have done our drawing. This is fair. I just want to make sure everybody knows.
Vanessa: Look, now listen, we're popular. People listen to us from all over.
W.G.: And I will have to say if you would like to butter your bread, as they say, and maybe send me a little something, maybe maybe the next game won't be maybe your name might show up in the drawn more than once.
Okay, so we're giving away a dozen Stewart's hot dogs
W.G.: Okay, so we're giving away a dozen Stewart's hot dogs. Um, thanks so much to, uh, Stewart's. Uh, they ship all over the place. That's a, uh, huge reason why, uh, we give them away. But Vanessa, our winner of the Stewart's hot dogs is whom?
Vanessa: Our winners are Mark and Liz Davidson out of Mooresville, North Carolina. Shout to Mooresville. His sister lived there for a long time. Down the road from Dei. So lovely place to live. Thank you guys for listening.
W.G.: We love more. I know where Mooreville, North Carolina is. It's right above Carolina.
Speaker D: Mooresville.
Vanessa: Oh, Mooresville with your lame joke, sir.
W.G.: I know anytime somebody says I'm from so and so North Carolina, I go, I know exactly where that is. It's right above South Carolina.
Vanessa: So I always get caught on that. Carly will ask me something and I'm like, uh, I don't know. South Carolina. North Carolina. It's one of the Carolinas. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's one of them.
Speaker D: Yeah.
W.G.: Then we flip it.
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Vanessa: Pretty amazing. We're very thankful.
Speaker D: Yes.
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W.G.: All right, Vanessa, take us out.
Vanessa: We are out of here.
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