Go to Massachusetts for its chowder,
in Maryland you’ll find tasty crab cakes.
Texas has their famous beef brisket rub,
KC says it’s good BBQ they make.
Head to Maine to dine on some lobster,
Florida’s Coconut Shrimp is best.
Montana cooks some fine mountain oysters,
Colorado’s lamb chops top off the west.
Eat some deep-fried pickles in Arkansas,
in California get their avocado toast.
Crisp Fries with vinegar in Delaware,
y’all, it’s them boiled peanuts that Georgia boasts.
Hot pork tenderloins of Indiana,
Hawaiian shaved ice, Beignets of La.
Wyoming’s Fry bread, Illinois’ Deep Dish,
Michigan Pasty, Cheesesteak from Pa.
You can travel around America,
even a few countries across the sea.
Anything you’ll find has yet to compare,
to my wife’s fried chicken and mac-n-cheese.
tenderloins in the oven
butter on a plate
sweet corn on a cob waiting
salt the taters please
kings supper
now
Let’s go to Shaggy’s the preteens say.
They live in Malibu, so they know the way.
I figure Shaggy’s has tenderloins, burgers and fries.
I can hardly wait to get there; dune buggy goes over the rise.
This is Shaggy’s? I yelp, annoyed beyond compare.
It is not a food place at all, no barbeque smells in the air.
It’s a beach side shop, you can buy a surf board or a life jacket.
Shaggy’s is not my kind of place, I do not like this weird racket.
I wanted fried unhealthy, hot, salty bad-for-you-food.
This gift shop with trinkets and what-nots puts me in a bad mood.
I want my mouth to be happy, I want to feed.
I do not like surfing; I pull out my book to read.
Try to imagine the Alice Cooper song "School's Out for Summer" as you see these words. I tried to match the rhythm of that song to this jingle:
Well, I need to eat,
but I’m in the mood
for some seasoned meat
and the world’s best food.
Well, I can’t eat any old hamburger
A Maid-Rite sandwich I prefer!
Maid-Rite’s the winner,
lunchtime or dinner.
Love that place to pieces!
Crumbled cheesy beef on bun
Onion rings and shakes! What fun.
Well, I don’t want shrimp
and I don’t want caviar.
And I don’t want rib eye steak.
Not even a pie or a chocolate cake.
Crumbled cheesy beef on bun
Onion rings and shakes! What fun.
Tenderloins or crispy fries.
Maid-Rite's is the food I prize.
Lunch time or dinner,
Maid-Rite’s the winner.
Made RIGHT and tasty,
Maid-Rite forever!
5/28/15 Now used for PD's 100 in a ROW contest -- 11 PREMIERE number 2 Poetry Contest
(Last year they closed the one and only Maid Rite place in my state. So we drove a long distance to eat there. It makes me wonder if the owner did enough to market his restaurant. Either that, or this state simply can't catch the vision!!! Maid-Rites, rock on forever!!!)
Ladies night out as not a man to be found...
Sparkling attire adorned their, diamonds in lace
Pink champagne red lip sage; this tenderloins place
Beauty dancing atop the bare made stage; silk swans
Silver lights embracing swirling heights; ivory tides sighs
Softened cries of Asia, cuisine; joy aneath her African queen
Lovely Senorita's in caramels caressing, their European dreams.
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Ladies night out and not a man to be found; adorned amid sparkling attire
Diamonds in lace within this tenderloins place; beauty, dancing atop the stage
Silver lights embracing swirling heights in red lips and joyful sighs; softened cries of Asia
Cuisine, aneath her African queen with a lovely Senorita, caressing her European dreams...
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..."Beautiful Ballerina's" *
Millie's drive-in was place
to go for best tenderloin sandwich
in Des Moines, or any place as far as that goes.
Back in the Fifties and Sixies,
if you were anyone at all,
during the summer months
and weekends you were,
seen there with your
buddies or a girl friend,
service there was A-1.
If you ever watched
the TV show Happy
days,
you get an idea of
what Millie's drive-in
was like.
Their tenderloins
melted in your mouth
and left a taste that
lasted a long time.
Sometime ago Millie's
closed down, with
my youth went with it.
Goodbye Millie's
it was nice memories
you left us, so sad,
that your gone.
wrote 8-6-08
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