tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14818100.post114754007439380346..comments2024-01-05T22:20:39.218-06:00Comments on CHATTER: LOCAL RESTAURANT BURNSRon Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12099772730874178834noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14818100.post-1147659605178104022006-05-14T21:20:00.000-05:002006-05-14T21:20:00.000-05:00Yeah, but I was always partial to the ORIGINAL Mun...Yeah, but I was always partial to the ORIGINAL Munchies located on Jefferson across from the Downtown Family Y. It was cozier. Ooooh very laid back. Once I finished lunch with a friend and the minute we got up to pay the check a couple of people who must have had a munchies attack jumped to our table and finished our leftovers. Anna, the star waitperson was cool with a mind of her own. Very nice, but if she wasn't in the mood she'd tell you to get your own coffee. <BR/><BR/>But the original original was a handful of Munchiers who had a traveling food cart on the Drury campus, or so says my long lost Thurston.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14818100.post-1147626362669586642006-05-14T12:06:00.000-05:002006-05-14T12:06:00.000-05:00Victor Hughes's Jambalaya was the best thing on th...Victor Hughes's Jambalaya was the best thing on the chalkboard menu at Munchies Unlimited that would get a person high. For those of you who never had the pleasure, Munchies was located where Well Fed Head Books is now.<BR/><BR/>So sad about Nearly Famous. Can't imagine that it WON'T be back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14818100.post-1147602701410998862006-05-14T05:31:00.000-05:002006-05-14T05:31:00.000-05:00For those that remember Munchies ... Victor has wo...For those that remember Munchies ... Victor has worked for years as the cook at Cartoons ...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14818100.post-1147560577822862562006-05-13T17:49:00.000-05:002006-05-13T17:49:00.000-05:00that is too bad...a regular Springfield landmark.that is too bad...a regular Springfield landmark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14818100.post-1147560413043752512006-05-13T17:46:00.000-05:002006-05-13T17:46:00.000-05:00The fire at Nearly Famous is truly sad. But seein...The fire at Nearly Famous is truly sad. But seeing someone mention Munchies brings back a world of wonderful (and sometimes stoned) memories of the world's greatest vegetable soup and buttermilk cake. I thought maybe I was the only person left who remembered that place. Yum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14818100.post-1147555379685482172006-05-13T16:22:00.000-05:002006-05-13T16:22:00.000-05:00wow. I've had a bowl of tomato basil soup there w...wow. I've had a bowl of tomato basil soup there with one or two really interesting people.<BR/><BR/>Hope it rises from the ashes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14818100.post-1147551418977475042006-05-13T15:16:00.000-05:002006-05-13T15:16:00.000-05:00Gee I hate to hear that. Nearly Famous goes back a...Gee I hate to hear that. Nearly Famous goes back almost as far as I do...remembering when it was more of a Hippie place in the beginning, kind of patterned after the Munchies crowd only not quite so informal!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.com