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Diners, Drive Ins & Dives - Nerd Alert Part 2

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This is the second installment of my review of a few of the Diners, Drive Ins & Dives locations that I have had the chance to visit. This set of reviews includes another location from Florida (where I live), Georgia and Buffalo, NY . The app that I have been using to locate all of the "Triple D" sites is created by MapMuse, and it offers great information on each restaurant, directions, photos, and a way to "check off" the locations that you've visited.  You can also "favorite" some of the ones you've visited to keep track of the very special places you'd like to visit again.  If you have a smart phone--you definitely need to download this app so that as you travel, you can always find a great "Triple D" location to visit. Matthews Cafeteria, Tucker, GA Season 3 - Episode 11 Matthews Cafeteria is a family owned business that was started in 1955 in Tucker, GA a suburb of Atlanta that is just a "stones throw...

Diners Drive Ins & Dives Nerd Alert - Entry 1

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So here's the thing.  I have other interests other than pastoring and sermonizing although those things usually take up most of my blog. I thought that for 2013 I would provide you fine folks with some other forms of light reading and do my best to comment on cultural phenomena, literary thingies, artistic stuff and perhaps a movie or music review now and again. I've watched about two hundred and twelve episodes of the Food Network's perennially awesome show Diners, Drive Ins & Dives hosted by the perennially tattooed and spiky haired chef Guy Fieri (left). It is, without a doubt, my favorite show that doesn't have zombies, football, car chases or explosions.  Come to think of it, if there was one show that had all of those things---I would probably never leave my man cave. I haven't had the opportunity to visit all that many of the stops that the estimable Mr. Fieri has visited on the show those of us in the know call "Triple D," but I...