Champaign, IL.. geez I spent a couple of years there.. my folks were doing the college thing..back in 77-78 (damn I am getting old.. not that the grey stripes look anything other than cool!).. damn trying to remember where we lived.. although the school I went to was southside elem. (closed now I guess).. wow.. remembering too much.
and in defense of the midwest (although I am not prone to that) there are good places if you know where to go, other than that? chicken fried steak all the way (and don't get me started on that fucking chicken fried chicken bullshit) (yeah 17 years cooking and mostly with chefs' uh yeah I know what I'm doing.. if only it worked out on dates
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