The pattern persisted through jobs at a bookstore, a gas station, and a fry house — the same place she'd worked as a teen, when she was certain that her adult life was destined for public service.
"When I was a boy, my mother and I would walk to the Belair Market," he said, standing in line for a bag of lake trout at the Roost, a fry house set in what had once been a Burger Chef.
Often it's stripped of all provenance, served up anonymously at Harlem and Brooklyn fry houses, or cut and shaped and packaged as fish sticks.
It read: Holy fried house cat! Spiderman is at it again.... From the pictures, the climb looks pretty easy.
This is backcountry North Carolina, where the fish comes fried, house trailers are as common as the big hay rolls that dot the fields and the nearest latte is 12 miles north in Asheboro.
WHAT WE LIKED Pulled-pork barbecue, barbecued half-chicken, St . Louisribs, smoked beef brisket, grilled pastrami sandwich, baked beans, braised red cabbage, sweet potato fries, house-made potato chips, seasonal vegetables, garden salad, confetti slaw.
Hand-cut fries, house-made aioli and tart lemonade all provide valuable support.
You are! You'll find In-N-Outs dotting the Western landscape, oases of burgers and fries housed in standalone restaurants distinguished by their trademark golden arrow signs.
In the terraced garden behind Mr. Fry's house that is inhabited by a dozen or more stone creatures, creeping phlox surrounds a sphinx with shapely arms and lion's feet, languorously relaxing on top of what might be a miniature municipal building — a library, perhaps, or a train station, as if mythical creatures, unbeknown to us, share space with commuters.
The shore dinner with its one and a quarter pound lobster, succulent rotisserie chicken, French fries and house salad was another hit.
(In Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield's "Deep Ellum: The Other Side of Dallas," it's suggested that they played fish fries and house parties together).
