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January 20, 2023
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For those traveling to Cody on the Yellowstone Highway through Casper:
The Horseshoe Bar & Grill is right there on the Highway. We stopped in 2024 for lunch and the food is terrific and plentiful. Big menu and clean, pleasant atmosphere.
I was served a gigantic bacon and tomato sandwich and they were not stingy with the crisp and thick smoked bacon. The French fries are serious.
Don’t miss it if you’re hungry. We were amazed. Red barn on your right as you’re heading Northwest – 7515 W. Yellowstone Hwy.
https://www.restaurantji.com/wy/casper/horseshoe-bar-and-grill-/photos/v
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
July 3, 2020
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Bill. I like the way you think! We should start a thread about good places to eat we find on gun show road trips. There are quite a few gun show “Gypsies” out there… good places to eat are getting few & far between. Heaven knows, I haven’t missed very many meals… still, I’ve been known to take a significant detour on the road for a good spot to eat! I like the sound of “serious French Fries” too.
January 20, 2023
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Ben, I’m just sorry the Horseshoe is so far from Texas. Good food when dining out is mighty seldom today and usually depressingly expensive.
I’ve been dangerously food poisoned three times and the third time when I was old enough to risk not surviving it. All three times were from steam table food served to long lines of people, at reputable establishments:
A popular cafeteria on the town square in the Texas Hill Country that served me chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, and something a littl.e extra;
A cafeteria in Yorkshire serving me roast beef and Yorkshire pudding – just before I boarded the northbound InterCity 125 for Inverness. A journey during which I prayed for death;
The cafeteria at the newly opened Perot Museum of Science in Dallas, that served me a suspiciously cool third of a roast chicken. On my 80th birthday and nearly my last.
Note the common theme. I will no longer eat food served from a steam table or during crowded events.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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If you are a simple burger and beer guy like me, this little spot in Cody is pretty good. Even back when I was a serious collector I never made it to a Cody show because I don’t leave Alaska in July. But, I have been to the museum several times, including just a year ago.
November 7, 2015
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I’ll try to stop in at the Horseshoe this year, for some reason I’ve stopped at the same Arby’s in Casper at least four times without really intending to, even though it is more than a mile from the freeway. Funny thing, their dining room closed during COVID and as of last year had not reopened. Their outside dining area is nice enough, though. I’m not adverse to steam table food but I won’t risk it in off-peak times. The food I avoid at all costs is what I call “festival food” from temporary food stands or trailers. I worked dozens of events during my LE career and can count on the fingers of one hand the times I saw a food handler wash his/her hands.
Mike
April 30, 2023
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TXGunNut said
I worked dozens of events during my LE career and can count on the fingers of one hand the times I saw a food handler wash his/her hands.
Building immunity one food truck at a time!
January 20, 2023
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Even though Britain’s InterCity 125 is so named for its cruising speed, it is a 7 hour ride from Yorkshire up the Great Glen to Inverness. When it crosses switches at those speeds the train is jolted and sways from side to side with considerable velocity.
The toilets are situated in very small compartments lined with riveted steel and grab bars on two walls, which tells you how close they are.
If you are unfortunate enough to be inside the compartment when the train rockets over a series of switches – common when passing through towns along the route – you experience the equivalent of aviation’s:”severe turbulence” and will bounce off those steel walls until your bells are rung.
This was almost 50 years ago so I have no idea if that train even exists. But the journey was horrible. I can’t stand the thought of Yorkshire pudding today.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
November 7, 2015
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Zebulon said
Even though Britain’s InterCity 125 is so named for its cruising speed, it is a 7 hour ride from Yorkshire up the Great Glen to Inverness. When it crosses switches at those speeds the train is jolted and sways from side to side with considerable velocity.
The toilets are situated in very small compartments lined with riveted steel and grab bars on two walls, which tells you how close they are.
If you are unfortunate enough to be inside the compartment when the train rockets over a series of switches – common when passing through towns along the route – you experience the equivalent of aviation’s:”severe turbulence” and will bounce off those steel walls until your bells are rung.
This was almost 50 years ago so I have no idea if that train even exists. But the journey was horrible. I can’t stand the thought of Yorkshire pudding today.
My only trip to the UK and other European countries was in 1972 and I found out why passengers were requested to refrain from using the toilets while the trains were in the station. In more recent times I’ve worked a few train wrecks and learned that the only thing that keeps wheels on the rails and cars on the axles is gravity. The thought of a train swaying much at all is rather disturbing.
Mike
