Roger Ebert on Steak 'N Shake

And Xavier would be the one to know that!

 

Got a great drive-in in Anaheim, CA, a couple of miles up from Anaheim Stadium - Angelo's... Roller girls and all.....

 

Well....California does have the weather for that. I'm jealous!

 

Steak n' Shake started in Normal, IL and spread thru central IL. I used to go to some of the original ones in Champaign/Urbana, Danville, and Indianapolis. Danville was our home base and there were 3 there. Our gang would all meet up at the end of our dates to have a bite before heading to our favorite parking spot in the boonies.

Do kids still go parking. They'd have to have a station wagon these days. True love disappeared with bench seats. I remember an old slogan from back then:
If you drink, don't park.
Accidents cause people.

My favorite was always a burger with mustard, pickle and onion, and an order of Chili Mac. It was best in the winter. When the carhops delivered your tray, there would be a glaze of hardened orange grease on top which you spread on your crackers.

I once conned an SnS manager into selling me a 10 lb block of their special chili meat because there were no SnS's in Chicagoland and I wanted to make my own chili mac. He also gave me the recipe to their red sauce.........1 bottle catsup and 2 tablespoons of Worchestershire sauce...shake well. I would have had enough to last me for a year. But the wife saw it in the freezer, put it in a large pot and used it as spaghetti sauce. I was totally PO'd.

 

For a while, I wrote a column about hamburgers for Examiner.
I quit when I got my second paycheck. I would have quit sooner, but I thought the first check was a mistake
Plus I really enjoyed doing the research!
Here's what I had to say about Steak N Shake in 2009:

http://www.examiner.com/article/in-sight-it-must-be-right-steak-n-shake-is-famous-for-steakburgers

 

Okay you did it again! The nearest Steak-N-Shake is 45 miles away and it's drizzling outside. I'm hungry for a burger and a chocolate milkshake. My wife says "no way. Go to bed." Now that's also an offer I can't refuse! I doubt either one involves steak burgers.

 

Well done, PB. The article not the burger.

 

The burger also! I always want my burgers and other meat well done. Now that you mention it I've never told the waitress/waiter how to fix my steak burger. it's always just right. :2_thumbs_up_-_anima

Slobber slobber.

 

Yes...they seem to make them just the way I like them.


Stop slobbering!

 

I'd actually forgotten about the Steak-N-Shake in Normal, Illinois. Been there many times. We lived around 50 miles east of there. About like the one in Gainesville from us now. But Gainesville is not normal!