I recall many of you mentioning Guthrie’s from a previous post, and thought I’d give you something wistful for a Saturday morning.
I was definitely a fan and visited many times myself, recalling that we were always bringing a penny to watch the special sauce wash away years of aging while we sat and ate.
Memmorriieess….
Funny you bring this up. Wife and I were traveling last weekend, stopped in a Zaxby’s for a quick lunch. It’s been over a decade since I’ve been to one, and wow was it overpriced and underwhelming. Anyway, that got me thinking talking about Guthrie’s and took my wife down fried chicken memory lane.
Zaxby’s is a poor facsimile of Guthries, and nowadays Zaxbys is a poor facsimile of itself. Seems the food taste has changed so much I can’t even tell it’s Zaxbys. Yuck.
Finding good non-brand name box store fried chicken is like the day I discovered all the Mexican/Latin grocery stores have secret diners in the back. Shhhh… don’t tell all the gringos and ruin it for the rest of us.
You out of the club, man.
Me and Sarrasco been talking Latin food on here from the jump and we didn’t spill the charro beans…
This is the way. Any place that has a storefront name in another language has the sauce. Just be friendly and a good customer and it’s like they open the tomb to the good stuff for you if you just be a decent human being. Especially in these times.
I remember Guthrie’s tasting wonderful. Now Zaxby’s is like microwaved Walmart junk that is an instant stomach ache. Luckily there is a Guthrie’s on Hwy 16 about 10 miles from my house. It’s not as good as 35 years ago but it’s way better than Zaxby’s.
When we lived at a place just off Baxter’s, at least one of my roomates or me ate at Guthrie’s probably once a day. Food was good but Guthries didn’t have the right ventilation or something because the joint smelled and it lingered.
It got to the point that we started doing take out a lot which made our place smell like too so we had a rule that if you brought Guthrie’s back to the house you had to eat it on the covered deck.
Still the best chicken fingers and fries from a fast food joint though. Zaxby’s fingers have never been the same size and I don’t get the hype of Raising Cane’s.
Raising Canes is its own hype machine, it’s slightly better than Zaxbys which is saying it’s slightly better than eating a paper towel as a substitute. I don’t get it.
Our free parking spot for games from ‘86 to ‘90 before getting transferred to Tejas which, fortunately, let me miss most of the debacle of our ‘90s teams.
Guthries was the best fried chicken. Would like to have some with a Beam and coke on Glorious Sat in the fall waiting for them Dawgs to play. Sometimes l would remember the game!! Great times!!
Wrote many a check for $4.69 for a box, no slaw, extra fries,
and Coke. When you write something down, it burns in the old memory bank.
to think the gutbox was the inspiration to Cane’s and Zaxby’s