A few weeks ago on this blog, I mentioned how the 50 Yard Line restaurant in Lubbock doubled as sort of a shrine to Texas Tech sports and the old Southwest Conference.
At the time, I offered a few suggestions for similar restaurants in Waco, all of which involved Baylor.
I didn't remember at the time that Kim's on Waco Drive has a bit of a shrine to the Dallas Cowboys. Ok, it's not the entire restaurant like the 50 Yard Line. Though there's something nostalgia-provoking about the whole scene at Kim's. It's an authentic good old-fashioned diner all the way through, which is a refreshing change from cheesy chain restaurants that attempt to evoke an old-fashioned diner atmosphere by hanging, say, old rusted bicycles on the wall.
For lunch today at Kim's, I chose the hamburger steak daily special. It included a chop steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, Texas toast and a side salad. Add a Diet Coke to drink and the whole shebang cost me a mere $6.22.
Speaking of lunch and sports, I sat across from a girl named Caitlin, who asked the usual question "What do you do?"
This is a difficult question sometimes. I guess it is for everybody, except probably Dirk Nowitzki at the minute.
Anyway, I said I was a writer. I used to be a sportswriter, and maybe I still am deep down, but now I write about restaurants. She asked if I used a lot of sports metaphors to describe food.
"Like, is that salisbury steak a touchdown?" she asked.
"Yeah and if there's a hair in the food," added Craig Nash, "it's a foul."
And then we conjectured about what might constitute a technical foul.
And then I won the conversation by pointing out how I had just dripped gravy on my shirt and said it was an incomplete pass.
So you see, it all comes back to football.
