Thursday, February 15, 2007

 

Meal 3: Just Chillin'

My last meal in Chattanooga wasn't the most exciting, since I had already plowed through almost all of the menu in my prior 2 meals. What was left was basically the frozen treats. Since my 3rd meal was at 10:30 am on a cold Saturday, I was facing a tough test.
In my prior meals I had done the drive thru and the dining room. That least the drive in for meal 3.

(Sorry for the glare!)
Now when I first heard of the Krystal Drive in, I pictured a Sonic drive in. Well let me just say that while Sonic may have a lot more items on their menu, Krystal's drive in menu kicks the snot out of Sonic's drive in menu. At Sonic you have one red button. At Krystal you get three buttons:
Read that close. Yup it says TV! The large screen to the right is a wide screen TV, and it gets cable. (I was watching SpongeBob SquarePants while I ate.) You tune your radio to 101.1FM to listen through your car stero. On the right side of the TV screen is a video menu showing different menu selections. By pushing the button on the box outside your window you can scroll through them one at a time.
Now while at Sonic you push the red button and wait for some faceless person to take your order. This person MIGHT be in India for all you know. You also wind up yelling into the speaker several times to make sure they got your order, and then you HOPE you get what you wanted. At Krystal, you push the button and a human walks up to your car to take your order. Oddly enough it's the same idea as going inside to order. They also have these hand held menu/cash register things they take your order on. It's about the size of an Etch=A=Sketch but oh so much more powerful!
As I said, there wasn't much left on the menu so I went for another Slushie (grape) and the Rockslide, with butterfinger chunks in it. The Slushie was fantastic but again it was so cold it made my teeth hurt. This time all I had to "warm me up" was my frozen Rockslide. Brrrr!

With my third meal done and half a slushie left, I made my way back home from Chattanooga. I know there are still a few items left on the menu, and plenty of things left in Chattanooga for me to see. I have yet to hit Rock City, the Incline Railroad, and Ruby Falls. Perhaps later this year I'll get back up there for another un at the Mega-Krystal and these fun adventures as well.
Though I have finished with the meal-by-meal recap of my Chattanooga trip, the story is not over. Tomorrow I'll be posting the odd and coincidental things I saw along the way, and there were MANY of them. Also tomorrow I am volunteering with MATHCOUNTS here in Macon. It's a nation wide middle school math contest. I'll be one of the test proctors and if needed a scorer. And since I have spent portions of the past 3 months teaching sheet metal math (fractions, decimals, and prime numbers) it will be good to get a taste of "higher math" for a change!
I'm A Krystal Lover

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