Bob Evans

[colormist]

I seriously believe that Bob Evans puts sugar in everything in their building. I think they even put it in the salt. It's just wrong.

My parents took me out to breakfast.

Okay, FIRST, I'm getting ready to move back to Ohio, so I've been house hunting. What is wrong with these people? Do they seriously think someone will buy their house when it has garbage throughout the house and yard, poison ivy surrounding the house, and the cabinets and doors are falling off the walls? I think I got fleas from just walking INTO the house. Nobody's going to pay 90k for that house. Nobody. Especially when it looks like it's going to fall face first into the highway it's leaning over.

Back to my point, my parents took me out to eat breakfast at Bob Evans before I left to return to Michigan. At the sound of Bob Evans, I make a "YEESH" noise, but there's no talking to my father because I'm a girl and I do not speak sense. That's another story involving him forcing me to eat baked beans when I was a kid.

So I quickly look through the menu and try to pick out something very bland and sugarless. Eggs, steak, potatoes, and I switch the biscuits to rye toast. The fried potatoes were sweet, the steak was actually a pot roast soaked & seasoned in something I'd rather not eat. By the time I got to the toast and eggs (eggs make me nauseated just looking at them) I was horribly wary. I think the toast was okay, but I didn't eat more than one of my eggs before I knew I was sick-sick-sick.

Anybody have any luck at Bob Evans? I usually have better luck at Coney Islands or Frisch's Big Boy.

[julienc]

Bob Evans is not good for HFI. I've tried to eat there twice without success. They pride themselves on being a southern restaurant, but they put SUGAR in their biscuits. That's like a cardinal sin in the south. I love Cracker Barrel, though - yummy, and (for the most part) sugarless southern food.

Do you generally not like eggs, or was it these particular eggs that looked nauseating? I loooove eggs. It's one of my safe foods when traveling. Over easy is my favorite.

Good luck with the house hunting!

[colormist]

I do scrambled. I like boiled and egg salad. They've always made me queasy thinking about it. I used to be a vegetarian for a short while--that's hard, being a hfier and a vegetarian. So now I don't usually eat eggs, red meat, or fish. Fish really makes me queasy, then eggs, then red meat.

I'm pretty sure it's just a mental thing this time. Sometimes I can eat eggs okay, sometimes not so much. Just depends on how I feel going into it. If I'm already feeling sugary, then I don't stand a chance.

I haven't had luck at Cracker Barrel yet. I tried a breakfast there once, and it had sugar in it (or it was eggs, either way I'm screwed). I'd love to find a restaurant that makes pancakes with bisquick or jiffy mix. I loooove pancakes and waffles. MMMMmmmm I might have to make some tonight.

[sarahk]

Fred-I've never heard of this place. Are you sure the sausage doesn't have sugar. I always ask to see the box/package the sausage came in and it always has sugar-sometimes I can find turkey suasage w/o sugar

[julienc]

Sarah, Cracker Barrel used to be just a Southern place, but they have expanded like crazy, normally found on the side of major interstates. They're all over the south, east coast, and middle of the country. It is a very "country" feel, with a gift shop adjacent to the restaurant, and a big front porch with rocking chairs. Last time I checked they had some in Arizona, but I don't think they have any in California yet.