You had protein drink! :icon_wink:

My best dinner was my first meal after I got released from prison. Just a simple Big Mac and fries. I served 35 years for elder abuse and aggravated manslaughter.

The Villages will be like a playground for you! :22yikes:

Overheard at Mallory Country Club

3 single women sitting together, when a dark haired stranger walks by.

One of the women turns around to talk with him and asks who he is and where he's from.

"I'm new here and just move to TV", he says.

The women ask, "so where are you from?" He hesitates and then says, "I'd rather not say".

"Oh come on, you can tell us," they reply.

"Well, I just got released from Prison last week. I served 30 years for killing my wife and hiding her body parts in a freezer."

One of the women jumps in ... "Oh wow, so now you're single? Why don't you sit down and join us.?"

Best chicken in The Villages is at MacCall’s Tavern in Spanish Springs.

I prefer the fried chicken at McCall's Tavern in Spanish Springs. It's the best I've ever had.

that sounds amazing.

I had spaghetti carbonara in some little hole-in-the-wall neighborhood place in Rome, 20 years ago, with my dad, that I still dream about. Just the red house wine with it, was delightful.

You win the prize for Best First Post Ever!
Congratulations on your release, and we all hope parole goes well for you.

Jenny's Birthday dinner on the Zephyr Dinner Train back in 1990. Zephyr Dinner Train - Stillwater MN - On the Lake

It might have been 1989.

I do remember she argued with the man from the couple seated with us during the trip about the worth of lawyers as a profession. But that was and is Jenny,

Bistecca alla Fiorentina, sitting outside at a restaurant in a park in Cortona--husband.
Me: simple pasta dish with shaved white truffles in a tiny restaurant in San Quirico d'Orcia in 2000. Can't get it out of my mind.

As a fairly new Florida transplant I can say we grew up eating steamed crabs almost every Sunday. My brother caught and steamed them. They are the one thing we miss the most.

OMG, baramundi at our son's wedding reception at an eco lodge in the n Daintree Rainforest, Australia. Yellowtail snapper in the Florida Keys.

We stayed at the old Rusty Pelican, Port Douglas, Aus. for five nights. 1992.
Had Pumpkin Soup, Barramundi, and Pavlova every night. It was that good.

I had the misfortune to break a leg in July in Dover, England a few years ago. I spent nine days in a hospital in Ashford having surgery and getting well enough to be put on a plane accompanied by a nurse from "On Call Intl." The hospital was an old facility and there either was no AC, or it was broken the whole time. So was the WiFi.

The care from the staff at the hospital was very caring and good, but the meals were beyond skimpy and tasteless. Usually no more than a cup of thin soup and maybe a piece of dry bread at lunch and dinner, though one day they did bring a baked potato. One of my four roommates thought that National Health spent $3 or $4 per day per patient on food.

So, after days of this regimen, the one meal I daydreamed about was a big helping of tender boneless chuck pot roast submerged in a rich red wine gravy with onions, carrots, red bell peppers, etc., a piece of artisan bread, and mashed potatoes on the side. No matter it was hot in the room with no AC. My hunger overrode all other desires.

On arrival home, at the first opportunity, my husband made the trip to Sam's Club for a beautiful piece of boneless chuck and roasted it to perfection.

I know our hospitals do not serve gourmet meals, but gruel and dry bread?
I call BS.
If you had any decent medical insurance, you would have been in a private ward anyway.

Ashford NHS Hospital menu below.
https://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk/p...cilities/meals