What is the most expensive restaurant in Ohio?

I believe it's called "Quaker Steak & Lube" -- there's another thread somewhere around here about it.

dartmoth graduate wrote:

I believe it's called "Quaker Steak & Lube" -- there's another thread somewhere around here about it.

^^yes that story about the guy eating wings there and taking a dump in public was hilarious!

here it is:

thought police wrote:

I grew up in Northeast Ohio and around there, exists a place called Quaker Steak & Lube. They have the most ungodly spicy hotwings ever created by man. You literally have to sign a disclaimer before you are served them, because they can easily blister your mouth when you eat them. Me, being the hardass that I am, happily sign the waiver and proceed to chomp down 6 of these wings. I get my name up on the wall for having done it, and leave the place in pain, but feeling proud.

The next morning I decide to go for my morning 5 mile run along Mayfield Rd. (some of you in the cleveland area may know where this is). Its a well traveled area, lots of cars most of the day driving along. Residences with front lawns, trees etc.... your typical suburban setting. Well I get the familiar gotta sh*t real bad stirring in my abdomen about halfway into the run, and its an out and back run, so I'm not that close to home. It didn't seem too bad initially so I just kept running, and thought I'd make it just fine. Well those nuclear hotwings from the night before had a different idea. I swear the next tenth of a mile was out of a science fiction movie. The wings moved through me like a f***ing bullet train through the Chunnel and I knew I wasn't going to make it. I stop to walk, and look for a place to hide and let loose, but the particular area I was in just had houses with big front lawns and no particular landscaping. At this point, the alien in my a*s was sprinting for the finish line, and it was so bad, I couldn't even move, lest I shit myself right there on the sidewalk in front of a hundred soccer moms sipping their morning lattes. I shuffle step onto the lawn of a particular house in a feeble attempt to make it to the bushes directly in front of their house, but it was too late. Feeling the overspiced rocket of mud in my a*s about to burst forth, I quickly and frantically pull down my running shorts to clear the path. I was about a half second too slow, as I do this the sh*t blows out of my a*s, into my shorts which are now around my ankles, all over my hands, running watch, and forearms, and some onto the front lawn of this house.

So here I am, 9am, people driving by, slowing down, honking with a shocked and disgusted look on their face.....and I'm standing in the middle of someone's front lawn with nothing on me except my sh*t riddled running shorts.

Thank god I had a t-shirt on that morning because it was my only saving grace. I leave the shorts in the middle of the lawn, take off my t-shirt so that I'm now standing completely butt a*s naked in front of probably a hundred commuters as I wipe my liquid sh*t off my own hands and arms with my t-shirt. Now, I have to get home. So I tie the sh*t stained t-shirt around myself like a loincloth from hell, and f***ing TAKE OFF. I swear to god I ran the last two miles back home faster than Daniel Komen on cocaine.

I didn't bother to return to the house later to clean up the little present I left in the dead center of their yard, I was WAY too embarrassed. I didn't run that route for about a month afterwards. I don't know if all that qualifies as immature or not, but there really was nothing I could do. Thankfully I live a far far way from there now, and I will never eat those godawful wings at Quaker Steak and Lube again.

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3584225#ixzz2Z8pXAEvF

Flagpole wrote:

new yorker wrote:

Only in flyover country would people think they are eating haute cuisine because they saw the chef on the teevee.

Dude, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country...LOTS of international flights leave from Ohio every hour. Hardly a "flyover" state.

Really? Lots of international flights leave from Ohio every hour? How incredibly deluded are you?

And in case you're unfamiliar:

new yorker wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Dude, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country...LOTS of international flights leave from Ohio every hour. Hardly a "flyover" state.

Really? Lots of international flights leave from Ohio every hour? How incredibly deluded are you?

And in case you're unfamiliar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyover_country

Yeah, I know what the definition is...Ohio and Illinois aren't included in that...I mean seriously, Chicago is in Illinois. So you think ALL states between New York and CA are flyover states? Nah.

Again, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country with a TON of people living here, flying here for business and pleasure. Ohio is not the same as Montana or Wyoming.

Flagpole wrote:

Again, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country with a TON of people living here, flying here for business and pleasure. Ohio is not the same as Montana or Wyoming.

This guy.

Flagpole wrote:

new yorker wrote:

Really? Lots of international flights leave from Ohio every hour? How incredibly deluded are you?

And in case you're unfamiliar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyover_country

Yeah, I know what the definition is...Ohio and Illinois aren't included in that...I mean seriously, Chicago is in Illinois. So you think ALL states between New York and CA are flyover states? Nah.

Again, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country with a TON of people living here, flying here for business and pleasure. Ohio is not the same as Montana or Wyoming.

You kind of ignored my question about the "lots of international flights every hour." Wonder why that is.

As for whether or not Ohio is a flyover state, it most certainly is. A flyover state is anything between the eastern and western megaopoli. Look at the Wikipedia definition. A strong case can be made for excluding Chicago, but not the rest of Illinois or Ohio.

Posting to be a part of this epic thread. Carry on.

new yorker wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Yeah, I know what the definition is...Ohio and Illinois aren't included in that...I mean seriously, Chicago is in Illinois. So you think ALL states between New York and CA are flyover states? Nah.

Again, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country with a TON of people living here, flying here for business and pleasure. Ohio is not the same as Montana or Wyoming.

You kind of ignored my question about the "lots of international flights every hour." Wonder why that is.

As for whether or not Ohio is a flyover state, it most certainly is. A flyover state is anything between the eastern and western megaopoli. Look at the Wikipedia definition. A strong case can be made for excluding Chicago, but not the rest of Illinois or Ohio.

What the hell are you talking about, New Yorker? I am a businessman living in Cincinnati. And I regularly fly to Hong Kong, Brussels, Dubai, and Tokyo direct from right here in my hometown. We have many big important businessmen like myself in Ohio who regularly do the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 8-12 international flights leaving from Ohio every half hour.

Wow! What yo bidness?

I'm so happy my little debacle is remembered by so many on here! Makes it almost worth it. Almost.

might be wejo wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Again, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country with a TON of people living here, flying here for business and pleasure. Ohio is not the same as Montana or Wyoming.

This guy.

Not sure about the "pleasure" part but here for "business", then yes.

What the hell are you talking about, New Yorker? I am a businessman living in Cincinnati. And I regularly fly to Hong Kong, Brussels, Dubai, and Tokyo direct from right here in my hometown.

Except the Cinti Airport really ins't in your hometown, is it?

Umm hello. Bob Evans in Perrysburg duh. Double down on the gravy n biscuits son!

Faster forward wrote:

What the hell are you talking about, New Yorker? I am a businessman living in Cincinnati. And I regularly fly to Hong Kong, Brussels, Dubai, and Tokyo direct from right here in my hometown.

Except the Cinti Airport really ins't in your hometown, is it?

Actually I'd like to add to this, that the Cinti Airport isn't even in Ohio, they farmed it out to the yokels in Kentucky.

new yorker wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Dude, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country...LOTS of international flights leave from Ohio every hour. Hardly a "flyover" state.

Really? Lots of international flights leave from Ohio every hour? How incredibly deluded are you?

And in case you're unfamiliar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyover_country

Yes, people everywhere are provincial.

international businessman wrote:

What the hell are you talking about, New Yorker? I am a businessman living in Cincinnati. And I regularly fly to Hong Kong, Brussels, Dubai, and Tokyo direct from right here in my hometown. We have many big important businessmen like myself in Ohio who regularly do the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 8-12 international flights leaving from Ohio every half hour.

Ok, so show us some direct flights from CVG to Dubai, Hong Kong, or Brussels. Which airlines have non-stop flights? And does CVG have an international arrivals lounge for all those elite flyers coming in on international flights?

Ohio is by no means known as a hotspot for world class restaurants. But I was surprised to see that in one ranking of the top 100 restaurants in the US only Lola in Cleveland made the list coming in at 100th place.

A lot of New Yorkers drive to Northern Ohio to go the number one roller coaster park in the world, Cedar Point. Not to generalize but the ones I've met love to put down the area as Podunk and usually are very loud and want everybody to know they are from the East Coast and never have seen a hick town like Sandusky before. (Which is really no more hick than most of Florida, which the New Yorkers spend a lot of time visiting.)

But as far as restaurants, I'm no "foodie" but I know a 50 dollar steak in a great restaurant can be awesome compared to a 25 dollar steak in a local "fancy" restaurant anywhere.

I could never imagine spending more than that and expecting 200 dollars or whatever would be that much better. You can only so much anyways. What drives up the cost in a huge expensive restaurant?

Flagpole wrote:

Dude, Ohio is the 7th most populous state in the country...LOTS of international flights leave from Ohio every hour. Hardly a "flyover" state.

There are no major airports in Ohio. The busiest airport in Ohio, Cleveland, is only the 39th busiest in the U.S.