On 31 May 2005 23:18:55 -0700, "Leila" >
wrote:

>This is a chain across the Southeast (not certain of the geography, but
>my cousin in Virginia had a summer job there in college, as I did in
>Greensboro NC). I served vegetables and salads there one summer, my
>only foray into food service. All you had to do was keep the little
>bowls full of various cold salads on the ice bed, and dish up hot
>veggies for people as they pushed trays down the line.
>
>You could get hot roast ham, beef and turkey sliced to order, but I
>wasn't senior enough to cut meat!
>
>Loved the veggies: fried okra, fried mushrooms, turnip greens with
>vinegar and raw onion offered as condiments, green beans boiled with
>fatback, and macaroni and cheese. Don't even argue, mac 'n cheese is a
>vegetable and you know it. We were allowed some allotment of free food
>on our breaks and I always got a veggie combination, three veggie sides
>on a plate. It was a cafeteria but they cooked that food from scratch
>and it tasted good. I remember the cooks shredding cabbage in vast
>quantities for slaw. Of course they made all kinds of jello, because
>jello with a dollop of mayonaisse is a nice salad, isn't it? Not that I
>ate jello or slaw, but even then I appreciated the sight of 'em.
>
>Can you Southerners tell me if K&W is still around, and is their food
>still good, or has it gotten completely pre-frozen and soulless? Maybe
>now in the era of mass-produced food, you have to go to a really
>upscale place to get good tasting Southern cooking, I don't know. Like
>Chez Panisse with a drawl, using organic produce and pork, and
>philosophy majors chopping biodynamically farmed turnip greens, and
>prices to match.
>
>If somebody can fill us in on whether this sort of place exists in
>North Carolina, I'd be most grateful. I keep threatening to visit my
>relatives there, I need to know about the dining out options.
>
>Leila

Hey Leila!
K&W is another restaurant chain that started in Winston-Salem just
like the world famous Krispy Kreme doughnut company. I like K&W if I
want to be good to my body and eat veggies! As good as K&W is though,
they can't make customers line up in the streets to get their food
like Krispy Kreme does when they turn on that "Hot Doughnuts Now"
sign!

Bill