Lunch with Grandma

When we were younger, Grandma used to take my mom (Carol Smith), my brothers and sisters and I out to lunch at Straw Hat pizza.  I don't remember how often we would go, but it was often enough that I still remember very clearly what it was like there and I remember Grandma sitting and eating with us.  I remember standing in line as we ordered the pizza, got our big red cups (which I always filled with Root Beer) and our plates for the salad bar. The salad bar had the red imitation bacon bits that were really crunchy.  Grandma would grab a salad with a lot of different things on it.  I would grab a little lettuce, a lot of croutons, a pile of those bacon bits and some ranch dressing.  Whenever I see those imitation bacon bits at the store, or a pizza place with a red metal roof I think of going out to eat with Grandma.

Craig Smith