Who says if you want to eat out for $10 your stuck
with food out of a window? If your accustomed to unwrapping your food out
of a piece of foil I certainly hope it’s out of a doggie bag.
It’s hard to believe that people are still falling for the ridiculous notion
that fast food is a decent dinner. Especially when fast food burgers are actually
nasty little D grade “beef” pattys slapped on a monodiglyceride sodium
stearoyl bun, splattered with some monosodiumglutemate mustard, topped off with
a slice of yellow #5 colored cheese food product, withered brown edged lettuce
and a tasteless tomato. The worst part of it all... it’s still probably
3 or 4 bucks.
“What about Taco Bell” you say. I say cracker please!
(it’s ok I’m white myself) It’s not really that cheap because
you need about five items to get full and I hate to tell you this but Taco Bell
gets their meat out of a bag... a bag people. Go to your local butcher and ask
for a bag of semi-liquid taco meat. I wish I could be there to see his face.
I would bet dollars to doughnuts Taco Bell’s “food” is probably
poisonous if ingested regularly (at a minimum you’ll at least feel poisoned).
Let’s not forget msg can cause reactions from severe nausea to even death.
They can keep their caustic crap, I’ll feed elsewhere thank you.
Still the fact remains when you can only throw a couple sawbucks down for dinner
most of us think it’s easiest to just drive up to the window, come what
may.
All of us over here at EV are doing our damnedest to get you to break that habit.
Hence our monthly Eat’n Cheap article. This month we’ve been lucky.
While hanging out watching Right Turn Clyde (one hell raisin’ hard rockin’ band
brother) a fellow fan known to us only as “Coach” told us a new owner
had taken over Milford’s By Gollys. He nearly insisted we get our camera
and get down to By Gollys to check out the place and sample the “By Golly
Burger”.
Since Coach felt the burger was impressive and he had been our good friend for
almost 2 hours now, we went for it. Just kidding we jump on every recommendation
our readers give us. We were curious about By Gollys anyway. The little Milford
pub has been around for decades. The previous owner was...well...previous. Enough
said. The new owner however, obviously cares about his burgers. They take care
making them as well. My burger was perfectly cooked, evenly centered and stacked
neatly. Beautiful.
Try finding a burger that looks this good from some foul fast food fool. Never
happen.
One would figure if someone takes this much care merely putting a burger together
they would also bother to buy good beef. At By Gollys, one would be right. By
Gollys gets their beef from across the street at Lehrs Meats.
I shop at Lehrs as well and I can tell you for a fact their products are good
but the place is far from cheap. I bought a four pack of pork sausages for something
like $9 last time I was there (I had to, Kroger’s are ALL msg infested,
every one of em’). The sausages were great but the prices are a bit steep.
The fact that By Gollys uses the pretty pink Lehr’s beef is impressive.
In fact, it’s reason enough to order one in my book. Order one I did and
as usual we gave them no idea who we were or what we were doing. No set up photos
in this paper! (After our food came the camera flash kinda gave it away but still
this was “just another customer’s” order when it came to the
table). What you see is what you’ll get. Sweet isn’t it?
My lovely and talented non-red meat eating companion shied away from the beautiful
burger in favor of a daily special, Chicken Cordon Blue with parsley potatoes
and a house salad. The special was only $4.95! Can you believe that?
There were other options on the daily special menu as well. One in particular,
the $4 “Beer brat with soup of the day” had me wishing I could muster
up the waistline wiggle room to eat them both, but even unbuttoned my pants were
too tight after the big burger so the beer brat will have to wait for my next
visit.
I still think of it often.
The Chicken Cordon Blue was decent but petite. I suspect the parsley potatoes
were the canned kind, but the chicken was definitely made on site. The salad
was basic but fresh. All in all it was worth $4.95 and I’m certain it’s
better than anything they have across the street at Rallys. Besides, Rallys can’t
serve you anything with a beer! Did you notice By Golly’s food comes on
a plate with silverware. Remember food on a plate? That’s how civilized
people used to eat folks. Take my advice, leave the “food in the foil” to
the toked out teenagers.
By Golly’s has a good happy hour and food specials everyday, even at dinner.
It’s rare to find such cheap entree prices after 7 or 8. I think By Gollys
is onto something great and I bet the place would be even more popular than it
has ever been if they can just get the word out (that’s what were here
for). I hope the “Burger Guys” get over to By Gollys and tell us
what they think. I know one thing I’ve ate it, I loved it and I’ll
get it again.
I’m headed back here shortly and I can’t wait to see if this beer
brat is a lovely little link of Lehr’s lusciousness as well. If so I’ll
probably just wear sweat pants whenever I eat at By Gollys from now on.
