Where does Roy Rogers rank?
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Devil is Dill
Doubleplusgood
I liked it when I was a kid. I pass one on my way to Baltimore and I'm always taken aback for a moment like I've gone through a time warp or something.
Danhedonia
Noted duckfat enthusiast
Great fries.
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
We used to passby by the Roy Rodgers Museum in Victorville Ca on our way to lake Mead in Nevada. We did that 2-3 times a year for 20 years. It's also on the route to Vegas. They had no Rot Rodgers restaurant there. We would stop at Coco's.
Chad
Slender Hobbit
So Victorville is not only the home of Face to Face, but the Roy Rogers Museum? Now I need to go there
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
They closed the museum in 2003. Victorville seems like a rough desert town. If you go, borrow Paul Rodgers shank.So Victorville is not only the home of Face to Face, but the Roy Rogers Museum? Now I need to go there
Wyatt
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Better than Denny's? Better than IHOP?
I'm pretty sure I've eaten at a Roy Rogers before. I think once was on a TDY in Baltimore, MD back in '91Probably a few other times too.
Not comparable to diners like IHOP and Denny's, Roy's is fast food, your comparison will be to McD's, Wendy's, Popeyes, etc.
It's my favorite fast food, but some of that is nostalgia. It was once the most popular fast food chain in the DC area (kind alike what Whataburger is to Texans), and what's left has a very loyal following from locals who are old enough to remember it. Hardee's bought the chain, drove it to the point of extinction, then sold it off piecemeal in the '90s. A handful of independent franchise owners held on long enough for it to find a following again, now the sons of the original founding executive have consolidated all the DC/Baltimore-area locations and are expanding.
Some peoples' only memory of Roy's was eating in the horrible food court versions that used to be in Maryland House and Chesapeake House, the state-run rest stops on I-95 in MD. If that was how they all were, then it would probably put me it off as well.
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Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
I haven't been to one in ages, but never went out of my way to go to one. I would stop there if I were near one and needed to eat but never sought one out.
He sang better that Gene Autry.
He sang better that Gene Autry.
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shoeless
Riffin'
Yep, was going to say exactly this. It's much better than those, except maybe Popeyes, but that's not a burger/roast beef place. Roy's does have good chicken though. I like that you can get a choice of sides and not forced to have fries with your meal. I also like the fixin's bar that includes jalapenos and salsa to put on your sandwich.
rickenvox
Animal Psychic
I went there when I was a kid. His wife Dale Evans (?) was working the counter of the little burger stand they had on the inside. Trigger was stuffed in the museum. Good times.
Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
What do you think of his mocktail version of the candy cigarette? Harmless fun, or leading them down the path Nick Nolte traveled? Cowboy up Johnny. You can't have a Shirley Temple.
rickenvox
Animal Psychic
My son grew up ordering Roy Rogers at restaurants. We usually had to explain the ingredients to the waiter or calling it a Shirley Temple.
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Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
Most kids ordered them. It was a fancier soda.
Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
Rogers? Temple? Please, enough with the mocktails. That’s what’s wrong with the world. Let kids be kids, already. Let them order a proper Sidecar.
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