Friday, April 22, we stopped for the night in Sikeston, Missouri, not far from the Mississippi River. The desk clerk at the hotel recommended we eat dinner at the nearby Lambert's Cafe, a famous restaurant where they throw dinner rolls at you. It was only a quarter-mile down the road.

What a place! Huge, with hundreds of diners and bus loads coming and going. It is very "country," with all kinds of memorabilia decorating the place, including hundreds of auto license plates tacked to the wall. The menu is southern cooking at its best. Large portions, and to-die-for hot rolls, which the waiters throw at you from across the room! No kidding, that's what they do, from 30-40 ft away. I dropped both rolls thrown to me and the waiter was not bashful about telling me, "Mr., you messed up!" Regardless of what you order (we shared a rack of ribs), they come by with pans full of "pass-arounds," they call them, sides of beans, peas, okra, tomatos and macaroni, fried potatos, etc, etc. It is considered the "Pig-out" capitol of the mid-west. If you ever get near the place you need to try it out. It is quite the culinary experience!