WIENERSCHNITZEL

Monday, April 30, 2007

Years ago when I lived in Southern California, I loved to eat Wienerschnitzels. I can remember when they first came to our town—El Monte. My brother and his family would come to visit and we would go to Wienerschnitzel. They only cost 15 cents (I said it was a long time ago) and my brother and I would have a contest to see who could eat the most.

Last week I was visiting with my friend, Tim Slider, when the conversation for some reason turned to Wienerschnitzels. I told him how much I miss them since there are none in my part of the valley and there were none in Northern California where we lived before moving here. Tim started rattling off the Wienerschnitzel locations all over the valley. He knows where they all are. There were about seven of us sitting around talking and it was easy to see they couldn’t care less. But I cared!

I’m going outside to the grill and “burn” a wiener or two right now!