Anniversary lunch at Gold Star!

Lunch!, originally uploaded by debbygerth.

I had two requests for food on our trip to Cincinnat - Swedish meatballs from IKEA, and Gold Star Chili. We had both on Saturday, so I would call that a successful day.

I never had any interest in Cincy style spaghetti. Then in April, my friend and I went down to the Midwest Homeschool Convention (in Cincy), and when we ate dinner, all that was open (and in my price range) was a nearby Gold Star. So I begrudgingly got that. And oh, it was just so very delicious.
So then upon coming back to Columbus, for the first time ever I was excited about having Skyline Chili (the only one that is sold in Columbus). It wasn't the same. At all. I remembered why I never liked Skyline, even though my mom loved it.

The only downside to our lunch at Gold Star? We ate it in Newport KY, next door to the aquarium center (where we thought we'd be going next, until we discovered that tickets were an outrageous $20 per adult, $15 per kid).
We forgot until we were getting seated, that KY still allows smoking inside of restaurants. And there were smokers there. Yuck! So we had a side of second hand smoke with our spaghetti, even though we sat in the very back, and the smokers were in the front area.

Having a "no smoking" section of a restaurant is the same as having a "no peeing" section of a pool.