Reply #64: A good "meat and three" beats Applebees, Cracker Barrel,

[DemBones DemBones]

et al., by a country mile. You can also eat well, and inexpensively, at the many Mexican and Chinese restaurants that have been springing up in the South for the past twenty years or more. Recently a group of friends and I visited a new country style buffet here and I wasn't terribly surprised to find it run and staffed by Chinese. They do an admirable job of cooking like a Georgia grandma, though the mashed potatoes were clearly instant. Salmon croquettes and good pole beans made that sin forgivable.