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Lafayette, Louisiana №16

So, you know those stories your old man tells you, about his youth?

"Ah, well, so-and-so, he had a Norton motorcycle, I had a Bridgestone, we went on a double date with some Sigma Mu gals..."

 

My dad talked about a couple of things, as all dads do. One was the time he'd run over a skunk with a borrowed car and it smelled like...

 

Another was the time ice formed in his hair, riding his Bridgestone during winter in Louisiana.

 

Then there was the time he "borrowed" the surplus strawberry or vanilla malt ingredients from the burger shack he'd worked at one summer. Apparently on the way home, when it was safe, he drank it all in one long gulp and arrived home sick.

 

Judice Inn was NOT the place that he worked at, but to hear him tell it, when he was at the University of Southwester Louisiana (now UL-Lafayette) that was high his personal list of frequented places - along with his fraternity brothers, whom he claimed had an ongoing Hearts card game that would last the whole day through, as people cycled through the fraternity house.

 

All these stories, then you see one of these cited places for yourself...what to think?

 

Surely this has happened to you, dear reader...

 

The Judice Inn was started by two brothers, who apparently built the place by hand in the evenings, and with flashlights. This was not too long after they returned from WWII. Still going strong. It's an atypical burger, but still pretty good. I make sure to stop there at least once, whenever visiting family in Lafayette.

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Uploaded on April 13, 2010
Taken on January 3, 2010