Table at the Florida Inn

Dear Jake & Amelia,
On our way south we stopped at The Florida Inn in Fernandina Beach  for lunch. We walked into a room filled with long tables groaning under the weight of platters heaped with food. The waitress whisked by, telling us not to worry, she'd bring our food soon. Plate after plate of food was placed in front of us: fried chicken, chicken with dumplings, green beans, greens, creamed corn, black eyed peas, squash pudding, biscuits, cornbread, and pitchers of iced tea. The others at the table taught us to shake homemade pepper vinegar from a Crow Royal bottle onto our greens. They offered us butter, a golden scoop of smoothness. Wow. We joked and talked with our tablemates, filled our bellies, and  ate a bit of both desserts: banana pudding and lemon cake. We waddled out of town, happy.

Nancy & Peter

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