BakerAunt
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My family sometimes would go to Shakey's pizza--which featured someone playing the piano. Their ad had the jingle: "We serve fun at Shakey's, also pizza." I have no memory of how the pizza tasted.
My family tended not to go out for pizza (except for a couple of times at Shakey's). I come from a large family, so usually my mother either did frozen pizzas, which we usually doctored up for the toppings, or we did take-out pizza. The latter was our go-to dinner on Christmas Eve, as we were desperately trying to make it to a 7:30 church service, in which at least several family members were participating. For a time, there was a pizza place in Glendora, CA that would give a discount on election days to anyone who presented an "I voted" sticker, but at some point the election people put a stop to that. Perhaps they thought that people only voted so that they could get a pizza discount....
A memorable pizza place for me is one in San Diego at Fisherman's Village. I also remember a wonderful stuffed pizza in Chicago. Here in Lubbock, One Guy from Italy is the place to go.
I can see how a couple that gets a babysitter and goes out for a nice dinner might not be happy with rambunctious children at the next table. Parents should think about whether a specific setting is age or behavior appropriate for their children. If a child is trained with good table manners at home, it should translate to behavior in restaurants.
I hate to see a blanket age policy, as it unfairly discriminates against children who can handle the restaurant setting. There would not need to be a rule if people would use common sense, but then, common sense is not necessarily very common.
On Saturday, I baked my adaptation of Pumpkin Tea Bread from Beatrice Ojakangas' Quick Breads (pp. 22-23) I substitute in a cup of whole wheat pastry flour, add 1/2 cup of powdered milk, and 1 Tbs. flax meal. This time I baked the batter in a Nordic Ware pan that makes four decorative loafs (each 2 cups), and a small Kaiser Bundt pan (holds 2 1/2 cups). The little Bundt cake will be for dessert for tomorrow's dinner. The loaves are for after service social time at church tomorrow.
I also tried a new recipe, Oatmeal Macaroons, from Quaker Oats Recipe Collection (1996), p. 14. I like that it uses 3 cups of oats. I substituted in 1/4 cup of white whole wheat flour (total flour is 1 1/4 cups). The recipe said to bake for 8 minutes, but on my heavy, parchment-lined cookie sheets, they needed 12 minutes. I used the Zeroll #40 (tablespoon) scoop. The yield was stated as "about 4 dozen, and I got 51. The cookies are also for after service social time tomorrow.
Addendum: The cookies soften overnight and are soft and chewy.
