SUNDAY MEMORIES
Judy Wills
Do you have a favorite dessert? Someplace you go to get that special dessert? I’ve had a few of those in my lifetime.
For instance, when we lived in Panama City, Florida (Tyndall AFB), I joined a singing group of officer’s wives. Not only did we sing for events on base, but we went to different venues around Panama City to sing for their events. Instead of driving myself, I usually rode with an older woman, who was a Colonel’s wife. One day, following a Christmas concert we had given in town, driving back toward the base, with a grin she asked me, “do you like to be bad?” No knowing just how to answer her, I mumbled something like ummhmm. So she took me to a local Dairy Queen
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and she introduced me to their wonderful banana split. Since this was my introduction to banana splits, I have measured every other one I’ve had with the Dairy Queen’s – and NONE of them have come anywhere close to how good the Dairy Queen’s are! Most are made with Neapolitan ice cream – part chocolate, part strawberry, part vanilla ice cream (I’ve never liked that particular ice cream anyway), scooped onto a split banana, with whipped cream and perhaps a cherry on top. Dairy Queen’s banana split is made with three dollops of their luscious soft ice cream on top of the split banana, then chocolate syrup on one dollop, strawberry syrup on another, and pineapple on the third dollop, then topped with whipped cream. Delicious!! You just must try it some time. The difference is aMAZing!
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When we were first married and living in Fort Worth, Texas, we were told about a really good Texas BBQ place called Jettons. As it turned out, Mr. Jetton was a member of the church we were members of in Fort Worth. His eatery was a cafeteria-style restaurant.
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We would each get a platter stacked high with chipped beef (or shredded beef), swimming in BBQ sauce, a vegetable, Texas Toast, and a Texas-sized ice tea – all for $1.00! Now, realize that was back in the 1960’s, so $1.00 for that much food was not unreasonable. And since we were poor school students, that fit our weekly budget just fine. That was our “splurge” for the week. Boy did we love to eat at Jettons!
A history of Walter Jetton is due here. We learned that he not only had his restaurant in Fort Worth, but he would take his traveling pit and serve BBQ in other states. The most famous of his adventures was to take his pit to Washington D.C. and BBQ for President Lyndon B. Johnson on the White House lawn! He was crowned as the “King of Barbecue” through the United States.
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~~~~~~~~~~To Be Continued~~~~~~~~~~
Judy is living in Central Florida with her retired U.S. Air Force husband of 50+ years. Born in Dallas, Texas, she grew up in the Southwestern United States.She met her husband at their church, where he was attending the university in her town. After college and seminary, he entered the Air Force, and their adventures began.They lived in eight of our United States, and spent six years in Europe, where their oldest daughter was born. She was a stay-at-home mom for many years .
Judy has always been involved with music, both playing the piano and singing. Always interested in exercise, she was an aerobic dancing instructor, as well as a piano teacher for many years, and continues to faithfully exercise at home.
After moving to Central Florida, she served as a church secretary for nearly nine years.Her main hobby at this point in time is scanning pictures and 35mm slides into the computer. She also enjoys scrapbooking.She and her husband have two married daughters and four grandchildren, including grandtwins as well as a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter. She and her husband enjoy the Disney parks as often as possible.
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