December 18, 2009 – 3:31 pm | by admin

There was (and is, still) a restaurant in my hometown called Eggberts. Eggberts opened when I was a pre-teen, I think, with a maximum of eight booths and a few seats at the bar, which was about two feet away from all the cooking. That was my favorite place to sit as a twelve-year-old, as I got to watch all the eggs being cracked, all the waffle batter being spooned into the waffle irons, all the gravy being ladled onto the biscuits. It was such a magical, wonderful place. As I headed into my teenage years, Eggberts became a hangout for my group of four or five very close friends (Hi, Jenn! Hi, Sarah! Hi, Jules! Hi Carrums!) Strangely, we’d go there on weeknights…weekday afternoons…Sunday nights—anytime we just needed a safe, familiar place to hang out. You’d think five teenage girls with acid wash jeans and Madonna bangles would find a less greasy place to take their Giorgio-perfumed adolescent bodies…but for some reason, Eggberts was our home. And Eggberts welcomed us with open …
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