| Cracker
Barrel specializes in gargantuan burgers, Cache Valley
cattle brands
By Marilyn
Shelton
April 6, 2007 | PARADISE --
A sign outside the Cracker Barrel Café in Paradise
advertises its "home style country cookin'." Inside
you can sit at the bar or at a booth. If you sit
at the bar you will see decorative symbols painted
underneath it. These are ranch symbols from around
the valley as well as different cattle brands,
explained waitress Milenia Player. Every time
the manager finds a new one he has it painted
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The restaurant serves lunch and dinner. All dinners
are served with salad, rolls and a choice of a potato
or fresh cut curly or French fries. You can have prime
rib, ribeye steak or chicken louis, which the menu describes
as chicken breast topped with crab meat, mozzarella,
avocado and hollandaise sauce.
Or you can try Thelma's lemonade. Player said she
isn't sure why it's called Thelma's lemonade and, "It's
actually a slushy. But it tastes like lemonade."
The restaurant specializes in large burgers listed
under "Signature Sandwiches" on the menu.
Restaurant manager Allen Stock said, "We had an 8-year-old
kid that all but finished the big one."
When he talks about the big one he means the J.E.
Pounder, a burger that actually weighs a whole pound.
Player said that the kid came in on his birthday.
"His dad said he could pick something on the menu
and he was really hungry. He ate almost all of it. Big
men have to cut it up and they usually end up taking
some home."
Stock and Player said that they both still talk about
the 8-year-old kid as one of the few people they have
seen come close to finishing the burger.
If you don't feel up to eating a one-pound burger
there are, of course, many other smaller items on the
menu. A step down from the J.E. Pounder is the J.E.
Junior Burger, two-thirds the size of the Pounder.
There is also the Grant Burger. "The manager named
it after his friend Grant," said Player. The Grant Burger
is a grilled turkey club sandwich.
"The food is wonderful. They give you large portions,"
said Paradise local Diane Roundy.
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