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| - Me to me: You did enough squats and deadlifts today. You can eat some fried food. Yeah!
Enter The Hush Puppy. I've had this spot bookmarked for a while and I finally made the trip there tonight for some drive thru goodness. I showed up around 5:20 p.m. and the parking lot was PACKED and the drive thru was about 6 cars deep. I was like "alright now! Let's commit!", so I chilled in my car for a while, inching my way towards the menu and order speaker. The drive thru takes time, so if you're in a hurry, do not use the drive thru, mkay? Mkay.
Ordering was easy and the voice on the other end of the speaker was friendly and helpful. I didn't feel rushed except for the truck behind me blinding me with its headlights. Drive thru life. Anyway! I ordered 2 pieces of farm raised cat fish. I didn't order a snack pack because I wasn't interested in the hush puppies or fries. I'm on a system with my body where I give it some bad stuff, but not ALL the bad stuff. Don't judge me. Anyway, 2 pieces of catfish, an order of seafood gumbo, an order of fried green tomatoes, and a slice of sweet potato pie. When I got up to the window, the lady was very nice and payment was quick. Got my food in a bag and I was out of there, trying to figure out how to get back to the freeway and home to eat.
The drive home was torture because it smelled so good in my car. Fried everything, seafood goodness. Get out of my way, Friday evening traffic. No really, get the f out of my way because I'm hungry! I laid everything out on my counter when I got home. Something wasn't packed right and the bottom of the bag was greasy but whatever. Taste test ahead!
So, the food. Here is where the experience fell short for me. I'm sad because I wanted to write a 5 star review, but sadly I cannot.
Catfish: Good but not great. The batter wasn't too thick, which was nice, and it stuck to the fish. The flavor just wasn't there. It felt almost under seasoned. I still ate it, of course, but I wasn't like "OMG this is so awesome!". It was ok. If someone brought it to me and was like "Happy Friday! Here's some catfish" I would eat it. It came with tartar sauce.
Fried green tomatoes: The tomatoes were lovely and tart but the batter was a bit thicker and it was falling off when I picked up the tomatoes. Also, some areas of the batter were too salty. I ended up removing one side of batter from the tomatoes since some areas were offensively salty. I had to drink a ton of water with these to feel like I wasn't going to bloat. The good part was the tomato relish sauce stuff that came with it. Really tasty. I used that instead of the tartar sauce for the fish.
Gumbo: Look, I love gumbo. I love it! I ate way too much in New Orleans but this one made me kind of sad for a couple of reasons. Although there was a lot of bits of seafood and some sausage, there was not enough spice to satisfy me and for $5 I just don't think it's worth it. It's a very small portion. I ate it all but I could have done without it altogether.
Sweet potato pie: This was the saving grace because the pie was delicious. I love sweet potato pie almost more than I love my husband. True story. I think the portion was a bit small for $4 but I can let that slide because it was good.
I don't know if I'll ever come back here. I can make a mean sweet potato pie at home and I'll be looking for other Southern fare in the area.
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