While in Pottstown...

...why not breakfast at Shorty's Sunflower Cafe? I chose French toast stuffed with pear cream cheese (a special) and insisted on a few bites of Dan's home fries as my side.

If you're a regular here at Snackreligious, you know I love a reasonable portion size, which can be hard to find at a place that specializes in classic U.S. breakfast dishes. However, at Shorty's, the servings seemed just right.

Service was verrrrrry slow, but I'm going to cut them some slack. We visited on the day after Christmas, so there were a lot of large families in the place. I'm anxious to return on a non-holiday weekend.

If I lived in Pottstown, I might even work to make myself a regular.

No ham or turkey for us!

(phone photo by Dan)

For this pastor's (and pastors') kid, Christmas was never really about the food. Or, rather, part of our Advent and Christmas celebration each year was certainly about cookies, bread, sparkling non-alcoholic beverages, and cinnamon rolls, but we don't really do a big Christmas Eve or Christmas Day dinner along the lines of the Thanksgiving-style feasts in which many other families indulge.

This year, with two services to go to and just 30 minutes or so in between, Christmas Eve Dinner was a hastily grabbed and eaten assortment of pizza, cheesesteak, and french fries from Palermo's (4 locations in the Philadelphia suburbs). I didn't try the cheesesteak, but the fries were fresh, crispy, hot, and great. I'm told they're the best. The pizza was also excellent - thin, hot and not at all greasy. The owner was at the Pottstown location when we picked it all up, and he's a friendly, decent guy. I wish it were my local pizza joint.