Lunch in Bell Buckle

My wife and I spent the last two days at a conference in Manchester, TN. On our way home today, we made a small detour to a great little place called Bell Buckle, TN. We had lunch at the Bell Buckle Cafe. I had the vegetable plate with greens, beans, corn and strawberry spinach salad. Karen went with the country fried steak, cucumber tomato salad and mac and cheese. We both had fried cornbread and shared a dessert. The dessert was oatmeal cake covered with caramel sauce. The cake was very similar to a cake my grandmother made that Karen used to love.

As you have probably guessed by now, the meal was fantastic. The whole experience was awesome. Even our server gave us a reason to smile. This young lady was waiting tables, going to cosmetology school and MTSU majoring in business. Her plans are to have her own business some day, and after spending just a few minutes with her we both believe she will.

After lunch we walked the town, which did not take long. We met a gentleman that has lived his whole life there who's parents run the best ice cream place in town. Unfortunately we were stuffed, so we will just have to take his word for it. He talked about the festivals at Bell Buckle. The pride of joy of festivals is the Moon Pie and RC festival coming up some time this summer. The gentleman said that about 25,000 people will crowd into this little town and enjoy all the festivities associated with this event that started a few years back when Bell Buckle threw the Moon Pie a 75th birthday party.

Our time in Bell Buckle passed way too fast. After getting directions we headed out agreeing that this sidetrack to our journey was well worth it indeed.