"It's all about the south !"......

by RayLee, Sunday, July 19, 2026, 06:21 (1 day, 5 hours, 35 min. ago)

That is the advertising slogan/motto of Jack's Family Restaurants, a fast food chain in the central deep south. We love our Jack's. Here in the heart of Dixie there is one in most towns and many locations in the big cities.

Once upon a time there was a plan to install as many as four state run "rest areas" on a busy four-lane east/west non-interstate highway and the funds (billions) were allocated. But that governor's administration self-destucted in fits of much publicized hanky-panky . The leaked audio recordings sound much like don knotts in character as "bernard fife" lewdly pitching woo to betty lynn in character as "thelma lou". The old lady lieutenant-governor who stepped-in nixed the rest area deal opining, "if you need to pee, there is a Jack's every 15 minutes on that highway !"

Jack's biscuits are much celebrated for flavour and texture but they have dramatically shrank in size over the decades. They (biscuits) are an estimated a third to half the size of the competition's. Recently I was complaining in a good-natured banter with one of the relatively "wholesome" much tattooed and pierced drive-thru window wenches when I said, "if those biscuits get any thinner you'll be able to read a newspaper through one of them !"

To which she queried, "what's that ?" The young "lady" did not know what a newspaper is/was !

https://www.eatatjacks.com/pages/our-story/