Saturday, March 8, 2014

The Good Samaritan Fish Fry

Our Lent 2014 Fish Fry tour got off to a rousing start when we traveled into Beaver County to sample the Fish Fry at Good Samaritan Church in Ambridge. We decided to go there after talking a few months back with parish member and former co-worker of Marilyn's at Mellon Bank, Carole Kon.  (When we realized last night just how far back that Mellon association was, well, needless to say, I'll just pass on putting the raw numbers down here.)  Turns out Carole is one of the major domos in putting this whole shebang together at Good Samaritan, so we figured it would be a good thing to turn up and sample this one.

It was a wise decision.

Ten bucks got be the Fish Sandwich Meal, which is a sandwich with two HUGE pieces of fried fish, two sides, drinks, and dessert.  Marilyn went with the "Francine Special" - a piece of fish, two shrimp, crab cake, two sides, drinks, and dessert, also for ten bucks.  ("Delicious", says Mrs Grandstander!) Service was impeccable (your drinks and desserts are delivered to your table), and quick.  

They even had polka music playing - softly, I might add - in the background if that floats your boat.  I'd have preferred the "60's on 6" being piped in from Sirius XM, but that's just me.

As long time readers know, I am a strong proponent of Games of Chance at Fish Fry Dinners.  Good Samaritan is running a "Chinese auction" raffle throughout Lent, so you buy tickets for that, but the drawings won't take place until Good Friday, so there is no instant gratification with this one. Where are the Instant Bingo strip tickets, and, even more so, where is the 50/50 Raffle? The absence of a 50/50 is the only thing that kept this Fish Fry from being a perfect 10.  Call it a 9.9!

If you have easy access to Ohio River Boulevard, the trip to Ambridge is a quick and easy one.  Well worth it on one of these upcoming Lenten Fridays.

P.S. - Carole also gave us the Big Sell on Good Samaritan's Parish Festival, which runs over Labor Day Weekend.  Parish Festivals - this could become a whole new field for Grandstander write-ups!

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