A Patty Shop Approach?

[Gamma]

Looking at what the team management said, not what you said

[Stonigut]

Tell me more bout dat, don't know anything about that.

[Islandman]

As I understand it, they were places that would sell good home-cooked food. Old time Jamaicans like to speak of some that were well known.

Personally I don't remember the term being used in my childhood, in fact the first time I remember hearing the term was from Mutabaruka in his piece about Junk Food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmQaKKMMiVQ

[Stonigut]

Interesting, so yuh think this was a pre independence thing in Kingston prior to rise of small affordable restaurants like Johnson's etc.

[Islandman]

Thats the impression I get, that they were around up to the 60s.

It would be good to hear from some of the older forumites who remember them.

[Mosiah]

Good analogy, but the traditional Jakan phrase is cold supper shop!

Must have been a Spanish Town thing.

[Twan]

Thats the impression I get, that they were around up to the 60s.

It would be good to hear from some of the older forumites who remember them.

see Mo's response above.

Thanks

[Stonigut]

Had to look it up. Found this interesting article. Can't believe someone brought up Myrtle Bank Hotel knowing the history most Jakans had with that place.
http://mobile.jamaica-gleaner.com/gl...7/out/out1.php

[Islandman]

I wonder if the then young Issa was lunching there on the day Evon Blake jumped in the pool and all the "white" people got out immediately?

I see Mitsy is longing for her frogs legs at Terra Nova too...vintage Jamaican dining indeed.

[Mosiah]

"The Crossroads of the Caribbean, they called it - the world-famous Myrtle Bank Hotel. If you drive by Harbour Street, not far from the Bank of Jamaica, you can still see some of those tall royal palms standing in a straight line in an overgrown empty lot, leading down to the waterfront.

Whenever I drive by that spot, I can't help but imagine a glorious hotel in the midst of those palm trees. Saw some surveyors doing some work around there the other day. I wonder what they are up to?!!

[Stonigut]

Funny stuff, I have been around that spot since when and even though I knew about the Hotel from the Evon Blake story, I don't think my brain ever made the connection that those palms trees are the same ones from the hotel until I saw that picture in the article this morning with the palm trees in front, I immediately went to google earth to check it out and though the trees are hard to see the shadows leave a wicked trail of palm trees going towards the waterfront.