You know what I'm talking about when I say the word "RUNZA" if you grew up in or around Nebraska. RUNZA opened their first "Drive Inn" in Lincoln in 1949. According to Wikipedia, a RUNZA is described as a type of pastry filled with ground beef, onion and cabbage. And that is exactly what they are! And they are so yummy! Not to mention their french fries and homemade onion rings are to die for!! Ask anybody who knows my mom and they'll tell you how addicted she is to these wonderful little RUNZA'S!
We always have to go to Runza whenever she comes into town...always the first night she's in town! I recently went back to surprise mom for her birthday and all she could ask me was why I didn't bring her a RUNZA!! Yeah.....I could have packed a cooler I guess and stopped in North Platte and put it on ice until I got there but I guess I wasn't thinking. Mom had a rough week with doctor appointments and test while I was there so I promised her that we'd get OUR RUNZA!!! Some how...some way...we'd get it!!!
There are exactly two RUNZA Drive Inn's in Colorado. The closest one was 55 miles away in Loveland! We left the doctors office and drove to Loveland in 45 mile an hour winds and the temperature must have dropped 30 degrees on the drive up there. We didn't care though...we were going to get OUR RUNZA's! You have to understand that there is such a thing as a "good" RUNZA and a "bad" RUNZA!!! After twenty years of eating these with mom, I know she doesn't like a "bad" RUNZA!!! Believe me, I know! Mom is telling me as I'm fighting the steering wheel in the 90 MPH wind gust that this had better be the "best" RUNZA that she has ever had! YIKES!!! The pressure is on! I was kind of nervous as I was ordering for us....I had a lot of pressure on me! These had to be the best ever!! Luckily they weren't really busy and the RUNZA's were absolutely perfect! The fries were perfect and the onion rings were to die for!! The guys that worked there were great and actually took this photo for us! Thanks guys. When we were leaving they asked mom how the Runza was and she said that it was the "best " one she had ever had! EVER!!!! And I would have to agree! And I was so relieved! 
We laughed all the way home because it just goes to prove that we would do anything for "OUR RUNZA'S"
Looking back on this day too just makes me smile because it truly was the "best" RUNZA ever with my mom!!! EVER!!!
3 comments:
OOOH, i love runza's too...probably not as much as you 2 though :) These are great pictures!!
Could it be that the only time I've had a RUNZA, I got a bad one??? We had lived here a year when we finally stopped in once cold Saturday in Jaunary. And I have to say...I wasn't that impressed. But after reading your story, I just might have to give them another try! :)
I didn't realize you added a new post! I've been looking at that AI dude for so long!:-)
Yes, the runzas are good but the burgers are primo!! And yes I want fries with that!
mj
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