What is "Rosie Baby's"? I have to go there soon.
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 FlabLoser
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Posts: 5916 06/12/09 06:44 PM |
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FlabLoser |
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Posts: 5922 06/13/09 10:38 PM |
(delayed posting vis a vis dead cell phone battery)
LIVE from Rosey Baby.... The college world series is on a small screen in the corner of the bar. The big screen TV in the seating area is broken. I knew this place was going to miss the mark as soon as our drinks arrived. Our iced tea was delivered in giant plastic coke zero cups whose elegance was rivaled by only the finest convenience stores in the Golden Triangle area. But they did have authentic cajun home-cooking....and by home-cooking I mean that stuff you cooked at home right after you moved out of your mama's house. Let's see...frozen catfish fillet's from kroger which you skipped thawing and slapped down on a pan with some cooking spray, salt, pepper, and a dash of Tony Chachere - and in between reading your mail, paying some bills, and stuff you just about forgot the fish was cooking. It was too dry to flake, but still edible and not burnt. Served with the best canned string beans kroger had along with some boilin' bag rice. No exaggerations here - it was stuff you'd fix for yourself when you've not planned anything and want to put forth minimal effort in the kitchen. Also had some grilled shrimp and by grilled I mean cooked plain in a steamer until the point you cooked & ate your other food and then remembered you still had shrimp in the steamer. Grilled? I assure you no combustion process was involved here. It was tough and chewy, but instead of throwing it away, you sprinkled on some pepper and ate it anyway. Easily, the worst I've ever had. Rosey Baby has got to be a front for laundering money or other nefarious goings on. It can't be there for the food. Only customers there were in two different planned events....events no doubt planned by someone unfamiliar with recent history in Starkville. |
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Todd4State |
Well | #22 | ||
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Posts: 5343 06/13/09 11:06 PM |
You were warned.
But I know how it is- sometimes you just have to experience it for yourself. Actually, the last time I ate there, it wasn't that bad, but then again I eat hospital food everyday. "Because just being good kids who make good grades isn't good enough anymore."- John Cohen
"This league doesn't care how hard you try. This league cares about having real players who can perform certain skills. If you try to throw a fastball in and you miss the middle of the plate, the league doesn't care that you're a really good kid. The game says you better execute the pitch." - John Cohen |
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TBonewannabe |
Do the Crissy's (sp?) still run the place? | #23 | ||
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Posts: 693 06/14/09 10:54 AM |
Those are extremely cheap people. I think they lost their chef a long time ago when it was actually decent. They also own Bulldog package store and the gas
station attached to it along with Coconuts gas station in the Cotton District.
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Posts: 3419 06/14/09 11:04 AM |
TBonewannabe wrote:Something happened to Rosey Baby's around 2000, and it hasn't been the same since. I don't know if it was a change in ownership, the loss of a chef, or what, but it hasn't been the same since. It was pretty good for a little while in the late 90's. |
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ScoobaDawg |
Yes thats them *** | #25 | ||
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Posts: 2623 06/14/09 01:14 PM |
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TBonewannabe |
I heard a rumor about why it was closed for awhile. Don't know if ownership changed or not. | #26 | ||
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Posts: 694 06/14/09 01:32 PM |
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jsireland |
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Posts: 5758 06/15/09 03:20 AM PITA |
Do they still have the "Brew Club"? Used to be $5 to join, then dollar pints domestic and $2 imported, Killians was domestic. We used to go there a
lot, but never ate much more than the fried mushrooms.
 ----- "Josh is a pain in the ass ... he had to go" |
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Bulldog Backer |
My cousin here in town... | #28 | ||
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Posts: 774 06/15/09 03:41 AM |
...is a close friend of Rick's, knows other restaurant owners, and says it was closed by the Mississippi Department of Health for repeated violations. He
says the owner's wife tries to run it with very minimum staff, treats people like dirt, so there is high turnover and only marginal employees willing to
work there. I used to go there for crawfish, but got extremely poor service. When I heard about the Health Department issues, I quit going all together.
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Yossarian39 |
My Buddy was the head Chef there in 98-00 | #29 | ||
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Posts: 8 06/15/09 07:15 AM |
I knew just about everyone that worked there then.... It was really about cheap beer and oysters but Gene is a good classically trained chef. The food (and
Menu) improved dramatically when they brought him in; but he moved to Jackson in 2000. Unfortunately there was no one to continue, or build on the work he
had done with the place so if pretty much fell apart.
Haven't been there in 7 or 8 years now. |
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TheHorrorTheHorror |
i worked for the Chrissie's (sp?)... | #30 | ||
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Posts: 320 06/15/09 07:22 AM |
back in '99-'00 @ Rosey's, and they ran off both of the chefs' that were on staff. they made me the "kitchen manager" at one point,
and i had worked in the kitchen for only about 4 weeks. i ended up just bartending for little while before i finally quit. Curt wasnt too bad of a guy to work
for, but his wife was very difficult to work for/with. it was on the steep downslope when i left, and i havent been back in the place since '01 or so (and
that was only to go drink)...
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TheHorrorTheHorror |
Gene was/is a helluva cook... | #31 | ||
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Posts: 321 06/15/09 07:36 AM |
after he left, they quickly ran Truman off, too
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Yossarian39 |
Still is... | #32 | ||
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Posts: 9 06/15/09 08:13 AM |
Gene still is a helluva cook, just not professionally anymore. Joined the army after a short stay in Jackson, did a little time in Germany, then of course
Iraq & Afghanistan. He lives in Georgia now. Married with three kids. Who would have ever guessed!
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MSUCostanza |
So after seeing all the people on here pile on... | #33 | ||
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Posts: 8047 06/15/09 09:08 AM Post Count + 10000 |
you went anyway? Man, you're dumb. Gives the whole "Give Henig a chance" statement new perspective. And if the food sucked ass, you deserved
it.
It does have to be a front, because there is no way that place should still be open. It is an atrocity.
Greg Byrne is the Stan Jones of athletic directors.
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dawgstudent |
I am guessing he had to go** | #34 | ||
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Posts: 16969 06/15/09 09:11 AM The Godfather |
I support the two most frustrating teams in America: The New Orleans Saints and the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
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cowbell9 |
When Shannon was running the place it was fun.......... | #35 | ||
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Posts: 6178 06/15/09 09:12 AM |
...he was a helluva promoter and service oriented. Place use to pack out 3-4 nights a week. When he was let go, place went to shit.
"A loss will be good for us in the long run"
Frances Drebin "I've had a handfull of man-crushes with players" Rebelbruiser 1/30/08 |
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Optimus Prime 4 |
It's almost hard to serve food as shitty as is being described | #36 | ||
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Posts: 7165 06/15/09 09:13 AM Cobra Kai Sensei |
I mean, you have to try for it to be that bad. Hell, you could order frozen shit from Sysco that is passable.
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TheHorrorTheHorror |
yes!! Shannon was an excellent manager.... | #37 | ||
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Posts: 322 06/15/09 09:17 AM |
i really liked working with him. he had an excellent chris farley impersonation, too.... (the "tommy likey, tommy want wingy" was spot-on)
funny story of when i worked with him: the night of the election in 2000, he came in about 15 minutes before we closed, and the only folks in there were me, and the closing server, and like 4 customers. he locked the door, asked if anyone had anything they really needed to go do, and said: " we're not leaving till Bush wins". needless to say, we staggered out about 3 a.m. |
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SallyStansbury |
Shannon made it go | #38 | ||
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Posts: 88 06/15/09 09:35 AM |
That guy really brought the intensity. I have one of the last known pairs of the golden drinking glasses, into which many cheapo, yet delicious gin and tonics
were poured. We bought those for 8$ each the night of the peach bowl and brought them to be refilled with various things (for only a buck) countless times.
All the bar tenders were really cool. I have to give a kind word to Mr. Crissy too. I hear lots of folks complain about him, and granted I haven't had to
work for him nor his wife....but that guy has always been one of the nicest bar/restaurant owners I have ever come across.
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cowbell9 |
I agree. Curt is a nice fellow. His spouse....not so much. | #39 | ||
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Posts: 6179 06/15/09 09:44 AM |
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"A loss will be good for us in the long run"
Frances Drebin "I've had a handfull of man-crushes with players" Rebelbruiser 1/30/08 |
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MSUCostanza |
I would rather... | #40 | ||
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Posts: 8048 06/15/09 09:47 AM Post Count + 10000 |
call in sick, piss off in-laws, or do whatever I had to do to avoid that place. It's that shitty. Hell, I got sick eating there once - on top of the
horrible service.
Greg Byrne is the Stan Jones of athletic directors.
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