{"id":18377,"date":"2018-09-03T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T16:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=18377"},"modified":"2018-09-03T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T16:13:18","slug":"polar-freeze-review-walnut-ridge-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=18377","title":{"rendered":"Polar Freeze Review, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Polar<\/a>Continuing my northbound trek through Arkansas recently, I came upon Walnut Ridge, which doesn’t seem to have any Walnuts OR Ridges.<\/p>\n

However, I did find out that the Beatles landed at the airport for a minute in 1964, and there’s\u00a0 a plaque commemorating that event.\u00a0 It’s also on the Amtrak route from Chicago to Dallas.\u00a0 That’s about it.<\/p>\n

It also has the Polar Freeze<\/a>, a local family owned fast food drive-in, which seems to specialize in pit BBQ as well as burgers and the usual drive-in fare.<\/p>\n

I was in the mood for a quick burger and tots, and it seemed like the Freeze could fit the bill.\u00a0 They weren’t very busy, and they had lots of employees (all family?) scurrying about pretending to be busy.<\/p>\n

The customer ahead of me was grumbling that they “lost his order” – but finally he was handed a bag, jumped in his car and took off.<\/p>\n

My order just took a few minutes.\u00a0 They handed me a number that they would call when it was ready.<\/p>\n

It was ready, and I too, jumped in the car and headed east, towards I-55 and the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n

The tots were perfect and they included a solitary salt packet along with a handful of ketchup packs.<\/p>\n

My first bite into the burger took me by a little bit of surprise. I might have gotten the other guy’s lost order, or else they dress their burgers around here in a unique way.\u00a0 My burger was topped with a flavored mayo (tho I can’t tell you what the flavor was) and dill pickle chips.\u00a0 Period. Not disagreeable, but not my choice.<\/p>\n

The hand-pattied burger was ultra local beef (you can tell) which was a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n

I should have ordered more, should have tried the BBQ.\u00a0 Shudda, wudda, cudda.<\/p>\n

There’s a note on the street sign that asks “Have you thanked the man upstairs today?”\u00a0 But as you can see from my pic, there is no upstairs at the Polar Freeze.\u00a0 So.<\/p>\n

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Continuing my northbound trek through Arkansas recently, I came upon Walnut Ridge, which doesn’t seem to have any Walnuts OR Ridges. However, I did find out that the Beatles landed at the airport for a minute in 1964, and there’s\u00a0 a plaque commemorating that event.\u00a0 It’s also on the Amtrak route from Chicago to Dallas.\u00a0… Continue reading Polar Freeze Review, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16],"tags":[518,774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}