GIGA GRANADA HILLS

image lifted from Snap Man on Flickr Who needs corporate chains like DQ or Foster's Freeze? Not us -- we've got Frosty Queen. Sure, the tables are often gummy with melted soft serve and at night the lighting can be downright creepy, but this place turns out flawless soft serve. Is it ice cream, ice milk, or some sort of gum-based non-dairy mcflurry - esqe mystery substance? If you're brave enough to tell yourself the truth, you'll admit that you don't really want to know the answer. You just want more. On a menu this extensive, everyone will have their personal favorite, and mine is the chocolate soda float. It's like a root beer float, but instead of root beer flavored syrup, they put in chocolate syrup, and the key is that they don't stir it too much. That way, you get three separate tastes -- the bite of plain soda water, the sweet chocolate syrup and the creamy puff of ice cream. As it melts, these three distinct flavors begin to mingle ...

I've lived in Granada Hills for most, but not all, of my life. I hate it here, and I love it here, which means I feel about this town the way a lot of people feel about their mothers. For better or worse, this town is mine. If it's your town too, then this blog's for you. My goal is to patronize every last business in my home town, and write about it here. That process may take a long time. It may not even be possible. I'm not, for example, going to be able to buy a house from every real estate agent. I'm also not going to send my mom to live in the Casitas Care Center old folks home for a month just so I can write about it. But I will drink in every bar, eat in every restaurant, and shop in every store in Granada Hills, and I will publish my complaints (and even occasional compliments!) here. I'm fully prepared for you to passionately disagree with me and my assessment of life in this little corner of the city. I'm even prepared to invite guest bl...