When the discussion of where to have lunch came up, Joan said, "Should we try Hot Dave's Chicken?"
"Um... I think Dave's chicken can be hot (and spicy) - no idea how hot Dave is."
"Yeah, Dave's Hot Chicken."
We have never been there, but they seem to be doing a good business whenever we go by. It's only a couple miles from our home. So, Dave's Hot Chicken, it is."
The menu is pretty much chicken and fries. You can swap out the fries for mac & cheese or kale slaw (yeah, I spelled that right.) The chicken can be plain, or lite mild to "reaper." We both went for lite mild. It was good. Joan said she likes it better than Cane's. The guy who helped us at the counter took the time to explain the menu. As a guy, I can't judge whether he was hot (or not); I don't think his name was Dave. I'm also not sure if Joan thought the chicken was going to be served by some Chippendale's looking kinda guy. The guy who waited on us looked more like Chris Kattan.
That's not the place where we didn't need a thing. Joan also saw something about a surplus liquidation warehouse kinda place called SaleSumo. She wanted to check it out. It was a few miles from Hot Dave's. They had a variety of things there, mostly home building/home improvement kinda stuff. Our home is built and improved, so we didn't need anything. They don't waste any money on decor ;-) ...
To be fair, most of it wasn't piles of boxes. Some of it was obviously "scratch & dent" and returned, some of it looked like overstock. Nothing fancy about the presentation, but they had stuff that was showing a price of "30% less than at Home Depot" (including some things that were in Home Depot boxes).
That was our outing for the day. It is hot and windy outside, making for very crappy air quality. The hot: 112ยบ for a high; the crappy: you can barely seen South Mountain or the Estrella Mountains through the brown haze (which may be blowing dirt). Yes, we had "recirculate" on in the car. Both an "Extreme Heat Warning" and an "Air Quality Alert" for today.
