Birch Run Gun Show: A Good Place to Eat
I love bacon.
A couple of years back I hit up the Birch Run, MI gun show with a couple of buddies because we knew that there’d be a dealer there that had some Bulgarian Makarovs for $150 a pop. We weren’t able to find the Expo Center right away so we stopped at a local McDonald’s for a quick breakfast and asked some locals for directions.
Got good directions but not so good a breakfast.
This weekend the woman and I ventured back to her hometown to visit her family. They live out in the Vassar, MI area which isn’t far from Birch Run. We snagged a hotel right in Birch Run as we planned on hitting up the local “factory direct” outlet shopping center there on Sunday, which is right by the Expo Center that the gun show is held at.
When we set out to get breakfast on Sunday morning we almost stopped at Big Boy but I suggested we see if there was something that wasn’t a big chain in the area. We found a place called Tony’s. She ordered up some eggs, corned-beef hash, and toast. I got myself some eggs, bacon and toast.
After ordering we noticed that everybody was walking out with a doggie bag. Interesting. Found out why when they delivered our food:
Eggs, bacon, and toast: $6.49
As a bachelor I’d frequently, or at least more often than a human being should, fry up a pound of bacon as my dinner and wash it down with a couple glasses of red wine (to balance it all out) but this was too much for even me. There’s probably 2 pounds of un-cooked bacon on that plate.
You can’t see it, but under that pile of bacon there’s 3 fried eggs too. I placed the teaspoon there just for reference.
This place is crazy. There’s no other words for it.
Next time I hit up the Birch Run gun show this is the place I’m going to stop for a meal.
Oh yeah, they server breakfast at all hours too. Good thing, ‘cuz I loves me some bacon.