Aunt Eunice’s Country Kitchen
(Five Points on Andrew Jackson Way, Huntsville, Alabama)
My first teaching job was in Huntsville only a few blocks from Euince’s. I would often sneak off for a little breakfast. I don’t think there was a menu, just small, medium, or large size country ham with eggs, biscuits, and gravy.
Well, as anyone who has eaten there knows, you don’t wait for a table, you wait for a seat (more unwritten rules - ed.). You get put in whatever empty chair comes up.
One day I went in and was seated at the liars table. Oh JOY of JOY!!! As I was introduced to my tablemates, who were named David, Jason, and Randy, I placed my order and was all set for my ham. As folks will do when they first meet, people
begin exchanging information. Asked what I did, I said I was a band director at a local school. Across from me Randy said he was in the music business. I asked him what he did, he told me he was in a band. I asked him what they were
called, he told me, “Alabama.”
I was sitting across from Randy Owen and had not a single clue.
Breakfast was good too.
(For those who care David was a car salesman and Jason worked for the state government.)
Contributed by Jarrett Farrell
See a lovely memorial to the now passed Aunt Eunice , proprietress and gossip columnist, which includes lots more stories, and a virtual tour of the restaurant.
