365 Things to Do in Memphis #169: Add a Non-Vegetable to Your Veggie Plate

Fried Chicken with dressing from Four Way
Alex Shansky

365 Things to Do in Memphis #169: Add a Non-Vegetable to Your Veggie Plate

I'm about to show you a picture of a veggie plate that I ordered at Soul Fish. Take a look at it and ask yourself: which one of these is not like the others?

Soul Fish veggie plate, Memphis, Tenn.

If you were able to correctly identify the bowl of mac 'n' cheese as not a vegetable, then congratulations! You're right. You're probably also not from Memphis, or at least not from the South.

Assignment #169 in the 365 Things to Do in Memphis is to pretend like macaroni and cheese is a vegetable. Mac 'n' cheese is the most common non-vegetable vegetable, but spaghetti is also fairly common. The best places to do this are traditional, Southern meat-and-three restaurants like Alcenia's, Soul Fish, Little Tea Shop, or Stone Soup Cafe.

Let's take another look at that macaroni and cheese, which still counts as a faux vegetable when you order it as a side for fried catfish.

What's your favorite veggie plate combination?

macaroni and cheese on a catfish plate
Holly Whitfield
Mac 'n' cheese side (with some crispy catfish) from Soul Fish.

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Andy
Best is BLIND BEAR.  Order a veggie plate.  You get 4 veggies... I recommend the mac-n-cheese, turkey soup, banana pudding, and a caesar salad.  Which one of those is actually a veggie?!?
June 19, 2012 10:19am
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