Becky's Grocery and Grill | Tennessee Crossroads | Episode 2920.2

well next we're going to exit I forty on the eastern side of Tennessee and head toward Maryville now Becky's grocery and grill isn't in Maryville in fact according to rob wiles it's in the middle of nowhere but what you do get there you'll be glad you've made the effort you drive from Maryville looking for Becky's you were gonna drive and drive and drive and then drive some more you just keep driving as you're driving you ask yourself gosh is it worth the effort well yeah it's Becky's we're on nobody's way to anywhere but they seem to find us yes they do and have for quite a while in fact Becky cables mother actually started the place and her son Travis just about grew up here my granny she had it since 70 or 71 I was born in 75 and mom worked with her in here then so this is where I grew up you know I've been in here 40 years and one cent feed I'm 40 years old so I've been here with it that lights been our family you know since I was born Travis runs the place now but Becky is still very much Becky she was just one of the friendliest people you'd ever met her her smile is ever-present and this is genuine smile when I was manning the grill and there would be a line coming up to pay and they would have an opportunity to watch one and I'd had several tickets and one girl said Becky how many things can you do it one time and I said 12 and about that time I messed up something I said whoops 13 Becky loves to have a good time and her customers appreciate that we like Becky and Travis and all the people who work out here they're really wonderful just like an extended family and they have wonderful no kidding yes we make everything from scratch I make them the way mom always did from a family of eight so my mom was cooking all the time so she loved to cook dad loved to cook and I love to cook particularly desserts pies are a specialty I just love to bake and I enjoy watching the people enjoy they they really you know they really enjoy them so it makes me feel good about what I do son Travis may be in charge but it's Becky's food she makes the recipes we just follow him you know he have to have pepper pepper pepper plenty of pepper one of the favorite recipes around here is for what she calls the Ross burger made of course with homemade pimento cheese we toasted from the cheese in pumpernickel bread and then we cook there patty there's a four ounce of the eight ounce and the minute it's cooked you put it in with the cheese on the bread continue to toast it and then dress it you know either way whatever they want on it and they love it the burgers remind me of a taste from long ago which makes sense since Becky learned some of her tricks working at a hamburger place a while back when I was in high school I worked hit a little driving out on the highway highway 73 and everybody in this area remembers Joe's drive-in Andy Huddleston owned it at the time and their hamburgers were to die for her and so I stood by him for about three years and he lined up with his orders and what came next and and I asked him but you know I was 14 15 16 years old and I'd ask him you know why you do that way you know and he would tell me never dreaming that I would ever you know need the information the old-time taste of those burgers is certainly one reason that once you come to Becky's you'll come back we started coming every Friday and loved their hamburgers so every Friday this group shows up here at one o'clock most I'm just like family more than a customer you know because they we have ones that come every week the same day every week they don't miss it a day you know even the long and winding road to Becky's doesn't determine just getting out of town you know I come about ten miles to get here and no problem at all in that so the food the drive and of course Becky one little little kid came in they brought the grandkids in and the minute she walked in she said this is like being at Grandma's house I said you are at Grandma's house because I am a grandmother lots of us would drive way out of the way to experience Becky's grocery and Grill and that way

Channel: Tennessee Crossroads

Views: 148,041

Rating: 4.8653369 out of 5

Keywords: Tennessee Crossroads, Nashville Public Television, Becky's Grocery & Grill, Maryville tn, Home made deserts, Old Time Burgers, Family burger joint, Country store, Becky Cable, East Tennesee Restaurant, npt, wnpt, tn, Restaurants & Food, People of Tennessee, destinations, nashville public television, tennessee crossroads, nashville pbs, tennessee pbs

Id: lzEDeFmJkig

Length: 5min 43sec (343 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 16 2015