While we were in Red Bay, AL we heard talk about the Rattle Snake Saloon. With a name like that we knew we had to take a look! We acquired a rough map of it's locale and headed out. We passed the previously mentioned Coon Dog Cemetary and continued further into the countryside. Coming around a curve in the road, there it was. Parked in a field there were campers, horse trailers, pickup trucks, motorcylces and quite a few cars in an adjacent parking lot. A number of horses were saddled and tied up around the area. We parked and looked around. We saw a couple of squatty metal silos, but nothing that looked anything like a saloon. We wandered around a bit and then the "Rattle Sanke Taxi" drove up. It was a 4 wheel drive pickup with wooden benches in the bed and a metal stairway in the rear. The benches had non-skid on the seats. That should have been a warning! It turned out that a good amount of the establishment is down in a cave!
We got a table and ordered a pitcher of beer and looked over the menu. The first thing we noticed was everything was fried...even the desert. Fried cheese cake! The rattlesnake eyes and tails appetizer were tasty. Deep fried Jalapenos and green beans! The Burgers and fries were excellent as well.
No, we didn't have that one!
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