Gulfport walk-about / Peg’s Cantina

Part two of the walk-about finds the mule… sorry, I mean Nat, toting a varied assortment of new purchases to the next rest area. My personal requirements are, a nice seat outside and a good cup of coffee. I enjoy watching folks scurrying about. Nat’s requirement… time for an orange juice and a beer. I just don’t know if I could actually ever put these two things together. I suppose if you break it down to the essential elements…

Let’s see here> Beer: Grain, wheat, hops, barley, pure sparkling spring water… then the O.J. (no, not the guy in jail ((hahahaha by the way)) but the round thing that grows on trees all over Florida, which by the way, is a great source of vitamin C.

So then, we are basically looking at a bottle of pure health food with a shot of vitamins. All the ingredients in the beverage have biodegradable by-products with recycled bottles and glasses. This is apparently the ‘green’ trend to healthy eating. My coffee simply supports foreign industry… I may have to rethink my meal choices.

Anyhow, we find this really neat place called Peg’s Cantina. It’s nestled along the main street a block or two on the right, if your walking away from the beach. We take up residence outside at a nice picnic table. The restaurant is doing a brisk business, a sure sign of success.

Considering my new health food menu choices I ask for a beer. The young lady waiting on us turns out to be the famous Peg herself! Talk about great service. She starts down a list of beers from strange and foriegn ports of call. They have a long list of different flavors and micro-brewery type beers. This is beginning to sound like a health food store in disguise. A guy could live forever here!

Then she starts with the menu. Talk about a neat mixture of stuff. Shrimp stuffed into a burrito – who would have ever guessed? How hot would you like your hot sauce? Then I go for it… the pizza.

Peg tells me that I’m too early for the pizza, something about it only being available after 4PM on weekends during a full moon while I’m wearing roller skates, or something like that… I’m depressed, so I’ll have the nachos, a bottle of health beverage, and some hot sauce. There will have to be a return trip for the pizza – it was highly recommended. (and another healthy beverage)

Peg, being a very friendly sort (I don’t think she was just trying to get closer to Nat either) sits down for a quick visit. She is a real sweetheart. We ask her about the icon she has beneath her sign. Peg tells the story of a few years ago where a starving artist came up with it (we suspect illicit narcotics involved) and a bunch of health food consumers voting in the ‘what is it’ category. Some folks think it’s a nuclear radiated sand flea, others… something to do with the hot chili. You will have to decide for yourself.

The ladies find us getting healthier by the minute. We should look like young studs after a few hours of this. To help with that fantasy we offer up some very interesting wine selections to help the girls with our visual transformation.

Cheers! This place is a definite must do in your travels along the coast. When you finally stop in for a healthy moment or two… tell Peg we said hi and give her your vote for the nuclear LSD infused chili pepper sand flea!

http://www.pegscantina.com/

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