Bob Evans founder dead at 89

[The Straight Story]

Bob Evans founder dead at 89

By MARK WILLIAMS


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Bob Evans, whose quest for quality sausage to serve the truckers who filled his 12-stool, 24-hour-a-day steakhouse in southeast Ohio led to the creation of a restaurant chain that bears his name, died Thursday, Bob Evans Farms Inc. said. He was 89.

Evans died at the Cleveland Clinic about 12:30 p.m., Evans' family told the company. The clinic said he died of complications from pneumonia.

Evans complained that he could not get good sausage for the restaurant that he started after World War II in Gallipolis in southeast Ohio.

Starting with $1,000, a couple of hogs, 40 pounds of black pepper, 50 pounds of sage and other secret ingredients, the farmer opted to make his own, relying on the hog's best parts as opposed to the scraps commonly used in sausage. He began selling it at the restaurant and mom-and-pop stores, and peddled tubs of it out of the back of his pickup truck.


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[Withywindle]

1. Did he live that long eating his own food?

Wow.

Of course, that's the average age of Bob Evans customers, from what I've seen. (Dad jokes they make everything soft and salty.)

I have SUCH a weakness for that kind of diner food. I have to put a lot of Tabasco on it to give it flavor though.

[WCGreen]

2. I remember he sponsored a Black and White Robin Hood series

that played every Sunday morning here in Cleveland...

[Wcross]

3. He made some great sausage!

I enjoy his products, I always knew if it said "Bob Evans" on it I didn't have to worry. Perhaps we could talk about the ethics of eating pigs, I don't know or care about his political leanings. He made a damn fine breakfast sausage and thats a fact.

Rest in peace Bob. You made many of my breakfast meals wonderful.

[The Straight Story]

7. And I love the maple links

MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[fortyfeetunder]

4. RIP Bob

Yes the sausage is delectable. His secret ingredients live on!

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Rest in peace, Bob....

I offer a 21-sausage salute.

[Berry Cool]

6. I'm surprised we are not lowering the flags in Ohio for this.

His restaurants have not been as good since they got rid of the "hot biscuits and honey at every meal" practice, but he still made good sausage.

And who can forget his hometown, Rio ("Rye-o") Grande, and his farm where he used to host the International Chicken Flying Contest? Chickens were loaded (gently) into mailboxes and released into flight. They don't do that contest anymore. Not considered humane.

[theHandpuppet]

8. Hot biscuits and honey -- my favorite

I loved those biscuits and honey -- especially since I can't make biscuits worth a damn.

[Rosemary2205]

9. If you ever get a chance - EAT AT MIMI'S!!

It's a more upscale Bob Evans place and the food is slurpalicious.