#whistlestop cafe

[thots-and-thoughts1031]

Fried green tomatoes is such an underrated movie. I love it so much. It’s got it all, 1920s southern accents, a queer couple that is never a ‘couple’ but it’s heavily implied and they raise a boy together, it’s set in my home state, and of course, the white shn-azi gets what he gets.

I never understood why my mom loved it so much (beyond it being a very good movie). I understand now, but that’s her secret to keep.

#fried green tomatoes #book to movie #adaptation that does it right #adaptation #idgie threadgoode #idgie x ruth #Ruth #whistlestop cafe

[technicolorrelays]

#i know im forgetting something #fried green tomatoes #fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe #idgie threadgoode

[glovelylovely]

from january 8th, 2024

#fanart #my art #wlw #lesbian #fried green tomatoes fanart #fried green tomatoes #idgie threadgoode #idgie x ruth #ruth jamison #fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe #lesbian visibility week

[raspberry-beret]

A downtrodden housewife finds self-confidence after she begins a friendship with a spirited elderly woman who tells stories of the love between two women she knew in her past.

Film Weekend - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe (1991)

"All these people'll live as long as you remember 'em."

#my post #capsule wardrobe #capsule #fashion #style #minimalism #minimalist wardrobe #minimalist fashion #red #blue #pink #brown #white #spring #film weekend #fried green tomatoes #fried green tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

[callforhelp]

Whelp. Adding Fried Green Tomatoes to my “be gay do crime and also being gay is a crime” collection (no road trip this time though) and yet another book to my reading list 🙃

#it was especially fun because I’ve been to the place it was filmed #I’ve eaten the fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe! #and biked by the river/bridge/giant concrete building things #fried green tomatoes #(for my pattison people… it’s like what if patty was the one to kill kevin) #(which is obviously an au i need now if anyone knows of any fics)

[lilnasxvevo]

“No, you’ll see, this brunch place is FANCY fancy. I hear, their Eggs Benedict? Is a lesbian.”

“Their—what the fuck does that even mean?”

#continuing to be amused and concerned at the menu of the place we’re going to today #if this post confuses you beyond belief go ahead and Google ‘fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe’

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

The books I read in May 2022! 

Some of these (Fried Green Tomatoes, Sexual/Textual Politics, and Carrie) were for a Gender Studies class I was taking for my grad degree. The rest of these were books I read because I wanted to, unrelated to my studies. My final for this class was related to The Handmaid’s Tale, which I read in April for this same class. 

I wanted to read The Testaments after spending so much time on The Handmaid’s Tale with the paper. It wasn’t what I expected. 

I picked up Wild Game when I saw it at the local used book store because my Writing Professor at one of my previous schools recommended it. He knew the author personally too. It’s a memoir of a young woman who helps her mother conduct an affair.  

The Return of the Solider is about a solider who loses part of his memories in WWI as a result of trauma and it’s told from his cousin’s perspective. Rebecca West wrote this during the war and it was published in 1918. I wanted to read more WWI and historic fiction since one of my writing projects has the war as one of the settings. 

I started reading Heartstopper. I read the first book earlier this year and I have the third one coming in the mail soon. The comic is still cute where I’m reading but I was warned by a friend that it’s going to get much heavier soon. 

Female Husbands was a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while and finally got to this month. The book is about the history of trans men, butch lesbians and bisexual women who identified as men in the past (mostly the 18th and 19th centuries in the UK and US) to live as men and usually marry a woman. Because it’s a pretty wide case study and I can’t speak for the dead (a controversial issue when identifying LGBT people in the past), it’s impossible to tell what some of the people would identify as if they were alive today, given the different terminology we have now. The book’s title comes from a historic term given to this community. I found their stories compelling. It was one of the better books I read last month.

The Jane Austen Society was good too. I finally got around to this one as well (I’ve been trying to read from my shelves without buying more new books and somewhat succeeded). Set in the 1940s following WWII, in a small town where Jane Austen once lived, some fans of Jane Austen come together to try to preserve some of her life to create a museum in her honor. There’s drama between the members of the society (several romances). There’s a sequel out too that involves one of the main characters. I’m looking forward to that.

#carrie is probably one of the worst books I've read in a while #King compares most of the female characters to animals multiple times throughout the book :/ #most of the other books here were 4-5 stars #sexual/textual politics is very old and is critiquing 2nd wave feminism #I wished we studied newer articles since everything was from the 70s or 80s #I like learning about history but A LOT has happened since the 1980s... #books #bookblr #LGBT lit and historic fiction are two of my genres #read in 2022 #the jane austen society #female husbands #fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe #the return of the soldier #the testaments #wild games #mychatter #maybe I'll start doing some bookblr content since I read fairly often #I have to for my degree but also because I love it #romance #LGBT lit #LGBT history #feminism #women's literature #women writers #may 2022

[edenfenixblogs]

Hello Eden (is it okay to call you that?)

Do you have any current favourite songs? What kind of music do you generally listen to?

And do you have any favourite books? What kind of books do you like to read?

If you are okay with sharing, no pressure.

Sending you love and strength ❤️

Ah!!! Thanks for this ask @sunnenfinster! What a lovely change of pace.

Eden is fine!!!!!

Ok, so I love music and books!

Of all broad genres of entertainment media, music is probably what I follow least closely. It’s not that I don’t like it; I just am always behind the curve in my tastes. I love listening to most confessional singer/songwriters. I love folk, rock, pop, and rap. I also get a lot of music I like from the background of media like TV, Movies, and podcasts. In general, I love confessional singer-songwriters from any genre.

Fave singers (and the albums I’d recommend from them: songs I’d recommend from that album [notes]):

Jem (Finally Woken: Come on Closer, Falling for You, Just a Ride). All songs on this album rock, to me.

Sheryl Crow (Sheryl Crow: A Change Would Do You Good, [about choosing love over anger and stopping gun violence], Redemption Day [about the Bosnian war], Maybe Angels [could be about aliens or being in a cult idk but it’s a good song about misplaced belief] I love every song on this album tbh. Wall-to-wall bangers.

Missy Elliot (Under Construction: Gossip Folks, Work it)

Suzanne Vega (99.9 F: 99.9 F, Blood Makes Noise, Rock in the Pocket, When Heroes Go Down)

Artists and songs I like in general: Aimee Mann (her voice is like butter and I could listen to her sing forever); Eliza Rickman: Pretty Little Head; Sims: Icarus; Dessa: Call Off Your Ghost; Sifu Hotman: Matches (I know no other songs by this artist but I LOVE this one so much. I’m gonna go listen to it right now); Lorde: Yellow Flicker Beat; Björk: Human Behavior; G Flip: Hyperfine, Gay 4 Me, Killing My Time; Aimee Mann: That’s Just What You Are [I love Aimee’s voice and could listen to her sing the phone book. All songs off her Magnolia Album are amazing too]

And gosh. So many more…

As for books!!!! OMG! I love books so much. I love so many different kinds of books. Some fave genres include: Classic Lit, Magical Realism, Sci-fi/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction; Engaging YA Series, Historical Fiction; Culinary History and Analysis; and Mythological Retellings

Classic Lit Faves:

“To The Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf [This contains my fave quote in all of literature. This could also never be adequately adapted into a movie. It’s a fascinating look into how people think and how we all process internal thoughts. Must be comfortable with long sentences, semicolons, and allowing sentence clauses to wash over you like ocean waves in order to enjoy this book]

“Cider with Rosie” by Laurie Lee

“All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque

“The Portable Dorothy Parker” by Dorothy Parker

“The Odyssey” by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

“The Iliad” by Homer — both Emily Wilson’s Translation and Stanley Lombardo’s Translation

Magical Realism

“The House of the Spirits” by Isabelle Allende

“Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter” by Mario Vargas Llosa

“Bless Me Última” by Rudolfo Anaya

“Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel

SFF Faves:

“An Absolutely Remarkable Thing” and “A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor” by Hank Green

“The Martian” by Andy Weir

The Tiffany Aching line of the Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett (“The Wee Free Men,” “I Shall Wear Midnight,” “A Hat Full of Sky,” and “Wintersmith”)

“The Locked Tomb” Series by Tamsyn Muir (“Gideon the Ninth,” “Harrow the Ninth,” “Nona the Ninth” so far)

Engaging YA

“The Hunger Games” Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

“Grishaverse” Series by Leigh Bardugo

“Shadow and Bone Triogy” (related to the Grishaverse) by Leigh Bardugo [note: I didn’t know until making this list that Leigh Bardugo is an Israeli Jew! Very cool]

Historical Fiction:

“Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe” by Fannie Flagg [the associated cookbook is very good. Also, you’ll never eat ribs the same again]

“Tracks” by Louise Erdrich [one of the most interestingly written books I’ve ever read. Has two dueling narrators. This is part of a series of books but can be read as a standalone]

Culinary Analysis History

Bree Wilson’s books (“First Bite: How We Learn to Eat,” “Consider the Fork,” and “The Way We Eat Now,” specifically) are some of the best out there. [I didn’t realize until a couple weeks ago that Bee Wilson and the classicist translator Emily Wilson are sisters! They are both extremely smart, engaging writers.]

“Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan

“An Edible History of Humanity” by Tom Standage

“Food: A Cultural Culinary History” by Ken Albala (this one is a Great Courses course, so not technically a book. But it’s available most places you can get audiobooks. And it’s what got me fascinated with this subject)

Mythological Retellings

“Circe” and “The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

“The Silence of the Girls” and “The Women of Troy” by Pat Barker [TW Rape]

“Norse Mythology” by Neil Gaiman

Genre Defy-ers

(These are some of my All Time Faves that can’t really be confined to any genre)

The “Outlander” Series by Diana Gabaldon [and the related “Lord John” Series by the same author] (TW: for Rape)

“The Anthropocene Reviewed” by John Green

Just Finished Reading

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Truman Capote (Wow it was so good. I haven’t seen the movie in a while but I seriously doubt they adapted it faithfully. It was so surprising!!!)

Currently Reading

“Murder on the Orient Express” by Agatha Christie

Selections From My To Be Read List

“The City of Brass” by S.A. Chakraborty

“Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus

“The Source” by James Michener

“The Secret of Cooking” by Bee Wilson

“Equal Rites” by Terry Pratchett

“A Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England” by Ian Mortimer

“What You Are Looking For Is In The Library” by Michiko Aoyama

“The Doomsday Book” by Connie Willis

I also love to read cookbooks from various cultures to gain insight into those cultures in a very tactile way.

Sending you love and gratitude! 💜💜💜💜

I’m always down to discuss books!

#about me #books #lit #book Recs #culinary history #historical fiction #YA #Classic Lit #Queer Lit #book worm #reading #reader #mythological Retellings #ask me stuff

[betty-bourgeoisie]

A Streetcar Named Desire would actually be better if it ended with a cannibalism scene a la Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe

#fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe #a streetcar named desire

[kn95-blog]

Hey there!! Which quote implies Winona is a lesbian?? /gen

I was thinking she was a lesbian the entire time, but I didn’t know that it was mentioned in game?? I just think that’s neat :3c

Have a good day!! :3

this post has an example, with an explanation for the quote's meaning, since it doesn't really click in modern slang. this quote, plus the way she dresses and acts... she's literally a lesbian.

in case the post gets deleted or something, it’s winona saying “i prefer ‘em fried and green” in reference to tomatoes. that quote is a reference to a lesbian romance novel called “fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe”.

#ask #anon

[brookstonalmanac]

Beer Events 3.3

Events

Beer tax reduced from $1 to 60 cents per barrel (1863)

S. Franklin Schoonmaker patented an Improved Mode of Preserving Hops (1868)

Philip Sheuermann died (1898)

Manitoba Frain Growers’ Association founded (Canada; 1903)

Anton Reck Brewing closed (Illinois; 1919)

W.C. Fields' A Fatal Glass of Beer premiered (1933)

Samuel Lee patented a Refrigerating Jacket (1953) 

Guinness patented the Production of Hopped Wort (1964)

Daniel Belich patented a Beer Keg Tap (1970)

Molson patented Light Protective Bottle Glass (1981)

Robert Sharrard patented a Dispensing Security System for a Vending Machine (1998)

Breweries Opened

Pennsylvania Brewing / Penn Brewery opened (Pennsylvania; 1986)

McGuire's Irish Pub & Brewery (Florida; 1989)

Beaver Street Brewery & Whistlestop Cafe (Arizona; 1994)

Brewhouse Club (Argentina; 2000)

Pittsburgh Hofbrauhaus (Pennsylvania; 2009)

#Events

[maggie-yo]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Fannie Flagg’s Original Whistlestop Cafe Hardback Cookbook (1993).

[nevinslibrary]

Mystery/Thriller Monday

This book is about the disappearance of Zoe Nolan, a 19 year old student who left her dorms in Manchester and then was just gone. And, then the case goes cold too.

Enter a pair of writers. Evelyn Mitchell finds herself more and more obsessed with figuring out what happened to Zoe as well as the other girls who go missing like she did. And, Joseph Knox is also pulled into the investigation.

It was told in a not so straightforward way, there were emails from one writer to the other, transcripts of conversation, even official documentation as well. It did take a minute to get used to the different sort of way the story was being told, but, this wasn’t the first book I’ve read that has used this sort of thing to tell the story. The most famous book that sorta uses these sorts of things was Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (1987, wow that was a long time ago).

I gave this book a try because I have listened to many a True Crime podcast like this, but, unlike those podcasts that don’t generally have a ton of insane twists, this book kept me guessing and had some doozies of twists and turns.

You may like this book If you Liked: Broken River by J. Robert Lennon, Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard T. Chizmar, or The Appeal by Janice Hallett

True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

#mysterythrillermonday #nmlRA #nevins memorial library #true crime story #joseph knox

[cosmiccherrywhore]

Hai Cherry!!! For the ask game: 15, 19 and 27?

I miss you and hope you are having a fantabulous day~☆! :D

HOI ROSIE!!!! I miss you too my love! I've been okay!

15: favorite movie

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe!!! The book too!

19: a fact about me

I love doing laundry but hate the dishes >.<

27: a description of the guy/girl I like.

There's this girl I like, she has strawberry hair and big excited eyes. She's the most beautiful person I've met, and I don't know if I'm good enough for her. Regardless I hope she finds happiness and knapsack me by her side

#irl friends #cherry mumbles

[thewhistlestopcafejuliette]

The Whistle Stop Cafe is located in Juliette, GA and was used in the 1991 film, Fried Green Tomatoes. The restaurant is still open, serving classic southern dishes and, of course, Fried Green Tomatoes! You can walk around Juliette and visit Ruth + Idgie’s place, leave honey at the graves, find Buddy’s arm, and shop around! 

(And please check out the *correct* FB page, not the one with “(original)” attached to it!)

www.thewhistlestopcafe.com

ig: @ thewhistlestopcafe_juliette

#fried green tomatoes #fried green tomatoes at the whistlestop cafe #the whistle stop cafe #the whistlestop cafe #whistlestop cafe #travel blog #literature #spring break #explore #movies #vintage #travel #fannie flagg #southern #best friends #ruth jamison #idgie threadgoode #secrets in the sauce

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

Looking for a good read about or by sapphic women or gay/bi men?

Look no further! I gave all these books 4 or 5 stars when I read them. 

Lesbian and bisexual women (subject and author): 

Two or three things I know for sure by Dorothy Allison (lesbian memoir)

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (graphic novel, lesbian memoir)

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donahue (historic fiction, bisexual woman and lesbian wlw relationship)

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabi Rivera (ya contemporary, lesbian mc)

Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (historic fiction, butch/femme wlw)

Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden (ya lesbian classic)

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (historic fiction, lesbian classic)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (historic fiction, bisexual woman and lesbian wlw relationship)

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney (graphic novel, memoir- even though it’s mainly about bipolar disorder mostly she is bisexual and it’s mentioned in the novel)

Lesbian or Bisexual Woman author (not necessarily an LGBT subject): 

Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own all by Virginia Woolf (bisexual author)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (bisexual author)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (lesbian author)

The Yellow Wallpaper (and other stories) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (bisexual author)

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn (bisexual author)

Passing by Nella Larsen (bisexual author)

Transgender Topics: 

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion (LGBT history- only concerns relationships between historic AFAB couples and AFAB people who lived as men for many reasons- wider career opportunities and being able to marry a woman were the two most common reasons cited across all stories chronicled) 

Gay Men and Bisexual Men (subject and/or author): 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (historic fiction, Greek Myths)

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (gay author, essays on race in America)

Boy meets Boy by David Leviathan (ya contemporary mlm romance)

If We were Villains by M. L. Rio  (ya, dark academia, mystery)

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (historic fiction, bisexual mlm, ya) The two sequels also have more lgbt characters. 

#these are my owned lgbt books #that I've read! #my owned tbr has more lgbt lit #and I've read a bunch of lgbt books from the library system or that I borrowed from my school's pride collective library long ago #some of the best ones I ever read are not here #but that will be another post #most of these are 4 or 5 stars #but some of these are heavier than others #books #lgbt lit #annie on my mind #nancy garden #juliet takes a breath #gabi rivera #my lesbian experience with loneliness #kabi nagata #emma donoghue #charlotte perkins gilman #virginia woolf #james baldwin #david levithan #fannie flagg #sarah waters #emilie autumn #radclyffe hall #mackenzi lee #m. l. rio #madeline miller #bookblr #I'm currently rereading the well of loneliness for a paper I'm writing in my grad class