Much of the individually owned places here are bars or "road stand" type places and they serve a lot of deep fried and commercially made products like what you would find at the big warehouse stores. Even the ones that are Sunday dinner type places have a lot of really heavy food. My parents love those kind of places and they are popular. Deep fried and covered in gravy.
When my husband was overseas my parents wanted me and the kids to go out to eat with them every Sunday. If I ordered a salad at those places it was a VERY small bowl full of iceberg lettuce, one tomato wedge and maybe a slice of cucumber with a few carrot shavings on top and a plastic cup of thick fatty dressing almost as big as the bowl the salad was in.
