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A & W - Janesville - Friday Night Fish Fry
This entry was posted on 1/21/2012 11:13 AM and is filed under Friday Night Fish Fry.
Cool Dadio is not particular to hunting down fish frys at national fast-food chain type joints. In fact, a quick check of my fish fry list reveals a conspicuous absence of any chain outfits to speak of. But, I got a tip the other day that the A & W in Janesville has a fish fry some folks are rather fond of.
Heide and I inched our way across town in the slippery blizzard to the place famous for hawking root beer. We had decided to make a lunch time of our fish fry this week. To our surprise, we were the only customers. The people of Wisconsin sure have gotten soft in all things regarding weather. I remember a time when every day of winter was like Friday's storm. None-the-less, our reward, everyone else's loss. We sat right by the raised fire place.
Fish fry here at the root beer place is not taken lightly. A sandwich board announcing our fish options greeted us as we walked in. Heide and I started off our meals with a bowl of cheesy broccoli soup and chili respectively. It was not grandma's recipe but on this snowy day if fit the bill. We both choose the salad bar option as well. They have a humble and neat little salad bar. The lettuce was crisp and fresh. There was my favorite salad topping of big hunks of boiled eggs. The usual suspects of tasty macaroni salad and fresh cottage cheese were also among the many options. Of course, we topped our salads off with French and Ranch dressings.
We both ordered the two-piece fish dinner. Heide chose a side of onion rings and I a side of fried mushrooms - the consummate burger joint decadence. The deep-fried fish came in long tasty bricks - a style of cut I have not run into before. The whole presentation wasn't too bad for a chain restaurant.
Heide had a coupon for a root beer float, but we were so full by the end of our meals we'll have to take a rain-check on that - or in today's case, a snow-check.
The A & W in Janesville is cool with Cool Dadio. Find them at 936 Conde Street in Janesville. Heading south down Center Avenue toward the airport and Beloit, they are at the corner of Conde. Call (608) 754-0097 for more information.
Note: You can find a chronological list at the Cool Dadio Media Fish Fry Page of these fish frys as we have visited them. The list presents the most recently visited fish fry at the top, in lieu of alphabetical order.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Army Reserve Sergeant First Class Anthony "Tony" Raymond Wasielewski, 50, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, died at his home on Sunday, October 7, 2007. He was recovering from injuries he sustained in an improvised explosive device attack on May 15, 2007, in Ramadi, Iraq. Wasielewski was a member of C Company, 397th Engineer Battalion, based in Wausau, Wisconsin. Two other soldiers from the unit were also injured in the attack.
The Web site ladysmithnews.com said Wasielewski was born on December 17, 1956, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He married Carol Lynn Romano in 1990. Wasielewski had served over 20 years in the Army Reserves. He had also served in Afganistan. The Web site went on to say that in civilian life, "Tony worked for Weather Shield Manufacturing in Ladysmith. He had also served as a volunteer firefighter; belonged to bowling leagues; and, had been made an honorary member of the Wisconsin Bikers Association." Family gave him the nickname, "Rambo of the Flambeau."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel notes that Wasielewski's Reserve unit was reactivated in July 2006. Although he was eligible for retirement, he elected to go with his unit to Iraq. He had spent a year in Afghanistan in 2004 through 2005. When he was growing up he attended South Division High School in Milwaukee. As a young man he had played guitar and belonged to a band. Back when he met his wife he was working as a roofer. He was remembered as being a creative guy as he loved oil painting and charcoal sketching. The Journal Sentinel went on to say, "He also became an avid fisherman who enjoyed catching bass on the Flambeau River."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went on to explain that Wasielewski suffered severe back injuries in the Iraq bombing; after surgery in Germany, was spent several months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and then at a Veterans Administration hospital in Minnesota. He was able to be at Volk Field in Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, to meet his Reserve unit's return from Iraq.
The Web site weau.com related the severity of Wasielewski's wounds, noting he was recovering from a spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, broken back, and hearing loss, all a result of when his vehicle was hit by the roadside bomb in Iraq.
The Barron News-Shield out of Barron, Wisconsin, emphasized that as an Army Engineer, Wasielewski was, "highly adept at the most dangerous job in Iraq, finding bombs."
At the time of his death Sergeant First Class Anthony Wasielewski was survived by his wife Carol; his mother Jean; son Chris Cummings; two brothers Jeff Martin and Dale (Mariellen) Martin; his sister Jody (Jim) Yerkes; his uncle Ronald Wasielewski; and, nieces and nephews. He is also survived by Carol’s family including son Daniel Scherbert; grandparents John and Verna Pierce; father and mother-in-law Nicholas and Judith Romano; two sisters-in-law Jody Romano and Susan Romano; and, nieces and nephews. Wasielewski was also survived by his cat, Sarge.
Sergeant First Class Anthony Wasielewski was laid to rest with full military honors at Riverside Cemetery, in Ladysmith. He is the 106th military service person that has been identified by Cool Dadio Media as having Wisconsin connections and that either died in Iraq, or died due to injuries sustained there since the Spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
104,602 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003 (actually documented).
10,125 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,487 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1875 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
318 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
985 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
1 American/Coalition casualty in Libyan "Operation Odyssey Dawn" since March, 2011.
32,226 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
592 Wisconsin military service persons have been wounded in Iraq since Spring 2003.
15,204 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
192 Wisconsin military service persons have been wounded in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
107 Wisconsin military service persons have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
37 Wisconsin military service persons have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
3 Wisconsin military service persons have been killed in the U.S. related to "The War on Terror" since September, 2001.
151 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
22 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since September, 2001.
5 journalists (regional and independents) have been killed in Libya since March, 2011.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf; and, icasualties.org .
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