The Morning After: Scones at Lazy Jane's.

Sure, we could have gone for bacon and eggs, biscuits and gravy, that sort of thing. But after a full day of Great Taste beer drinking, punctuated with a bacon-mac-and-cheese pizza and more beer at the Great Dane, our bodies craved something... tamer. Plus, we weren't nearly as hungover as we ought to have been.

So, we went for scones and coffee at Lazy Jane's. Pictured: the blueberry. My brother and I also sampled blackberry, lemon cream and cherry in the café and on the drive back to Missouri. Like lembas bread for the Fellowship, it didn't take much of that dense goodness to fuel our manly no-stop-except-for-gas road tripping.

Besides, we're from southwest Missouri. Almost as far south as you can go and still be in the Midwest. I'm not totally convinced those Upper Midwesterners know what they're doing when it comes to B&G. But they can bake for me any day.