Jackson Jambalaya

this will all be forgotten news by this time next week.

what needs to be done now is that the unelected goofball superintendents of the PRVWSD get some thing done about those canada geese speeding salmonella and e-coli bacteria all over the place.

in mississippi there is always another toilet to be flushed.

I had heard something on the news about an employee who had been let go. I do hope the restaurant recovers. I believe it will.

They claim they got cucked by a broken pipe?

An employee got fired for striking a female manager. When he was fired he stated that he would get even on social media.

And we thought Jackson water was bad! At least we don't have broken water lines spewing out rats and cooking grease!

I am not going back. I do not see them recovering from this.

Rats are rats no matter how you spin it

That's not a big crowd for a Friday night.
Hope the cock of the walk recovers.

WTF does a disgruntled employee have to do with rodents and roaches in the kitchen?! Maybe he was trying to get even, but they sure as hell didn’t deny it being their kitchen in the video. So the former employee planted the pests there and then filmed it?

I don’t like cooked goose per se, but I do like to put them on the gas grill.

@9:54 PM - It wasn't their kitchen in the videos. There are 1,000s of videos out there to choose from and then repost on social media and lie about the context.

Anybody got a copycat recipe of their fish batter?

Canada geese are protected by federal law so if you want them removed, you'll have to take that up with Congress.

Uhhhh....this statement by COTW is too little, too late. They should have addressed the rats and roaches wayyyyyy beofre they were shut down for it!

Not believing a word of this statement and NEVER going back.

BTW, clean the tables!!! They are always STICKY & NASTY!

All the restaurants are slow right now due to Summer vacations.

"They claim they got cucked by a broken pipe?"

Yeah - all those dead rats were hiding in the busted pipe and spilled out when that nasty employee busted a hole in the pipe.

Sounds believable, right?

Attn. 6:05 A.M. Yes they are protected, however in numerous areas they can be hunted during the announced hunting season.

That place has noticeably gone downhill since 3-4 years ago, the service, food and environment are just not what they used to be. There is a definite "don't GAF" attitude among the staff.
There are too many other dining options for a family to go and walk across slick greasy floors and sit at dirty tables and get slow service and hear a bunch of hooping and hollering throughout the meal.

Hot grease generally kills most animal borne bacteria.

@ 11:22 - It's a mortal Southern sin to 'batter' catfish.

Now...we've heard about the former employee, but what about the health department citing them for rats. Is that fake, just false or accurate?

Regarding 'lake superintendents', thank God and Greyhound Sigman has retired and will sit back and draw a nice PERS pension. Now if the state would just disband that agency led by unelected people and do something positive with it to benefit the Metro.

Sigman, who headed up that agency, was allowed to run 'wilder' than a one-legged chicken with my grandma chasing it with a cleaver...and he did it for decades with more damned nut-hatched ideas than was imaginable.

The Health Dept, doesn't issue grades based on social media posts.

633, true-that. But they also don't give a clearance and approval to operate based on social media posts, be they calumninated or not.

Cock of the Walk and Mary Mahoney's are two off my list.

I had a Saturday lunch at the cock of the walk up 49 North in Pocahontas with a group a few weeks ago. The restaurant was clean, the staff was friendly and prompt and the fish, slaw fries pickled onions and turnip greens were all delicious. So enjoy the drive through Madison County and have a nice dinner.

Probably out-of-towners with a few eternal optimists thrown in.

Ain’t what she used to be ….

I truly miss the 1970's "Cindy's Fish House" over in the backwater of Rankin County.

I'm sure some Ole Timers remember Cindy's as well.

Several years ago, my husband and I took our boys and several Friends to COTW for dinner. A waiter knew a couple of the kids with us and they were all laughing. Come to find out, the waiter brought a white styrofoam cup with a dead mouse in it, to out table. That did it for us! Repulsive.

A grade of 'C' is a grade of 'C'. And a 'C' is failing. How do you blame that on a disgruntled employee?

If the State Health Department failed the restaurant one day, how the hell do they allow them to open back up the next day?

Sounds like maybe the Health Department responded to a bogus video. If so, heads should roll. This is the same agency that fined a business one million dollars for what was called 'improperly testing medical Cannabis'.

The last time we ate there, maybe 6 months ago, we left without eating 5% of our food. The place was terribly dirty. The floor was slick with grease and the food was BAD. This used to be our favorite fish place. Sad to see what it became.

10:20 I loved Cindy's! It was still open in the early 90s at least. Sad to see it go.

We used to love COTW as well, but our past few visits did not live up to their previous quality of food or service.

And 12:13, it sounds like there is blame to go around. I haven't trusted the health department since covid. Going by your username, I assume you feel the same.

Bring Back The Restaurant Patrol. All of them need inspected weekly.

This is the same Health Agency that allows food-trucks to run up and down our roads and if you get food poisoning, nobody has a clue where the source was or where that truck is now.

5 days before this story broke our family went to eat there. At 6pm we had to wait 20 minutes for a table, we saw 2 servers while we were there, it took over 40 minutes to bring out 4 orders of fish & we were the only patrons drinking out of Styrofoam cups.

No we're not going to go back for a while.

to 6:05,yes,,canada geese protected by federal law but you dont have to go to the congress when you got a problem with them.

you go the the u s fish and wildlife service and apply for a crop depredation and / or nuisance extermination permit.

every catfish farm in mississippi has one. it allows catfish farmers to kill hundreds of migratory birds , like canada geese, herons, comerants , kingfishers pelicans , gulls and any other bird that stars raiding catfish crops,

There was a time when this place was packed on a Friday night, and you had to wait in a long line to be seated. I will only go to the one in Pocahontas now. The food is great, and their menu is not so limited.

The place in Pocahontas serves only hot beer. That's no problem if you're Baptist or German, but anyway.........

Good riddance. It’s never been the same after Slick Jackson sold it. Muddy and greasy

Oh my word, Cindy's! That place rocked. Our family ate there often. It was always fantastic. Waitresses rocked. Thanks for bringing it up. Great memories.