163-What The Hell Is A Claim Jumper?

A claim jumper is a term from the California gold rush days, meaning someone who stole someone else's mining claim. Well...now it's also a chain of restaurants! It's also where we dined after seeing Die Hard 4.0. The setting is supposed to be the California gold rush days, but it doesn't really feel like it, and the menu doesn't much reflect it either. Imagine a Bennigan's or a Friday's menu, but a tad fancier. Our food ranged from not good(Jennifer's Chicken Strips) to good(my mini cheeseburgers) to fantastic (Tom's Margherita Pizza and the spicy Thai Slaw). The thing I guess that sets Claim Jumper's apart is that the portions are humongous. We saw someone get served that slab of ribs from the beginning of the Flintstones, don't worry EVERYONE made the same joke when they came out. My mini burgers were really just like one of their large 1lbs burgers cut into four mini burgers. Jennifer's order of chicken strips was quite large there had to be at least half a dozen. Tom's pizza was the size of a large plate. The highlight of the whole meal for me was the slaw. I am big fan of cole slaws, and when you can do something interesting with slaw I am all for it. It has the cabbage, but it also had bean sprouts, peanuts, and almonds all mixed up in this (sort of)spicy peanut sauce. I highly recommend that. The service was a little weak, but nothing I would complain about. I guess if you want to pretend you are stealing someone's old west claim, while eating enormous portions of food, give Claim Jumpers a chance you might like it.