I've had a mild obsession with Tudor's Biscuit World since I was a young lad of a scant 19 years of age. Me, Black Dog and The 'Dube were on tour, back in the days when gas was like $1.25 a gallon and I was paying $180 a month in rent in Baltimore... Ahh, the Nineties. I think it was actually 2000. Anyhow, I just remember Dubin saying "What was that sign back there guys, it said something about "Biscuit World" in his agitated, excited Brian Dubin voice. Dubin was INSISTENT that we take the next exit and try and double back to check it out, even though we were running late, but I resumed my role as the Gramps of the band and was like, dude, we gotta let it go and get to the show. Worst decision of my life. We end up getting stuck in traffic for an hour, TRAFFIC, in the middle of fucking West Virginia, and get lost trying to find our way through towns named "Cross Lanes" and "Hurricane," that apparently don't like the concept of street signs, attempting to get to said venue in a the aptly named town of "Nitro." Finally, we get there, and walk up to the pavilion, and start kind of taking in the scene. There appears to be a two-piece band playing music that sounded something like Men's Recovery Project with a theremin, a keyboard, and a drum set made out of trashcans, and wearing costumes that consisted of a gorilla mask and some kind of huge gum-drop looking thing made out of fluorescent bedsheets. I remember as we walked in they were singing something like "Tudor's, Tudor's,T-U-D-O-R-S, Pippi, Dottie, Rah Rah Rah..." and we're like, umm... all right. Their next song was "Capri Sun Nut Sack" and we were instantly sold, because, after all, we were 19. Well, after their set we went up to them and they say their band is called Food (spelled FUD) and most their songs are about food-related maladies. We had been driving all day so Brian takes this as a sign to ask them about the actual sign he saw aways back that said "Biscuit World." They were kinda like, um, didn't you hear our song about it? We were kinda baffled, but then they were like, "Oh yeah, even though the sign says Biscuit World, around here we just call it Tudor's." "Aww, man, there ain't nothing like Tudor's. Ya'll don't have Tudor's where your from?" the drummer, whose name was Silver and Blue, asked, seemingly baffled. Apparently it was as if we had never heard of Burger King, or McDonald's. Well, within ten minutes (it turns out there's a Tudor's in Nitro), I had a biscuit with scrumptious hash browns and dripping with gooey cheese, while the omnivores among us ordered menu items such as the "Thundering Herd," the "Pippi," and the "Mountaineer." You see, Tudor's is an all-West Virginia run chain of fast food restaurants and most of the menu items are named after local collegiate sports teams of other items of West Virginia lore. You can get pretty much anything on a biscuit, a fresh, buttery, warm, melt in your mouth amazingly delicious biscuit. Pizza on a biscuit. Even pepperoni pizza on a biscuit. Biscuit "burgers." eggy breakfast style biscuits. Even DESSERT biscuits with this apple pie like concoction. And even while the signs say "Biscuit World" about 30 feet up in the air, people still call it Tudor's. Gotta love the mountain state. So this obsession went as far as me purchasing a Tudor's t-shirt off an employee's back (of course, it says "Biscuit World," which I still wear with pride to this very day. There sure as hell ain't nothing like Tudor's, and if I live a good and true life, chances are I'll be stuffing my face with a biscuit and 4-wheeling in the hollows sometime in the future. As for FUD, somebody wants me to burn them a copy of their CD, "FUDland." Trust me, you need it, you just don't know yet... read more