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A Travel Blog In And Around The River City With Your Host, Marty Wombacher

May 10, 2026

The Sunday Lou’s Drive-In Palate Cleanser - Week Number Two: Root Beer Float, Onion Rings & Chili-Cheese Dog

by MBIP


We’re up to our second Sunday posting where we’re eating the entire Lou’s Drive-In menu week by week, all summer long, even though it’s not officially summer yet. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with getting an early start on things! And so it’s off we go for week number two of eating the entire Lou’s Drive-In menu!

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The Sunday Lou’s Drive-In Palate Cleanser: Week Number Two

Here we are at Lou’s Drive-In on a Friday afternoon. I came around 1:30pm, which I thought would be an off-time, but there was a decent amount of people here, which is great to see!

There’s Isabel behind the front window who we met last week! Great to see her again and she took this week’s order and now we’ll wait for that to be prepared.

Here’s a couple of photos of Lou’s Drive-In on a Friday afternoon in May of 2026.

I snapped this photo of the Lou’s iconic sign and they just called my name out.

This week’s order is up, so it’s time to head back to MBIP World Headquarters and try out this week’s meal from Lou’s Drive-In!

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MBIP World Headquarters Dining Area

Okay, here we are back at MBIP World Headquarters and here’s this week’s Lou’s Drive-In Meal! Let’s plate it up and see what we’ve got for this week’s Sunday Palate Cleanser!

This week we’re going to be sampling a root beer float, an order of onion rings and a chili-cheese dog.

Okay, let’s dig in to this week’s feast from Lou’s Drive-In.

I have to confess: I’m a root beer float virgin! I’ve never had a root beer float, so I was curious as to how I’d like this. It’s vanilla ice cream mixed with Lou’s homemade root beer and it’s a delicious treat!

The root beer mixes well with the soft, vanilla ice cream and this is a delicious and creamy way to start off this week’s Lou’s dinner!

Now on to tonight’s side dish: The onion rings.

These were cooked perfectly and nice and crispy but they weren’t seasoned at all and had a little bit of a bland flavor to them. They weren’t horrible, just not a lot of flavor happening here. Let’s move on to the next and final item for this week…

This is the star of this week’s Lou’s feast, the chili-cheese dog!

This was a tasty chili dog with a nice layer of rich, melted cheese beneath the tasty and tangy chili dog sauce. The bun was bakery fresh and this was a delicious, rich and savory chili-cheese dog!

Okay, few more items are crossed off on our Lou’s Drive-In menu, but there’s still plenty more tasty items to devour in the upcoming weeks!

I thought I’d start rating the Lou’s food and here’s this week’s ratings board. The Chili-Cheese Dog is at the top of the Sandwich list, the French Fries are my favorite side dish so far and this week’s Root Beer Float tops the Drinks and the Ice Cream selections.

Stay tuned to see who tops the list next week!

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Related Links: Lou’s Sunday Palate Cleanser: Week Number One.

The stars are shining bright…

Surprise link, click on it…I dare you!

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