Photo: Ocean City's Thrasher's Landmark and tradition plus Boog's BBQ Beef as well

Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: October 7, 2013
Caption: Ocean City's Thrasher's Landmark and tradition plus Boog's BBQ Beef as well
Additional Description: According to the recorded history of Thrasher’s, the salt and vinegar toppings harken back to the old English ways of dressing potatoes. That fact, and the peanut oil Thrasher’s uses to fry the tasty spuds is all we will ever truly know about the “secret recipe,” started in 1929 by Mr. J.T. Thrasher, the original “Lord of the Fries.”
Mr. Thrasher was a Georgian who introduced a unique concept to the Ocean City Boardwalk, a food stand specializing in only one item (the French fry), unheard of at the time. Thrasher was by all accounts a perfectionist, who brought in potatoes from various regions, at different times of year to ensure the same high quality and taste. To run the stand, he employed a group of girls from a Christian School in Georgia, and housed them in a dormitory above the present-day Bank of Ocean City.
The original Thrasher’s was located just a few steps down from its current location, in the breezeway of the Ocean City Amusement Pier. When forced to sell his beloved French fry stand due to failing health, Mr. Thrasher sold it to local entrepreneur Franklin “Chip” Hastings, who moved the stand to it’s present location. In 1974, Buddy Jenkins purchased Thrasher’s, and 34 years later he remains the third owner of the little stand that made French fries ubiquitous with the seashore. (excerpt ;ShoreBread Magazine - Lord of the Fries:
Posted on 08/07/2012 Written by: Andrea Bowland )
Submitted: October 17, 2013, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p257704
File Size: 0.699 Megabytes

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