Oh, Lordy. Let's just put it this way: The Four Winds, located on the edge of Fort Benning, home of the U.S. Army Ranger Training School, is the home of the world famous Ranger Burger ... and the Master Gunner Burger, and the Sniper Burger and the Special Forces Burger ... You get the idea. These burgers are HUMONGOUS -- real heartstoppers. Should you want to know, there's an annual Ranger Burger eating contest.
The Ranger Burger also serves a very good fried catfish plate, and they serve steaks and a few other items.
The place is a weird mish-mash of put-together rooms and buildings that have evolved over time. What some folks don't know is that down underneath all that is a plastic log cabin. I kid you not. At one point, in one of its incarnations, the Four Winds (I think it had a different name then.) had an exterior that was a plastic log cabin. But, alas, the plastic log cabin has been covered over with something more, well, tasteful.
Do not, however, despair that the place has been too gentrified. It has not. Case in point: My favorite element of The Four Winds -- their sign out front. Mounted very high on a pole in the middle of the parking lot is a big plastic sign that sports a huge hamburger from one side of which a paratrooper is parachuting, and from the other side of which a soldier (My guess is it's a Ranger.) is rapalling. I guess the owners had the thing custom made, 'cause I seriously doubt that there's another one like it in the whole wide world.
Mel Gibson has eaten in the Four Winds. Yep. He was in town for the filming of the movie We Were Soldiers, and he stopped in at the Four Winds. I hear that the waitresses weren't even impressed. One of them was quoted in the newspaper as having commented, "He was just another customer to me."
Speaking of service at The Four Winds, it needs help. There's this one terrific waitress there, but she's so overworked it's pitiful. I think the place lacks in the management division.
The clientele is as interesting as the food. The dining room is huge, and it's occupied by a combination of Rangers just in from the field, deer hunters, and all sorts of other locals, including the Chattahoochee County High Sheriff who's usually perched at the table near the door, overseeing the speed trap his deputies operate out on Highway 26. (Don't say you ain't been warned.)
So, long live places like The Four Winds. It's just that I don't wanna go too often -- ya know?
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if you go to the Four Winds without at least 3 cousins then you haven't really been to the Four Winds. love the sniper burger ( has jalapenos) and my oldest cousin says they have "good Ranch."
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