
Flo's Kitchen
Clip: Season 22 Episode 2 | 4m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Folks start lining up early for biscuits at Flo’s in Wilson.
Folks start lining up early for biscuits at Flo’s Biscuits in Wilson.
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Flo's Kitchen
Clip: Season 22 Episode 2 | 4m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Folks start lining up early for biscuits at Flo’s Biscuits in Wilson.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Linda] We started this business in 1990 and we've been going like this since day one.
[gentle acoustic music] We have the best French toast, big old fluffy, fluffy pancakes.
- We come a few times a month.
This week we've been here for three days in a row.
Every time we come we're getting biscuits.
- Flo's has the best cheese biscuit.
I've been eating it since I was maybe about six.
- The biscuits are huge.
That's why Flo called 'em cat head biscuits.
- They're huge.
- They're called.
They're as big as a cat's head.
- Yeah.
- A biscuit full - It's full of it.
- [Linda] of hoop cheese that's oozing out of it, when you open it up, and it's strings outta your biscuit bowl.
- Yep, yep.
- Ooh.
[Terri laughs] - Texture's fantastic.
You get a little bit of a crusty edge sometimes if you order one well done, but you still get that fluffy tender texture inside and that hoop cheese is just wonderful.
- The hobo, we got the hobo biscuit.
- It is scrambled eggs with cheese, crumbled sausage in it.
Tastes like home.
- You know, the line looks really long, but it's some of the most efficient service you can get.
I'm in and out here quicker than go to a Bojangles with much more down home food.
- The service here is excellent, and everything is drive-thru.
And as you're pulling around in the drive-thru, they have girls that come out and take your order.
So by the time you get to the window, you can go ahead and pick up your food.
- Hey, how you been?
No grits today, babe?
That's it?
It's one egg and cheese, two pancakes with bacon and a regular size lemonade.
Thank you, babe.
Be right back.
- [Linda] Well, we only take cash, but we have a ATM.
We've never been set up for debit machine.
It just takes so long because we're so fast-paced.
- There you go.
- [Linda] Some people, they come up here and when they get to the window, they're just amazed.
- Amazed.
- Like they're sitting there watching, like "Oh my God, look at them go."
[gentle acoustic music] - We have cheese and plain.
You can order cheese biscuits by themselves or you can take a cheese biscuit and build a buffet, can't you, too.
- Yeah, you can get just a plain cheese biscuit or you have any kind of meat on it.
We got tender loin and gravy, smothers tender loin in gravy.
We have the best fried tender loin you'll ever eat.
The bread we use is what makes it so good, and it's real tender loin.
We put our tender loin every morning.
It is fresh tender loin every day.
We got patty or linked smoke sausage.
- Mama had a lot to do with having our sausage be special.
And it is special because she told them 32 years ago, "I want this much sage in a biscuit, and I want this much meat and just a tiny bit of pepper."
Not too much so to burn their mouths up.
We just want everybody to enjoy it from a child right on up to the grandfather.
[workers chatting indistinctly] Mama had a following.
People came to see her and to eat her biscuits 'cause she had worked at three other places over the years before we opened Flo's, and I just got tired of seeing her work everywhere else.
And I asked her, I said, "Mama, you want to?
We need to open a place so you can have your own place so it can be Flo's kitchen, so it can be your kitchen."
My grandmama taught my mother how to make biscuits and how to cook, like we killed hogs.
And she learned how to make sausage from killing hogs.
Her legacy was teaching everybody and being just a good soul to everybody.
And if anybody asked for a recipe, she didn't try to hide it.
She could tell everybody.
She'd tell the world.
[workers chatting indistinctly] - [Terri] Flo's means everything.
It's my heart.
- Flo's was built on love.
Everything that we do, we do for each other, for all our customers.
They're the most important thing in the world.
I said, "We can all stand here, but if we don't have customers," they're what makes us.
They're the ones that bring us all together.
- [Together] Come on down to Flo's, wherever everybody goes.
[gentle acoustic music] - You can find Flo's Biscuits at 1015 Goldsboro Street South in Wilson, and they're open Tuesday through Saturday from 4:00 AM to noon.
To place your order, give them a call at [252] 237-9146 or find them on Facebook.
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