Actually, I have good news! On our way to the Mudcat gathering in northern Pennsylvania this weekend, we stopped at a nondescript little restaurant on Hiway 220, I think it was, just north of a town called Milan. The restaurant is called Millard's...and they have REAL homefries!!! I could hardly believe it! Everything else was very good there too. I highly recommend Millard's to any and all passing travelers. The Wellsboro Diner in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania was pretty good too...but the "homefries" were, alas, the same deep-fried light brown little dried out chunks of crud you get everywhere else these days...

- LH