There used to be a chain restaurant growing up in Indiana called "Shakey's". It was a fun place for kids, they showed silent movies on the wall and all that, but they had, as part of their buffet, these enormous, flat fried potatoes. All the Shakey's closed in those parts and I've been craving those things for about 10 years now. I found a recipe on the internet for Shakey's "Mojo Potatoes". We tried to make them one night, and started an oil fire and smoked out the whole apt. And what we had were nothing like the potatoes from Shakey's. So that is both a cooking disaster story and a food I have yet to master.