Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafĂ© by Fannie Flagg Friendships can be wrought under the most unusual circumstances. Take Evelyn Couch for example. She never expected to befriend Ninny Threadgoode while visiting her mother-in-law at the Rose Terrace Nursing Home in Birmingham, Alabama. She certainly didn’t expect to care for and eventually love the women who would tell her stories every visitors day about the life that she lived in a small railroad town miles away known as Whistle Stop. But that’s exactly what happened. As Evelyn began going through the depression and hormonal changes that were overwhelming her in the midst of menopause, Ninny would relay bits of her history during the Great Depression, and the Second World War. Evelyn began looking forward to the tales told of Idgie Threadgood, Ruth Jamison and the people who frequented Whistle Stop CafĂ©. She could imagine living in that time and being friends with the people who meant so much to Ninny. The months