Drivers pump the breaks for these gas station cheese biscuits

Just how good is a cheese biscuit from Mom’s Grill? If you put a biscuit on top of your head, your tongue would beat your brains out trying to get to it.

What makes the biscuits so delicious is the sharp cheddar cheese, according to Helen Keyes, a Washington native who has cooked at Mom’s Grill for about 36 years.

“The sharper the better,” she said. “You cannot make cheese biscuits with mild cheese. You have to use sharp cheddar cheese. No exceptions.”

Time and effort are two key ingredients that make biscuits at Mom’s Grill some of the best. “[I’m] not saying we’ve got the best around, but I think it’s the best and I can brag on it, because we put a lot of time and effort,”

Keyes said.

Sharp cheddar cheese, time and effort is all “Ms. Helen” (as she is affectionately known) will say about the ingredients used to bake the biscuits. The rest is a secret stored in her mind.

Mom’s Grill bakes between 10-13 pans of biscuits every morning starting at 6 a.m. when Keyes arrives. Each tray has two dozen biscuits which means the gas station kitchen serves up to 312 biscuits every day. During the Christmas season, Mom’s Grill serves around 18 pans amounting to more than 430 biscuits.

“I know I made 18 pans one day,” Keyes said, “My hands told me I made 18 pans in one day.”

Crowded around the counter and lined down the snack aisles - hospital employees, farmers, business men and more pour into Mom’s Grill each morning to get their daily breakfast or cheese biscuit fix. Regulars can count on Keyes knowing what they’re going to order and sometimes she’ll have it prepared by the time they arrive. She knows whether they like egg, ham, bacon or sausage on their biscuit or if they like it with just cheese.

“My customers - they come in, in the morning - I know exactly what they want, give it to them - if I don’t say anything they say, ‘Ms. Helen, are you sick? What’s going on? Then they want me to start cutting up with them.”

Keyes has worked at Mom’s Grill long enough for adolescent customers to grow up and bring their children in for their first cheese biscuit.

Keyes doesn’t plan on retiring any time soon; however, when the time comes she says she’ll take with her the memories of customers and employees she connected with over the years.

Mom’s Grill is located at 1041 John Small Avenue in Washington and opens at 6 a.m.

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