/ck/ - Food & Cooking

fuck you you stupid son of a bitch

>>13762436
Wtf is a mercury?

>>13762463
vehicle

>>13762463
Freddy from the band Queen.

>>13762436
Harold Zeigler could've helped. Now I'm not buying a car from him.

This shit

>>13762436
I remember Elton John ate there on one of his tours. Stay cool boomer!>>13762450

>>13762524
That's, uh, still an international franchise. They only shut down completely in Canada.

this place. I remember the one at Hilltop Mall, went there before going to the movies as a kid. the rest of the food wasn't so memorable, but the soft serve ice cream and the topping bar were the best

>>13762524
>all mart

>>13762436
Captain newicks?
looked it up, it's now called newicks lobster house. the restaurant I used to go to doesn't exist anymore. big plates of fried seafood. very unhealthy but I was a little kid so had no idea I was killing myself.

>>13762436
Pretty comfy bros.

>>13762463
A car brand that stopped production about 9 years ago. Few people miss it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(automobile)

>>13762436
Mine use to have a projector in one of the dining rooms always playing cartoons. They had a popcorn machine and served it before your meal.

I never liked baseball but I’d always get a sundae served in one of the mini. helmets. Damn anon. The feels.

>>13763004
The baseball helmets were based. I used to "collect" them since they had a bunch of different teams.

>>13762524
>All Mart
Good old Gray Indiana. There's an awesome firework store down the road from this place.

>>13762463
A kind of cage from before Japan euthanised the am*rican cage industry

>>13762436
Went every few months with my parents.
Comfy fireplace during winter
Comfy salad bar
Comfy bread + butter
Comfy child steak
Nice ambience all around desu

apparently they sell baked goods to supermarkets now

>>13763004
ya i didnt like the popcorn, too tacky. the food was gross and over salted

>>13762628
>shut down in Canada
what else is new...ughh

the rotisserie chicken was amazing

>>13762524
used to go there every year in Orlando, Florida with my family when I was younger
it's amazing how fucking impressed I was with buffet food back then and now I know it's just slop that's probably worse than college dining hall food

Used to go here a lot with my dad when I was little. Horrible buffet food, but i loved it. Closed down probably ~20 years ago

Damn. They've clearly modernized their logo/brand but this was my favorite restaurant growing up. Their tendies were top notch. It's been 20 years or more since I was there. Feelsbadman, but glad to see they're still going.

>>13762436
LOL never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought I'd see, "The Ground Round" again JFC...

>>13762436
Went here for my 11th birthday, haven't seen one again until last year. Surprised they're still around desu, it's just a poorer chuck e cheese

>>13763482
kys a/n/us licker

>>13763648
Bourbon chicken in the mall food court. Misty water colored memories

>>13762436
What will it be sir?

>>13763648
Bad chicken man, will mess you up

I remember going here after on Sunday after our football games. There are a few left, but none close buy and none have the charm

>>13762961
Mercury Marauder was the most based vehicle ever produced by any auto company in the history of the universe

>>13763509
>>13763509
FREN!
>>13762879

>>13764160
I miss the Monterey Chicken bro

>>13764160
i thought this was a san antonio local chain, man they used to have a HUGE ass cheese block that you would cut slices off with a razor/spatula thing. Real good restaurant.

No Quiznos north of Roseville so I'm fucked, they've all failed except a scattered handful of locations. I want pic related.

>>13764257
they failed literally because diversity hires thought the rat thing was funny

>>13762463
>Wtf is a mercury?
/o/ here, just close the coffin door and bury me already
OT This here and old Subway with the yellow logo and old timey NY Subway wallpaper interior.

>>13763925
mini corn dogs are on the menu twice?

>>13764353
>and old timey NY Subway wallpaper interior.
Oldfag fren.

>>13762436
the velvet turtle

I know some still exist, but after the mid-90s contraction the 4 in my area are gone. Only 3 left in the state, and 2 of them are in the fucking ghetto 200 miles away.

>>13764470
They'll never know what it was like.

>>13764742
>>13763736
https://twitter.com/utbaph

>>13764770
Yessss....when they would cut the sandwiches down the middle like a trough. The restaurants also had a distinctive smell that they lost with everything else that made subway worth going to. Now they look and smell as bland as they taste.

>>13764780
>The restaurants also had a distinctive smell
Oh fuck the smell, it was the new car smell of franchise restaurants.. Unmistakable.

>>13763736
>>13764742
>>13764770
They are everywhere.

>>13763634
YES i miss skippers so much. The last one i remember going to was in Monroe, WA probably in 1999 or 2000

>>13763756

fuck cheddars. last time i went i got a burger and had to buy the fries separately...

>>13764989
There is one close to me but every time I go it's the worst service I've ever had. I waited 25 minutes for a half once, and they were steady but not busy. By the time I finished eating there were still people waiting

>>13764353
Don't forget to call that psychic pig miss cleo.
"CALL ME NOW!"

>>13764989
These still exist around me. They're strangely overpriced considering what you're getting, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a soft spot for the cornbread, mac&cheese, and creamed spinach. I've heard their prime rib is also surprisingly good.

>>13764742
>local sizzler's smelled like sewage
>the building, which is now a pho restaurant, still fucking smells like sewage
no thanks

>>13764780
Puke

>>13762463
Something found in Gatorade

>>13764269
I can't believe quiznos just let rats run around their kitchens like this, so disgusting

>>13764257

>>13764742
Sizzler gave you choices. You chose to let it fail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3YGtQ40Qvs

>>13762879

In the early 80s, when my parents wanted a nice meal we either went to Steak & Ale or Red Lobster.
I still like the aesthetics of Steak & Ale with all the dark wood, and I'll always remember the ice cold plates at the salad bar.

>>13765273
Off brand shit fast food located in the middle of a ghetto or white trash enclave. The resident wino tells everyone how great the place is and you know he hasn't tasted his food since 1977.
Serves the local old time shit food people pretend is good-Lake Trout,fried catfish,a box of fryolator scrapings,usually chicken and some sort of shellfish. It's called Surf&Turf and no one under 350 pounds gets it.
Averages 2 shootings a month.
Street outreach workers giving away Narcan and fresh needles.
Same people passed out in the bathroom.
"This place is legendary! EVERYONE from *Niggerton,Redstate* eats there! Get the Surf&Turf box!"
Every Bush league fast food franchise (3 locations once) ever.

>>13763696
Came here to post this. The yeast rolls were my favorite as a kid.

>>13762524
last one shut down in my area last Summer
I miss it bros

>>13763539

I miss their au gratin potatoes and chocolate cake like you wouldn’t believe

>>13764729
Based. I remember this off the 134 Fwy on the way to Pasadena

>tfw you return to your hometown and visit your fav pizza place and there is a line out the door and a 20 min wait for a table
>tfw you order delivery the next night and it takes 1 and a half hours to get your pizza because they are so busy
>tfw you are watching a local place you have eaten at since a child become successful.....

>>13763770
Gatti's was almost as ubiquitous as the larger chains. At least that was the case in Austin. What happened?
Now I'm remembering the jingle and phone number.

>>13768950
Based

>>13762436
>arcade
Fuck me, I miss that shit. I miss going into a Pizza Hut and begging my mom for a couple of quarters to play Primal Instinct or Mortal Kombat while we waited for our order. I miss going into the Wal-Mart gaming center before it was nothing but claw machines. When I was a teen the student union building in the local university had a sweet-ass arcade and now it's just like bowling and pool and a couple of other things. Where's my racing sim? Where's my FPS with the gun controller? Where's my Gauntlet Legends?

>>13768950
>Tfw you are home for the first time in years and your favorite pizza shop closed

I will never forget you Creamy Mild Chicken Pizza. The perfect balance of spice, cheese, and chicken chunks.

>>13770945
My local Pizza Hut had one of these, I would always sit and play while waiting for the food.

>>13764989
I thought this was a furniture store for the longest time

Farrels Ice Cream Parlour was THE place for birthdays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_U-924q9QM

>>13771345
God I miss Pizza Hut. The closest actual Pizza Hut is 20 miles from me now.

Their pizza was never great, but I occasionally crave their Pan Pizza. Especially fresh it was by far the king of the chains

My Ground Round had The Simpsons arcade game

>>13764146
MY RODS AND CONES ARE ALL SCREWED UP

>>13764216
hello fren. drinking white claw and making chicken vindaloo with chickpeas + rice + steamed broccoli

>>13764269
I thought it was funny but I also enjoyed Battlefield Earth and Star Wars: Episode I

>>13771448
I miss that magic time when Pizza Hut really was on top, I don't think that perfect balance of grease and substance and will ever be matched or copied.
Also true ghetto Godfathers Pizza was a literal swimming pool of grease that chain alone contributed to it's demographics lower life expectation more than the tobacco companies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kokaoNJoq1g

>>13762879
Steak and ale is so nostligic for me

>>13771384
Holy shit Oregon bro. I remember going to Farrells for a handful of birthdays. I miss getting massive fuckin sundaes. Been a long ass time since I thought about that place.

>>13771805
>Godfather's pizza
I can't believe this place is still around

Pup N' Taco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crMYeJxz7wA

Not really a stand out place but they had cool toys

>>13762740

Metro Detroiter here, and Rams Horn was the place to go after closing the bar back when I was in my 20s, as there was usually some drunken jackass getting into a fight or other craziness going on.

I remember one time being seated with my drunken buddies in a booth behind a couple of Black chicks who were bitching about something that happened earlier in the night, when these two other Black chicks walk in, grab the squeezy ketchup and mustard bottles off our table and blast the shit out of the chicks sitting in the booth behind us, who jump up and get into a hair-pulling, swearing, haymaker throwing, slap fight in the middle of the restaurant with their condiment attackers until the manager came running out and told them to get the fuck out, whereupon they continued their fight in the parking lot until the cops came and took them all to jail.

>>13762436
>Restaurants only you remember.

Oldfag here, and my parents and I used to go to Sweden House (on 10 Mile Rd and Ryan in Warren MI) every Sunday during the 1970s as it was roast beef night which my dad loved and he get the server to carve him off an entire plate of full of beef with like a teaspoon worth of mashed potatoes on the side.

>>13773653
i remember these. my grandma loved them. good memories

>>13762638
this shit was never a viable business model nobody gets out of the house for soup and salad

>>13764353
There's still a Schlotzkys in Las Vegas around Charleston and Jones I believe.

>>13762436
Bugaboo Creek (sp)
Rustic themed restaurant with talking stuffed animals in northeastern US. I remember a moose in particular.
My favourite restaurant as a child.

>>13764257
I’m lucky. The Quiznos near me is basically a landmark.

>>13764257
>>13774630
The closest thing to Quiznos here in Commiefornia is TOGOS, but god damn do I miss that lil nigga Quiznos like you wouldn't believe. Something about how they toasted their sandwhiches, along with their meats, was just unrivaled.

>>13762436
I remember Pewter Pot from back in the 70's. It was a vaguely colonial America themed place. I honestly don't remember what kind of food they served. Might have been burgers and sandwiches. Think Friendly's with more barnboard and copper.

>>13762524
I remember a very similar chain called Bonanza that I think they bought out way back when.

>>13774379
My family is Swedish-American. We would have eaten there a lot if there was one near us.

This place was the shit back when. Went there for my grade-school graduation and gorged on ribs and steak like nobody's business.