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Food nostalgia thread

>> No.19531665

Shut the fuck up, dude.

>> No.19531703

I heckin LOVE the 90s I'm such a 90s kid! I was born in 1996 and everything about the 90s was RAD!

>> No.19531708

>>19531485
I used to work at a pizza hut and had to serve the buffet.
I don't feel any nostalgia for that image. It just reminds me of having to work my ass off for next to nothing when I was still a dumb 20 year old.

>> No.19531716
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Rainforest Cafe, still one of the most weirdly magical places I can think of from my childhood. It's decor inspired many a weird dream for young me.

>> No.19531717

>>19531665
>>19531703
You upset you were born too late to enjoy actual, safe, dine in meals?

>> No.19531724

>>19531717
Are you proud that you're 50 and still posting on 4chan?

>> No.19531739

>>19531724
>still
4chan was made 20 years ago for people in their late teens and 20s. It's their website.

>> No.19531763
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>>19531739

>> No.19531864
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>> No.19531880
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>> No.19531917
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>>19531485
I fucking loved superman ice cream growing up man

>> No.19531943

>>19531724
From the comfort of the house I own, yes
Too bad you'll never get to experience that either

>> No.19531949
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What ever happened to these

>> No.19531959
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>>19531949
Dunkin (formerly Dunkin Donuts) ate them

>> No.19531976

>>19531949
well it's not in a mall, but there's a baskin robins a mile up the road

>> No.19532013

>>19531959
A Dunkin/31 combo store is a bigger source of diabetes than cinnabon
Jesus

>> No.19532030

>>19531485
we had a pizza hut buffet up until like 2019 where I lived. Something about pizza hut buffet specifically turned me into an altered beast of food who could eat 9 slices and 2 plates of pasta in one sitting
>>19531716
Went there when I was 8 on a trip, looked cool as fuck but even for an 8 year old's standards the food was too bad

>> No.19533037

>>19532030
Might be the nostalgia for me but the dino nuggies at Rainforest Cafe were kino

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>>19531485

>> No.19533075
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>> No.19533238

>>19533067
This is what they took from you

>> No.19533516
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They don't taste the same anymore. Last time I tried them they also fucked the dough and they don't have stickers/tatoos/pogs or anything else anymore. I used to have them pretty much every day at school and would get a pokémon pog or a tribal tatoo from them.

>> No.19533588

>>19531485
my highschool was close to a gattis pizza buffet. holy shit lunch there was insane during senior year. all high school kids eating all pizza faster than they can make

>> No.19533592

>>19531949
They're actually about to open one in my town, less than a block away from the building where the old one closed like 15 years ago.

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>> No.19533649

>>19531485
Man, this place used to give me the hottest farts. Miss the buffets in Pizza Sluts.

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>>19531485
Only real niggas will get this.

>> No.19533896

>>19531724
>50
lmao I just turned 30 and I remember pizza hut buffets
don't you have some fortnite to be playing zoomie?

>> No.19533905
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>>19533588
holy shit now there's something I haven't heard in a long time
we used to have a mr gattis and me and my buddies used to go after high school and play all day in the arcade while stuffing our faces with pizza in the buffet. ours shut down years ago. do they still have the arcades in them?

>> No.19534101

>>19531485
Don’t get me wrong, as things are now the eating out experience is fucked because food is expensive and wages are awful so little staff is stretched thin, and it’s $40 minimum before tips for two people to eat. But I do miss going out to eat for pizza.

>> No.19534336

>>19531880
Go fuck yourself for reminding me of this

>> No.19534344

>>19531703
I was born in '81 and I can assure you the 90s were rad

>> No.19534347

>>19531716
Give me one fish tank and one TV to look at and I'll eat there.

>> No.19534351

>>19531763
That's clearly Dr Becker

>> No.19534388

>>19533600
I miss their wings bro

>> No.19534389
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>>19531485
zellers restaurant

>> No.19534460

>>19531716
I remember the one in Vegas was massive. Or at least seemed that was from kid’s perspective at the time

>> No.19534596

>>19533669
You can still get it like that you just gotta ask.

>> No.19534636

Who remembers the big screen TVs at Ground Round?

>> No.19534783

HOLY SHIT IS THAT SOME LE HECKIN 90S GOYSLOP???

>> No.19534967

>>19531959
Yup. Dunkin is hot trash too. When I was young the coffee was good. I don't much like sweets so I'd go just for that and maybe a cruller
Now they can't even make old cake donuts right and coffee is piss. This was before it became an Indian immigrant center for employees lol.
Baskin Robbins was good . Remember going as a kid and all the toppings. Some looking back were weird as hell. Who wants a gunmy worm on ice cream?

>> No.19535002

>>19534388
Apparently the spice was just a shit load of white pepper. I will try to next time I make wings (may 2034)

>> No.19535044

>>19531949
The mall by me still has one.

>> No.19535072

>>19531485
my pizza hut used to have a buffet on certain days of the week during certain times. then the chinese virus happened and they disappeared it and never came back. i can't wrap my head around that logic. some businesses just made up rules out of their ass during the mass hysteria. like some locking the bathrooms so they wouldn't have to clean it.

>> No.19535079

>>19531708
What do you do now?

>> No.19535084

>>19531716
This shit might as well have been a magical dimension for me, I remember begging my mom to go in and talk to the tree every time we went to the mall

>> No.19535085

I'm going DZ at discovery zone.

Also Roy Rogers is still around.

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>>19535085
Was it based or cringe?

>> No.19535130

>>19535124
Those words are foreign to me. I am almost 45.

Lol. It was cool. Could see lots of DFC and DTC and stuff.

>> No.19535137

>>19531724
anon, someone who was 18 when 4chan first opened would be 38 years old now
all those 12 year olds who were playing Minecraft when it released are in their mid-20s now.

>> No.19535142

>>19531949
they're still everywhere and they're still empty
100% certain they're a front for money laundering or illegal activity, just like furniture stores and rug stores

>> No.19535145

>>19535130
go back

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>> No.19535154

I came over to 4chan from USENET. Then went to 12chan, then 7chan, then a bunch of altchans now I only come here to talk about food/cooking.

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>>19531716
For me? It was Bugaboo Creek. I remember going here on a preschool field trip in maybe 2004

>> No.19535159

>>19535145
I can't. They went out of business I think. Where do you wish you could go back to?

>> No.19535177

Plus, I don't think little girls wear the loose fitting over the shoulder t-shirts and Umbros like they did back in the day.

>> No.19535180

>>19531949
Right? Wasn't their slogan 31 flavors of ice cream?

>> No.19535238
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I miss when red robin was this goofy family friendly kitsch Americana place and not "gourmet burgers and beer" where everything costs $18

>> No.19535270

>>19531864
This seems like an incredibly lame version of what I could get at a local place her in the midwest, but maybe it was different back then.

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>> No.19535362

the Wendy's in Wichita, Kansas is still the old style with the sun-room dining room

>> No.19535365
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>>19535362
fuckrape forgot the pic

>> No.19535410

>>19535085
Roy Rodgers still has a store at the molly pitcher rest stop on NJ turn pike. Only one i know of anymore think they had some deals with rest stops I don't know of a single store anymore. They weren't bad I remember getting food there as a little kid.

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>>19535362
>>19535365
Wanted to see if my home town still had their sunroom on the side. They do. But what the FUCK is an AIDS garden and why would anyone go there?

>> No.19535500

>>19535072
You should phone them everyday and just be like "When's the pizza buffet coming back?". Or if it's after hours, leave that as a voice message as well. Bug the shit out of them until you become the local legend at the establishment. One day you can even approach them in person and ask the same stupid question, and they'll be like 'omg it's him!'.

>> No.19535561

>>19531716
I only remember my incredibly aspie cousin begging to go here when we were at the zoo.

>> No.19535618
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>>19535180
Still is, they just got a little too clever with hiding it in the logo and people thought they had removed it. In Japan it's just called "31"

>> No.19535694

>>19535124
Chuck-E-Cheese's was based. DZ was to CEC what Toys-R-Us was to Kay-Bee.

>> No.19535709
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>>19535291
For me it's the 90's taco bell.

>> No.19535738

>>19531485
still have this a couple of blocks from me.

>> No.19535744
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>>19531485

>> No.19535746

>>19535709
Very Ettore Sottsass

>> No.19535748

>>19535500
lol

>> No.19535812

>>19535500
it's not a stupid question.

>> No.19535996

>>19535709
K I N O
I
N
O

>> No.19536013

>>19534101
BLT (sourdough) + avocado + side dill pickle + still rose wine (Sonoma county Angels & Cowboys) = $29 plus jizya $6 = $35 why even live

Except that I guess I can temporarily afford it but still I weep for my fellow man

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>>19531880

>> No.19536091

>>19534101
The move is to get a pizza as take out, grab a chilled bottle of decent wine from the grocery store and eat it at a bench at the park/beach. More like $30 and your girl will think it’s a super romantic whimsical little date.
>public drinking laws
One of the very, very few nice things about living in California is that nobody is going to do shit

>> No.19536099

>>19531703
I LOST MY VIRGINITY IN THE 90s! TIM THE LOCAL SCRAPYARD GUY DRAGGED ME OFF BEHIND A SHED! GOOD OL TIM! TOTALLY RADICAL!!!!

>> No.19536103

>>19531703
This but '95 and unironically

>> No.19536104

>>19536013
Massive deli sandwich at a shop in my town piled with meat, cheese, avocado and whatever fixings you wanted was $7.50 in 2019. Easily 1400 calories. Now that sandwich is $12.50 and more like 1000 calories.

>> No.19536110

>>19535238
Expensive and shitty burgers, at that.

>> No.19536123

>>19533600
Checked and relieved someone living knows the ponderosa feel

>> No.19536139

>>19536104
I literally had to order "less bacon" just to survive it back in the day. Now it's just less bacon by default.

>> No.19536162

https://youtu.be/J6K7VBb8ENw

gimme that

>> No.19536190

>>19535434
That's where you go for POZ LOOOAAADS

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>> No.19536402

>>19531716
The worst example of theme restaurants. The food is 1/10.

>> No.19536562

>>19536013
>Gets a sandwich and a glass of wine from California (lol)
>Tips $6
It's like pottery

>> No.19536578

>>19533588
Gatti's food sucked ass. The only reason anyone in my town went was for the arcade since it was massive. Ours died when the arcades did in the mid 2000s or so.

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>>19533238
And with "they" you mean trump's business ventures huh, because they all fail

>> No.19536695

>>19536103
You were a 2000's kid not a 90s kid

>> No.19536841

>>19535709
I can taste this picture, and it tastes like cinnamon twists

>> No.19536849

>>19535149
tiger butter bros... we're going home

>> No.19536861

>>19535694
>>19535124
Your out of your fucking mind. DZ was tens of times better than Chuck E. Cheese

>> No.19536996

>>19536861
You're*

>> No.19538078

>>19536996
CEC had decent pizza by a child's standards, and a better selection of arcade games. DZ was all about stupid Chinkshit prizes.

>> No.19538086

>>19535709
That looks exactly like the taco bell my mom would take us to. I miss $0.69 soft tacos.

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Anybody else remember unlimited free subs?

>> No.19538840

>>19536609
i'm sure it's just the reflection of the fabric but that looks like a fat load crusted on his jacket

>> No.19538841

>>19538827
they're back anon
https://www.quiznos.com/

>> No.19538878

>>19535238
>everything costs $18
That doesn't buy as much as it used to, Anon.

>> No.19539295

>>19533600
Is this the ponderosa from Attleboro Massachusetts?

>> No.19539935

>>19535434
prob a powerful cruising spot tb qh

>> No.19539948

>>19533067
Like... why would I trust this guy over a local butcher?

>> No.19539950

>>19535124
so... liminal....

>> No.19539962

>>19535709
The Taco Bell/Pizza Hut a town over looked exactly like this up until 2019. After the renovation it was just a soulless grey standalone Taco Bell.

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>>19535156

>> No.19540701

>>19533600
I went to one of these a long ass time ago, it was like an unsupervised daycare inside with incredibly shitty food but I was a little kid and could put chocolate pudding on the undercooked spaghetti so I was happy

>> No.19540710
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I miss it every day…

>> No.19540737

>>19531716
walking past these things was an experience in itself, just a chunk of rainforest in the middle of a dying mall

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>>19540690
Comfy Christmas Massacre enjoyer.
All of the actual food nostalgia for me has been mentioned, but as an addendum to OP I give you picrel.

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>his nostalgic food experience is fast "food" slop and not his mother's cooking

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>>19540761
my mom never cooked anything in her whole life
out of my 5 aunts just one was a good cook
neither of my grandmas ever cooked
also had a stepgrandma who was possibly the worst cook ever
none of my friends' moms could cook for shit
out of my sisters, 1 can bake somewhat, but thinks it's acceptable to e.g. make mashed potatos by
>boiling peeled cubed potatos, any old kind
>draining the water
>mashing the potatos
>that's it

welcome to muttmerica motherfucker
other than that one aunt, the only woman I've ever met who cooked for real is Canadian and is married to a black guy

>> No.19541322

>>19540710
I still hate them for discontinuing this. It was so much better than regular Rice Krispies.

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>>19531703
Where's my shotgun?

>> No.19541383

>>19533516
Are those like the "bimbolettes" (Negritos Bimbos)

>> No.19541396

>>19539948
If you're asking this then you're not the target market.

>> No.19541420

>>19540710
I loved those and I loved that my dad referred to them as "sugar shitties" even more.

>> No.19541434

>>19540808
This.
My childhood consisted of fast food, take out, and any costco meal you make in the oven. My mom could not cook. My dad could but he made it clear he wanted nothing to do with our family so it wasnt anything i really experienced. This the experience of pretty much everyone i know

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>>19531864
taco bell from the 70's

>> No.19541636

>>19533067
>Believe me, I understand steaks. It's my favorite food.
A Big Mac isn't a steak wtf

>> No.19541987

>>19531864
Were olives really worth that much money back then?

>> No.19542076

>>19531949
They've been phased out by more gourmet ice cream, jeni's, salt and straw, coldstone, gelato, froyo

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Such a friendly little guy

>> No.19542199

>>19535434
Oh what so I’m not real if I don’t have AIDS

>> No.19542367

>>19541434
Yea some like the typical ghetto black people experience, so that tracks

>> No.19543111

>>19534389
I wish they'd bring it back and relaunch Zeller's as a restaurant chain

>> No.19543213

>>19535709
If you look at the menu, it's not the 90s. It's just some shitty tb in a flyover state that hasn't been remodeled in 30 years.

>> No.19543331

>>19535744
>>19531917
We just got a TCBY back in my town after the older one closed about 15 years ago. I went in and got a waffle cone of rainbow cream that looked identical to this, the same softer pastel colors.
I was immediately thrown back to being 8 years old. It's the best ice cream (yogurt) I've had in years. You cannot convince me that it's just vanilla, it has ascended.

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>>19531943
Based landowner
Rentoids fuck off

>> No.19544385

>>19541383
dunno, never had those, but from images it seems like they're different

>> No.19544488

>>19533905
Yes, there is one in El Campo TX with an arcade, but it's small. Victoria TX is supposed to get one but the building they chose is rundown so they're fixing it up.

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There used to be a supermarket in Portugal called Feira Nova, which was usually inside a mall. The mall had a burger place that was to die for. As a kid the free refills of juice and sauces blew my mind. There was also a nice old lady in a small wooden cart thing that did waffles which she added sugar and cinnamon or chocolate or both, and they're the best ones I've eaten up until today. RIP old lady. Eventually all the shops and cinema closed apart from a hairdressers and Feira Nova was bought by Pingo Doce. Like other malls, it's a ghost town now, a relic of the past.

>> No.19544864

>>19533896
wtf, we have pizza hut buffets in the UK. it has pizza, pasta, chips/french fries and probably more I don't remember because I only went once

>> No.19544874

>>19540761
why did this post get deleted? does the truth hurt the fat jannies?

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>>19544584
Just to elaborate on this, Feira Nova used to make a giant cake every year with the photos of the employees to thank them and the customers, which would get a few slices on that day. That one in the photo had 118 metres. Pretty sure I had it at some point.
This is just another way of telling that businesses don't give a fuck nowadays. Back them they at least still tried.

>> No.19545000

>>19538827
Quiznos was great I used to go there all the time in highschool.
They brutally abused the franchises. That killed em off almost 100% stuff like you had to buy paper towels at 2.50 a roll from them. This was early 00s. So can see how they gouged.

I fucked with the French dip and shamelessly hit hard at the pickle bar with the pepperonci. Nah I'm good on a bag of chips I'll just eat 35 of these spicy pickled peppers.

>> No.19545205

>>19544864
buffets for the most part got the axe during covid. very few came back

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>>19531485

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>>19533067
>Trump
>Steak
Well done with ketchup.

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>>19533600

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>>19535124
Based.

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>>19531485
i remember the salad bar and black bread and butter
and the kiddie steaks (basically poor cuts of meat glued together)
still miss it, regardless

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Old Outback was comfy as hell. The funny thing is that their food was also better quality before they decided to rebrand themselves as a quasi-upscale chain.

>> No.19547079

>>19547024
>before they decided to rebrand themselves as a quasi-upscale chain.
how else do you get more shekels from the yuppies wanting their weekly goyslop?

>> No.19547433

>>19545205
kek, you can't be serious. 2 more weeks amarite?