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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on November 10, 2020, 09:00:04 AM
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A list of fast food that was most popular the year you were born (or close to it). They don't list every year, but I'm happy that the closest to my birth year is In-N-Out. :)
https://www.eatthis.com/popular-fast-food-every-decade/
Edit: The article also made me miss the McD's apple pie. They used to give you one if you had to wait longer than a few minutes for your order. I used to always want my order to be delayed. :laugh:
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You do mean the old deep fried pies not the baked one?
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Subway? Jesus Chicken Christ... that's.... sad.
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They didn't list my year. Looks to be a toss up between Dunkin Donuts and Burger King.
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There was a Fatburger in College Station, TX some years back. It was good to eat every now and then.
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A list of fast food that was most popular the year you were born (or close to it). They don't list every year, but I'm happy that the closest to my birth year is In-N-Out. :)
https://www.eatthis.com/popular-fast-food-every-decade/
Edit: The article also made me miss the McD's apple pie. They used to give you one if you had to wait longer than a few minutes for your order. I used to always want my order to be delayed. :laugh:
Dunkin' Donutz? Sorry, no. Oh, I like doughnuts, but really shouldn't be eating them much or often, so I should be picky.
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Chick-fil-A!
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There was no such thing as fast food when I was born.
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There was no such thing as fast food when I was born.
What? Antelope hadn't evolved yet? :rofl:
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What? Antelope hadn't evolved yet? :rofl:
:laugh:
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DISCRIMINATION! My birth year isn't listed.
I never heard any mention of Kentucky Fried Chicken or Carl's Jr. until I was in my teens or 20s so, while they may have existed when I was born, I would dispute classifying them as "popular." Even when I was in high school in the 1960s the only fast food places around were McDonald's, and there weren't many of those.
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"Even when I was in high school in the 1960s the only fast food places around were McDonald's, and there weren't many of those."
In the mid 1960s there were over 600 KFC locations...
At that time it was the largest fast food chain... in the world.
By 1970, there were 3,000.
In 1980, estimated 6,000 locations in 48 nations.
Not sure when Mickey D's passed it.
But *expletive deleted*it, now I want fried chicken. Damn it.
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Noo Yawk, forties...
I remember White House Castle hamburgers and Nathan's hot dogs at Coney Island.
Maaayyyybe later in the decade, I think I remember McDonalds and Wendies, but to tell the truth, I never really felt compelled to commit that stuff to memory.
Side note, though... my brother taught me to shoot at the Coney Island shooting gallery. He taught me to just note where the crappy rifle was hitting, then hold off that amount to slay duck after duck as they rolled by.
Between the two of us, we managed to pick up prizes pretty regularly. I think there were actually two shooting galleries at Coney Island, or maybe I'm remembering another one at another Park. Anyhow, that was fun. And the Nathan's hot dogs. Yum.
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60-70s a regional chain called Henry's Hamburgers ruled the roost in the upper Midwest until McDonalds dominated.
I miss Sandy's, last one closed up when I was 5 or 6 years old. I remember the workers all wearing plaid berets. They all became Hardee's
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/12/dd/4a/12dd4af9731cc09c7e6774f3be803eac.jpg)
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Roy Rogers is the one I miss from my youth.
Unbelievable fried chicken.
Incredible horseradish and BBQ sauce.
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From the '60s I remember A&W, Dairy Queen and Big Boy. McDonald's commercials telling about getting a burger, fries and a drink and getting change back from a dollar.
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Never really considered Big Boy to be fast food... more casual dining as they had waiter service.
Decent food, though.
Dairy Queen? Still have those. Last time I ate at one was in 2018 in Iowa. Really tasty chicken fingers and fries, and the ice cream was as good as I remembered.
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McDonald's commercials telling about getting a burger, fries and a drink and getting change back from a dollar.
"Forty-nine cents for a three course meal? Sounds to me like that's a steal.
Aaaaaat McDonald's."
The three course meal with a single hamburger, a small fries, and a small shake.
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Noo Yawk, forties...
I remember White House hamburgers and Nathan's hot dogs at Coney Island.
White House, or White Castle?
Maaayyyybe later in the decade, I think I remember McDonalds and Wendies, but to tell the truth, I never really felt compelled to commit that stuff to memory.
Wendy's was founded in 1969 ...
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1957: Burger King
I remember how excited me and my friends were when they built one at the end of our block right next to my friend's house back when we were in Elementary School. Back then, they seemed HUGE!
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"White House, or White Castle?"
I'm thinking White Tower.
They had a bunch of locations in New York in the 1940s.
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I just knew you'd catch mnemonic inaccuracies, Hawkmoon. As I mentioned, I wasn't dedicated to establishing authoritative records at the time.
So thanks.
Terry
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I just knew you'd catch mnemonic inaccuracies, Hawkmoon. As I mentioned, I wasn't dedicated to establishing authoritative records at the time.
So thanks.
No problem. I know you'd do the same for me. ;)
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I remember White Castles in the 50s in Denver. We got our fist McDonald's in Pueblo in the early 60s. I didn't even know what a pizza was until I was maybe 13 or so, we did have a couple of local places that made them, but we didn't eat there.
The link says Dairy Queen was popular in 1949 when I was born. I remember them, but we only went there for nickel cones. My parents grew up during the depression, so when we traveled, we would take bread, some sandwich spread, and some lunchmeat. Later, we might stop for lunch at McDonald's, but my dad refused to pay 10 cents for a slice of cheese, so we ate hamburgers.
Off topic, but I remember traveling to my grandparents' house in Milliken CO (50 miles north of Denver) before the interstate was built. Downtown to Elizabeth St, then North on Hwy 85/87 to Colorado Springs, then all the way across town on Nevada Ave, then back on 85/87 to Denver, where Colorado Blvd was the only way across town. Back on 85/87 to Milliken.
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What? Antelope hadn't evolved yet? :rofl:
Hard to kill antelope with a flint tipped spear.
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First, and I think the last, time I ever ate at a White Castle was early 1990, heading to Davenport, Iowa, for a friend's wedding. We stopped around Joilete, Ill., and one of the guys in the car said they were good and cheap. Cheap, yes... Good? Meh.
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Hard to kill antelope with a flint tipped spear.
So, you predate the atlatl then.
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My birth year isn't listed! Discrimination! (Maybe Hawkmoon and I can start a class action suit? I'll place a call to Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe, the local law firm.)
White Castle was around early on, but not very near - we seldom went there for "sliders." I was still a young schoolboy when the first McD's opened in my Chicago neighborhood, probably in the early '60s. There was no place to eat inside, just a small glassed-in area at the front of the building so you wouldn't have to stand in the weather when ordering. Over the years, that place went through MANY expansions.
Burger King came along locally some years later - late '60s I'd say.
KFC? Hmmm . . . not sure when that showed up. We used to go to the now long defunct "Chicken Delight" when I was a kid. Original recipe KFC never appealed to us - won't say it was greasy, but fishing a piece of KFC out of the bucket was a lot like trying to pick up a wet bar of soap you'd dropped in the sink. Subway wasn't on my radar until sometime in the 80's.
There were no Dairy Queens around when I was growing up - the local ice cream shop (closed for winter) was "Tastee Freeze." And Dunkin Donuts showed up long after the IMHO superior "Amy Joy" donuts.
Never heard of places like Carl's Jr. or Whataburger until the late 90s when I moved to TX.
There were a lot more "sit down" restaurants when I was growing up - good ones! - than there are now.