Food you miss

[name not needed]

Roy Rogers
The chicken pizziola sandwich from Subway. I can't seem to find it at the Subway I go to.
Surge. I still can't believe Coke stopped making it.

[CornField]

1. Braum's & Goldie's

I'm not sure if Goldie's counts as fast food since it is more of a sit down place. In any event, not one of either to be found in Iowa.

[ChoralScholar]

73. we still have both here. EOM

[Forever Free]

2. In-N-Out

I MISS IT SOOOO MUCH....

[hollywood926]

10. I don't miss In & Out....I eat it all the time...

yum yum yum yum yum yum! I guess you should have stayed out west.

[Menshevik]

13. ditto

No In-N-Out here in London, but I am going back home to CA for winter break and can't wait to have a double double!!!!!

[SW FL Dem]

101. Same here!! It's the first thing I

eat when I visit family in AZ and CA! Can't find a better burger anywhere. I also miss El Pollo Loco, best chicken and charro beans I've ever had.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. good ol' Roys

I swear the only place you can find a Roy Rogers anymore is on the Jersey turnpike. I loved their chicken, far better than KFC

[name not needed]

5. There's a couple not on the turnpike.

There's one in the Brunswick Square Mall in East Brunswick, but that's a bit of a drive from Hamilton. Or Bridgewater, for that matter.

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. That is a bit of a drive...

I think there is one on exit 7 of the turnpike which is like 5 miles from my house...so I guess if I ever had a hankering for some I wouldn't have a far drive

[njdemocrat106]

77. Last time I was at Brunswick Square, it was closed.

There's still a a stand-alone Roy's on Route 9 in Pine Beach (Ocean County), and they recently renovated it also, so I guess they're in it for the long haul.
"Best damn chicken in the state", as Aretha Franklin would say.

[name not needed]

83. Noooooooooo!

I just checked. You're right. Hell, at least Nathan's is still there.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

Do they still have

Double-R-Bar-Burgers?

You could actually hear your arteries closing while you ate one, or two, or three of those.

::: sigh :::

[sans qualia]

30. I'm pretty sure there's one in the train station in Trenton

[Philostopher]

52. There's still one of those out on the east side of Cincinnati.

It's in Mt. Carmel, right on Route 32. They still have those little apple-cheese crisps in the aluminum pot that they heat up in the oven, or at least they did a couple of years ago when we stopped there. Still smells like Trigger's saddle blanket in the restaurant, too. Place was still there last week, when we were down visiting the family for Thanksgiving -- they've got a billboard, so I guess they're still in business, anyway!

[yankeeinlouisiana]

4. Italian beef sandwiches

They don't have those in Louisiana. :-(

[politicat]

72. Want the recipe? from my good old Chicago auntie...

It's disgustingly easy; crockpot type recipe.
PM Me if you want it.

Pcat

[Wapsie B]

6. KFC's chicken giblets.

Liver and Gizzards. Yum!

[Red State Rebel]

99. Ahhh! I'm not alone!

It's getting harder to find good gizzards and livers these days....

[AlCzervik]

7. A few from home i can't get here unless i order in bulk online

Skybars, mallo cups, ah-so sauce, marshmallow Fluff, the original, not that kraft jet cream hooey, fired clams with bellys and good thin cruist slighly oily on top pizza.

Not that i think about a lot or anything.:9

Yes, not fast food but crap, almost the same thing.

[VTdem]

9. I love roy rogers.

I know they still have a few of them in new jersey

[Ready4Change]

11. #2 meal with a Coke.

KFC 3pc combo, original recipe, dark meat, cole slaw, Coke, comes in a close second.

[RagingInMiami]

12. New Mexican food

Nothing compares to Mexican food cooked with green chiles.

[fluffernutter]

42. I concur! I love NM food with a passion.

[CatWoman]

14. White Castle Double Cheeseburgers

:9

[name not needed]

17. Good going in, not so much out

:P

[CatWoman]

24. HEZBOLLLLLAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:P

[Red State Rebel]

100. We have one within a mile of the house...

I had some for lunch on Monday and they tortured me all night. You eat them tonite - they eat you tomorrow!!

[bettyellen]

15. egg creams- i know it's a bev, but....

[bettyellen]

18. i just need 15 more posts!

[CatWoman]

25. well, come on then!!!!!

:D

whenever I think of egg creams, I think of the movie, "Squirm"

:D

[Left Is Write]

16. A&W Teen Burgers and Shakey's Pizza.

[SmokingJacket]

19. I remember Shakey's!

Like a huge gymnasium filled with picnic tables, you'd get your pizza and pitcher of beer from a window. Kids could run around like maniacs. I was four, and found an abandoned hat on the floor there that said "Vietnam: My Dad is There" which I kept and wore often. It made my parents vaguely uncomfortable, because my dad was not there.

I don't actually remember the pizza at all. Didn't they have movies, too? Or was that the Ground Round?

[RagingInMiami]

20. that's a good story

[Left Is Write]

22. I don't remember movies.

But I do remember watching them make the pizza through a huge picture window. And big pitchers of root beer. It's where my dad used to take us for birthday suppers when I was a little girl.

The only thing I really remember about Ground Round is eating peanuts and dropping the shells on the floor.

[proud2BlibKansan]

47. Shakeys served beer to anyone

hated their pizza but they never carded anyone who ordered beer there.

[fluffernutter]

49. too funny, I just googled this the other day...my Shakey's story-

I was wondering if they still had them anywhere.

My brother and I used to watch them making the pizza's through that window. They did have movies to watch on a big screen in the front.

The picnic tables had wooden chairs that were square, and we were some of those kids that ran around like maniacs. My brother pushed by me on a lap around the tables once, and I went sailing straight into one of the corner of one of the chairs and smacked my head on it on the way down to the concrete floor.

My father was an intern at the time at the local hospital and he met me in the ER with my mother. He said I needed stitches and I asked him if it was gonna hurt.

"Yep" he answered. "Of course it is." And he proceded to put 5 stitches in the back of my head.

That was my first hospital visit, and it was also the first time I realized first hand that I would much rather hear the truth than a lie. Especially from the person I trusted the most.

Thanks, Dad :)

[Dora]

88. I remember Shakey's!

Wow, I thought I had made it up. It was close enough to our house that we would walk there for dinner sometimes. But not very often because we didn't eat out much.

I remember the movies, too. Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges. I was fascinated by the pizza window and the pitchers of beer.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

31. Strawberry Pie

Shakey's had a strawberry pie that I remember with great fondness.

Or maybe that was Shoney's Big Boy?

[Left Is Write]

35. I'll bet it was Shoney's.

They have good pie, but Shakey's was never known for pie.

I haven't been to a Shoney's in years - they don't have them out this way.

[Red State Rebel]

103. We serve fun at Shakeys - also Pizza! n/m

[judaspriestess]

21. Bill Miller BBQ San Antonio Texas!! :-(

[tridim]

23. Boo Berry

I know it's still available, but I can't buy it here for some reason.

I miss 'King Vitamin' cereal too.

[C.C.D.]

26. Chicken fajitas, Tex-Mex style. (nt)

[sbj405]

27. Jello pudding pops

Vanilla. They were my favorite when I was sick. Tried making my own, but they're not the same.

[fluffernutter]

43. why did they stop making these? they were the creamiest.

I miss them too.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

45. DITTO!!

God, I loved those things!!
Duckie

[Sabriel]

28. Schwartz's smoked beef sandwiches

Since the kids were born, we haven't been able to afford Montreal, so no poutine, no smoked beef, no pate, no Fin du Mond....

[KurtNYC]

94. Mmmm, Euro Snack on Papineau

Smoked meat sandwich, skin-on fries with flavored mayo and a cold Boreal Rousse.

[SmileyBoy]

29. Taco Bell's bacon cheeseburger burrito.

They haven't made them since 1996.

God, I want one soooooo bad.

[sans qualia]

32. When I lived in Edinburgh

I used to eat these prepackaged sandwiches that contained sausage, bacon, eggs, tomatoes and brown sauce. They were so damn good. Ooh, and scampi fries. They were so damn good too. But I think you can only get them in Ireland.

[RagingInMiami]

33. Ever had a deep-fried pizza in scotland?

[sans qualia]

34. No, sadly. Ever had a fried Mars bar?

[RagingInMiami]

36. I had a fried mars bar for desert

after my deep-fried pizza. Then I went to the pub and downed some pints before taking on the Edinborough castle. I had a great time.

[212demop]

46. Those kick ass- had them in the U.K.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

37. Rubio's fish tacos. Seafood curry from Taste of Thai in San Diego.

(Hillcrest). Carne asada plate from Roberto's. Sushi from Nobu in Solana Beach, Samurai in Solana Beach, and P.B. Sushi Club from Pacific Beach (now defunct).

Dim sum from New Fortune in Gaithersburg, MD and Jasmine in Kearny Mesa, San Diego.

Chowder from Union Bay in Boston, and the bigass seafood platter from no-name's in Boston.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

38. Also: Saffron's Thai roasted chicken (San Diego, India St.).

Even El Pollo Loco!

[DS1]

39. Real British Fish & Chips, fresh out the paper. Lenny's Pizza -Ridgewood

New Jersey.

[BiggJawn]

40. Zeb's BBQ....

Corner of 38th and Keystone. Man, a centre-cut, mild Mambo sauce, maybe drop by for a Roundhouse, sweet, for lunch...

And I miss Shakey Jake's. Emerson south of 21st. Great sub sandwiches...

And up in Noblesville, T J's "Original California Grinder". Terry turned me on to Pastrami. Can you believe that! 21 years old and I'd NEVER had Pastrami!

And Progresso's "Chickarino" soup. Can't find it anymore.

[politicat]

75. good lord, that's like a culinary tour of my childhood.

Add in Steak and Shake, breaded tenderloins, a couple of places I could not even identify anymore... (I tried, last year, driving around, trying to identify locations. No luck.)

Shakey Jake's was one of my father's hangouts.

Thanks for the memories... I think.

Pcat

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

41. Ledo's Pizza, Adelphi, Maryland. Square pieces. Sweet, tomatoey flaky

crust. The satellite Ledo's around Maryland are okay, but only a pale imitation of the original. Mmmmmm.....

[212demop]

44. Second Avenue Deli- lox, white fish salad, bagels

It was my favorite food all my life, and then literally, out of nowhere last year I went into anaphylactic shock eating smoked white fish-- and I can never ever eat it again or I will literally DIE. How much does that suck?

I have to carry around an epi pen and everything. Just in case I accidentally swallow a smoked salmon. I shit you not.

[Gemini Cat]

65. Oh!!!! YES!!

How I love, and I do mean LOVE Second Avenue Deli!

[Scrooge]

48. fresh strawberries

I wont see them until May or so. I think, out of my entire (small) garden, strawberries are what I miss most.

[solinvictus]

50. H. Salt Fish N' Chips

They served them in newspaper. Other products I miss include Coca-Cola's Surge, Upper-10, Red Rock Cola, and Vess. As you can see, I'm a soda nut.

[norml]

51. The original Ben&Jerry's Ice Cream flavors Rainforest Crunch and Wavy

Gravy. Since they were bought by Unilever they got rid of some of the better flavors and have introduced several cheap ass flavors.

[fluffernutter]

55. lol@cheap ass flavors. Wavy Gravy rocked.

[Book Lover]

53. Real New York Pizza

The kind that you buy by the slice in Astoria. Oh my lack of god, I'm drooling...

Also, Wise onion & garlic potato chips, and real bagels.

[Blue in a Red State]

54. Old Dutch potato chips, Rudolph's Bar-b-que

I'm a displaced Minnesotan. And I miss Forever Yours bars, too.

[Left Is Write]

68. I'm a displaced Minnesotan too!

And I love Old Dutch potato chips. A good friend of mine in Iowa sent me several bags last year around this time.

[Blue in a Red State]

105. I miss the onion and garlic ones too

When they had paprika and were ORANGE!

[Liberaltarian]

56. starchy foods.

years ago I developed an immuno-system disorder that causes my body to attack itself when i eat starch(pasta, potatoes, bread, cooked vegetables, and on and on and on it seems sometimes).

so- I miss pizza, pasta, cake, cookies, mashed taters, french fries, corn(on or off the cob), and on and on and on...

so i miss lotsa stuff.

[212demop]

58. God, that's sad. My heart goes out to you.

[RagingInMiami]

66. you poor soul

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

87. OMG. How do you get the carbs your body needs? (nt)

[solinvictus]

57. Kelly's Hamburgers...

A way defunct chain that still had one in operation here in Birmingham until about a decade ago. In 1991, I used to go there after work at 7:30 AM and have the 1/4 pound cheeseburger special with a fries and Dr. Pepper for about $2.50.

[bo44]

59. Filipino feasts cooked by my old Filipino uncles

Uncle Larry cooked for Pinoys that worked in the Asparagus Camps in the Stockton Delta. When there was a Christening or birthday or any celebration he and Uncle Sammi, Uncle Pete, Uncle Mariano, Uncle Florentino and the rest of the boys would prepare a feast. Chicken and Pork Adobo, a pickled goat tartare, Dinuaguan, Satonghan, Pancit, Lumpia, Potato salad, Macaroni salad, jello salad, steamed rice, batuka, bibinka, cake and ice cream, punch and tons of smiles. However, when Uncle Florentino started sharpening his asparagus cutters the party was winding down. Time to go so Uncles can get ready for work. Oh by the way, they were all in their sixties and seventies during my youth when all this went down. ooiy sst sst.

[fluffernutter]

60. family feasts are the best.

I live in a town where you can get real Filipino food - I never had it before, but I have cravings for pancit and lumpia now.

[bo44]

62. I prefer Ilocano food to modern day Tagolog food

If you are adventorous try the dinuguan with steam rice and pancit with lumpia on the side. Order biko or sweet rice for dessert. If not try the bibingka or cascarone.

[fluffernutter]

63. I will!

Thanks for the recommendations :)

[yellowdogintexas]

61. Depends on which part of the world I am thinking about but here goes:

Kentucky: Kozy Korner Barbeque, but will accept other local types as substitutes

KRYSTALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tastee Treet Hamburgers and soft serve ice cream from Russellville, Kentucky (supposedly these also existed in Iowa and Nebraska does anyone remember them???????? sort of a variation of the loose meat sandwich, and BOY were they GOOD!!!!!!!!) Best damn soft serve I ever had in my life.

Steak sandwiches at the Smokehouse in Owensboro KY...college hangout


Boston/Cambridge:
Thin crust, oily, floppy pizza.
That little sub shop just off Mass AVe on the Law School side of the Harvard Campus..best pastrami subs, best peppersteak subs and best egg salad I ever had anywhere. (this was in the late '60 -early 70's but I wonder if THAT is still there)
Bartley's Burger Cottage and the haystack of onion rings
Legal Sea Foods
the wonderful butterfly shrimp all the chinese restaurants had ..looked like big handlebar moustaches, and tasted like heaven.

Nashville:

KRYSTALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Satsuma for a turnip green plate and the wonderful Christmas buffet!!!!
Opryland hotel's unbelievable Sunday brunch buffet
Loveless Motel breakfast
Vietti's chili
Shoney's
Candyland's stuffed tomatoes with chicken salad


Evansville:
Jaya's Asian Specialties (Korean food to die for)
Mulligatawny soup at the Merry Go Round cafe

If I ever leave Texas, I will miss Mexican food.

[maveric]

64. Veal Cutlet grindah from "Beas", Lawrence and Methuen MA.

A huge cutlet sticking out of the grindah roll like a sailboat sail, covered with tomatoe sauce, mushrooms and provalone cheese.
Damn they were great!

[scarlet_owl]

67. Coconut toast my grandmother used to make.

It was the best!

[bettyellen]

78. damn how do you make that? Yumm!

[yellowdawgdem]

82. Agree about the pre-mad cow beef

It was nice to be able to have a hamburger and not think twice about it. I also remember some nice meals at City Cafe in Nashville, they had lunch plates with lots of semi greasy vegetables that tasted good. I also miss pizza mixes that actually got whomped into some decent tasting pizzas. Alot cheaper than ordering them from round table.

[eoberhauser]

93. Oh how I love food

I moved to Minnesota from Ohio and miss several things. One is the Outrageous Parfait from Steak N Shake. I also miss Bagel and Deli in Oxford (Miami of Ohio) They made a Greek bagel with cream cheese, feta cheese, red onions, olives, and cukes on a onion bagel and then steamed it until it was hot and chewy - oh god!

Erin

[CO Liberal]

69. "Chicken Delight" - NY Metro Area

They delivered chicken dinners back in the '60s in a fleet of white Mercury Comets. I still remember their radio jingle:

"Don't cook tonight - call Chicken Delight!"

My late mother used to work at the polls on Election Day, and she'd arrange for Chicken Delight to deliver dinners to us. That way, we didn't have to turn on the stove while she was not home.

[the Princess]

70. The Gino's Giant! Best hamburger ever!

And I miss STEWARTS Drive Inn.

And being out west I miss GOOD diners - well Diners at all they don't have them out here.

[tjdee]

71. Twinkies--is it true they stopped making them? Is it?

Someone told me this terrible news!

But I do happen to see them in grocery stores (how old are THEY LOL).

It cannot be true. I simply will not give up my packaged sponge cake with creamy filling.

[CO Liberal]

98. Hostess' Parent Company Filed for Bankrupcy During the Summer

But they'll keep making Wonder Bread, Fruit Pies, and Twinkies.

[ChoralScholar]

74. Most recently

Arby's discontinued the ArbyQ. Probably about the best FAST FOOD Bar-B-Que.

A little further back, I miss 7up Gold - and Pizza Burgers, whatever happened to those?!?

[Califooyah Operative]

76. KFC had a little buiscut sized chicken sandwich called the chicken lil' nt

[politicat]

79. Capio, Clearly Canadian, proper pizza, real mexican food, kasha, pieroshki

the list goes on and on and on... It seems like every place I live, I fall in love with some food or other, and never learn how to make it, and then I move. And then, there are the family recipes and methods that I can't duplicate.

There were a lot of vendor-shop foods from Kiev that I'd kill for (the Russian restaurants in this area are very upscale...) and I have yet to find a proper pizza margherita. And don't get me started on mexican food... (there's a shop here that uses fish sticks in the fish tacos. Fish Sticks. FISH STICKS!!!!)

And I kill beverages. Capio? That was me. Clearly Canadian was my fault, too. Josta? Hi again. I've killed coffee shops, tea shops, and a smoothie place. I tried to kill Coke, but that's going to take some work.

I now drink water. Tea. Coffee. (Brands are not to be revealed.) Barring world wide disaster, I should be okay, and so should you.

Pcat

[JCMach1]

80. Any 'real' American food

Especially pork pepperoni on pizza!!!

[porkrind]

81. I miss pre MAD COW beef.

Now I'm beef-free :(

[Shakespeare]

84. The Taco Bell Taco Light and Beefy Tostada! Also miss Taco Bueno in TX.

Oh, man...that Taco "Light" wasn't low-cal; the "light" was because it was made from a deep-fried FLOUR tortilla instead of a corn taco shell, and it was sooooo good. Also miss the beefy tostada with sour cream and the one little olive ring on top as garnish....

[GingerSnaps]

85. Wimpy Burgers

My Mom use to take us to the City to shop and we would eat at Wimpy's during the holidays. I would pay big bucks for a Wimpy Burger right now!

[Beware the Beast Man]

86. Primanti Brothers Sandwiches

Can't get them in Cleveland :cry:

[JohnKleeb]

89. international italian chicken sandwhich at BK was damn good

[Dora]

90. Chicken that tastes like chicken!

Am I crazy?

[Rambis]

91. deleted

x

[Phentex]

92. Burger Chef

MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Z_I_Peevey]

95. Whataburgers.

I would get one at the drive-thru in Harlingen, Texas on my way home from the 3-11 shift. Many, many years ago.

[Rambis]

96. Hamburger Coney at George the Chilli King

Take a hamburger cut in in half and put it in a hotdog bun, smother it with chilli (special GCK chilli) top it with onions until no chilli shows and you are there.
If you don't like that get the fat man special yum yum!

[northzax]

97. Abalone

real Abalone...

[Jessica]

102. Chicken Littles from KFC!!

Those tiny little wonders were the best ... especially the "special sauce."

[donheld]

104. I miss really good barbeque

in Colorado people think barbeque means either something cooked on a grill outside, or anything with barbeque sause dumped on/in it