Food & Drink What random item do you miss from any restaurant?

[BFoe]

Pizza Hut lunch Buffet and Wendy's super bar were awesome

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I would walk across the parking lot to eat lunch at Pizza Hut when I was in HS. Breadsticks were $1 and pretty much the same as the personal size cheese pizza (cost $2) but without cheese.

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And of course you had to get a drink in the big ass red tumbler


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When I got my first job as a teenager, it was at Pizza Hut. We had a pizza that’s not around today called the triple decker. It was basically a thin crust which would have a special 6-cheese blend dumped on, then another thin crust over top of that, on on top of that crust was sauce, the regular 3-cheese blend, and then whatever toppings you wanted. So it basically had a separate layer of just cheese.
Shit was delicious, I wish they’d bring it back. Probably a heart attack waiting to happen.

 

[Lycandroid]

the pizza hut buffet I had my 10th birthday party there where I got a super nintendo. That's pretty much peak existence as a human being right there.

 

[Goon Dog]

I recently thought of Johnny Rockets

It's not a totally dead franchise but it used to be all over the southeast and now it's more limited. Best vanilla shake you'll ever have and some of my favorite fries. They had that same mini jukebox to go with the 50's diner aesthetic

A side of fries and a chocolate malt from Johnny Rockets was the greatest summertime snack ever. They'd bring you the full glass and also the half full stainless cup complete with concentrated chocolate syrup and malt in the bottom.

 

[Goon Dog]

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This place used to serve some of the best chicken strips I have ever eaten as a kid and I miss it.

Awesome apps too. The fried zucchini and stuffed shrooms were amazing.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

A side of fries and a chocolate malt from Johnny Rockets was the greatest summertime snack ever. They'd bring you the full glass and also the half full stainless cup complete with concentrated chocolate syrup and malt in the bottom.

YES! That stainless cup is what made it. It was always extra cold

 

[ChickenBrother]

When I got my first job as a teenager, it was at Pizza Hut. We had a pizza that’s not around today called the triple decker. It was basically a thin crust which would have a special 6-cheese blend dumped on, then another thin crust over top of that, on on top of that crust was sauce, the regular 3-cheese blend, and then whatever toppings you wanted. So it basically had a separate layer of just cheese.
Shit was delicious, I wish they’d bring it back. Probably a heart attack waiting to happen.

I think I remember the triple decker and it was pretty good. But IIRC it was like twice the price of a personal cheese pizza and I didn't think it was worth twice as much, but must have been cool getting it if you worked there. For heart attack cheese and grease, I'd get the fried chimichanga at the cafeteria from lunch lady with a hairnet, or like 5 or 6 $0.69 tacos at Taco Bell on the other side of the HS parking lot.

 

[Kardashians]

You don't eat meat?

vegetarian 23 years bruh.

 

[ChickenBrother]

Those sit down tabletop video game consoles. I remember Pizza Hut had them

Pizza Hut was low key one of the best summer hang outs. It didn't always have the best games but always had something good, and you could chill with your buddies with the smell of pizza grease everywhere while dropping quarters into a game console and chugging soda from a huge red cup.

 

[Contempt]

vegetarian 23 years bruh.

Ah, you're one of the rare ones that doesn't talk about it... constantly.

 

[Bob Gray]

A local mom and pop Chinese restaurant that was there for like 25 closed awhile back. They had my all time goddamn favorite noodle dish. It was just "Pan fried noodles schezhuan style". It was goddamn amazing. Chicken, beef, vegetables and shrimp all done in a noodle dish, but somehow the noodles were brown and crispy on the bottom, yet super moist and delicious. If you got it to-go, its be in a square take out box like a burger would be on, as opposed to the standard cube-ish chinese takeout because the whole thing was cooked to perfection in the exact shape of the pan it was in.The sauce they used on everything was nectar of the gods.

 

[pv3Hpv3p]

Grown Up Grill Cheese from Cheddars.

Never been to or (maybe?)heard of Cheddars... sounds about the right spot to get a grilled cheese though

 

[Corona]

TacGOAT bell quesarito smh.

 

[Kardashians]

Ah, you're one of the rare ones that doesn't talk about it... constantly.

Actually, my family were always the ones to constantly bring it up at random in conversation with people I didn’t know. Which sucks because as soon as somebody finds out you’re vegetarian they try to go out of their way to try and offend or upset you. Except I grew up in backwoods bumfuck country and on farms, so I just stand there looking bored until they’re finished lol.

 

[boingyman]

Not necessary items, but I just miss some of the good restaurants that closed down over my lifetime. One of them is Shanghainese restaurant that shutdown a few years ago. Family owned and the parents were always yelling in the kitchen in Chinese like a murder was about to go down. However the food was so damn good. Something called Lion Head Soup was my all time favorite and something you don't see served at a restaurant often. You have to find a legit Shanghainese restaurant that actually makes it.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Outback Steakhouse used to have the Outback Quesadilla, which had prime rib in it. It was great. And they no longer have it.

Also, a little sushi place I used to go to had this roll called the Bay Scallop roll. It was a baked roll. It was so good. Just unbelievable. I don’t think they have it anymore.

 

[Meatspin]

Actually, my family were always the ones to constantly bring it up at random in conversation with people I didn’t know. Which sucks because as soon as somebody finds out you’re vegetarian they try to go out of their way to try and offend or upset you. Except I grew up in backwoods bumfuck country and on farms, so I just stand there looking bored until they’re finished lol.

Hurr hurr no meat injection for you

 

[lsa]

Ah, you're one of the rare ones that doesn't talk about it... constantly.

I think you are confusing it with vegans.

 

[Contempt]

I think you are confusing it with vegans.

It's regularly both.

 

[lsa]

It's regularly both.

must be a local thing.
I never heard vegetarians bring it up randomly and I work with a few.
The only time both at work and private it comes up is when we look for places to eat.
To make sure there are vegetarian alternatives.
At least here being a vegetarian is not something you talk about.


vegans on the other hand........
They love to tell everybody that they are vegans, even random people they dont know.
I ride my bike passed a apartment that is owned by vegans on my way to work.
I know they are vegans, because they have put up handwritten notes on the windows telling people passing by that they are vegans.

Its not even on the same scale vegans and vegetarians

 

[Contempt]

Actually, my family were always the ones to constantly bring it up at random in conversation with people I didn’t know. Which sucks because as soon as somebody finds out you’re vegetarian they try to go out of their way to try and offend or upset you. Except I grew up in backwoods bumfuck country and on farms, so I just stand there looking bored until they’re finished lol.

The only time I go out of my way to fuck with vegans/vegetarians is when they are being really obnoxious and judgmental about it... apart from that, you do you. I like steak far too much personally.