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326 clicks; posted to Discussion » on 15 Dec 2022 at 3:30 PM (14 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Original [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 2:50:32 PM  
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meehaw [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-15 3:04:50 PM  
I'm not sure how to gauge its "niceness" in the seventies, but it was always a treat for me as a kid to go to Red Lobster. My family were in the hospitality briefly when we were young and my dad was just out of school. So we often did eat at pretty nice places every so often that were probably way above our means. They were probably paid for by the businesses my dad worked for as a perk. That was often seafood places along the coast of Florida and Georgia.

Again, Red Lobster now is kinda hilarious, but back then, maybe it was considered really fine dining.
 
Kornchex [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 3:15:46 PM  

meehaw: Red Lobster now is kinda hilarious


This pretty much applies to any chain restaurant.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-15 3:25:12 PM  
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cr7pilot [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 3:26:04 PM  
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Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 3:28:22 PM  
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Nina9 [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 3:36:25 PM  
It was always a big deal when we got to go to Ryan's Buffet. It was better than Golden Corral and had the best rolls.
 
Another Government Employee
2022-12-15 3:39:32 PM  

meehaw: I'm not sure how to gauge its "niceness" in the seventies, but it was always a treat for me as a kid to go to Red Lobster. My family were in the hospitality briefly when we were young and my dad was just out of school. So we often did eat at pretty nice places every so often that were probably way above our means. They were probably paid for by the businesses my dad worked for as a perk. That was often seafood places along the coast of Florida and Georgia.

Again, Red Lobster now is kinda hilarious, but back then, maybe it was considered really fine dining.


Red Lobster was also much higher quality back then. (Yeah, it was a birthday spot for me)
 
odinsposse
2022-12-15 3:41:59 PM  
There was a hot dog place that had plastic alien creatures on the walls. It was the greatest place on earth.
 
FarkingSmurf
2022-12-15 3:43:32 PM  
I don't remember a specific "celebration" restaurant outside of Chucky Cheese/Showbiz Pizza for birthdays.  Cracker Barrel was always the family road trip go to though.
 
foo monkey
2022-12-15 3:43:58 PM  
The Pepperoni Stick. It's a restaurant in NoVA that's rebrands itself every few years into one of two other names. Same owners. Same menu, but with different letterhead. I think it's a mafia money laundering business, but in Northern Virginia?
 
bughunter [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-12-15 3:45:56 PM  
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Pants full of macaroni!! [BareFark]
2022-12-15 3:47:18 PM  
There used to be a buffet restaurant called the Town & Country, somewhere between Canton and Massillon.  It had, among other things, people carving ham and roast beef.  It has been gone for oh, 3 or 4 decades thereabouts.
 
NateAsbestos [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-15 3:47:38 PM  

Jake Havechek: [Fark user image image 350x212]


"Potable" is definitely an adjective choice.

Not "good" or "cold" or "refreshing."

Drinkable.
 
CptnSpldng [BareFark]
2022-12-15 3:54:42 PM  
I grew up in the days before chain restaurants so I'd have to say a little hole in the wall restaurant on the edge of the Allegheny National Forest that had an absolutely wonderful Friday Nite Fish Fry.

/adjusting the onion at my belt
 
Exluddite [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 4:00:11 PM  
I knew it wasn't fine dining, but so what? It was fun!
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hughesrep
2022-12-15 4:00:35 PM  
The Brown Derby when it was a chain.
 
Pants full of macaroni!! [BareFark]
2022-12-15 4:06:13 PM  

NateAsbestos: Jake Havechek: [Fark user image image 350x212]

"Potable" is definitely an adjective choice.

Not "good" or "cold" or "refreshing."

Drinkable.


Maybe they used it to distinguish alcoholic bevees from ghosts?
 
Combustion [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 4:06:44 PM  
We had a Red Lobster knock-off: Sea Galley.


/we've got crab-legs!!
 
nvmac [OhFark]
2022-12-15 4:07:36 PM  
Miguel's Mexican restaurant in Reno, NV.

Still exists today, two different locations however.

https://www.miguelsmexicanrestaurantreno.com/

You knew Dad had extra money if we were going there, as it was a 40-minute drive from home.
 
End_Of_Line
2022-12-15 4:10:02 PM  
Another Red Lobster family here. Though, to be honest, there were so few choices in our area Red Lobster was actually 5 star.
 
EatHam [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 4:10:10 PM  
Long John Silver's.  Howard Johnson if shiat was getting fancy
 
Gravitationally Challenged [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 4:24:58 PM  
We didn't have a "Celebration Restaurant". If it was your birthday you got to pick what mom made for dinner and your favorite homemade cake. Money was tight, but hey I didn't go hungry and at least my parents cared enough to celebrate their children's birthday. No complaints here.
 
west.la.lawyer [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 4:38:44 PM  
As a wee lad, the celebration restaurant was called Castagnola's (which we all mispronounced with an IA at the end) and I thought it was amazing sea food at the time.

The family dinner out non-celebration indulgence was Tony Roma's with the onion ring brick... when I became an adult and learned from an article something to the effect that the ribs were pre-cooked and delivered to the restaurant frozen in bags, it sort of spoiled going there any more.
 
Daniel Boone's Farm [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-15 4:39:59 PM  
Not the one nearest me, but one of the last remaining pics I could find.  I remember going on Fridays after my dad got home from work.  Thinking back I can see the beginning of the end of the town I grew up in.  When the steel mills started to close the wait went from 45 minutes to 5 minutes to a near empty restaurant.  I distinctly remember thinking as bad as it seems for everyone maybe this will be a plus.  I don't think I could have been more wrong.
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RogermcAllen [OhFark]
2022-12-15 4:40:06 PM  
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PluckYew [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 5:05:30 PM  
Skippolni's pizza in Clayton.  AKA Skips

Home of the preggo pizza, guaranteed to stimulate labor.
 
realmolo
2022-12-15 5:19:48 PM  
Red Lobster was actually pretty good 40 years ago.

I had an aunt that lived in Lafayette Louisiana. She had a full-on Cajun best friend, and had easy access to seriously good home-made Cajun food, as well as all the local Cajun restaurants.

She actually really liked Red Lobster and considered a treat, way back when.

But now...eh. Red Lobster just drowns everything in butter and salt and calls it a day. Everything at Red Lobster tastes the same.
 
ski9600 [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 5:34:26 PM  
We used to go to the original Totino's restaurant.  It was pretty great, I knew it wasn't high end, but it was pretty special!
The pizza was about as thick as it is today but less airy/air bubbles in the crust.  A lot more cheese.  I can't remember anything about the sauce, but there was probably more of it as it's just a hint today.  Side salad was crisp greens in a small bowl with a very vinegary Italian dressing.  I don't recall if there was anything besides the greens.  Excellent!

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ArkPanda [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 5:54:15 PM  
Casa Bonita sometimes. There used to be several real ones, not just a South Park joke.
 
Billy Liar
2022-12-15 5:56:31 PM  
We went in knowing that The King's Table wasn't chi-chi, but it was a set price for as much as you could bear to be seen to eat.  For a family of six, that was a pretty good deal for birthdays.  When they closed down, we madie the switch to Myrl's Chuck Wagon.  I didn't understand why we seemed to be the only ones "dressed up".
 
Groupon boob job
2022-12-15 6:04:49 PM  

Jake Havechek: [Fark user image 350x212]


Ha! Nice. Perhaps you're familiar with the place my family went to:

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Special Agent
2022-12-15 6:11:22 PM  
The Old Spaghetti Factory on The Esplanade in Toronto. For a kid from the suburbs it was a nice treat. The place next to it, The Organ Grinder, was pretty good pizza too.
 
SirMadness
2022-12-15 6:26:32 PM  
When I was a kid there was one of these in Edmonton:

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When it shut down in the late 80s, or "Went back to the states" as was in the parlance of the time, I grew up missing mojos, and anywhere with a decent jukebox.

Flash forward to my exchange in Japan and I see this:
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Yes, I did take the all-you-can-eat option just to have plates and plates of mojos.
and yes, it was disappointing that there was no jukebox, despite the American Pop playing on the speakers.
 
ThomasPaineTrain [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 6:28:29 PM  
The Italian Pie Shoppe. It was pretty damn legit.
 
12349876
2022-12-15 6:45:48 PM  
The long deceased Max and Erma's in my neck of the woods had an ice cream bar in a bathtub and an arcade upstairs.
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 7:10:47 PM  
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Had to drive all the way to Moon Twp
 
casey17 [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 7:28:55 PM  

SirMadness: When I was a kid there was one of these in Edmonton:

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When it shut down in the late 80s, or "Went back to the states" as was in the parlance of the time, I grew up missing mojos, and anywhere with a decent jukebox.

Flash forward to my exchange in Japan and I see this:
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Yes, I did take the all-you-can-eat option just to have plates and plates of mojos.
and yes, it was disappointing that there was no jukebox, despite the American Pop playing on the speakers.


OMG - I miss Shakey's Pizza SO much! That was THE pizza place to go when I was a kid!
 
casey17 [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 7:29:54 PM  
I always thought this place was 'sposed to be fancy:

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alexxia [TotalFark]
2022-12-15 8:23:41 PM  
Silver Slipper Buffet in Las Vegas. That was awesome when I was a child.
 
The Ice Cream Man
2022-12-15 8:28:18 PM  
When Wendy's first came around, the tables all had newspaper style table tops that you could read, and Tiffany lamps ab0ve all of them. I thought of the place as pretty high class in my youth. Now they aren't really any different than all the other fast food restaurants, fresh beef be damned. Although, I just drove by one yesterday advertising peppermint stick frosties, so Imma hafta try one soon.
 
Billy Liar
2022-12-15 9:20:42 PM  
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an Oregon staple
 
AppleOptionEsc
2022-12-16 2:27:35 AM  

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This, right here. Pizza hut was fine dining growing up around me in the boonies.

Of course, grandma was loaded, so anytime the custody weekend fell to my dad, if there was a weekend no one felt like cooking, we went somewhere that is probably 1 star adjacent. 60 dollar plates these days. Some years I want to show up in my work clothes and see if they would actually kick me out.
 
Gramma
2022-12-16 7:16:14 AM  
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We were broke. My brother and I love the porcelain palace - and our folks let us get orange pop.
 
jlee4677 [TotalFark]
2022-12-16 9:20:28 AM  
Happy Joe's pizza, not five stars but damn good pizza (until he retire and sold out a few years ago)
 
Any Pie Left
2022-12-16 2:01:15 PM  
Well, the place for that in my family is a Polish restaurant/ event hall in the Chicago burbs called The White Eagle. Every big Catholic sacrament, the reception would be there.

Baptism? White Eagle.
First communion? White Eagle.
Confirmation? Yep.
Wedding? Tak.
Anniversary? Sure.
Post funeral meal? Pass the pierogis, at the White Eagle, conveniently close to the cemetery.

There's a kind of comfort in that kind of continuity. Like a good church but with good food and drinks and no kneeling.
 
nick_papagiorgio
2022-12-16 5:39:57 PM  

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My God... that place was awful. I know it's subjective but Rio Bravo was Ruth's Chris compared to that joint.
 
nick_papagiorgio
2022-12-16 5:42:13 PM  
When you're 7...

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