What are you craving RIGHT NOW?

[Free]

We have a relic of the past like that near here. They come out to your car and hook a tray on your window with whatever you ordered.

Yep, the tray dangling on the car door was part of the experience.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Childhood craving.

Growing up in Indiana, we had a regional chain of fast-food restaurants called B-K Root Beer. They were the old fashioned drive-in style, where you'd park and sit in your car, and the waitstaff would come out to you (I think ours had them on rollerskates, but I don't remember too well). Anyway, I loved going to B-K for their draft root beers, served in a big glass mug. It's a strong summer memory for me, sipping through the foam of a B-K root beer, munching on fries. It may be the greatest soda drink I've ever had.

Are we the same person?
s/Indiana/Illinois/ s/"B-K"/"Dog n Suds"/g s/"the waitstaff would come out to you"/"you would order via a mic and speaker at your car"/
Also the mugs were frosted and they had tiny mugs for the littlest kids that they called "baby beers". So yes it's a strong summer memory for me. I still love getting french fries from the local dairy queen and drinking my A&W. And trust me I keep a fuckton of bottles of that stuff around.

 

[WolfEyes]

Every time Kody goes to Harbor Freight Tools (the old Montgomery Wards) on MacArthur Dr he is where the old Hopper's Drive In used to be when I was little.

This was one in Baton Rouge. The one in Alex was in the middle of a field. There was almost nothing on MacAurthur in that area at the time. lol

 

[Free]

Are we the same person?

I'm tempted to purchase one of those variety packs from Amazon with different brands of bottled root beers. I'd love to find one that best fits my memory of that B-K taste. Stewarts, which is locally sold around my parts, is not bad, but not quite the same.

 

[Free]

More childhood cravings...

I want a corn dog. A hot dog/wiener/frankfurter, heavily coated in cornmeal batter, deep fried, and with a wooden stick all the way through it. I got my mother to buy far too many of these for me from a little food kiosk siting in the parking lot of JC Penney in Peru, IN. Or sometimes, I'd get one while at some county or state or 4H fair - in the Midwest, you can end up spending every summer weekend at one of those. Accidentally.

I think I enjoyed munching on the batter more so than the meat. For the "dipping" sauce, I was a yellow mustard fan, though sometimes spicy brown was good.

There's a fairly adequate store bought solution available. I might get some tonight.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Has anyone tried that new dipping taco at Taco Bell yet? I've only heard about it and I want to try one.

 

[Free]

Isn't any taco a dipping taco?

 

[WolfEyes]

Has anyone tried that new dipping taco at Taco Bell yet? I've only heard about it and I want to try one.

Sorry. I never dip my Tacos Supremes.

The only thing I ever get from there.

 

[WolfEyes]

Isn't any taco a dipping taco?

Tacos Supreme come with the dip already on them... sour cream.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Isn't any taco a dipping taco?

I usually drown mine in hot sauce, but, yeah.

 

[Isabeau]

I’ve had my taco dipped quite a few times. Enjoyable

Wait, what are we talking about exactly?

 

[Isabeau]

Now I want a corn dog.

 

[Soen Eber]

My shirts have dipped a fair number of tacos. I should probably find a solution beyond stuffing a napkin in my collar - I've even ruined a good interview shirt once (post interview).

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I get a corn dog maybe every other month from the corner grocery if I happen to hit it at the right time when they've been recently prepared (assembled, thawed, whatever you call it).

Then I sit in my car in the parking lot and eat it there so I can toss the oily paper sleeve and oily paper towels in their trash bin when I'm done.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Basics are doing the trick for me right now. Cube steak with A1 and Penzey's Arizona Dreaming spice and a baked potato with butter and sour cream.

 

[Soen Eber]

Spring rolls. I want some nice, vegetarian spring rolls with a light dipping sauce.

 

[Free]

Spring rolls. I want some nice, vegetarian spring rolls with a light dipping sauce.

The asian dipping taco!

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

More childhood cravings...

I want a corn dog. A hot dog/wiener/frankfurter, heavily coated in cornmeal batter, deep fried, and with a wooden stick all the way through it. Or sometimes, I'd get one while at some county or state or 4H fair - in the Midwest, you can end up spending every summer weekend at one of those. Accidentally.

Do we share the same brain or something? I was thinking about corn dogs today. Best corn dogs I ever had was at the McLean county 4h fair. Though I've also had good ones at the fairbury fair. And some okay carnival corn dogs. Thornton's gas stations has them sometimes, not bad. Can't remember if Casey's does or not.

For the "dipping" sauce, I was a yellow mustard fan, though sometimes spicy brown was good.

Ketchup for me, I'm a traditionalist. Though I've enjoyed them plain too.

There's a fairly adequate store bought solution available. I might get some tonight.

Yep, those are the best store ones I've tasted. I've been wanting some hush puppies too. I miss the combined A&w/Lohn John Silver that used to be in Bloomington. Good burgers, fountain root beer, and hush puppies at the same time.

 

[Free]

Do we share the same brain or something?

Let's hope not. Sometimes I barely have enough brain power for the one of me.

 

[WolfEyes]

A&w/Lohn John Silver

Oh man. How I miss those from the 60s/70s.

People keep trying to convince me we all have it so much better now! No, we don't. I grew up in a 5-bedroom brick home and 50 years later, after owning 3 "real" homes*, I live in a single wide in an ancient mobile home park. We own the single wide but not the lot. It would cost at least 10kUSD to move it in addition to any rent, fees and moving costs (unless we buy land). That is better?

*a 2-bedroom wood frame (Alex)
a 3-bedroom wood frame (MS)
a 4-bedroom brick (Avoyelles Parish)

/end mini rant