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If You Could go Back in Time...

Awesome Possum said:
McDonalds Arch Deluxe. The only good burger McDonalds ever made.
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I'd honestly never heard of that before, but I Googled it to see what it was. Assuming the Wikipedia article is correct, and not out-of-date, you don't even need a time machine to have this again, just an airline ticket. It's supposedly still available in France and Russia under the name "Royal Deluxe".
 
Avro Arrow said:
I'd honestly never heard of that before, but I Googled it to see what it was. Assuming the Wikipedia article is correct, and not out-of-date, you don't even need a time machine to have this again, just an airline ticket. It's supposedly still available in France and Russia under the name "Royal Deluxe".
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It was McDonalds' short-lived attempt to be more sophisticated and "grown up." :lol:

Kor
 
Oh, just thought of this.. I want a burger from Winky's. Because that chain existed in my childhood, but as far as I know is gone completely, and I no longer remember the taste of their food.
 
Doom Shepherd said:
Oh, just thought of this.. I want a burger from Winky's. Because that chain existed in my childhood, but as far as I know is gone completely, and I no longer remember the taste of their food.
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I can picture it now... science finally invents a $50-billion time machine that allows people to break the bonds of the normal space/time flow. You submit your application to go back; a decade later, your chance finally comes up. You travel back to the time of your childhood and find a Winky's. You sit down and try your food with the greatest of anticipation, and then... "Oh, yeah, now I remember... this is TERRIBLE!"
 
I understand that a handful of franchisees still exist somewhere in the midwest, but I would like to travel back a few decades and get a Rax roast beef sandwich, along with the alligator-shaped plastic drink bottle.

Kor
 
Ar-Pharazon said:
All the U.S. ones are long gone, but I think they made a pretty good burger.

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I don't know if it's really the same chain or not, but we have a chain with a similar name all over Ontario: http://wimpysdiner.ca/

As far as restaurants that are gone from this area but still exist elsewhere: Olive Garden pulled out of Ontario years ago. I know everyone likes to mock Olive Garden, but it was reasonably-priced, which is a big deal to me.

I also used to really love Reuben & Wong's, but I don't think that was a chain. Still, if I happened to find myself a few years in the past, I'd probably stop by. :)
 
Nothing. Really, nothing.

So much of what was produced by the food industry back in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's was plain awful, in terms of nutrition.

And if you go back further before the mega-food processing revolution, food was boring. So little selection. Even with fresh produce, you didn't have the amazing range of choice that you've got today (not much with global shipping back then).

The processed food industry has had a terrific grassroots segment evolving whereby much better food is being produced. Trader Joe's is a phenomenal source for it. I do not want to go back to the 1970's, where food is concerned. That's for sure!
 
On the other hand, if we are talking about "real" food instead of processed products, the restaurant fine dining scene had a lot of classic dishes that are hard to find anymore. Steak Diane and Lobster Thermidor, anyone?

Kor
 
Avro Arrow said:
Well, then I guess you'll just have to content yourself with using the technology to help @Locutus of Bored kill baby Hitler.

Can't just let that time machine sit around doing nothing, after all.
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:guffaw:

If I could save any political figure from assassination or fatal accident, it would be Robert F. Kennedy. JFK overshadows him, but RFK was a tremendously great man in so many respects, even more than Jack. He would have been the best president the USA had ever seen in the 20th century, IMHO. I'd have taken the bullet for him on that fateful day.
 
Kor said:
It was McDonalds' short-lived attempt to be more sophisticated and "grown up." :lol:
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I remember that as a youth; McDonald's was airing these bizarre commercials of things like Ronald McDonald playing golf, with the tagline of, "McDonald's Grows Up."

My dad assumed that it meant that McDonald's was going to start selling alcohol (even after my teen self pointed out that there's no way McDonald's had procured thousands of liquor licenses collectively and without anyone knowing).
 
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