Sorry, but I just have to: "I would gladly pay you Thursday for a hamburger today". I watched a lot of Popeye cartoons in my youth.
If You Could go Back in Time...
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Sorry, but I just have to: "I would gladly pay you Thursday for a hamburger today". I watched a lot of Popeye cartoons in my youth.
Same here, I just wish I could remember if the actual burgers were good or not.
It's very possible the taste of some of the nuts may have changed.
It's well-known liquids in plastic bottles have a very different taste compared to the same liquid stored exclusively in glass (or aluminium). V8 is a great example, though given how many people loathe the taste they'll never get to learn how much less sucky it is in glass... (it's one of my favorites, so "sucky" is definitely a relative and inconsistent term). Plastic has many uses for foods, assuming the change in flavor isn't due to the nuts kept exposed to air before being preserved and sealed, or peanuts imported when not in season, et cetera. But definitely not for liquids, given the liquid nature of liquid and any chemicals used in the plastic's construction leeching into the liquid would create a comparatively uniform taste...
Liquor is very much like this. I'd love to buy Doctor McGillicuddy's mentholmint schnapps in the larger size, but I've only ever found that larger size in a plastic bottle. The plastic totally leeches the flavor out and it's nowhere near as good as the smaller, glass bottle. And I'm a sick man, I need my medicine.
According to the internet, yes. There are 78 locations in the US, and 279 in Japan. Google shows some in Canada too, but that could just be a different chain with the same name, since they aren't mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
I know the one in my city closed many, many years ago... but the mascot statue was kept by the next restaurant to move into that building. It was eventually removed when yet another new restaurant went in.
One would presume: chicken.
Hmm. I thought at first, nothing.
Then I did remember three things.
One, Spuds, a lolly (Aussie for sweet) from the 70s, that was basically a sticky coconut ball covered with chocolate powder (so it looked like a potato, geddit?). Very tasty.
Two, in the early 2000s, McD's had in Oz a Mexican burger, with shaker fries. Made a nice change.
Three, in the early 70s we had Schweppes Export Dry Cola. It tasted sugar free, but didn't have aspartame or anything, it was as it said on the tin, dry cola, and all the better for having no sugar. Haven't been able to find it for years. I'd being back a pallet load of it.
Then I did remember three things.
One, Spuds, a lolly (Aussie for sweet) from the 70s, that was basically a sticky coconut ball covered with chocolate powder (so it looked like a potato, geddit?). Very tasty.
Two, in the early 2000s, McD's had in Oz a Mexican burger, with shaker fries. Made a nice change.
Three, in the early 70s we had Schweppes Export Dry Cola. It tasted sugar free, but didn't have aspartame or anything, it was as it said on the tin, dry cola, and all the better for having no sugar. Haven't been able to find it for years. I'd being back a pallet load of it.
Now, if I could go back in time and REFORMULATE something, I'd like a Diet version of Crystal Pepsi, please.
In fact, I'd like diet versions of a LOT of those experimental, limited edition products: Pepsi Fire, Lemon Pepsi, and so on.
Stupid diabeetus.
In fact, I'd like diet versions of a LOT of those experimental, limited edition products: Pepsi Fire, Lemon Pepsi, and so on.
Stupid diabeetus.
I would bring back orange spangles they were a hard square fizzy fruit sweet, In the 70’s/early 80’s when I was a kid!
Most of the Mountain Dew varieties are still aorund, no? I know the Red White & Dew was a summer thing, but I wish they'd bring it back. Now theres x-mas Dew (Red & Green apparently).
I was commenting on a previous post, but the reason I cannot have the new varieties of Mt Dew is that there are no sugar-free versions of them. They're all loaded.
That definitely sucks. My Dad was diabetic in the 70's, when there were way fewer options and diet sodas all tasted like battery acid. Luckily, he didn't pass that or his baldness on to me, maybe my dad really was the milkman.
As far as the various Mountain Dews, some are good, some not so much. I wasn't sure which ones might have had diet versions.
As far as I'm aware, normal Mt Dew is the only one that has a diet option.
Most places are still lacking in varieties of diet options (restaurants, FF joints, etc), but I believe I may have pushed our local amusement park to add more than just Diet Pepsi to their available soft drinks in the park. One year I went into their offices and demanded that I be allowed to bring my Diet Mountain Dew in because I couldn't stand Diet Cola and I needed more than water (horrible phlegm problems that only carbonation takes care of). They reluctantly agreed. The next year it was an option (for $2.00 per bottle when they were normally $1.00 per bottle in vending machines everywhere else).
Oh, the other thing I would go back in time for is a Shamrock Shake from McDonald's. It was a tradition that every time I won a State Championship Diving competition, we would go to McDonald's and get me a Shamrock Shake. I think they disappeared about the time I stopped diving.
Most places are still lacking in varieties of diet options (restaurants, FF joints, etc), but I believe I may have pushed our local amusement park to add more than just Diet Pepsi to their available soft drinks in the park. One year I went into their offices and demanded that I be allowed to bring my Diet Mountain Dew in because I couldn't stand Diet Cola and I needed more than water (horrible phlegm problems that only carbonation takes care of). They reluctantly agreed. The next year it was an option (for $2.00 per bottle when they were normally $1.00 per bottle in vending machines everywhere else).
Oh, the other thing I would go back in time for is a Shamrock Shake from McDonald's. It was a tradition that every time I won a State Championship Diving competition, we would go to McDonald's and get me a Shamrock Shake. I think they disappeared about the time I stopped diving.
In the early 90's (I think), KFC had these 25¢ chicken sandwiches with mayo. So damn good. KFC is normally too dry for my taste, but those things were deee-lish.