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vyelkin posted:It turns out Orangina is just a normal kind of fizzy fruit juice my dad bought to keep us quiet at the grocery store and not a fancy drink reserved for special occasions. Oh that would have been my third guess on what orangina would be.
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Outback steakhouse. My dad was a high profile lawyer in the 90's, so I had been to nice steakhouses, I assumed incorrectly that outback was among them.
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PeterPanda posted:Outback steakhouse. My dad was a high profile lawyer in the 90's, so I had been to nice steakhouses, I assumed incorrectly that outback was among them. Are you a Kardashian or Johnny Cochran's kid?
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I feel like Outback steakhouse is.. fine. It's a steak at the price of a steak. Not amazing but not Olive Garden tier
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i highly recommend any pa goons to check out hoss's steak and seahouse. hoss's is hoss-pitality!
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I feel like my only equivalent "I thought this was fancy!" is likely incomprehensible to non-Danes. It was a franchise called Jensen's Bøfhus(literally Jensen's Steakhouse) that my mom took me to as a kid a few times after she separated from my dad. I think the penny dropped that it was a franchise and nothing fancy was one week where it felt like all of their franchise locations got obliterated by health inspections that declared them super unsanitary.
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I remember being blown away by the discovery that that the UK had more than three flavours of crisps.
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I thought any restaurant with a porte cochère was a fancy place, which by extension meant Red Lobster was fancy.
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Essentially all brown mustards, but especially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvDazrJuSdA And then getting to ride in my cousin's car where he would do this in traffic.
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Sep 23, 2023 23:04
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Any restaurant where you pay AFTER you eat
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PurpleXVI posted:I feel like my only equivalent "I thought this was fancy!" is likely incomprehensible to non-Danes. It was a franchise called Jensen's Bøfhus(literally Jensen's Steakhouse) that my mom took me to as a kid a few times after she separated from my dad. And what did they give you? Something more valuable than money: and impossibly robust immune system.
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Milo and POTUS posted:And what did they give you? Something more valuable than money: and impossibly robust immune system. Not sure about my immune system, but I've eaten plastic forks(accidentally), several kilos of cherry pits and some plum pits with no discomfort, so I think it might've hardened my digestive system.
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Yes, Viennetta! It was supposed to be a dessert "for adults" because I think it had alcohol in it, but young teenage me wanted one of those so bad. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned already: Crossfire. Now it just looks like a marble shooter, but I totally fell for the badass late '80s marketing: "Crossfiyah!"
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It's a fun game but man that commercial set the bar so high nothing could match it
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Viennetta didn't have alcohol in it, at least in the US. It was just layers of ice cream and thin chocolate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZrv81wY8HQ
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Yes, Viennetta! It was supposed to be a dessert "for adults" because I think it had alcohol in it, but young teenage me wanted one of those so bad. Whoever told you it had alcohol in it was pulling a swift one to get your share, brother. You were robbed.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Yes, Viennetta! It was supposed to be a dessert "for adults" because I think it had alcohol in it, but young teenage me wanted one of those so bad. Trifle (and tiramisu) always seemed fancy to me as a child, probably because alcohol and coffee were for adults so putting them in a dessert obviously made it sophisticated.
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My grandpa on my mom's side had satellite TV, but it was back in 90s when satellite TV meant a bigass dish in the backyard so I thought he might as well have been the richest man on the planet. Also echoing everyone else about going to chain restaurants. My family lived in a very small town when I was growing up so to even get to one of those places it was like an hour long drive, so it was basically a day long affair where we crammed in a ton of shopping and other junk.
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Hickory Farms sausages and cheeses Friendly's ice cream Saturday morning anime shows. I kept watching them even though they were boring and incomprehensible because I thought maybe I just wasn't old enough to appreciate how sophisticated they were. Nope, they were boring and incomprehensible.
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That last post hit the spot regarding something that I think is currently impossible to experience: watching/reading/playing something incomprehensible, as a young person, bored and confused, yet having nothing else for entertainment, thinking you're just too stupid to appreciate it. Kid's media is much, much better than it used to be, to say nothing about the amount, variety and ease of access Or maybe kids nowadays find strange poo poo on YouTube and it rewires their little soft brains 
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AARD VARKMAN posted:I feel like Outback steakhouse is.. fine. It's a steak at the price of a steak. Not amazing but not Olive Garden tier bloomin' onion blowin' kids minds with its fanciness
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Buttchocks posted:Hickory Farms sausages and cheeses Oh man that hit me hard as a tweenage mall walker but as an adult I am sort of at a loss to defend it. The weird pipe shop with the meerschaums and the leaded glass crystal wizard and dragon sculptures. And something that proceeded sharper image. Eventually the pewter statues bled down to the walking mall with the guy selling smoke accessories and his son's shop next door with the occult knives and nunchakus. Good place to get nitrous cartridges and buy weed out on the street as we transitioned to fully illegal to medical to recreational.
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BalloonFish posted:This was TGI Friday's when we were kids - there was one about a 50 minute drive away from us in a retail/business park that also had a UCI cinema. Both were rarely visited and seemed like such a Big Deal when we did. Especially TGIF's because it had dark wood panelling, antiques on the walls (we always tried to sit at a table under a moose head), Tiffany lamps and a bar in the middle. Wait, is it... Is it not? I guess so... I've literally only ever been there for birthdays and wedding aniversaries, and only as a young kid, because we didn't have a car (or money) after I was 10. I remember sitting in a Chiquitos and watching fireworks go off for the millenium. Now you're gonna tell me that wasn't fancy either!
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laserghost posted:That last post hit the spot regarding something that I think is currently impossible to experience: watching/reading/playing something incomprehensible, as a young person, bored and confused, yet having nothing else for entertainment, thinking you're just too stupid to appreciate it. Kid's media is much, much better than it used to be, to say nothing about the amount, variety and ease of access Borrowing a game from your uncle when you were 8 and being unable to decipher whether your lack of progress was: Genuine lack of understanding Language barrier The game just being awful trash And smashing your head against it repeatedly for hours, refusing to give up, and having it stuck in your mind for a decade or more later, remembering a weird cover or a couple of screens and having it just be a baffling mess. Then eventually it pops up in your youtube feed in a strange video where you learn that it was an intentionaly bad game made by InfoSoftCorp to retain the rights to a little-known piece of IP for a couple of years longer, and a little weight lifts from your brain.
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Going to a place that served sandwiches with a long thin pickle slice on the side (regardless if those sandwiches were from a diner in cheap red plastic baskets; bonus pickle = fancy) Enfys has a new favorite as of 11:34 on Sep 24, 2023 |
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PurpleXVI posted:Borrowing a game from your uncle when you were 8 and being unable to decipher whether your lack of progress was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zji0hguQ1JU&t=24m15s Oh there's the fucker. Huh, cool gorilla boss I never saw before literally today because it never occurred to me to walk slightly to the left and fall straight loving down. E: I'm in this weird zen state of rage and acceptance. Splicer has a new favorite as of 11:50 on Sep 24, 2023 |
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 These came in a fancy package and on the rare occasion they were available you could only eat one Also Red Lobster. So fancy I was never once able to eat there
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cappuccino. We only had instant coffee at home because we were Also going to the fancy mall in some other town instead of the rundown local mall.
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Flipperwaldt posted:What's that thing called where everybody gets a tiny pan for frying food on a small electric or alcohol burner while you're at the table? That. Raclette? We enjoyed its vague cousin fondue frequently growing up (at least I associate cheese fondue with raclette). Not sure if it's because of the time my parents spent in Europe or because it was the 70s. I keep the tradition alive even though it's a mess to clean up, and I have to have two different broth bowls most of the time as my wife and I are both vegetarians and a cube of steak floating in our vegetables and raviolis is sort of gross. Shrimp curry with saffron. I remember my father coming home with saffron once and my mother being so excited. It was like he was Han Solo pulling a bundle of spice out of the hidden compartments on the Millennium Falcon instead of an accountant pulling a jar out of a suitcase. To echo something I've heard already, Red Lobster. I loving loved crab legs as a kid...until I was finally allowed to order lobster, not at Red Lobster, but somewhere else. Oh man did I feel like the King of Siam or something that day. Too bad my dad died pretty soon after that and I never got to order lobster again (because my mom wouldn't go to such an extravagant restaurant). I made it a couple of times in college before I became a vegetarian though, and it was awesome. And morally wrong, I see that now. But awesome. Why is my mouth watering?
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To this day, the freezer being at the bottom of the fridge rather than the top feels uncomfortably bougie
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Admiralty Flag posted:Raclette?
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Flipperwaldt posted:I guess that must be it. It's weird though that here in Belgium people call it a fondue set, which is definitely just wrong. And it was always meat focused in the 80s. As in what the pictures on the box would suggest. I've only heard the word raclette for the first time in the mid 2010s when suddenly there was a massive marketing thing for that type of cheese. It feels like a thing that should have a proper English language name, but maybe it just doesn't. If not the Americans, then surely the Brits wouldn't have been immune to it being all the rage here in the 70s and 80s. I mean, loads and loads of proper english food names arefrench
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Buttchocks posted:Also going to the fancy mall in some other town instead of the rundown local mall. This basically reminded me that our local movie theater was trash (we also had a drive-in theater but living in GA meant that 80% of the year going meant it was still uncomfortably warm unless you just never cut the engine the whole time) so driving to the next town over and going to see a movie at a multiplex where the theater was half-decent and air conditioned? poo poo we may as well have been at some Hollywood premiere to my mind
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This made me remember, the last time I ever spoke to my dad and his new wife about a decade ago, she said "oh they're building a Morrisons here, but it won't do well. It's too posh for this area so nobody'll shop there."
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The restaurant "Steak & Ale" and Royal Crown cola.
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That one mall that had a chandelier and a palm tree in it
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