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Golden Corral is the height of fanciness. They have a BUFFET. Look at all the different kinds of food on it!
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Loomer posted:Whoever told you it had alcohol in it was pulling a swift one to get your share, brother. You were robbed. Tiggum posted:Did you somehow confuse viennettas with trifles? Clearly I was robbed, but Viennettas are available again in stores, right? I guess I can finally find out if they're as fancy as 13 year old me thought (probably not)...
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Tenkaris posted:Frasier Crane I mean he had tons of fancy poo poo but clearly Niles had him beat by miles. Niles had a BMW and was kept by a monied woman.
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Going to daycare. I thought the parents' of children going to daycare must have incredibly fancy jobs. I grew up in a farm, surrounded by mostly farms which meant that most kids I knew mainly hung out at home and tried not to die until they went to school. One of my best friends in first grades seemed incredibly sophisticated because 1.) she had gone to daycare 2.) her family lived in a brick house instead of wooden one 3.) she had vacationed abroad, several times. (Her dad worked in a cheese factory and her mom was a nurse.)
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TwoPair posted: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. My hometown had only a Dairy Queen, KFC, Hardee's, and Subway for the longest. Thus, any drive-thru place not in my hometown was a treat. That included McDonald's, until we finally got one of those when I was a teen. When you have to travel an hour on a two-lane road, anything you don't have seems more special. Including Walmart. The hometown is now only 20 minutes away from the nearest Walmart.
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We were very poor for most of my childhood, and my mother was a terrible cook, so almost any time I ate a friend's place or with extended family felt like the height of luxury. Some foods that blew my mind: spaghetti and meatballs pan-fried porkchops and mashed potatoes with real cracked pepper (my mom would buy those like 2cm thick pork "chops" and toss them completely unseasoned into the bottom of a roaster pan in the oven for about an hour, they were like boot leather) fresh vegetables of almost any kind butter home-made baked goods grilled chicken any salad not made with watery iceberg lettuce any pasta with a creamy sauce (white sauce = immediate gourmet) most fruit dip name-brand hot dogs, especially the jumbo ones or ones with cheese in them other things I saw that friends had or did that seemed fancy to me: owning any pet other than a cat, bonus points if it required a cage or tank a tv in the bedroom not sharing a room a dedicated playroom a bed with a full sheet set, matching blanket and pillowcases, triple score if more than one pillow. any bed larger than a twin instruments sports equipment book collection any media collection honestly refillable soap dispenser loofahs cooked food for school lunch, or lunchables ring notebooks any name-brand clothes, especially sneakers or outerwear owning more than one pair of footwear eating at a restaurant going to a hockey game having spending money craft/drawing supplies Yeah suffice to to say I now give myself whatever I want whenever I want it whenever possible.
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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. In The Netherlands it's called a gourmetstel and is frequently dragged out around christmas/new year or occasionally birthdays. It's also a fricking mess to clean as it's placed in the center of the dining table and splatters hot grease all over the place, as well as the smell permeating everything for the next few days.  And of course you only put on tiny bits of meat that half the time end up undercooked, and you have to fight over how many little pans everyone gets as the amount never matches the number of participants. The real "fancy" ones have a separate granite plate too:  As a kid it's great fun, as an adult you dread the cleanup and lingering smells afterwards.
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Thank you, gourmet is the word that I couldn't remember for three days straight now! French after all. And yes, the experience is terrible as an adult, while mesmerizing to kids. Super dangerous as well if you had the alcohol gel burners.
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When I was a dumbass kid I probably thought Applebee's was a "fancy" meal. Now I'm part of the generation working hard to kill Applebee's, so hopefully most of us have gained a sense of taste since the '90s...
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:
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Applebee's is a bar and grill, keyword bar.
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maybealabia posted:
Applebee's is one of the many things Millennials are supposed to be "killing" by not eating at lovely chains anymore.
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maybealabia posted:They serve Pepsi so they're already on my poo poo list regardless They have an exclusive Mt. Dew flavor like Taco Bell
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Tenkaris posted:They have an exclusive Mt. Dew flavor like Taco Bell "Ragin' Regret"?
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Captain Hygiene posted:"Ragin' Regret"? https://www.applebees.com/en/fountain-drinks/mt-dew-berry-bash Dark Berry Bash, it's 90% blue food coloring
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Applebee's is one of the many things Millennials are supposed to be "killing" by not eating at lovely chains anymore. Proudly plunging my dagger into Applebee’s like I’m a senator on the ides of march
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Sizzler may be awful trash but in the 80s they were “good grades reward dinner” tier. Steak AND all you can eat shrimp?? What is this unearthly land of plenty? It must cost my parents three months’ wages! The day they got rid of the cheese toast my inner child died. Then I learned how to make the cheese toast myself and now he is back
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Data Graham posted:The day they got rid of the cheese toast my inner child died. Then I learned how to make the cheese toast myself and now he is back Sometimes, dead is bettah
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Data Graham posted:Sizzler may be awful trash but in the 80s they were “good grades reward dinner” tier. The salad bar scared me as a kid (because I was a fatty and did not care for greens) but I was right to be scared because that's where the salmonella comes in. Also steaks suck rear end and require an insane amount of chewing plus the fatty delicious part is even more chewing. Like to choke when my mom made steak and this was a luxury. Now I'm in the very rare crowd and like it pink and nearly alive if anything. But gently caress red meat in general.
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Opposite of this thread: my best friend’s parents served leathery steaks with ketchup so I was in my 20s before I understood why steak dinners were supposed to be so good Still think it’s overrated tho
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Opposite of this thread: my best friend’s parents served leathery steaks with ketchup so I was in my 20s before I understood why steak dinners were supposed to be so good Urgh yes, you must have been visiting my place. Hope you enjoyed dragging the branches to the fire pile at the end of every visit! Also bringing back memories of sawing away at weiner schnitzel with butter knives until the breading fell off, sharp knives were def on the cusp of being fancy. My grandad bought a car with an alarm in 1992. At Christmas, a generation of fascinated kids beeped it so much that the battery went flat Having a remote for the TV, we had an old woodgrain one until around the year 2000. The olds took it to the repair man several times through the 90's. Likewise, a sega was in the realm of fantasy. It seemed like everyone in my class had been to Disneyland while we went camping, though I now realize it must have been a vanishingly small fraction who literally crossed the pacific to do this. I thought we were poor because of things like that but I can see now that my folks just prioritized things in a different (and good) way. Oh yeah, another one: Waterguns the size of a revolutionary war musket. Jaguars! has a new favorite as of 01:30 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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I didn't have an A/C or cable TV until the very instant I moved out on my own at 18 These things seemed like rich people things but I now understand my folks were just cheap and also overprotective
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The Doctor posted:We were very poor for most of my childhood, and my mother was a terrible cook, so almost any time I ate a friend's place or with extended family felt like the height of luxury. Some foods that blew my mind: this post owns
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maybealabia posted:I didn't have an A/C or cable TV until the very instant I moved out on my own at 18 Don't you know cable TV brings sin directly into your house!!!
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Carbon dioxide posted:Don't you know cable TV brings sin directly into your house!!! You think calling it "Cinemax" is just a coincidence??  Anyway, on topic:  
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Tenkaris posted:Frasier Crane ooof yeah,
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A car with a sunroof. They were apparently THE thing to have in the mid 80s and every car had it as an option, but our car didn't have one and neither did any of my friends. So when my grandad bought a used Talbot Sunbeam with a sunroof then I assumed he must be a millionaire. That sunroof was extra fancy too because it had orange glass (it was probably a dealer-fit aftermarket install that leaked like a sieve and ruined the structural integrity of the roof, but I was 6 years old and didn't care) A family having two cars. The day my dad gave his worn out 9 year old Triumph to my mum instead of selling it for £100 because he needed that money to buy a very slightly less worn out car is the day the family became rich.
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When I was a teenager I went on a vacation to Las Vegas with my family. I wasn't allowed in any of the gambling areas and the allure of the forbidden slot machines seemed enticing at the time. Now, I'd rather be basically anywhere else other than a noisy casino.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Don't you know cable TV brings sin directly into your house!!! That was the unspoken argument yeah Not evangelical or anything just SUPER adverse to "bad" things Which of course had the opposite effect and made me a big sicko
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I grew up a pretty upper-middle-class life, dual income household, both parents in "professional" careers, but a combination of living in a rural area and my parents still inheriting a lot of that "Depression-era cheapness" from their Greatest Generation parents means they still scrimped and saved on things that maybe they didn't need to at the time (although I guess it worked out for them NOW, since they have been retired for several years and are not wanting for any extra income.) gave me a weird idea on what was and wasn't fancy. We went on yearly vacations, even Disney World a couple times (but most vacations were just within New England) so that, to me, was perfectly normal. As was having two cars, because they both worked but not in the same place. But they'd buy a lot of generic foods, and also sort of got into the 80's idea of "eating better" so we'd have generic diet cola, generic corn flakes (we NEVER had sugary cereal, not even generic), etc... so people who had, like, Lucky Charms at home must be living the high life as far as I was concerned. A particular thing I remember is that I thought of using "Hamburger Helper" as fancy because I'd see it in stores/commercials, but WE didn't have it, so therefore it must be fancy...right? A few other things from my relatives who may or may not have been "better off" than us: Every sibling having their own room. We were a family of 5, 3 bedroom house, so my brother and I always had to share a room while my sister got her own ( Unrelated, but I was also upset that she got the bigger room. Even as a kid I was like, "well, if there's two of us, we take up more space, so our room should be bigger" but my sister DEMANDED a closet, and the third bedroom (ours) in addition to being the smallest also had no closet. Having a pool. Granted, we lived (still live) in New England, so this is still sort of true. Paying all that expense for a pool that you can only use 3-4 months out of the year is a big endeavor. Having the newest game systems. Particularly one set of cousins who's dad definitely had a case of keeping up with the Jones's. So while we were still limping by with a NES, they had gotten the SNES...and Genesis...and then later got the 32x and Sega CD eventually, and Game Gear and Nomad.
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I have pretty low income but am surrounded by middle class stuff that mostly isn't mine, so that feeling of lots of stuff in this thread being "special" still rings true to me even as an "adult". So, take my viewpoint with a grain of salt, but who can afford that? I have salt lol However: Admiralty Flag posted: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. I thought saffron was super expensive? I've never had it myself as far as I can remember. According to Wikipedia: "At US$5,000 per kg or higher, saffron has long been the world's costliest spice by weight." Maybe your mom's reaction was justified? Maybe you only sprinkle a tiny little bit on though so it's not actually that expensive, but I have no idea.
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I remember being eleven-year-old mall trash and being convinced that Express was cool and edgy fashion but The Limited was snobby snobstuff for snobs. I was right, and I was also wrong, and ultimately it did not matter one bit.
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Twenty Four posted:I thought saffron was super expensive? I've never had it myself as far as I can remember. According to Wikipedia: "At US$5,000 per kg or higher, saffron has long been the world's costliest spice by weight." Maybe your mom's reaction was justified?
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grittyreboot posted:Myrtle Beach I have a feeling this is a pretty universal experience for everyone growing up in South Carolina (or indeed much of the South)
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Those disembodied heads you can brush the hair of / put makeup on. In retrospect, the only girl I knew who had one lived in a two-room basement flat and was probably the poorest person I knew.
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TwoPair posted:I have a feeling this is a pretty universal experience for everyone growing up in South Carolina (or indeed much of the South) Au contraire- i grew up in the south and had never heard of Myrtle Beach until I moved to Canada, when I learned it was a fantabulous beach destination for the middle class of Ontario
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Hell, if I wasn't constantly broke I'd go back to Myrtle Beach. I have fond memories of Ripley's. Both Believe It Or Not and the aquarium.
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