Time Machine Grocery List

[DesertDog]

@Corner_Case

Not a food, but a Restaurant - Kip’s Big Boy. It was the first restaurant I went to ‘all by myself’ when I was growing up. I thought they were gone, and checking, I just see that the the nearest is 1400 miles away. “Bob’s” Big Boy indeed - Who do they think they’re foolin!

That would be Kip. Bob’s Big Boy started in Glendale. A family story by my parents and an aunt/uncle was that they’d been served hamburgers by “Bob hisself” just after WWII.

@Wiki

In addition to the Bob’s Big Boy name, the “Big Boy” concept, menu, and mascot were originally licensed to a wide number of regional franchise holders (listed in the next section: Roster of named franchisees). Because many of the early franchisees were already in the restaurant business when joining Big Boy, “Big Boy” was added to the franchisee name just as the Big Boy hamburger was added to the franchisee’s menu. In this sense it is confusing when referring to a chain, as each named franchisee was itself a chain and Big Boy could be considered a chain of chains. People tend to know Big Boy not simply as Big Boy but as the franchise from where they lived such as Bob’s Big Boy in California, Shoney’s Big Boy in the south or Frisch’s Big Boy in much of Ohio, among the many others. Cite

Scroll down this list and you’ll find your Kip.

[DCnDC]

@DesertDog

That would be Kip. Bob’s Big Boy started in Glendale. A family story by my parents and an aunt/uncle was that they’d been served hamburgers by “Bob hisself” just after WWII.

I encountered this on a visit to Louisville last last Christmas. We passed by a “Frisch’s Big Boy” and, having only ever seen or heard of “Bob’s,” I had to go check it out. The manager was quite happy to provide me with an explanation that was way more detailed than I needed.

Apparently Frisch’s was the first Bob’s franchisee and received a pretty amazing deal, including huge breaks on royalties and licensing fees that other later franchisees were subject to (Frisch’s annual fee was $1, in perpetuity). Frisch’s actually had the opportunity to buy the entire national Big Boy chain in 2000 but declined, and later became a separate company but retained shared ownership of the Big Boy trademark with other Big Boy companies. Their Big Boy mascot is slightly different than the original.

I didn’t have time to eat there so I can’t comment on the food.

[DesertDog]

@salinqmind

The little box of spaghetti and/or pizza mix - probably Chef Boy R Dee - with a little can of grated parmesan. (comes in plastic packets now)… Or was it sauce? Never mind, I’m old, I can’t remember, but I do remember 50 years ago we made an awful cardboard-y pizza from a box in preparation for the midnight Creature Feature on Saturday night. You had to put extra toppings on the pizza if you had them. What fun! I miss that time of life.

Would it have been Appian Way? That’s what we got for pizza since a pizzeria one was too expensive.

On a similar note, when we’d go to the drive-in, between movies they’d run an ad for Bambino Pizza, available at the snack bar. We never got one (see above) and as a kid I always wondered how they were. Probably pretty awful.

[california_jobcase]

Faygo Brau ginger beer. A good ginger beer at a regular Faygo price- gone way too soon!!

[PlumBob]

Snow’s Clam Crisps.

In a nutshell, I found a fly in a can of clams, Dad & I sent a letter, Snow’s sent Clam Crisps. Which were awesome!
I made a post about them on this blog but it was removed, apparently my fly was not memorable enough.

Vintage Sunday: Snow's Clam Crisps

[aceplace57]

Marathon Bars
https://goo.gl/images/NfFwDr

The foot long bubble gum sticks.

Sugar Momma (chocolate version of a Sugar Daddy)
https://goo.gl/images/LXIbhq

[nearwildheaven]

@Balthisar

McDonald’s apple pies. The deep-fried kind. I’d try to get them raw so that I could freeze them and cook them upon demand, though.

They don’t have cheese danishes any more, either.

I’d get Whitey’s (a local ice cream) Malted Moose Tracks, which was only available for a short time, and Campbell’s Scotch Broth. Those were both really good.

[Peter_Morris]

@aceplace57

Marathon Bars
https://goo.gl/images/NfFwDr

You don’t need a time machine. They are available in other countries, under the name Curly Wurly. Try eBay.

[nearwildheaven]

@Peter_Morris

You don’t need a time machine. They are available in other countries, under the name Curly Wurly. Try eBay.

Does Urly Burly eat them, and then ask if you need a ride?

ETA: The calliope crashed to the ground.

[aceplace57]

@Peter_Morris

You don’t need a time machine. They are available in other countries, under the name Curly Wurly. Try eBay.

I’ll get some to try.

Thanks

[nightshadea]

@salinqmind

The little box of spaghetti and/or pizza mix - probably Chef Boy R Dee - with a little can of grated parmesan. (comes in plastic packets now)… Or was it sauce? Never mind, I’m old, I can’t remember, but I do remember 50 years ago we made an awful cardboard-y pizza from a box in preparation for the midnight Creature Feature on Saturday night. You had to put extra toppings on the pizza if you had them. What fun! I miss that time of life.

they still make those …chef Boyardee pizza kits…at one time every kindergartener’s first encounter with pizza making until the field trip to the pizza place

[Lumpy]

Not something most people would have heard of, but if you attended the University of Minnesota during the 1970s you may have eaten at Perry’s Pizza. My mouth waters just at the memory.

[SykoSkotty]

Food choices:

Razzle candy
Reggie Bar (candy bar named after Reggie Jackson)
Bottle Caps
Gatorade Gum
Peanut Butter Boppers
Burnt red peanuts
Brachs chocolates
Dynamints
Boo Berry cereal
Now & Laters

Collectibles:
Every Star Wars trading card ever made
1978 KISS pinball machine

And finally:

I’d gather every penny I could get my hands on and buy stock in Microsoft, Apple & Google.

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

@nearwildheaven

The calliope crashed to the ground.

Now look here, you all-hot half-shot . . .

[purplehearingaid]

I would rather stock up clothes that are 100 % cotton and screws the plastic clothes being made today ! Especially the damn rubber bras you could use for basket balls !

[kayaker]

@purplehearingaid

Especially the damn rubber bras you could use for basket balls !

Say what, now?

[Lumpy]

@purplehearingaid

I would rather stock up clothes that are 100 % cotton and screws the plastic clothes being made today ! Especially the damn rubber bras you could use for basket balls !

Thanks to advances in breast augmentation surgery, quite a few of them are the size of basketballs.

[stillownedbysetters]

Planter’s Cheese Balls that came in the can. They had the best powdered faux cheese ever.

I also second the Betty Crocker Noodles Romanoff. Our entire family mourned when those went away.

In total agreement on the Hydrox was better than Oreo issue.

[nearwildheaven]

@Qadgop_the_Mercotan

Now look here, you all-hot half-shot . . .

Wrapped up like a DEUCE, another rumor in the night…

[tracer]

What long-lost food would I like to eat again?
I have an entire personal webpage devoted to this very topic!