Good jewish Deli, Bagels, Knish, real NY pizza with actual sliced meatball on top. Chinese food that isn’t corn starch and food coloring.
I always have Vernors in the house. Mixed with a healthy dose of Old Crow and done as shots it’s a drink I call “The High Hard One”.
Have you tried the coffee with heavy coffee cream? It’s still not exactly like you get at Timmy’s, but the richer cream is closer to what they use in the restaurants.
A clothing store besides Penney’s and Kohl’s. {although the lack thereof has led to me being not so concerned about clothes, and that’s a good thing}
Popeye’s.
NY style pizza
Chicago style pizza
Big record store
Real good bagels
(NH/VT here)
I would absolutely love a Trader Joe’s - I always try to stock up when I visit my cousin in Seattle, but the stuff never lasts long (yum!). Also, a Krispy Kreme would be nice. But the one I want the most is Marks and Spencer store brand (St. Michaels?) tea bags. I love their Kenyan breakfast tea, but now there are no M&S locations in North America - boo! A trip to the UK would make the tea a bit too expensive for my bankbook…
I always think it’s funny that Chicago pizza = deep dish to most people. To me, Chicago thin-crust pizza is the way to go…always cut in squares, of course! You can get the deep-dish stuff in a lot of places now, but the thin-crust you can only get here.
My husband would kill for Jack in the Box to come back to Chicago.
I would like to be able to get Skyline dogs…when I’m down Cincinnati way, I bring back cans of the chili so I can make them at home, but it’s not quite the same.
I can’t get poutine down here. I can’t even get gravy on french fries, because what they think is gravy here is brown water that may have passed by a cow once. You need thick chicken gravy for fries.
The kind of big, thick crusty buns I used to get in Canada. I like to make big sandwiches with several kinds of meat, cheese, onion, lettuce and tomato. The biggest buns I can find around here are not the right kind. They’re not crusty and chewy.
I miss Schlotzky’s Deli. There were three or four of them in town, then they all closed simultaneously. I was going to post about them in the other thread, but I looked them up on the web and they are still in business elsewhere. There are only three locations left in Florida, though, and none within reasonable driving distance of where I live.
I miss the Canadian version of cream soda. It doesn’t taste like strawberry pop or vanilla. My favorite kind was from Pop Shoppe. It was clear, and very good.
Aw, they closed the Schlotzky’s by me about a year or two ago. I loved me the Big Texas sandwich they had. Good call on the Schlotzky’s.
There used to be a Sonic on 68 near 53 in Arlington Heights.
Something I can’t get here (I don’t know if anyone will know what it is here) but a drink called Ski. It’s made in a town near my hometown and there is a small area there that you can buy it, but since I’ve moved to college, I have to smuggle it down here (heh).
I believe it is also available in some parts of W. Va. and Tenn.
Brendon
Get to Jax in Lodo or Boulder, man. McCormick’s is right by Jax downtown. Or out your way try 240 Union. Highland Pacific is great, too, on W 32nd.
The notion that you can’t get great seafood in Denver hasn’t been true for at least 10 years.
I think you need to go considerably farther south than North Andover to find one (I was being literal about the border, next town over is in fact in RI), but this person explains it better than I could.
And there used to be a Checkers near the Fox Valley mall too, but they keep taking away all these places that I like. Used to be Carl’s Jr. around here too. 
We have Checkers here in Baltimore. They’re kind of new, actually; I think they just started opening up about five or six years ago.
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Originally Posted by** KidScruffy**
*A 24-hour pharmacy.
Do such things even exist?
Oh, and a Popeye’s chicken.
24-hours of course.
With a pharmacy inside.
Maybe I should open my own business…[/*QUOTE]
:eek: I would NEVER eat at a fast food place that had to have it’s own pharmacy!
Otherwise the idea is good…maybe a 24 hour fast food joint attached to a 24 dry cleaners?
Chop Suey and Chow Mein? I can’t remember the last time I saw those items on a menu. Wait, yes I can - it was in Ogden, Utah.
Odd to say, but is there anything more American than Chop Suey between two slices of white bread?
A Del Taco. I’ve only had it twice when I visited California and Nevada, but damn if I didn’t fall in love with their tacos. Beats the crap out of Taco Bell.
Trader Joe’s/Whole Foods. We have a Trader Joe’s an hour north of us, but I would really like one within driving distance after work. We usually make a special trip once a month or so.
All the fast food I miss from So. Cal.
Carl’s Jr.
Jack in the Box
Wienerschnitzel
Yoshinoya Beef Bowl.
Also White Castle and Sheetz. There are Sheetz in Virginia, but I want one near my home.
No White Castle, Krystal, or Sonic in the DC area. No real good Mexican.
Good BBQ, not some yuppie smoked meat boutique.
And you can’t get good catfish here. Everybody breads it like fried chicken…WRONG!
Not too much of a problem, since I make the BEST catfish.
Checkers…I don’t think I ever had anything from there. But I miss Dog ‘n’ Suds! Right there on Roselle Road just south of Higgins.