Shakey’s died and went to pizza heaven a long time ago, I’m sure. I tried a Dominos not too long ago. I thought the crust wasn’t all that great, maybe the local place is just phoning it in. Their sauce and ingredients were OK, leading to my thought if I could only get the other guys crust we almost might have something.
I like to make pizza, but it isn’t quite an impulse thing. I have to plan ahead a little bit.
No, like I said, they apparently are around:
And, no, the Domino’s dough is not something I would call “great,” at least the way they cook it. And they have several different styles of crust. But I have a feeling it would cook up fairly well if I got a hold of it. Reddit says they don’t sell it and employees are not allowed to sell it. I wonder if I know anyone who works there. Might not want to do it these days with so many cameras around everywhere.
There’s a Shakey’s the next town over. Been there at least 50 years. I’ll eat there once every couple of years, when I’ve follow lousy the food is.
I think this is a pretty common refrain with a lot of the fast food places. We get hungry, or even nostalgic for what used to be tasty food - but then are sadly reminded when we actually try it, you can’t get there from here any more. “Now I remember why I don’t go there any longer”.
Sometimes people will say all these anecdotes simply mean “your taste buds have changed”; I don’t buy that particularly, home cooked foods taste exactly the way I like.
When I’ve forgotten how lousy the food is.
Stoopid autocorrect.
A lot of the problems are quality of ingredients. As inflation hits raw materials, restaurants will buy cheaper and cheaper stuff. No wonder it doesn’t taste like it used to!
Interesting. I haven’t had one of the new ones yet, but the people I know that have say they taste nothing like the Farmer John version. I need to know for myself. Thankfully, baseball season is just around the corner.
Pretty much everything at the Waffle House, if that counts as fast food.
Yeah, the Shakey’s I used to go to in high school 50 years ago is still where it always was.
The name might still be the same, but I am sure the pizza is not.
Ahhhh. But the ones 40 years ago? When they were fried in lard? OMG you younglings are missing out!
ETA: I see this has already mentioned, and it reminded me that beef fat is tallow, and pork fat is lard, so tallow would have been the correct one to use.
Do IHOP pancakes count?
My pushing-a-century mother had a craving for a Big Mac. She rarely asks for anything, so I was glad to drive a few hours and get one for her. She loved it and claimed it was just the same as she remembered it.
I was so glad she thought so. My guess is I’ll be making more trips to deliver McDonald’s food to her…
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eta: I wasn’t going to mention my favorite fast food staple, the McDonald’s Sausage Burrito, but I was surprised to find out they’ve been around since the early '90s. Same tasty (and RELATIVELY healthy) ingredients.
Baskin Robbins still has Rocky Road and the other 31 flavors. Their web site says Rocky Road was introduced in 1945.
I can’t tell any difference. The ice cream is still super creamy and delicious. If they substituted any cheaper ingredients it’s not noticeable. The scoop size might be smaller. I don’t have any way to check.
It is harder to find a Baskin Robbins. A lot of places in my area closed over a decade ago.
Ha! I have no idea … I haven’t been there since high school.
ETA: Re: Baskin-Robins. They had a flavor long years ago as one of their specials that I really really wanted them to make a regular flavor, but they didn’t. It was called Charlie Brownie, and it was peanut butter ice cream with small brownie chunks and peanuts mixed in. I think I went to B-R every day that that ice cream was available. Sigh I still think of it sometimes.
You live deep in the Wilderness somewhere? North Slope, Brooks Range, some place like that?
Just as I read this, a click-bait story on “the worst-for-you fast food items” floated by, featuring the McD Sausage Burrito and all it’s calories, fat and sodium. But better than the Big Breakfast Platter, so “relatively healthy” in that sense.
Big breakfast… with or without hotcakes?
(I get mine without.)
McDonald’s makes breakfast stuff other than the Egg McMuffin? Huh. Who knew?
And the Egg McMuffin hasn’t appreciably changed its taste for as long as I can remember - so back into the early 80s.
I should visit my local one more often, I’m in my early 50s and it has not changed one iota since I was in elementary school. It does seem to taste the same to me except it has more modern flavors now. We have a few Thrifty’s ice cream shops around here but the most local one didn’t make it. Chocoloate Malted Crunch and their very chipped up Chocolate Chip were my favorites.
I think the Egg McMuffin is about the perfect breakfast sandwich. I was happy when McDonald’s offered all-day breakfast before the pandemic. I think they’ve stopped doing so.
And I’m old enough to vaguely remember a time before the Egg McMuffin. A McDonald’s breakfast was a special treat from my parents and we would get the hotcakes and sausage meal.
I suspect the answer really is . . . how would I really know? Do I really remember what [fill in the blanks] tasted like 20 years ago? Subtle or not so subtle changes over time are difficult if not impossible to remember.