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Tip posted:I think I can beat that, a picture I took a couple years ago: I wish like hell I'd taken a picture of Bubba's Bail Bonds and Tacos in my hometown. They didn't last very long, but by all reports the food were pretty good.
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Hasturtium posted:I wish like hell I'd taken a picture of Bubba's Bail Bonds and Tacos in my hometown. They didn't last very long, but by all reports the food were pretty good.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkMUU9tUqk
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May 6, 2021 14:35
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More Americana: In Greensburg, IN, there's a barber shop / gun shop called Wagner's (532 W Sheridan St, Greensburg, IN 47240). Right across the street is Patterson's Auto Sales and Guns (714 N Michigan Ave, Greensburg, IN 47240). I saw them when I was there for business travel, it was amazing.
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May 6, 2021 14:40
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SirPablo posted:Think how many tourist traps like this exist across America. I love these types of places.
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uber_stoat posted:turns out he's actually a Jewish guy from New Jersey. Ya know, that really figures Lmao. Pork rind and BBQ chip 'nachos'. Close the thread because this is it, peak americana
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May 6, 2021 15:50
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uber_stoat posted:there was this tex mex buffet called Pancho's that my family went to a lot when i was a kid. place closed many years ago but i guess there's still a few locations dying a slow lingering death in Texas. i cannot find a picture of this so i may have dreamed it but the centerpiece of their dining room was this enormous bust of a stereotypical mustachioed Mexican man wearing a sombrero, his huge mouth gaping open in a silent scream. within his mouth you could find complimentary after-dinner mints. there were little Mexican flags you could raise on a tiny flagpole at the tables which could be used to summon the wait staff. I will raise you one Casa Bonita in Denver CO. Yes, it is (still) absolutely like you saw in South Park (also the 1980's). I guess there is (was) one in OK too, but lol why the gently caress would you ever go to OK?     The flag is now ALSO for service... back in the day, it was only for MOAR SOPAPILLAS!  The food is all ordered as you come in, cafeteria-but-by-order style... It looks eerily similar to your Pancho's food.   During Halloween, the place is INSANE with kids in costume and they have staff in costume running the arcades, shops, and BLACK BART'S CAVE. Ngl, it was awesome to go there as a kid in 3rd/4th grade.   As an adult with shortys of my own and fam still in Denver, every visit out there we make it a point to subject our bowls to the irreparable damage of their food and lovely drinks for the sake of the little ones. Good times.
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May 6, 2021 16:09
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May 6, 2021 16:14
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Casa Bonita is closed and has filed for bankruptcy
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May 6, 2021 16:20
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Bonzo posted:Casa Bonita is closed and has filed for bankruptcy killed by covid, sucks. Pancho's was a dim echo of Casa Bonita. i only ever knew Casa Bonita from a distance, from South Park and accounts like armchairyoda's. i hope they manage to reopen one day so i can experience it in person. seems there's an effort being made to save the place. https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/casa-bonita-super-fans-rally-in-support-of-colorado-landmarks-future
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May 6, 2021 16:35
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yea a place that you get the cold or flu outside of a pandemic won’t last long during one haha
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May 6, 2021 16:41
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I went to Casa Bonita once as a kid. It was awesome. One of the worst after effects of covid is the decimation of independent restaurants. The chains are going to be even stronger and deeper entrenched after all of this bullshit.
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There's five Panchos left, three in Dallas and two in Houston. Two separate former franchisees apparently. The guy that owns the Houston Panchos runs a Groupon that knocks down the price to like $5.50 a person. I actually went there once before Covid. Looks exactly like it did in the 80s. Food still sucks except for the sopapillas.
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uber_stoat posted:killed by covid, sucks. Pancho's was a dim echo of Casa Bonita. i only ever knew Casa Bonita from a distance, from South Park and accounts like armchairyoda's. i hope they manage to reopen one day so i can experience it in person. seems there's an effort being made to save the place. ah, had no idea (but not shocked.) I've been going every few years since I was like 12, was hoping to check it out again when things reopened. the last time I was there was probably like 7ish years ago and they still had a VCR playing a little promo tape that was probably shot in 1985. but yeah, it's a legitimate good time. and yes, the food was pretty bad outside the sopapillas.
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dirty shrimp money posted:There's five Panchos left, three in Dallas and two in Houston. Two separate former franchisees apparently. The guy that owns the Houston Panchos runs a Groupon that knocks down the price to like $5.50 a person. I actually went there once before Covid. Looks exactly like it did in the 80s. Food still sucks except for the sopapillas. Ah, Pancho's. The corporate body itself dissolved as a result of the financial crisis of 2008, but a dwindling handful of franchisees have kept carrying the torch since. If you want to gorge on flan that tastes like caramel-flavored snot, that place is your Valhalla. Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 17:22 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 16:58
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Gutter Phoenix posted:Anyone remember this? You know a movie is of exceptional quality when Eddie Deezen gets top billing. I feel terrible for a person who died in the process of making a trash bag funded Eddie Deezen vehicle. Rich Hall is very funny and is always solid on any of the four hundred BBC panel shows he appears/has appeared on.
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May 6, 2021 17:10
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That's what I say when I'm taking a piss at the stadium. 
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:
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May 6, 2021 18:15
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Chief McHeath posted:That's what I say when I'm taking a piss at the stadium. Pfft. Not even circular so you can look each other in the eye? Amateur hour. Try Fenway pre-2013
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May 6, 2021 18:33
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Yeah, he was also on Not Necessarily the News on HBO. I loved that show when I was a kid. He did a really funny fake documentary called "Vanishing America" during the 80's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH_oeGWjsMs
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May 6, 2021 18:34
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Hahahahahaha, no. Oakland is extremely gentrified and that even close to where you would go to buy drugs.
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May 6, 2021 18:50
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doctorfrog posted:Reminds me of terrible movie Rat Race This movie, or at least this bit, loving owns. What's with the look, though? Looks like a camcorder shot it
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May 6, 2021 19:00
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Gutter Phoenix posted:I went to Casa Bonita once as a kid. It was awesome. Yup. Chain everything from sea to plastic sea is the future
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May 6, 2021 19:07
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I'm super surprised at the lack of folding over at the nearest gentrified commercial road. Before coronavirus there was a definite churn of the 1/4 restaurant failures a year and beside a couple storied places everything is less than 3 years old. The only place that shut down was a Thai restaurant where the owner was already gonna retire and needing to convert to outdoors or takeaway was the last straw. All the newer places seem to be making out. It probably helps we can do year round outdoor seating and nobody actually gave a gently caress about coronavirus anyway.
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May 6, 2021 19:27
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Gonna guess florida
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May 6, 2021 19:29
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yeah, a lot of small restaurants here just set up tables outside and seem to be doing fine but when you're Casa Bonita, your whole raison d'etre can't simply be moved out into the parking lot.
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May 6, 2021 19:30
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JFC
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Milo and POTUS posted:Yup. Chain everything from sea to plastic sea is the future Many, many road trips through the MidWest I've asked my wife, "How hungry are you? Do you want to stop at this $Chain or wait another 20 miles and stop at that one?"
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May 6, 2021 20:39
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Milo and POTUS posted:This movie, or at least this bit, loving owns. What's with the look, though? Looks like a camcorder shot it I have to admit, I laughed when I posted it. And I’m a fan of both Najimy and Lovitz. I was a teenager when this came out though and I can’t see it as anything other than lame. The camcorder thing might be a feature of the blu Ray. More frames is better frames!
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May 6, 2021 22:10
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It's stupid and funny, and has about a million famous people in it
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Bonzo posted:Casa Bonita is closed and has filed for bankruptcy  goddammit. uber_stoat posted:killed by covid, sucks. Pancho's was a dim echo of Casa Bonita. i only ever knew Casa Bonita from a distance, from South Park and accounts like armchairyoda's. i hope they manage to reopen one day so i can experience it in person. seems there's an effort being made to save the place. 
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Finally caught up to this thread and drat so many of these scenes look so familiar it's kinda scary. Also I'm very disappointed that route 66 chat earlier didn't mention the drat steak 'n' shake on the national register of historic places:   (It's above average for a steak'n'shake, actually)
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what happened to dairy queen is one of America's greatest shames
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hawowanlawow posted:what happened to dairy queen is one of America's greatest shames What happened to dairy queen is basically nothing for forty years It's definely the least consistent chain I'm aware of, with the lowest standards for franchisees
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May 7, 2021 17:14
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A&W and Tasty-Freeze are also contenders for the prestigious "Lowest Standards for Franchisees" award (aka Lowees).
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The Bloop posted:What happened to dairy queen is basically nothing for forty years A big shiny new Dairy Queen opened here about six month ago. I haven't eat in one in probably a decade so we went to try it out. Mediocre in every way. It's like a more expensive and shittier Sonic or Braums. Why do people eat there?
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Lawlicaust posted:A big shiny new Dairy Queen opened here about six month ago. I haven't eat in one in probably a decade so we went to try it out. Mediocre in every way. It's like a more expensive and shittier Sonic or Braums. Why do people eat there? FUDGEY THE WHALE I sometimes get a blizzard. They're fine. Tendies are ok, but but great. Mostly because proximity
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there was a dairy queen near me that had been there for as long as i can remember but within the last few years it closed down. since then a series of small indie restaurants have tried to occupy the space only to fail. it's like trying to build atop a cemetery, beware.
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uber_stoat posted:there was a dairy queen near me that had been there for as long as i can remember but within the last few years it closed down. since then a series of small indie restaurants have tried to occupy the space only to fail. it's like trying to build atop a cemetery, beware. that's how every small town dairy queen is, they clamped down on standardizing everything to be bad a few years back, so the good ones tanked and all that's left are the normal bad ones
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:Hahahahahaha, no. Oakland is extremely gentrified and that even close to where you would go to buy drugs. Do you live there or something? It's possible that's not the house I'm thinking of, looks a lot like it though and I stayed nearby. This was about 6 or 7 years ago so perhaps that has changed but don't pretend you know about everything going on on a particular street, by its nature drug dealing is meant to be secret. Downtown area still has tons of that stuff and there are still homeless camps nearby. The suburbs of Oakland up in the hills are still more gentrified than the downtown-adjacent area, and a lot of those old houses have been turned into multiple cheap units, some extremely run down and sketchy. So, maybe some stuff has changed recently but let's not pretend you would know everything that goes on there and discount things I've seen with my own eyes  Relevant because open air drug markets and homeless camps outside brand new luxury apartment complexes is extremely Americana
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