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No one looks happy in this photo. No looks like they want to be in this photo. No wonder the '70s was all booze, weed, and cocaine.
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Automatic Slim posted:No one looks happy in this photo. No looks like they want to be in this photo. No wonder the '70s was all booze, weed, and cocaine. What do you mean, no one looks happy?    
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May 8, 2021 02:45
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Gutter Phoenix posted:What do you mean, no one looks happy? Prince Charles can fake it for the ribbon cuttings.
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May 8, 2021 02:57
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Yes, nobody looks happy. I imagine the people working there in tyool 2021 are loads happier.
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May 8, 2021 03:05
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Yes, nobody looks happy. I imagine the people working there in tyool 2021 are loads happier. People working there in tyool 2021 are absolutely miserable, but they'll punch up the experience for their instagram feeds. Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 03:14 on May 8, 2021 |
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May 8, 2021 03:11
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I'll have a steamed beksinksi, hold the glarsh, but with extra crim
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May 8, 2021 05:09
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Coca cola is a phosphate. The acid makes you salivate so you dont notice how thick and sugary it is. The more acid, the more sugar you can cram in.
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May 8, 2021 05:47
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Play posted:Do you live there or something? I live across the Bay now but I lived there for 13 years, in the neighborhoods where drugs were actually sold. Heroin is actually difficult to find in the Bay and it’s sure as hell least prevalent in Oakland. Homeless camps are less than a mile from any single point in the Bay Area because our local govt is disgusting, but you’re obviously extremely ignorant so I guess I can’t hold that against you. I’ve volunteered as a harm reduction social worker for the last 15 years. “Open air drug markets” 😂
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May 8, 2021 09:51
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Dear Americana thread, after a train wreck of a month and the parade of foods contained herein, I broke down and made the family a meal of Biscuits and Gravy ( following this recipe), and it was divine. As a middle aged Australian who's not afraid to appropriate other food cultures ( it has become a national past time ), I thank you thread ( also it was all gone before I could take pictures ). I now need to give my arteries a rest.
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ZombyDog posted:I broke down and made the family a meal of Biscuits and Gravy ( following this recipe) quote:1-2 tablespoons butter or bacon grease (if needed) As a goon, I find the suggestion that butter or bacon grease would not be necessary personally offensive.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:What do you mean, no one looks happy? A young Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation, spotted on the right.
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May 8, 2021 13:06
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He must be thinking about breakfast.
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May 8, 2021 13:48
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Now here are some happy owners!
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schmug posted:Now here are some happy owners! No one goes home unhappy after visiting Big boy
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May 8, 2021 13:56
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i have vague memories of eating at a big boy when i was a kid. we were on the way home from spending a week in a cabin in canada and it was raining. i'd just gone a week with no electricity and wanted to get home and play some fuckin NES
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May 8, 2021 14:08
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I ate at a Big Boy in (I think) Glendale, CA a little over a year ago. I hadn't been to one since I was a kid. The food was delicious, especially for a chain diner. I bought a platic Big Boy coin bank from the cashier for $10. It is sitting on one of my bookshelves, but I am too lazy to get out of bed and take a picture right now. There are also hundreds of issues of various Big Boy comic books given out to kids over the decades. One series ran for 485 issues between 1956 and 1998! Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 14:24 on May 8, 2021 |
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May 8, 2021 14:21
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I've eaten at a few big boys really the food was better than I was expecting. Imagine Dennys but not as awful.
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May 8, 2021 14:25
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I'm sorry, but you lot just cannot do fish and chips properly. You do FRIES. And they're CRISPY. And there's COLESLAW for some reason. Edit: Big Boy is good though, there is/was one in Ann Arbor. First place to do a Big Mac-style two layer burger, iirc. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 14:39 on May 8, 2021 |
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May 8, 2021 14:37
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Brits have to eat soggy chips because their teeth are also soggy from living on bog island.
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Play posted:That meat looks like when you bleed in your anus and then it comes out a while later looking like dark red coffee grounds Please seek medical attention for your delayed reaction bloody anus
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Why would you want soggy chips?
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May 8, 2021 15:00
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Frisch's breakfast and salad bar after working third shift was always a treat.
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Why would you want soggy chips? lol at soggy fries being a feature of british "cuisine"
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May 8, 2021 15:12
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schmug posted:Now here are some happy owners! My favorite thing about Bob's is that David Lynch would get a chocolate milkshake and a coffee everyday there.
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May 8, 2021 15:14
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My grandfather would take me to Big Boy's once in a while, I remember enjoying it. I guess all the ones in California are still in the LA area.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:My favorite thing about Bob's is that David Lynch would get a chocolate milkshake and a coffee everyday there. Must have been a drat fine cup of coffee there. Did they have pie, too?
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Must have been a drat fine cup of coffee there. Did they have pie, too? Spinning pie case, chock full of fresh pie. Bob's Big Boy is a class act.     
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Must have been a drat fine cup of coffee there. Did they have pie, too? Twede’s does have good coffee and pie. Lynch set Twin peaks in North Bend for a reason. When it’s nice it’s Elysium. Mountains on three sides. Blue sky, rivers meeting. Hint of weirdness. Herd of elk that occasionally passes right through town. CCC lodge turned into the community center on a nice park. Wide open and beautiful. When it’s not nice the clouds descend like a lid pushing down into a bowl. They swirl rapidly between the mountains (little si and big si). Eventually this goes all the way to ground and you can’t see much other than your own house, alone trapped with only your immediate family. It’s a weird place. Out walking once we met an old lady who insisted on blessing my children. There are long time residents who go by, Peg Leg, Long John Silver, Walking Man. Once walking along the river (like a baseball’s throw from downtown) I saw a tall thin blonde woman bathing naked in the river. The head of Nintendo occasionally measures things around town when he visits the distribution center near town. You can find old signpost trees in the woods. About once a year the terrain or animals kill somebody hiking. And kids do die occasionally jumping off that railroad bridge.
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Why would you want soggy chips? They aren't supposed to be 'soggy'. They are supposed to be soft, not crunchy.
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I worked for 7 years at a pharmacy that still had and has a soda fountain from the late 19th century. it's got a variety of syrups and a carbonator and ice cream freezers and a hot-water dip well for the ice cream scoops. industrial-strength milkshake mixers, too. one of the things we still had on hand when I started about 25 years ago was a tiny bottle of spirits of ammonia, in case anyone wanted an ammonia Coke, which is what it sounds like, except inasmuch as it's not the cleaning kind of ammonia. it was supposed to be a headache remedy. nobody ever ordered one. there's a writeup here: https://www.artofdrink.com/soda/ammonia-coke
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Empty Sandwich posted:I worked for 7 years at a pharmacy that still had and has a soda fountain from the late 19th century. it's got a variety of syrups and a carbonator and ice cream freezers and a hot-water dip well for the ice cream scoops. industrial-strength milkshake mixers, too. Cat piss aromatics and Coca-Cola, a time-honored tradition.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Cat piss aromatics and Coca-Cola, a time-honored tradition. I only realized in reading that writeup that it's mixing an acid and a base 
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Empty Sandwich posted:I worked for 7 years at a pharmacy that still had and has a soda fountain from the late 19th century. it's got a variety of syrups and a carbonator and ice cream freezers and a hot-water dip well for the ice cream scoops. industrial-strength milkshake mixers, too. "Salty licorice" from Scandinavia tastes incredibly salty but isn't high in sodium because of the ammonium chloride they use in it, so ammonia in foods isn't unheard of in modern times.
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My mom is the youngest of 4 sisters. I am an only child. Thus, the last kid of the last sister. Her OLDEST sister, was diagnosed with diabetes at a time when giving insulin to yourself was available, but still a burden and awkward. Now, I'm gonna cut to the chase here, her oldest sister decided "gently caress it" and lived her adult life like she wanted to. She was strongly intellectually oriented, loved star trek, Carl Sagan, and being an independent single woman who would not let anyone take care of her. She owned her own home. And she always had a fondness for hotrods. Racing boys and blowing out glass pack exhausts on whatever car she could afford to put them on as long as my mom had known her. She was also my mom's idol. By the time I was born, she was sort of a ghost of herself, the 'betus taking a lot from her, but what I remember is that she still owned the house she bought. And my dad helped her cut her lawn (she did all the rest of her chores, mind you, and even some of the lawn) with a REEL mower. Note: I was born in '81, and I was old enough to remember all this poo poo, so we're talking 85-89 a single woman dying of diabetes taking care of her own property and chores using a push mower in the mid 80's and not because she HAD to, she demanded it. She had offers to move off the land, sell it, and the family could have done a number of things to change this. No dice. Anyway, where I'm going with this is; I personally most remember my aunt because she still drove one of these:  And would come roaring up our country driveway to take me, a young kid between the ages of 4 and 7 years old to go get strawberry pancakes at Big Boy. My Favorite. And then drive me around in her spaceship car. Aunt Jackie, I still miss ya. So when I think of "Big Boy", I think of my aunt Jackie and rides in that car. e: you're gonna laugh at it and make fun of me. That's no poo poo what happened. She stuck her whole life into a little house outside of nowheresville Midwest and somehow had that car (it might have been a 78 or 79) but it was no poo poo real. Just her, in a 'I'm NOT living in a trailer park' type house, and that car, with a reel mower, dead by diabetes by 45. Took me for rides in that poo poo to go get pancakes and talk about her and my moms love of star trek. A goon was born, baby. Big Beef City fucked around with this message at 20:35 on May 8, 2021 |
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gently caress it. Sounds like she was living. L-I-V-I-N-'
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Tawny Kitaen just died. here's some Americana for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg
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Big Beef City posted:e: you're gonna laugh at it and make fun of me. This is sad and sweet and a little poignant. I don't see what anybody would have to laugh at in that.
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I tried but I can't find the speech from Clint Howard in Austin Powers talking about Big Boy. Revins posted:i have vague memories of eating at a big boy when i was a kid. Me too. I just remember walking by the Big Boy statue thing but have no memory of the food. I must have been like 6.
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ZombyDog posted:Dear Americana thread, after a train wreck of a month and the parade of foods contained herein, I broke down and made the family a meal of Biscuits and Gravy ( following this recipe), and it was divine. Welcome to the fold. Absolutely the best hang over remedy out there. Sprinkle some tabasco on there to elevate them to real Americana levels.
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