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 Do cereals not have toys as much these days? For my entire childhood, breakfast for a week or two was totally dependent upon which cereal had the best prize inside. Speaking of toys, the best day of the late summer/fall was when the jumbo Sears catalog arrived. So many pages of toys and I started my Christmas list early. For reasons unknown, I wrote down rock tumbler for several years.
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twistedmentat posted:As others have said, you can get pop in glass bottles still. They're not as common, as 7-11 doesn't carry them very much, but most takeout places near me have glass bottled coke, and all the burrito places have that mexican pop brand. I don't know about 7/11s in general, but pretty much every gas station in my area carries some kind of good soda. Hell, the generically named Food Mart that I always go to even has these things. 
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Junk food nostalgia best nostalgia.
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    Well, at least Family Video is still around in a very few niche places.
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The Moon Monster posted:Ponderosa Pines Ponderosa as in the all-you-can-eat buffet? I loved that as a kid, like a higher quality version of Golden Corral both in food and clientele. That or Ryan's Steakhouse with all-you-can-eat steak and shrimp. 
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Jan 2, 2016 14:28
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Chi-Chi's restaurants. It was a huge deal when I lived in Pittsburgh and they were the only "Tex-Mex" place in that half of the state. I loved their free tortilla chips and their fried ice cream. Vanilla Laffy Taffy. Laffy Taffy used to come in squares and they had all kinds of flavors.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:
The first cereals that I've seen with prizes in decades were for the Minions and now for Star Wars. Maybe they're making a comeback.
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CobiWann posted:Chi-Chi's restaurants. It was a huge deal when I lived in Pittsburgh and they were the only "Tex-Mex" place in that half of the state. I loved their free tortilla chips and their fried ice cream. The goddamn corn not exactly bread thing you got as a side with every dish at Chi-Chis. Oh man, it was the best. You can still get the Chi-Chis brand mix for it at some grocery stores but  http://www.chichis.com/Seasonings-Mixes/21-Corn-Cake-Mix
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CobiWann posted:Chi-Chi's restaurants. It was a huge deal when I lived in Pittsburgh and they were the only "Tex-Mex" place in that half of the state. I loved their free tortilla chips and their fried ice cream. Didn't Chi-Chi's have a major salmonella outbreak years back? Also, Chi-Chi means tits in Spanish. 
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gently caress American video stores, this is where it was at Every location had one of these, you could just go in and take a bag of free popcorn and watch whatever vhs tape was playing on the store tv.  It was paradise for a kid with no money or any way to get money.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Didn't Chi-Chi's have a major salmonella outbreak years back? Yeah, that's what caused them to close down in America. Apparently, they're still active in China, Indonesia, and Belgium.
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RandomFerret posted:Every location had one of these, you could just go in and take a bag of free popcorn and watch whatever vhs tape was playing on the store tv. I still see these at around pretty often, usually at hardware and automotive stores.
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Jan 2, 2016 19:51
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RandomFerret posted:gently caress American video stores, this is where it was at drat, that looks pretty sweet. Which country? England? When I was a kid, I rented so many video games every or every other week the staff there knew me by name and even gave me a store display for Diddy Kong Racing for the N64 I still have to this day. Remember when video stores let you rent video game systems? They came in their own foam lined briefcases (at least with Blockbuster they did). I remember renting the Sega 32X and playing Knuckles Chaotix this way. It... wasn't very good.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:drat, that looks pretty sweet. Which country? England? Canada. They also where a chain that rented porn.
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twistedmentat posted:Canada. They also where a chain that rented porn. Very nonchalantly too iirc. I remember looking for Deep Impact there and right next to it was Deep Dish Booty Pie 5 or some such.
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Wimpys. It was a British alternative to McDonalds and the had English inspired burgers. I remember that they had a doughnut dessert called something like Brown Derby.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Well, at least Family Video is still around in a very few niche places. The Family Video here is still struggling along but I'm amazed that it is. The only people you see go in there are the very old, and families with little kids who are there because most of the children's movies are a free rental. I bet they would do a little more business if they hadn't taken out the porn section. Like at some point the manager went "Hey guys, we're only doing business in porn rentals that cost 3x the rental price of the new releases, better nip that in the bud before we get a reputation" E: I rented some porn from them after I turned 18 many years ago and the lady at the register was apparently offended. Maybe they got rid of them because all of the middle-aged women that work there were tired of having to check out "Basting the Giblets 4: Have Yourself a MILFy Little Xmas" over and over E2: I guess the store still has its uses, though. Even though I have Netflix and Amazon Prime, if I want to watch a good movie then there's a very good chance it isn't available and I have to rent it from the "Favorites" section at Family Video for 50 cents titties has a new favorite as of 23:12 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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MisterGBH posted:Wimpys. I ate at a Wimpy's in the States once. I have no idea where it came from since it was long after the American chain had closed and I can't find any evidence the British chain or the Canadian chain ever took a stab at the US market. They had a giant photograph of a large, bald and noticeably disfigured man labeled "Our Regional Distribution Manager." Not the store manager or CEO or even Employee of the Month but the Regional Distribution Manager. I was the only customer, the food was terrible, and it was only open for a few months. I never saw another one anywhere. It was a bit weird.
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MisterGBH posted:Wimpys. They had a Wimpy's in Saudi Arabia when I was a child there (parents were Americans working there overseas before I was born). I think my family still has a clock from there with Arabic numerals.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Phone booths used to be everywhere when I was a kid. There was one next to my school, outside the store, at a crossing on our suburban home street and in the lobby of the airport. By the early 2000s all of them were gone due to the proliferation of mobile phones. In NYC pay phones are still around but they've just started converting them into free gigabit wi-fi hotspots.
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Technically there's still a captive population of living South China tigers. It's just horribly inbred and will die off soon. The baiji, Pyrenean ibex, Pinta Island tortoise, and West African black rhino are definitely extinct though. I don't recognize the snake.
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Monday_ posted:In NYC pay phones are still around but they've just started converting them into free gigabit wi-fi hotspots. Telstra are doing a similar thing in Australia; they own all the pay phones and rather than take them down they just chuck a router inside and boradcast a WiFi network that lets you use your home internet account with them from there. E: VVV They still have phones in them as far as I can tell, and I imagine the point is to make money off what would otherwise be uselessly obsolete so it's unreasonable to expect free WiFi. AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 07:22 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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AlphaKretin posted:Telstra are doing a similar thing in Australia; they own all the pay phones and rather than take them down they just chuck a router inside and boradcast a WiFi network that lets you use your home internet account with them from there. So instead of a phone that anyone can use it's going to be internet access for people who happen to be with Telstra?
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Ponderosa as in the all-you-can-eat buffet? I loved that as a kid, like a higher quality version of Golden Corral both in food and clientele. That or Ryan's Steakhouse with all-you-can-eat steak and shrimp. http://www.ryans.com/ ? I've been to one it was no better or worse then golden corral. Mister Kingdom posted:I have seen modern drinks in glass bottles, but with no deposit. You can return plastic bottles and cans as well as glass ones. I take mine down to the recycle place behind walmart monthly. Although I think it's just certain states. snergle has a new favorite as of 10:18 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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Pick posted:Technically there's still a captive population of living South China tigers. It's just horribly inbred and will die off soon. The baiji, Pyrenean ibex, Pinta Island tortoise, and West African black rhino are definitely extinct though. I don't recognize the snake. Google images pointed me to several websites that say it's a puerto rican garden snake, which is not extinct and is a Least Concern classification animal http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/elyunque/learning/nature-science/?cid=fsbdev3_042904 The rest of those are pretty dad though
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FreudianSlippers posted:animals Don't forget about the furry old lobsters, either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hws0JhZ3fn8
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 We actually had some of these in my actual house. Nobody got killed. Nobody even got injured. Totally unexciting.
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Filox posted:
Didn't you sharpen the tips?
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Ferrule posted:A decent Star Wars movie. Ah yes, the VHS Wars took so many great titles from us forever, it's truly a shame that this movie and many others like it disappeared entirely from this plane of existence.
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Instant Sunrise posted:Vaccines. Also lack of social media, especially Facebook.
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Donald Trump failing
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Pick posted:Donald Trump failing Don't worry, I think you're in for a nice dose of nostalgia some time soon.
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RCarr posted:Don't worry, I think you're in for a nice dose of nostalgia some time soon. http://www.theonion.com/article/will-be-end-trumps-campaign-says-increasingly-nerv-52002
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