Pennywise the Frown posted:

The local Moose Lodge.

I think all of them are required to have wood panel on the walls.

We have one about a mile from me. They're dying off which is kind of sad. I'd become a member just for the bar but I'm really trying to not drink anymore. I don't really know what else they offer. I go with my dad sometimes for their Friday fish fry (every friday in all of WI). They have an amazing catfish.

TotalLossBrain posted:

Lol turn signals are only decorative. Nobody uses those fuckers

Tato posted:

WILDTURKEY101 posted:

I remember an old post about Golden Corral and how its just full of the fattest, grossest displays of white trash you could imagine. Im a coastal elite, so when I went on a cross country road trip 7 years ago or so I was insistent that we stop at a Golden Corral in Alabama so I could see it for myself. I was expecting to laugh at slovenly Poors drinking big cups of chocolate fountain sauce or something. But it was just normal families and couples eating crappy food and was disappointingly normal and I felt like a total rear end in a top hat when I left there for expecting what I did.

bellows lugosi posted:

that reminds me there's the really weird american ideal of what route 66 was, perpetuated by people who were not alive in its heyday at all. idyllic visions of service stops, sock hops, motor motels. reconstructions of things that quite frankly were never real in the first place, meanwhile major sections of route 66 are in total decay, superseded by the modern interstate system

Empty Sandwich posted:

the history of nachos, seemingly the most manufactured of foods, is both recent and individual:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachos

its all nice on rice posted:

I've seen: tao; tsao; tosu; tso; tsao.
Take your pick.

Gutter Phoenix posted:

TotalLossBrain posted:

SxS are super popular. 15k will barely get you a base model tho. I see them all the time when I'm out on my dirt bike.
I think the bigger 4-seat turbo'd ones go for $30k and up.

Dr.D-O posted:

As opposed to unreal or fake hashbrowns? What?

Yaldabaoth posted:

Why even bother putting it on a bun at that point?

I found this on Reddit but I don't know where it's from, sorry.

Arson Daily posted:

The big texan restaurant is whatever. It's fine, a tourist trap, but busy with people a lot of the time. The real gem is the big texan motel. Stay there if you're ever passing through. it's pretty great and a hell of a value; Americana personified.

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SlothfulCobra posted:

A little while back I went around trying a bunch of different brands of root beer because there are so many different ones that use pretty wildly different flavorings that it can be really hard to even look up what they used. Here are the ones I remember:

• Barqs: Okay, it's what fast food places have. Caffeinated, so I should probably get it less
  
• Boylan: Pretty powerful woody taste, I think they use birch. Kinda grows on you, but I guess that's how most of the weirder flavors work, once people are used to it, they just want that.
  
• Bundaberg: heavy licorice flavor, pretty gross
  
• IBC: Much lighter on the licorice, pretty okay
  
• Virgil's: Also very powerful on the licorice, pretty nasty
  
• Dad's Root Beer: Very weird, kinda fruity
  
• Sprechers: They make it with honey, you can taste the flavor
  
• Hanks: Pretty good, very powerful vanilla flavor
  
• Dang! [That's Good] Butterscotch Root Beer: Pretty awful, I really don't like drinking things that taste like butter
  
• Abita: Kinda medicinal, flavored with cinnamon. Kinda tastes like Coca-Cola.
  
• Boots Sarsparilla Root Beer: Does taste like shoe polish. If this is what proper sassafrass tastes like, I see why it went out of use
  
• Saint Arnold: Okay, not very noteworthy, no idea what the flavoring is.
  
• A&W: The best one, but I think they changed the formulation since I was a kid, so it's not as good as it used to be.
  

Cream Soda is kind of a meaningless term since they don't really use actual cream (usually root beer tries to get at least one root in there). I expect vanilla, up in Canada they get pink stuff.