Name that meal from your past you really miss

[ponyo]

I really miss my mom's ox tail soup. Man, that was some really good stuff!!!

Did someone say ox tail soup? 🙂

 

[Iron Woode]

For fast food burgers, I miss 1980's Harveys. Here in Ontario Canada they were the best chain.

Fresh cut fries cooked in lard or tallow were great. Now everything is different. They use frozen fries now cooked in healthy oils that lack flavour.

commercial from 1983:

 

[sdifox]

For fast food burgers, I miss 1980's Harveys. Here in Ontario Canada they were the best chain.

Fresh cut fries cooked in lard or tallow were great. Now everything is different. They use frozen fries now cooked in healthy oils that lack flavour.

commercial from 1983:

I miss the A&W prime rib burger

 

[Iron Woode]

I miss the A&W prime rib burger

I miss A&W from the early 70's. My dad and I would go there as a treat and enjoy burgers and fries in the car. I was sad when they closed.

 

[sdifox]

I miss A&W from the early 70's. My dad and I would go there as a treat and enjoy burgers and fries in the car. I was sad when they closed.

We stil have them in the GTA. Good food.

 

[Iron Woode]

We stil have them in the GTA. Good food.

I meant the drive-in restaurant.

 

[shortylickens]

I miss A&W from the early 70's. My dad and I would go there as a treat and enjoy burgers and fries in the car. I was sad when they closed.

Where I grew up in Minnesota we had one right next to the train tracks. They eventually went out of business and later I was sad I didnt hit them up more often.

 

[nakedfrog]

I ate at an A&W in Wyoming last summer.

 

[sdifox]

I meant the drive-in restaurant.

Lol those died will rollerskates.

 

[sandorski]

Lol those died will rollerskates.

Vancouver had a Drive-In well into the 1990s.

 

[sdifox]

Vancouver had a Drive-In well into the 1990s.

Well backwaters is like that :awe:

 

[Linux23]

Those were the one! I think my mom would call it Chinese Stew instead of Chop Suey but it was the same thing. It wasn't authentic Chinese food at all but was so good. You know what, I think our moms got the recipe right off the La Choy can.

Nestle Tollhouse. - Friends. Lmao.

 

[brianmanahan]

Nestle Tollhouse.

i still make those

but you gotta use crisco instead of butter, it makes them better

 

[feralkid]

oh ...
there used to be this weird dried beef salami that is made only in Serbia, and not made elsewhere because (as i understand, from the limited knowledge i have) it's a very tough part, and they made kind of a jerky with it, and it's the single most chewingest thing that has ever existed on Earth. If you like chewable stuff, this is it.
Unfortunately after the war production stopped, and for whatever reason it hasn't picked up again. Probably due to the fact that stuff has modernized and there's no reason to cut that part of the beef out the way they did before.

There is also another salami from a suburb of Naples called Secondigliano, made with pork, extremely fatty (but not spreadable, not like 'Nduja), and eye-watering spicy with a local "cherry" chili. Again, it's become near impossible to find.

This one?

Eccellenze culinarie - Il salame di Secondigliano

Blog dedicato a Secondigliano e alla periferia Nord di Napoli. Tutti i lati positivi e negativi del quartiere.

unavocepersecondigliano.blogspot.com

-Sorry, I linked from the translated page, but it seems to have reverted back to Italian.

 

[DigDog]

This one?

that one.

i've done a bit of reading online - because i was hoping to buy some and get it shipped - and it appears that the original recipe has been lost.

Secondigliano was a bad area of Naples (which isn't that great either), like, a borough, not a "region". Think "Bronx salami" rather than "New York salami". It happens that in Secondigliano, they had this massive slaughterhouse, and that's where the *original* Salame Di Secondigliano was made.

Now, back when i was a kid, up 'till the early 80s, we could get this salami from the food shop down the road in Rome, 190km from Secondigliano. or any other shop - it was easy to find.
Today, it's become very rare to hear it mentioned. I don't know if what you can get today is the same exact recipe as you could previously. Considering that it came from a slaughterhouse, and that it was a chili-based salami, they probably threw in all the rough cuts and the cheap stuff in there, so trying to recreate it is probably not feasible today; but as long as the taste is in the same ballpark, i'll live.

It's essentially a chorizo that's been smoked. They used a local chili, which i will assume is the cherry chili

I've had "chili in oil" from Lidl that comes from southern italy, and it has a very unique taste that no other chili can replicate. I do not know what it is. It could be aniseed or celeriac, or some other spice that radically changes the flavour. So while it was a pork + chili salami, it didn't taste like the chorizo you can buy from the supermarket.

 

[IronWing]

i still make those

but you gotta use crisco instead of butter, it makes them better

Mr. Manahan, just because we don’t burn people at the stake anymore doesn’t mean that we can’t burn people at the stake.

 

[brianmanahan]

Mr. Manahan, just because we don’t burn people at the stake anymore doesn’t mean that we can’t burn people at the stake.

don't knock it till you try it! it makes the texture and softness way, way better than butter.

 

[feralkid]

nm

 

[pauldun170]

Homemade pupusas and tamales made by a short little fat woman who taught me Spanish words long forgotten.

 

[Muse]

My mother's sausages.

It's from the 1940 movie, The Thief of Bagdad. This movie totally tripped me out as a kid. It's full of mystery, imagination and adventure:

The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Abu awakes alone on a deserted beach, where he finds a bottle and opens it, releasing an enormous genie intent on killing the boy. Abu, though, tricks the genie into submitting to him and granting him three wishes. The first wish is wasted, but the genie helps Abu to steal a magical jewel that enables him to find Ahmad. With his second wish, Abu is reunited with Ahmad. With the jewel, Ahmad sees Jaffar using his magic to make the Princess forget her true love. Despondent, Ahmad quarrels with Abu, who inadvertently uses his third wish to send Ahmad back to Bagdad, alone.
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The wasted wish was to have some of the sausages his mother used to make. The Genie provides Abu with the sausages! 😀
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Then, there's the pizza I made yesterday that I ate before the Super Bowl, which I watched alone in my home theater projection room. That giant pizza was superb, amazing, dough I made myself in my bread machine and rolled out and laid on a professional pizza pan, home made canned Italian sauce from my home grown tomatoes, onions, peppers, pineapple, two kinds of sausage, 5 kinds of gourmet cheese, baked to perfection in a 500+F oven.
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Then, there's the Orange Julius's I used to get in Los Angeles. I haven't seen any of their stands for 50 years.

I haven't had a good chili dog in a while.

 

[Fritzo]

My mother's sausages.

It's from the 1940 movie, The Thief of Bagdad. This movie totally tripped me out as a kid. It's full of mystery, imagination and adventure:

The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Abu awakes alone on a deserted beach, where he finds a bottle and opens it, releasing an enormous genie intent on killing the boy. Abu, though, tricks the genie into submitting to him and granting him three wishes. The first wish is wasted, but the genie helps Abu to steal a magical jewel that enables him to find Ahmad. With his second wish, Abu is reunited with Ahmad. With the jewel, Ahmad sees Jaffar using his magic to make the Princess forget her true love. Despondent, Ahmad quarrels with Abu, who inadvertently uses his third wish to send Ahmad back to Bagdad, alone.
- -
The wasted wish was to have some of the sausages his mother used to make. The Genie provides Abu with the sausages! 😀
- - - - - - - -
Then, there's the pizza I made yesterday that I ate before the Super Bowl, which I watched alone in my home theater projection room. That giant pizza was superb, amazing, dough I made myself in my bread machine and rolled out and laid on a professional pizza pan, home made canned Italian sauce from my home grown tomatoes, onions, peppers, pineapple, two kinds of sausage, 5 kinds of gourmet cheese, baked to perfection in a 500+F oven.
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Then, there's the Orange Juilius's I used to get in Los Angeles. I haven't seen any of their stands for 50 years.

I haven't had a good chili dog in a while.

Orange Julius reopened in our area some time back. They were a shell of their former selves. Bland smoothie-like things made with powder and banana. The local smoothie shops are 100% better.

 

[Muse]

Orange Julius reopened in our area some time back. They were a shell of their former selves. Bland smoothie-like things made with powder and banana. The local smoothie shops are 100% better.

So sad. Can't tell you how many times I tried to reproduce that Orange Julius genius. Web searches (you can find recipes online, yes!), kitchen brain storms. I made some OK stuff, yeah, but never thought, "yeah, that's it!!!" They had a secret formula, and whoever knew the secret died with a smile on their face! 😀

 

[Scarpozzi]

In the late 90s, there was a burrito place that popped up called Phat Wraps. It's basically like a locally owned Chipotle, but they had really good grilled meat that they did fresh. They also had an awesome hot sauce that was kind of like a chipotle ranch, but it was much hotter and not as mayonaisey....I really don't know how to describe it because it's been so long. I just remember pouring that sauce all over the burrito at least weekly..... They ended up going out of business because rent was really high in their location.

To this day, I have a few local burrito places I frequent, but none have that sauce and all the meat offerings are pre-grilled/sliced in a tub. It's just not the same.

 

[Zeze]

Did someone say ox tail soup? 🙂

A fellow Korean i see.

 

[DigDog]

is that your oxtail soup ?? dude that's depressing.