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What is your favorite long gone items at fast-food or chain food restaurants that you've been missing? I've got a few I'd like to pay tribute to. (Soft yet emotionally stirring music, please):
1. Bacon cheeseburger burrito, Taco Bell--Not only was it a burrito, but it was also a burger burrito. Not only a burger burrito, but a cheeseburger burrito. Not only a cheesburger burrito, but a bacon cheeseburger burrito. Ground beef, lettuce, tomato, bacon bits, and thousand island dressing. In other words, "Hell yeah!" Spent a good part of my high school youth indulging in these babies. RIP, Taco Bell Bacon Cheeseburger Burrito.
2. Superbar, Wendy's--A concept like no other. Put a buffet in a fast food place. Have a salad bar, taco station, and pasta bar (oh yes, especially the pasta bar) where you can go up and have your fill. I believe there was supposedly a limit of one serving per customer, but I never listened. Sure, now I know the garlic bread was simply half of a toasted burger bun with garlic power sprinkled on it. It doesn't matter. The memories are still all the same--of a young 8 year old who managed to pile as much pasta onto a plastic plate as was humanly possible. Wendy's Superbar, where art thou?
3. Carolina Baby Back Ribs, Chili's--This one pains me most of all, because it is so recent. Chili's has removed the Carolina flavored Baby Back Ribs from their menu in favor of some fang-dangled "new" flavors. I can only say, "How dare you." I demand baby back ribs covered not in some cheap Kraft ketchup-based barbeque sauce, but rather a delightful mixture of vinegar based tang and cayane pepper spice, with a touch of mustard and brown sugar to bring in the sweetness. These were baby-back ribs to be sung about. And now, they are gone. Chili's, why have you foresaken me?
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(For the purposes of this post, it is my hope it can stay on the intended topic. That fast food is ridiculously unhealthy and bad for you--I know that. That giving in to fast food and chain restaraunts is giving in to all the big corporations--I know that. That chain restaurants cheapen all the authentic mom-and-pop restaurants out there who serve food that is better than the mass-produced food of the chain places--I know that. That the owner of X restaurant chain is golfing buddies with Dick Cheney and we as good liberals shouldn't be patronizing them--I know that. That meat is murder/involuntary manslaughter/negligent homicide--I know that. But damn it, I have needs and cravings, and part of those needs and cravings involve enjoying good old fashion junk food, any where, any time. So humor me and my query, I beg of you. Please.)
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