The final days of McDonald's?

I remember that before we had a McDonald's in North Vancouver, there was the Wagon Ho. The place was hard to miss as it was tricked out to look like a huge Conestoga wagon. No one else in my family remembers it and I had begun to think I had imagined it until I found this:

 

Arthur Treacher's was supposedly real British-style fish-&-chips, very crispy and crunchy with big thick slab-style fries.
In England in days of old, fish & chips was always sold wrapped in newspaper.

I liked the stuff myself but they had consistency problems, and I think North Atlantic cod has become much more scarce since the 1970s so they've had to sub out lesser cuts of fish.

 

Wagon Ho. Great name for a restaurant, kind of reminds me of the Godfather's Ho Train.

 

When I was a kid in backwater New Jersey, we didn't have McD's but we had Goody's.



I remember how excited everyone was when McDonald's finally opened a store in town. It was a huge happening. We thought their burgers and fries were the most delicious delicacies ever.

 

Roy Rogers opened a new freestanding franchise recently. Double R Bar Burger and Roast Beef sandwiches were pretty good.

Cook Out rocks

 

The Hardee's in my hometown became a Mexican place but it still looks like a Hardee's on the inside and everyone calls it Mexican Hardee's.

 

1. You can find North Atlantic cod these days at Culver's, the Chick-fil-a of Midwestern fast food burger chains. Meanwhile, I proudly admit to never dining at a seafood fast food restaurant; not LJS, not Arthur Treachers, not Captain D's. The cuisine isn't even on my radar.

2. That Goody's ad reminds me of the 5 roast beef sandwiches for $5 Arby's deal I grew up with -- and loved -- in the 90s.

3. I had Cook Out for the first time three weeks ago. It joins Cheerwine and the Pisgah National Forest as reasons I love the Carolinas.

 

When I was a teenager in the Atlanta area in the 1970s, Taco Tico used to have four tacos for $1 on Taco Tuesdays.

 

I used to love Taco Tuesdays at Taco Tico.

 

We had a short-lived chain called Wetson's before McDonald's and Burger King. They had 15-cent burgers that were at least half meat.

 

The lede got buried on that McDonald's McPick 2 thing ... McDonald's is offering fucking mozzarella sticks? Gross.

 

Love the old hamburger pics. Somewhere in my youth I remember eating at a Burger Chef.. then it came to life in a plot thread in Mad Men.