Did you go out to eat very often when you were growing-up? (McDonald, expensive)

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

AS a kid we went out to eat at least 2 times a week. One of my favorite places was Golden Corral because they had a salad bar and even as a small child that was my fave! (and I used to get mad because I was too small to reach some of it)

We also went to Big Boy or Sambo's a lot. Rarely had fast food.

Kids always or usually love places like Golden Corral: we didn't even have places like that when i was growing up, but my kids loved a place in Pasadena, Ca called Perry Brothers I think, either that or Perry Boys. Anyway our younger daughter love the enchaladaas. OMG they were awful, but to a 6 or 7 year old they were fantastic. Being she wasn't a veggie eater, we told her one time, she could only go if she promised to get something green to eat. She promised and she kept her promise, she got green jello...

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by jasper12

Okay, this will show how old I am..we went to "Auto Mats". I thought that they were so cool, all silver, slick, modern. We also went to "Coon Chicken Inn", for Sunday dinners. (That was the actual name of the place!). But, there was no Taco Bell, or fast food places like there is now. Arbys was an exotic place, just brand new in my town. But we hardly ever went out. Just too expensive. Odd...now people eat out all the time. Back then, it was an occassion, my Grandmother would wear gloves and a hat.

Do you remember how good the meat was at Arby's in those days? They used real roast beef, not the crap that is all filler and little meat.

[cb at sea]

We hardly ever "went out" to eat when I was a child....didn't have much money and mom cooked every meal. Once in a blue moon, we'd get a hamburger at the drugstore counter....(McDonald's wasn't there yet!!!)

I remember our first "fast food" place....it was a Carroll's hamburger stand.....they put mustard on the burger...I thought it was awful!!! But, they served milkshakes and I was all about that!!!

[believe007]

Nope, we never really went out to eat basically because we had way too many excellent cooks in the family. Anytime I do go out to eat now, it usually disappoints me
I've been raised w/ good cooks
I'll take homemade over restaurant food every time

[auntieannie68]

my parents were caterers and the rest of the family had restaurants---going out to eat meant i was the free help that night---now i enjoy going out to eat and being the pia customer(but i tip well)

[Hesky]

Not at all. Since my dad lost hos job, we really couldn't afford eating out. I remember my mom would take us to McDonalds about 2/3 times per year, and that was a big treat for my brother and I!

[laorbust61]

Originally Posted by CArizona

Did you go out to eat very often when you were growing-up?...What were some of your favorite experiences and places to eat? (Cafes, chain restaurants, lunch-counters, take-out, buffets, fancy restaurants or ??)

No we ate at home a lot, but some sundays we had Kentucky Fried Chicken--the original recipe from the 70s. That was pretty good, and we had a Burger stand inside town that was also great. I didn't get to have pizza at a restaurant until I was a teenager, and I didn't get to try ethnic food until I was grown and living away from home.

[Johnny Vanderburgh]

"Eating out" meant having supper on the back porch.

[andthentherewere3]

Probably once a month or so. It wasn't anything special though, because where I grew up there were nothing but chain food restaurants.

[CheyDee]

We were on the poor side, so we didn't eat out often. Almost every year on my birthday though, I was taken to Mariner's Haven, a seafood restaurant in Freeport, NY. I always ordered a broiled, stuffed lobster, which was (and still is) my favorite seafood dish.

My grandparents used to give me $ .50 every Saturday, so I could buy either 2 slices of pizza from Gino's (@ $ .25 each) or a marshmallow hot fudge sundae from Carvel (@ $ .45).