Fjords of Iceland

Beautiful!

We were mostly a Taco Bell group as well. One of my friends always liked Wendy's, so we'd go there sometimes to humor him. Outside of chain restaurants, we also did our fair share of local restaurants, mom and pop locations.

I do not remember Fish McBites.  I do remember McNuggets.  We would occasionally get those when hanging out back in the day.  But usually we had Fourth Meal and Taco Bell. We were PEAK teenagers. Always hung out with this group of friends and occasionally we'd meet other groups there. There was this one boy, "the bad boy" that we all had a crush on.

I still see them, too--but they're now a dollar a bag.  Most of Ferrara Pan's catalog has been discontinued, renamed, or wickedly hit with inflation.  It's the Mountain Dew Sangria of candies--oh, hey, remember that?  And Fish McBites?  Spending your junior high days observing the miracle of surface tension by blowing glycerin bubbles and building small balsa wood pyramids to study the mythical power of the pharaohs? Dissecting cats in high-school bio lab? Picking up empty aluminum cans in the street all day, until you came home bone-tired and reeking of beer, and making thirty cents a pound recycling them? Eh, maybe that was just me. But, man, I had fun.

Wow, there still are features present in ETS and absent in ATS .
I think some of these paintjobs look pretty nice, maybe I will even try one.

^ I don't recall ever seeing those candies, but I did remember Lemon Heads.  That's the only one I remember seeing.

Quote from: Soda on 2026-05-30 00:29:52

Nostalgia me!

The smell of a can of Play Doh or the scent of Elmer's glue from arts and crafts!

That is so specific but SO true! I totally know this smell.

I miss the treats I ate as a kid in 1992... and paying 1992 prices.  A box of candy cigarettes for a dime. A package of Ramen for two bits.  Paying for your sugary sweet booty with a carton of deposit bottles. Remember Ferrara Pan candies? Mr. Melons, Lemon Heads, Alexander The Grapes, and Cherry Sours, then called Cherry Clans, in the original packaging.

[cue nervous murmurs and collar-tugging from all assembled]

Doing a long haul from Chicago to Los Angeles.  I am roughly following Route 66 in some places.

Studio's that created a lot of these film scripts during the DEI/Woke era are having their final movies from this era released.  So hopefully things get better, but I doubt it. We've lost so much talent in Hollywood and the people who mastered the craft are gone.  There is a big loss of that now days.  I think there is opportunity for the new people to make their craft great, but if big movie studios don't take risk, we will never see it.  Right now, I am hoping their reboot era dies along with the woke crud.  It's time for originality.

To me a lot of the foods I liked as a kid were too sugary and I do not like them now.