[Sca-cooks] KFC

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach A F Murphy:
>I'd forgotten Zum Zum! They were cheap and good! Don't remember for sure
>about beer - I think it was available. (I wasn't 11 *G*) I think my mom
>ate at one near NYU regularly when she was finishing her degree, which
>puts it about 20 years ago.

There were at least two in Midtown, as well.

>  Have you seen a Dosanko recently? They seem
>to have vanished... Japanese noodle soup, other lunch fare.

There was one on Fifth Avenue in the Thirties (I saw it recently, but
not sure exactly when), and I know there's one in Flushing which
actually has quite a busy sushi bar. This one is much more of a
full-service Japanese restaurant than most Dosanko's.

>   Of course,
>while I'm on Japanese food, there was that place across from Altman's
>that served sushi on a conveyor belt...

Eau, myGod! Yep, I remember them. Very, very cool. I don't recall
them as being of impeccable quality or anything, but the concept was
cool, in the same way that dim sum on carts is cool, but more so
because of the conveyer belt.

>  long before it was fashionable!
>I started eating it there. There was a Chock Full of Nuts near my office
>- good soup, cream cheese on nut bread sandwiches...

I confess I never actually have had a CFON nut bread sandwich, but
I've seen the bread available in markets, I think. The coffee seems
to be a little dark-roasted for me (I also hate Starbucks; there's
supposed to be a difference between espresso and regular coffee; if I
want charcoal it's available for less money).

>And, when I was a kid, Chicken Delight was near us, too. We got it
>sometimes, but usually, if we got take out (not very often) we did
>Chinese. Pizza sometimes for lunch, but Dad didn't like it. Or salads
>from the deli... Mom's favorite Too Hot To Cook dinner. Chicken and
>shrimp salads, German potato salad, cole slaw, and a dill pickle. Good
>rye bread (but we always had that in the house.) Or Pastrami and Roast
>Beef sandwiches an inch thick.

I STR Chicken Delight as being a battered product, a little like the
Weaver's frozen fried chicken, only fresher and better.

My Dad used to eat pizza with a knife and fork ;-). Sandwiches were
something you made yourself, except on rare occasions. As I got older
and roamed around the city more, of course, there was, and is, always
Katz's ("Send a salami to your boy in the army!"), which is not what
it was, but still not bad at all.

>I do remember going to my aunt's down on the Jersey Shore, and going to
>McDonald's for a treat - weren't any in NY yet. We thought a drive in
>was cool. Imagine eating in a car! In Manhattan, we ate at tables...

I remember as a cultural rite of passage the rise of the
formica-table Chinese restaurant; previously they had always been
dark, mysterious places with red velvet wallpaper and covered dishes.
Part of my fixation with the romance of a good restaurant
semi-replacing the romance of travel probably stems from this.

I probably ate at a McDonald's when I was fourteen or fifteen, in
Manhattan. I remember the dreaded White Castle, and a halfway decent
chain called Wetson's, as being much older in the area. And then, of
course, there was always Papaya King, which had (and has) rather
old-fashioned greasy burgers with old-fashioned greasy fried onions
on them...

Adamantius

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>Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
>>
>>>At 05:34 PM 3/26/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>Then again, we've had real pizza pretty much since WWII or before, so
>>>>it is not without compensation. And I STR we had Chicken Delight when
>>>>I was a kid, not that it's something my parents would have spent
>>>>money on.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Seriously, though, there used to be some interesting fast food chain
>>concepts that have come and (AFAIK) gone over the years. For example,
>>there used to be a chain that sold (I think) Austrian sausages and
>>schnitzels called Zum Zum. Very ordinary plastic-y fast-food decor,
>>as I recall. Since I was probably eleven when they were around, I
>>don't remember if they sold beer, but I imagine so.
>>
>>I guess for those who grew up in the birth of the fast food industry
>>(a process lasting at least a generation, I'd think), things aren't
>>so cut-and-dried as younger people assume.
>>
>>Adamantius (not claiming to be old or anything)
>>
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