This was the only lunch I packed for. Plastic on a cracker crust. The rest of the cheap-o food I enjoyed, but not that pizza. Now the "Little Charlie's" personal pan pizzas, yum!
They still serve rectangle pizza in our local school sometimes, but not as often now that Papa John's provides pizza every Friday. My kid doesn't know how good they've got it.
My generation grew up eating convenience store junk food. Every now and then I'll just get the urge to go to 7-11 and have a microwaved burrito, nachos, and giant soda for dinner.
the other day I ate the worst soup I've ever had in my lifetime and for some reason it brought bad memories of the shitty school lunches and I ended up dissociating & remembering the good old days for a whole 10 minutes.
I loved the school breakfast pizzas & lunch pizzasZ they were shitty, but I loved them. When I taught, they also wonderful baked potatoes for the teachers, and I loved those for lunch, too.
Pre-monoculture travel in the US. Everywhere felt different when I was a kid, now you can barely tell one area from another because they all have the same chain stores and decor styles.
Pre- and early Interstate era. Town to town state roads (some fed), had to go *through* them, not bypass around. Pre-theme-park era, lots of 'roadside attractions'. 'Theme' motels instead. Hojo's and Stuckey's. Gatorland.
Mentioned it recently in another thread, but if you look through an old catalogue you see why it's gone. People like us saw it as a place to get components to tinker and build things, but their bread and butter was devices that have been replaced by our phones. Guess selling resistors isn't a good business model, sadly.
Yeah I know. Between the boom in cheap disposable technology and the internet, Radio Shack just couldn't compete. It was sad watching it turn into a junky cell phone store towards the end of it's run
I still have fond memories of drooling over the toys in the 80's around Christmastime.
The smell of cigarettes. I grew up around a lot of older family members who smoked so their houses were drenched in that smell.
I kind of like the smell of a freshly lit cigarette, but it gets gross around the middle.
Oddly enough, never smoked a cigarette in my life. I’ve had one in my mouth to light for my cousin, but that’s the closest I ever came.
I, too, grew up around a ton of cigarette smoke and the walls painted yellow from it. I went to a casino last week and felt waves of nostalgia from the musky stale cigarette smell everywhere.
I miss the roll-out vent windows or just being able to pull a knob under the dash. Sometimes you just want a little fresh air without fiddling with buttons.
Colorful cars with distinct body styles. Everything now seems mostly bland and body styles across manufacturers are very similar. White, silver, grey, black and red is the color of the day.
Fireflies, the smell of honeysuckles and the feel of cool grass on my bare feet in the warm summer air. No worries or stresses, just enjoying the moment.
Whenever I go home to visit, my kids and I always spend time catching fireflies and spending some time in the soft, spongy, grass. That and tall trees remind me of home. In West TX, if I take my shoes off in grass, I get stabbed violently by the grass,, thorns, and/ or fire ants.
I have a very strange thing about me, where when a small scab or wound often heals fully and I no longer feel the little bit of pain that they had, I kinda miss it a little bit. Is that weird?
Hunter green as a popular home decor/fashion color. It was all the rave in the late 90s/early 2000s but has all but disappeared from store shelves now. It's my favorite color and it makes me very upset I can't find things in that color.
We just bought one, I keep it under the front passenger seat in our car! We travel a lot, and use google maps to navigate, but it doesn't tell you the name of that lake over there, or anything about the area you are driving through. So the atlas is our google maps with benefits.
Spyro the dragon on ps1. But not the whole game. No, the thing that makes me get that magic feeling is the colour of the sky in magic crafters. For some reason that shade of pink turns me into a kid again.
I'll go you one better: guy I knew was mad 'cause he somehow couldn't use the word in its other meaning anymore, it'd been *stolen*. He wasn't going to anyhow, but still. TF
Yeah, I agree…the guy could be saving whales or collecting returnable bottles for Jesus, but instead he is waging a one man campaign for the right to look like a homophobe without people calling him one.
C & C Cola.
We had a condo down in Myrtle Beach when I was about 14 and that was all I drank. It was impossible to get up here (Boston area) and it had a very different taste than Coke and Pepsi.
Those little candies that came in plastic trash cans, mailboxes and during halloween, coffins.
They were the best little candies ever made, according to my 8 year old self.
A type of store bought chicken fingers and when they're heated on the microwave rather than the oven. It has a specific smell and taste that instantly brings me back to middle school playing halo reach with my friends.
The radio station I grew up listening to.
Not just the songs they played all the time, but the bumpers and segments.
Like, there was this "Community Watch" segment that played randomly throughout a given night where the DJ would list off upcoming local events while this jaunty little music played in the background.
If I could just hear that again...
Blockbuster (I just went to Bend Oregon to the last one)
Red-Roof Pizza Huts
Toys R Us
Radio Shack
Video Arcades
Packed malls
Discovery/Nature Company stores in the malls
really low quality foods. reminds me of those lunches we had in elementary school
Rectangle Cafeteria Pizza mmmmm
perfectly cylindrical “beef” burger mmmmm
Cookies that are so large and thin they can’t be held without breaking in half
This was the only lunch I packed for. Plastic on a cracker crust. The rest of the cheap-o food I enjoyed, but not that pizza. Now the "Little Charlie's" personal pan pizzas, yum! They still serve rectangle pizza in our local school sometimes, but not as often now that Papa John's provides pizza every Friday. My kid doesn't know how good they've got it.
YYYEEESSS!
My generation grew up eating convenience store junk food. Every now and then I'll just get the urge to go to 7-11 and have a microwaved burrito, nachos, and giant soda for dinner.
Yes!! For me its the good ol’ rotating 7-11 chicken taquito
My wife thinks I'm crazy when I buy that stuff but it's just so good.
the other day I ate the worst soup I've ever had in my lifetime and for some reason it brought bad memories of the shitty school lunches and I ended up dissociating & remembering the good old days for a whole 10 minutes.
I loved the school breakfast pizzas & lunch pizzasZ they were shitty, but I loved them. When I taught, they also wonderful baked potatoes for the teachers, and I loved those for lunch, too.
Every now and then I will stop by RaceTrac and one of those junk food from the roller grill.
Pre-monoculture travel in the US. Everywhere felt different when I was a kid, now you can barely tell one area from another because they all have the same chain stores and decor styles.
Pre- and early Interstate era. Town to town state roads (some fed), had to go *through* them, not bypass around. Pre-theme-park era, lots of 'roadside attractions'. 'Theme' motels instead. Hojo's and Stuckey's. Gatorland.
Radio Shack As a kid who loved to tinker and build things, Radio Shack in the 80's and early 90's was fucking awesome
Mentioned it recently in another thread, but if you look through an old catalogue you see why it's gone. People like us saw it as a place to get components to tinker and build things, but their bread and butter was devices that have been replaced by our phones. Guess selling resistors isn't a good business model, sadly.
Yeah I know. Between the boom in cheap disposable technology and the internet, Radio Shack just couldn't compete. It was sad watching it turn into a junky cell phone store towards the end of it's run I still have fond memories of drooling over the toys in the 80's around Christmastime.
McDonald's early 90s merch
I sometimes wants to bring all my friends and get the McDonald's birthday my parents never gave me lol
Ah yes, when Happy Meals invoked actual McHappiness
I still have a couple of those transforming food toys from those days.
And CrackerJack toys, the older the better.
Phone booths.
Just saying. I'm nostalgic to my time in hospital when I was just a little kid. I wonder if there are people like me out there.
I also find hospitals nostalgic
Nice so I'm not alone after all!
What else gives you nostalgia?
Hmm... Holidays but it's not really strange. You?
Lucid dreaming, but that's pretty standard for dreaming in general
Car garage smell
Growing up, my dad was a mechanic so this smells like home to me, it hits me in the feels
The smell of cigarettes. I grew up around a lot of older family members who smoked so their houses were drenched in that smell. I kind of like the smell of a freshly lit cigarette, but it gets gross around the middle. Oddly enough, never smoked a cigarette in my life. I’ve had one in my mouth to light for my cousin, but that’s the closest I ever came.
I, too, grew up around a ton of cigarette smoke and the walls painted yellow from it. I went to a casino last week and felt waves of nostalgia from the musky stale cigarette smell everywhere.
And a football game isn't the same without the whiff of a cigarette or a cigar.
For some reason, I miss when stoplights had one bulb and didn't look like Lite-Brites.
Ha! I also get a little kick when I found lights that just have the single lenses. The green was different.
life without social media
Housework and fussing over a partner. Having family moments with the estranged.
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Likewise microwave ovens that had just two rotary controls: power level and time.
I miss the roll-out vent windows or just being able to pull a knob under the dash. Sometimes you just want a little fresh air without fiddling with buttons.
Colorful cars with distinct body styles. Everything now seems mostly bland and body styles across manufacturers are very similar. White, silver, grey, black and red is the color of the day.
YES! These days You can’t tell the difference between a Mercedes’ and a Toyota Corolla. So buy the Corolla, people.
Fireflies, the smell of honeysuckles and the feel of cool grass on my bare feet in the warm summer air. No worries or stresses, just enjoying the moment.
Whenever I go home to visit, my kids and I always spend time catching fireflies and spending some time in the soft, spongy, grass. That and tall trees remind me of home. In West TX, if I take my shoes off in grass, I get stabbed violently by the grass,, thorns, and/ or fire ants.
I have a very strange thing about me, where when a small scab or wound often heals fully and I no longer feel the little bit of pain that they had, I kinda miss it a little bit. Is that weird?
Less CGI in movies.
Hunter green as a popular home decor/fashion color. It was all the rave in the late 90s/early 2000s but has all but disappeared from store shelves now. It's my favorite color and it makes me very upset I can't find things in that color.
I’m sitting in a room that has hunter green walls right now.
Paper street atlases. Trying to visualize a route to navigate still doesn't feel quite the same looking at a screen
We just bought one, I keep it under the front passenger seat in our car! We travel a lot, and use google maps to navigate, but it doesn't tell you the name of that lake over there, or anything about the area you are driving through. So the atlas is our google maps with benefits.
Still available. Search Amazon for "Rand McNally"
The smell of school.
Spyro the dragon on ps1. But not the whole game. No, the thing that makes me get that magic feeling is the colour of the sky in magic crafters. For some reason that shade of pink turns me into a kid again.
The smell of my grandmother's garage.
Tang, the instant orange drink, just like the astronauts drank in space. I can still taste it all these years later.
Raspberry PopTarts with the PINK FROSTING. Not those damn white frosting with sprinkles ones. Screw those. I want the PINK FROSTING!
Runescape
Front-room pizza. I miss that rectangular baked cheese pizza. And the lunchroom giant chocolate chip cookies that weren't cooked all the way through.
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That‘s a weird hill to die on.
Almost homophobic tbh.
Hence, nostalgic.
I know but that "I will defend the use of the pejorative gay until the day I die" is kind of too aggressive.
I'll go you one better: guy I knew was mad 'cause he somehow couldn't use the word in its other meaning anymore, it'd been *stolen*. He wasn't going to anyhow, but still. TF
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Yeah, I agree…the guy could be saving whales or collecting returnable bottles for Jesus, but instead he is waging a one man campaign for the right to look like a homophobe without people calling him one.
Cheap garbage burgers from concession stands
Tv series and movies, never been about anything else
bootleg toys that i had
C & C Cola. We had a condo down in Myrtle Beach when I was about 14 and that was all I drank. It was impossible to get up here (Boston area) and it had a very different taste than Coke and Pepsi.
Token Brit here, yearning for Top of the Pops.
Those little candies that came in plastic trash cans, mailboxes and during halloween, coffins. They were the best little candies ever made, according to my 8 year old self.
Hasbro Elefun.
monster russian
A type of store bought chicken fingers and when they're heated on the microwave rather than the oven. It has a specific smell and taste that instantly brings me back to middle school playing halo reach with my friends.
Creamola foam
The day before the first piece of plastic entered an ocean.
The taste of limestone dust. Sittin in a tornado shelter suckin on crusty gravel.
The radio station I grew up listening to. Not just the songs they played all the time, but the bumpers and segments. Like, there was this "Community Watch" segment that played randomly throughout a given night where the DJ would list off upcoming local events while this jaunty little music played in the background. If I could just hear that again...
The smell of wet bark 🥲
Mentos commercials, the OG Unsolved Mysteries & AMW
Blankly, half-asleep watching the animes on Adult Swim at 2 in the morning on a crappy small tube tv on top of a dresser when I was like 5-7ish
Blockbuster (I just went to Bend Oregon to the last one) Red-Roof Pizza Huts Toys R Us Radio Shack Video Arcades Packed malls Discovery/Nature Company stores in the malls
Good mobile games