When you were a child or teen, what fast food place did you like to go to? I honestly did not go as my parents did not

[moniss]

54. I have a couple.

One was "Dog 'n Suds" otherwise known as "Arf and Barf".

The A&W drive in was always good. Can't beat a place with carhops. There's still a big one in Oshkosh, Wisconsin that has hops on skates.

For a sit down place that was "fast food" we had the chain known as "George Webb". Thinnest hamburgers known to mankind. The grill and everything was more or less out in the open for customers to see. I got thrown out of one for making fun of their soup. The sign and the menu said chicken "flavored" noodle soup. I kept asking whether the "flavored" meant it didn't have any connection to real chicken or whether they just ran hot water through a whole chicken like on The 3 Stooges. A bowl of it was basically noodles, some dried parsley and the broth was a glowing neon yellow loaded with salt. Not a speck of chicken meat to be found. It had an "other worldly" smell and not like chicken at all.

But the George Webb was popular because they were open after bar time and you could get a cheap breakfast or those paper thin burgers. Being so thin they fried quickly on the grill and basically about 30 seconds or so per side and they were done. They used to have "bag" deals for "to go" orders. I think back in the early 80's you could get like 15 burgers for $10 or something like that.

"Dog 'n Suds" was a really cool drive-in chain because they had great root beer and in addition to burgers they had variations of hot dogs. Mostly they are gone now but there is still an independent one about an hour or so from me.

A&W of course is still around.