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Chillin' At The Food Court, You Got Seven Bucks. Whatcha Eatin'? [TGIF]
- Thread starter Video Games Are Dumb
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3 Shredded Chicken Burritos from Taco Bell. Depending on the time of day I might be able to get me some Baja Blast too. Now I'm hungry.
I hit up Orange Julius or Jamba Juice for a smoothie. Then I leave the food court before I start to look like a creepy old man alone at the mall.
Chinese food was always my go to. Don't know if it was a chain but the place with the thick ass noodles I can remember being at multiple malls.
When I worked at Kay-Bee Toys, I'd grab a soft pretzel and a blue raspberry shaved ice and chill out in my car to get away from the noise. When I was a kid we never hung out at the mall. Even then there wasn't enough to do, you could look around Walden Books, maybe blow some money in the arcade, but that was about it. Kay-Bee was overpriced and had garbage stock, and we didn't get an EB games there until I was much older.
In case anyone is curious, it was this mall in particular. You can see where there used to be a Timeout arcade near the Pennys. Apparently it's a well-preserved example of a 70s mall;
In case anyone is curious, it was this mall in particular. You can see where there used to be a Timeout arcade near the Pennys. Apparently it's a well-preserved example of a 70s mall;
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Exactly! Taco Bell dollar menu makes a feast.
My personal menu hack is Cheesy Bean & Rice Burrito - Fresco Style
Fresco means all the dairy and sauces are removes, which knocks out a significant chunk of the sodium.
AND that's replaced with a fresh pico digiao. So it's actually a fairly healthy snack by fast food standards....not regular standards.
Oh yeah, and it's a free upgrade for everything on their menu. It's fucking awesome.
When I was growing up, my hometown mall had a TaoTao and I fucking loved the General Tao (their take on General Tso) chicken. The TaoTao closed like 15 years ago, a couple of years before I graduated high school. I used to be a mallrat because the mall's arcade was tucked in the corner of the food court section of the mall and those were my DDR days.
I think it cost like $9 and change after sales tax though, so for $7 I'm not getting it.
Nowadays the mall is like half-empty, and all the big department stores shifted the locations in that mall to outlet versions... It feels so gutted compared to my childhood.
No more Suncoast, which was another hotspot I loved to visit, on the floor just above the arcade. I got a few of my all-time favorite Dragon Ball Z action figures from there growing up because nowhere else in my hometown sold them.
I think it cost like $9 and change after sales tax though, so for $7 I'm not getting it.
Nowadays the mall is like half-empty, and all the big department stores shifted the locations in that mall to outlet versions... It feels so gutted compared to my childhood.
No more Suncoast, which was another hotspot I loved to visit, on the floor just above the arcade. I got a few of my all-time favorite Dragon Ball Z action figures from there growing up because nowhere else in my hometown sold them.
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I can relate HARD to that story. I think there was this strange era in the retail industry when Apple was doing so well that malls thought tech and nerds would save them which...lol the internet. But it was pretty fucking boss to stroll through a mall on a friday afternoon, snatch up a new Xbox/PS2/GC game, get another 3 episodes of anime for 30 bucks, and then watch some kid wipe out trying to do breakdown double pad. Buddy of mine got so obsessed he bought the metal plates fore the PS2, it was fucking amazing.
Growing up there was a small stand in the food court at the Independence Center that sold stuff strombolis, calzones, and pizza. That is where I tasted my first calzone: a delicious ham, spinach, and ricotta cheese treat. We'd eat there a lot before it went away. It's what put me on my lifelong love of ricotta cheese and calzones. I'd give anything for a time machine and $7 to go back and get one more...
