Fast Food in the 70s

[meshaliuknits]

Since we were talking about McD's requiring BAs, I thought y'all might enjoy these photos of 70s Bay Area fast food joints.

blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2013/04/04/talk-to-the-clown-bay-area-fast-food-in-the-1970s

My favorites:


Janis Joplin!



And the four item Taco Bell menu. What the hell is an enchirito anyway?

Best comment:

[UMaineTeach]

Apr 5, 2013 12:55:07 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

And the four item Taco Bell menu. What the hell is an enchirito anyway?

I'm thinking it must be a portable enchilada - like with the sauce on the inside.

[meshaliuknits]

Apr 5, 2013 16:01:25 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

Apr 5, 2013 12:55:07 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

And the four item Taco Bell menu. What the hell is an enchirito anyway?

I'm thinking it must be a portable enchilada - like with the sauce on the inside.

So... a burrito with sauce?

[UMaineTeach]

Apr 5, 2013 16:02:54 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Apr 5, 2013 16:01:25 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

I'm thinking it must be a portable enchilada - like with the sauce on the inside.

So... a burrito with sauce?

Ok, I googled. The description sounds like the sauce is on the inside, but the pic shows it outside. It is also, apparently, a current item.

www.tacobell.com/food/menuitem/enchirito

A warm, soft flour tortilla wrapped around seasoned beef, hearty beans, diced onions, real cheddar cheese, and tangy red sauce.

You can also upgrade this item with marinated and grilled all-white-meat chicken or marinated premium thick cut steak.




I think the "Feb. 27, 1973: Help Fight Litter: Use
Our Bag. I laughed out loud when I saw that. Everyone in the Chronicle
photo room stared at me. I can't for the life of me figure out in 2013
how using a bag is pro-environment. Now you carry your s--- with your
hands or pay 10 cents"

Means that rather than throwing litter out of your car window, use this bag to put trash in until you can get to a trash can.

Sort of like the Wendy's bag that is in my car right now that has the Wendy's trash, some tissues, and a banana peal that I will bring into the house and throw away tonight.

[meshaliuknits]

Apr 5, 2013 16:20:37 GMT -5 UMaineTeach said:

Apr 5, 2013 16:02:54 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

So... a burrito with sauce?

Ok, I googled. The description sounds like the sauce is on the inside, but the pic shows it outside. It is also, apparently, a current item.

www.tacobell.com/food/menuitem/enchirito

A warm, soft flour tortilla wrapped around seasoned beef, hearty beans, diced onions, real cheddar cheese, and tangy red sauce.

You can also upgrade this item with marinated and grilled all-white-meat chicken or marinated premium thick cut steak.

They lost the three olives, huh?

It has clearly been eons since I was last in a Taco Bell. I've never heard of an enchirido. Everything I know about what they sell right now is based on the signs in the window of the one I pass on my way to work.

Thank you for doing all of my leg work for me.

[msmerymac]

The picture of the orginal enchirido looks like a hot pocket.

[pinkdutchtulips]

i work literally DOWN THE STREET from the Jack in the Box they highlight in Marin ....

[Velar Fricative]

I bet Janis Joplin's soda was in the biggest size they offered in the 1970s.

[catbus]

The picture of the birthday party reminded me of my own McDonald's birthday party. I believe it was my sixth birthday. It was in the Caboose at our local McDonald's. Ronald McDonald and Grimace were there (i.e., employees dressed in scary costumes)! We had McDonald's plastic bibs and captain's hats!

Was this a "thing" everywhere? Wonder when they stopped doing that?

Edit: CABOOSE!
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And as a side note, I cannot imagine thinking a McDonald's birthday party for young kids is a good idea, yet it was totally standard then (late '80s).

[ringstrue]

I bet their meat was more meat back then.

[msmerymac]

Apr 5, 2013 17:46:54 GMT -5 catbus said:

The picture of the birthday party reminded me of my own McDonald's birthday party. I believe it was my sixth birthday. It was in the Caboose at our local McDonald's. Ronald McDonald and Grimace were there (i.e., employees dressed in scary costumes)! We had McDonald's plastic bibs and captain's hats!

Was this a "thing" everywhere? Wonder when they stopped doing that?

And as a side note, I cannot imagine thinking a McDonald's birthday party for young kids is a good idea, yet it was totally standard then (late '80s).

I had one, but I was like 3, which seems worse, so all I remember is that my dad had a camera with the flashbulbs you would have to attach the camera that you could only use once. There were like 8 in a packet? For lack of a better comparison, it was like a gun magazine of flash bulbs. 

Oh, and we had chocolate cake.

[catbus]

Apr 5, 2013 17:53:04 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Apr 5, 2013 17:46:54 GMT -5 catbus said:

The picture of the birthday party reminded me of my own McDonald's birthday party. I believe it was my sixth birthday. It was in the Caboose at our local McDonald's. Ronald McDonald and Grimace were there (i.e., employees dressed in scary costumes)! We had McDonald's plastic bibs and captain's hats!

Was this a "thing" everywhere? Wonder when they stopped doing that?

And as a side note, I cannot imagine thinking a McDonald's birthday party for young kids is a good idea, yet it was totally standard then (late '80s).

I had one, but I was like 3, which seems worse, so all I remember is that my dad had a camera with the flashbulbs you would have to attach the camera that you could only use once. There were like 8 in a packet? For lack of a better comparison, it was like a gun magazine of flash bulbs. 

Oh, and we had chocolate cake.

LOL. What's funny is that birthday is the one at which I received my first real camera, and it totally used that type of flash:

[UMaineTeach]

Apr 5, 2013 17:46:54 GMT -5 catbus said:

And as a side note, I cannot imagine thinking a McDonald's birthday party for young kids is a good idea, yet it was totally standard then (late '80s).

To my knowledge you can still rent the Ronald McDonald Room in the basement of the McD's in my hometown for a party. I had one birthday there.
When I worked there 01-02 we did parties with a clown, cake, and happy meals.

I don't know why it would be a bad idea.

[mbcdefg]

Apr 5, 2013 17:58:21 GMT -5 catbus said:

Apr 5, 2013 17:53:04 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

I had one, but I was like 3, which seems worse, so all I remember is that my dad had a camera with the flashbulbs you would have to attach the camera that you could only use once. There were like 8 in a packet? For lack of a better comparison, it was like a gun magazine of flash bulbs. 

Oh, and we had chocolate cake.

LOL. What's funny is that birthday is the one at which I received my first real camera, and it totally used that type of flash:

I had that camera too! It used 110 film

I never had a flash bulb, though. I never even knew what a flash bulb was. I didn't know what that little tab on top of the camera was for.

[kmpls]

Great, now I want an enchirito. Yum.

[msmerymac]

110 film FOR LYFE.