1965: Milk
1968: Nilla wafers, punch, mac and cheese
1972: Baguette, cheese, ham, café au lait
1974: Rice Krispies, peanut butter sandwiches, mac and cheese, chocolate milk
1977: Curry chicken sandwiches, ginger beer, Pop Rocks, Wil Wrights ice cream, Chef Boyardee Ravioli
1980: Mac and cheese, Carls Jr. fries, Szechuan Beef, André “champagne”
1983: Tommy’s chili cheeseburgers, Pepsi, Captain Crunch, pizza, pad thai
1986: Cuban roast chicken, Bohemia beer, Thai peanut chicken & spinach
1991: Subway sandwich special of the day, Jack Daniels, spicy peanut dumplings, ramen
1993: Subway sandwich special of the day, spaghetti, cheap Dutch beer from TJs
1994: Special of the day at hospital cafeteria, Cassell’s burger, Tommy’s burger, Guinness, supermarket roast chicken, mac and cheese.
1996: Los Primos burritos, potato fritters, quiche, potato salad, Seghesio Zinfandel
1998: Maker’s Mark, Glacier Vodka, sautéed scallops, Lundberg Wild Blend Rice, Pilsner Urquell, Pepcid AC, fettucine alfredo, blackout cake, mac and cheese.
2003: Brita filtered water, eggplant & cashew stirfry, sweet red pepper salad, chicken Marsala, clementines, nonfat yogurt with berries, homemade bread.
2005: Aberlour A’Bunadh, lamb curry, mac and cheese, TJs frozen tamales, pasta e fagiole, cornbread, coleslaw, San Pellegrino, tomato/artichoke salad.
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Mmmmm Mac N Cheese.
See, timeless.
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What I’ve been sayin all along.
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1970
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
1986 Annie’s Brand Macaroni & Cheese
2000 Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles side of macaroni and cheese and multi-refill fruit punch, because lemonade is not refillable
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1983 and 1994 are my favorite years. The Tommy’s Burger is truly bombastic.
Did you ever go to Jack’s Classic on Coldwater and the 101?
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that post made me hungry. although I didnt see any nuclear family dishes a ‘la gelatin mold.
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We didn’t do a lot of those. We had the ground beef/macaroni/cheese/corn casserole, but not too many Minnesota Glorp dishes.
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Interesting that your gastronomic sophistication peaked abruptly in 1986.
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Hm, it doesn’t seem that way to me. I think because I was putting in foods characteristic of the year, but the variety ia additive. But yeah, that was a good food year.
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