A&W brings back fond memories! Hooking the tray on rolled down window was a treat. Eating in my dad’s car was a bigger treat, except for his jovial cursing 🤦‍♀️ when I dropped any crumbs.

A&W and Sinclair for lunch on a roadtrip was as good as it got.

We didn’t have money but whenever White Castle had a coupon we got White Castles. And before anyone makes cracks about White Castle. I’ve never met anyone who liked them unless they had them as a kid.

now I want a root beer freeze

Oh man, I loved A&W as a kid.

Draft rootbeer float. Heaven.

I’m an American. I have no culture worth discussing.

I live abroad full time. When I return to the US, it's a never ending ennui at the relentless soulless strip malls and self absorbed narcissist dipshits. There's nothing but a few people remaining to interest me in the US. It's about to be Ceausescu's Yugoslavia.

You mean Romania.

Ooops. This is why I wasn't a career diplomatic corps professional.

Catching blue claw and seasoning them with Old Bay

Jerry’s Esso was where I went for food. Lol. Loads of chips and candy.

Dude, Roy Rodgers' roast beef sandwiches were the fucking bomb when I was 12. Arby's wishes they could make delicious food like that. Philly cheese steak is my culture, though. With Yuengling.

Long live Friendly’s and the Rees’s pieces sundae.

A classic

We were too poor to go to restaurants. Kind of like now.

I have $ to eat out, but I save it to buy ammo. 😃 Priorities.

9mm is so much cheaper. And .22LR to practice with.

5.56mm for the win, though. Rifles are what they fear, with good reason. Scoped 22 has a place - shooting cameras & license plate readers. 😉

S&W AR15-22 with optics will sill make them keep their heads down at the perimeter.

I see way more sales ads for guns & ammo now than I used to ever see as a kid.

At the covered drive-in, served in the giant, icy frosted, glass mugs (about 16-18 oz., I think) with the etched, colored A&W logo.

Howard Johnson's

Lol. Bluesky hid your answer.

Loved A&W as a kid. Those ice-cold glass mugs were the best way to serve the root beer.

A&W was a treat out for my fam (single mom, late 60s/70s) in CA

A&W has the best root beer. So good out of a frosty mug on a hot summer day. We didn’t have any in the city, so before we moved it was vanilla phosphates at the corner drugstore soda fountain.

Cheesesteak, hoagie & hot roast pork sandwich shops

Central PA in the house

Dairy Queen

A&W stands, Italian ices from pizzerias, Dairy Queen, or Icees as a last resort. Cracker Jacks, but not Cracker Barrel.

i try not to define my culture through which chain restaurant i like

How about a non-chain? Hyde’s in Syracuse is divine.

I grew up there! Hyde’s was where everybody wanted to go!

We were a home-cooking every-day family.

Dairy Queen in summer, bridgeman's in winter. dad liked ice cream. (yes, I know Dairy Queen isn't ice CREAM but he didn't care all that much)

Peanut Buster parfaits, it has been decades since my last one.

I’m a big DQ fan

My culture was a small town Catholic girl. BOTH OF WHICH I NO LONGER LIKE. You couldn’t take a per without everyone knowing! 🤣😂🤣😂 And you were going to burn in hell if you kissed someone.

Take a PEE

Let alone an embarrassing shart.

A&W was so cool because it froze the mugs and was an authentic drive-in restaurant, not just for the root beer floats. The bonus was when our parents bought the mugs and more root beer to take home. I’m a Seattle kid, so Dick’s Drive-in burgers (a local fav) and root beer (now Barq’s) still rule!

I recently went to an A&W for the first time in decades... Let the nostalgia live as nostalgia.

Makes sense

Places where they shut down years ago seem to have had some revival with them nearby even if it not in the same location as before. Maybe Baskin-Robbins will make a comeback too, but I preferred A&W.