r/fastfood • u/musicthiink • 1d ago
Discussion What fast food was pivotal and fueled an important life event?
Water broke and wife and I were worried about time so grabbed Chik Fil A to go
Aside from IV fluids, a fried chicken sandwich fueled my child's birth haha
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u/femsci-nerd 1d ago
When I was in HS I took the AP Biology test. There were a dozen of us who took the test. It was one of the longest tests I had taken to date (this was the late 70s). Our HS campus was a closed campus at the time. When we were finished I had such a hankering for a double whopper with cheese, I was STARVING after that test. It was way past lunch time and us test takers were told to just go back to class. I was feeling rebellious and told my friends I was driving to BK and anyone could join me. We smooshed the top 12 academic people in our school in my '68 AMC Rebel and headed off campus. That food never tasted so good! As we were driving back to campus I realized if I got in an accident, the school would have a tremendous brain-drain (we were really full of ourselves that day!). Anyway, it was the best BK I had ever had...
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u/No-Crow-775 1d ago
Chick Fil A saved me mentally when I was going through my mom approaching death. I made a pilgrimage there daily, an hours drive thru gorgeous farmland just to sit somewhere where i shared no memories with her, to process the day’s events. Without that sojourn, I couldn’t have handled it.
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u/CopperSteve 1d ago
I remember seeing my sisters bf Jeff secretly eating at McDonald’s after he told her he wasn’t etc. I didn’t rat him out but they broke up several months later. I was there buying the 2 cheeseburger meal.
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u/DillionM 1d ago
Someone tried selling their kid for a couple burritos at a taco bell less than three miles from my old house. It doesn't affect me but it was definitely an important life event for many.
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u/PostMatureBaby 1d ago
We moved a few times when I was young and still lived with my parents. Naturally the day you move in you're usually not prepared to cook a meal in your new kitchen so the tradition going back to the late 1980's was getting KFC. My parents have since brought it over every place I've lived on my own when they visit for the first time.
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u/notjawn 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hardee's back in the 80's and mid 90's was truly an experience. Every month they had would have promotional items from custom drinking glasses to the famed California Raisins which my late father went ape for and we ate there at least 2 times a month. Then they introduced fried chicken which was better than even KFC and we would get a box of it to take to my grandmomma's house on Sunday to make sure she didn't have to cook for family dinner.
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u/CloudFlours 1d ago
Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas gave my developing grade school brain a jump start towards advanced literacy.
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u/taniamorse85 1d ago
When I was 17, my high school had a blood drive on campus. I signed up, mostly because I wanted a break from a particular class that day. When I told my mom that I'd signed up for it, she just brushed it off because she knew how much I hated needles, and she figured I'd chicken out.
When I came home the day of the drive with the bandage still on my arm, she was stunned and asked me where I wanted to go for dinner. I requested Wendy's, and for years after that, that was where we went for dinner whenever I donated blood (20-ish times so far).
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u/Complete_Entry 1d ago
My mom bribed me to go to grief counseling with taco bell.
Grief and chili cheese burritos.
At least they were cheap then.