Ah, the halcyon days of yore — when the unhealthiest food you could eat was also the cheapest. (Nowadays, you’ve got to be fairly RICH to harden your arteries properly.) Another reason why the 1990’s were the goddam AWESOMEST decade.
I was a big fan of McDoubles back in the day. I’d buy five or six at a time, eat two, and throw the remainder into the fridge for later. Dollar-sundaes were kinda nice too.
Taco Bell was another fast food chain with some super-low prices. I remember rolling out of the dorm half-asleep on a Sunday morning, and riding along with another hungry student to the “Taco Hell” on Route 1 in Fredericksburg (just before Falmouth Bridge.)
Beef Meximelts were $1.50 a piece, if memory serves. And we don’t have those at ALL, today — they were discontinued!
It occurs to me only as I write this that this entire post is really just today’s version of our parents’ nostalgia in the 1980’s. (Do any other GenXers remember them talking about how candy and soda and double-feature matinee once cost … I dunno, a fifty cents or something?)
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 