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MIButterfly

(3,148 posts)
Mon Aug 11, 2025, 01:14 PM Aug 2025

I was never allowed to eat fast food as a child or teen.

There used to be a place called Burger Chef about a mile away from my house and I went there after school maybe once or twice to get a burger so I would have to say Burger Chef. I don't remember ever eating at any other fast food place. (Maybe KFC once?)

I was also not allowed to chew gum or eat hog dogs. According to my mother, you just didn't know what they put in the hot dogs. Imagine my surprise, when decades later, at my employer's company picnic, I looked over to see her eating a hot dog! When I asked her why I was never allowed to eat hog dogs growing up, yet she was eating one, she simply said "They're better now."

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