Inside a Burger King in 1988

[DaPresident]

I work in food safety, first thing I saw was hair out and lack of gloves…

I miss those old BK chicken tenders with the black pepper on them

I used to eat those everyday, with fries and a Dutch apple pie when I worked there in HS…miss that metabolism too lol

Still like their original chicken sammich every now and again…

Times were so much simpler then. Menu didn’t have all this bullcrap on it…burgers, chicken and fish sammiches, fries, sodas, dessert…now they make tacos and hotdogs at these establishments with the burgers…no cellphones and I’m sure that ball pit and play area was a death trap, but it was OUR deathtrap lmbo

 

[Ol’Otis]

no gloves

No glove no love

 

[jilla82]

I cant even begin to tell yall how good old Burger King was

GOAT breakfast sandwich...
...tasted like something out of a sit down restaurant

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

All those workers touching the food with their bare hands.

That’s what they do now fam.. if you’ve eaten at McDonald’s/Burger King you’ve been tasting hand

 

[Dameon Farrow]

American Nostalgia is a sickness

It really is because folks cherry pick the good from back then, ignore the bad and focus only on the bad in current times and ignore the good. shyt is hilarious.

*steps off soapbox*

I wonder what the portion sizes were like back in 1988.

The people in this video -- customers and employees -- look fairly fit....at least when comparing to 2023.

The country didn't focus so much on fast food back then as opposed to now. It really was more of a treat thing. I'll concede that to the Old Fart Crowd.

But 95% of the time they're full of shyt. And this is coming from someone who is knocking on the age where folks start in with the 'back in my day' bs. Females were getting fukked over. There was dirty music. Women were easy and some were prudes. There were drugs. Not every rapper had flow. There was most definitely crime. It wasn't all good like folks try to paint it.

I'd say 99% of the time nostalgia isn't really missing the time period so much as missing a time when they had less bills and responsibilities. If you listen to them half the time they'll even admit this in a subtle way. They miss a time when life wasn't kicking their ass.

Tl;dr don't get married or knock anybody up and you won't have to pine for the 'good old days' because they'll never leave you.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

kids actually played outside and had recess instead of just staying inside on their phones.

Didn’t Burger King have an indoor play ground or something back then?

 

[jilla82]

I wonder what the portion sizes were like back in 1988.

The people in this video -- customers and employees -- look fairly fit....at least when comparing to 2023.

people were fit in those days

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

The fries was trash back then too

 

[jilla82]

It really is because folks cherry pick the good from back then, ignore the bad and focus only on the bad in current times and ignore the good. shyt is hilarious.

*steps off soapbox*


The country didn't focus so much on fast food back then as opposed to now. It really was more of a treat thing. I'll concede that to the Old Fart Crowd.

But 95% of the time they're full of shyt. And this is coming from someone who is knocking on the age where folks start in with the 'back in my day' bs. Females were getting fukked over. There was dirty music. Women were easy and some were prudes. There were drugs. Not every rapper had flow. There was most definitely crime. It wasn't all good like folks try to paint it.

I'd say 99% of the time nostalgia isn't really missing the time period so much as missing a time when they had less bills and responsibilities. If you listen to them half the time they'll even admit this in a subtle way. They miss a time when life wasn't kicking their ass.

Tl;dr don't get married or knock anybody up and you won't have to pine for the 'good old days' because they'll never leave you.

im sure all this sounds hot in your liberal arts classes
but...

Americans less happy today than 30 years ago: study​

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ROME (Reuters Life!) - Americans are less happy today than they were 30 years ago thanks to longer working hours and a deterioration in the quality of their relationships with friends and neighbors, according to an Italian study.​

Americans less happy today than 30 years ago: study

Americans are less happy today than they were 30 years ago thanks to longer working hours and a deterioration in the quality of their relationships with friends and neighbors, according to an Italian study.

www.reuters.com

this article links to more studies showing adults being less happy (the people who speak about the past with fondness)

Why Adults Are Less Happy Than They Used to Be

Why American adults aren't as happy as they used to be.

www.psychologytoday.com

Life was more simple in those days.
You cant discount only worrying about your neighborhood and the people in your life.

Most people cannot handle the information age...
...wasting time on news stories about shyt on the other side of the country.

Would I want to go back?
Nope.
but that doesnt mean there wasnt aspects of the past that were better.

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Everyone taking their time, clean receptive atmosphere, no phones, no cameras recording, no homeless people posted up with an old dirty empty multipurpose water cup/mobile bathroom, no soggy lettuce on the whoppers, no one screaming at each other, you can actually get the burger your way cooked to order without it taking an extra 20 mins and an assigned number, the fries probably don’t smell like they were cooked in a vat of piss

What happened to American culture?

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

The fries was trash back then too

You ever hit BK for the burgers and McDonalds for the fries back in the day?

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

All those workers touching the food with their bare hands.

They hadn't invented gloves yet. The Great glove movement of the early 2000s finally ushered it in. Technology bruhs.

 

[Lord_nikon]

Sodas was so stronge it wold burn you lil kid nose ,,, fries laced with saturated fat

 

[MikelArteta]

i wonder what those people in the video are up too now

 

[MikelArteta]

The same chick at the register was later making sandwiches with her bare hands around the 4:22 mark

the best falafel I ever had was in old jerusalem in the arab quarter. Went to this hole in the wall and the same guy that would take your cash would make your falafel with his bare hands. I was like but looked around all these arabs just like

I was like well in rome

and damn