I did not like the violence in boys toys so when I got a kids meal I got a girl toy.

I did not like the violence in boys toys so when I got a kids meal I got a girl toy.

LOL I agree. Spending too much time with mom and sister can make any boy into a sissy.

My mom never cooked on Friday and Saturday nights. There was a Dairy Queen within walking distance of our house and I would go there almost every Friday. On Saturday's it was either fast food or pizza. The rest of the week we ate at home with the nicest meal on Sunday.

I eat fast food almost every day now and I don't have any weight issues. I think fast food combined with soda, sweets and lack of exercise is what's making people fat. I lost 10 lbs by just cutting out my before bed snack. Fast food is cheap and convenient for busy families. If kids stay active they shouldn't have weight or health issues from fast food.

Don't feel bad I got ripped off by the ice cream man once. He asked me for my money before I could order anything. He immediately handed me an ice cream sandwich, jumped in his seat and drove off with my 75 cents. The ghetto mother fucker didn't have anything else to sell other than some ice cream sandwiches he probably bought at the store. I could have walked to the corner store and got it for 50 cents. I wanted the good stuff you couldn't get at the corner store. Another time I asked them to wait 30 seconds while I ran in the house to grab some money. When I came back outside they were gone. After that I never ordered from an ice cream truck ever again.

As for DQ I don't remember ever getting poor service at the one by my house. It was ran by some Indian people and they were always nice to me. Before I reached my teens I used to sometimes go in there with no shoes or shirt on. They never said anything even though there was a sign right by the register that forbid it.

When I was a child McDonalds was the Alpha and Omega of fast food.

Fast Food places I loved eating at as a kid:

1. Pizza Hut
2. Krystal
3. Captain D's
4. McDonald's
5. KFC
6. Checkers

What were your favorite fast food restaurants from your childhood? How often would you eat fast food, what were your favorite items and do you still eat it today?

For me I grew up on fast food as a kid in the 90s before I was aware of all this talk on fast food being unhealthy and also had a mother that didn't understand the health risks either. I never liked my mom's cooking so going to fast food restaurants like McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell were special occasions for me. I would eat fast food on a regular basis as kid. I would probably eat it at least once a week and sometimes several times a week because of McDonald's promotions of $.29 hamburger Wednesdays and $.39 cheeseburger Sundays. Sometimes Big Macs were available at a discounted price and that was my favorite item from McDonald's. Burger King had the Whopper for $.99 for a long time and that was my favorite fast food item and I would enjoy that at least once a week on Saturdays but sometimes more than that. Taco Bell was also great for me and I loved everything I've ever tried on the menu. For a kid fast food tasted amazing and going to fast food restaurants and eating all that junk food provided some of the best memories from my childhood. With all the fast food, soda and junk food I ate throughout my life, I'm amazed I was never overweight. I stopped eating fast food for the most part and tried to eat healthier probably in the mid 2000s but once a while I would spoil myself. Today I figure what's the point in all of that. There's much more to worry about in the world and life than eating unhealthy foods. Enjoy it while you can, I say. I've been eating pizza, McDonald's and drinking several cans of soda on a regular basis and I'm trying to relive my childhood in every way possible. I just wish there were more fast food restaurants where I live now.

Krystal, Captain D's and Checkers I don't think were around where I lived so they must not be national brands.

Also:

Taco Bell
Arby's
Papa John's
Wendy's
Burger King

I do taco bell Mcdonalds Carls Jr. Papa Johns and Fantastic Burgers

I had one experience at Dairy Queen when I was 11 in early 1998. I got some type of burger with a discount coupon that I had and even with the discount I felt ripped off as the burger was dry and nothing like the burgers of the other fast food chains. Then when I got a soda they filled it up themselves and the incompetent worker who was no young man didn't even fill up my soda all the way up. Like an idiot he filled it up to the top with all the bubbles still foaming and didn't wait until it settled down so when the bubbles settled I had like maybe a little over half a cup of soda with lots of room left. I didn't say anything because I remember being depressed in my life at that time since I was raised by a mentally ill abusive mother and that incident kind of bummed me out as well because another adult had let me down and couldn't get something so simple right for a kid. At least in McDonald's and Burger King you were able to fill up your own soda but in this Dairy Queen you had to let the incompetent worker fill up your soda. I never went back to a Dairy Queen ever after that.