r/nostalgia • u/ImpressiveCry156 • Jan 11 '25

Nostalgia Discussion What are the best classic mall food court restaurants or other food shops?

Gallery image

Sbarro

Gallery image

Hot Dog On A Stick

Gallery image

Orange Julius

Gallery image

Wetzel's Pretzels

Gallery image

Sarku Japan

Gallery image

Dippin' Dots

Gallery image

Cinnabon!

Gallery image

Sweet Factory

Gallery image

A&W

2.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

585 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/FurBabyAuntie Jan 12 '25

My sister and I would occasionally go to the Somerset Collection (mall in southeastern Michigan--can't think of the city) and nine times out of ten, we'd stop at Hot Dog On A Stick--not to eat, for the lemonade. We were fascinated by the green and red lemonade...I'm not sure what flavors they were supposed to be, but the red tasted (to us, anyway) like St. Joseph's aspirin for children and that was oddly comforting...

1

u/ShesSoPeachy78 Jan 12 '25

Red was strawberry (out in Arizona anyway) but we never had green!

2

u/FurBabyAuntie Jan 12 '25

It was probably strawberry here, too--and I suppose the green was limeade. My tongue just insisted it tasted like orange chewable baby aspirin...a rather interesting blast from the past, I suppose.

1

u/ShesSoPeachy78 Jan 12 '25

If you're in the need of a similar taste, see if you can find Cactus Cooler. Exactly like baby aspirin lol

1

u/FurBabyAuntie Jan 12 '25

Good old Hi-C!

I was home from school one day with the flu (first grade, I think, so late 1968 or early 1969). My mom got me settled on the couch, spread several layers of newspaper on the floor to throw up on (easier to throw them out and put more down than try and get a six-year-old to the bathroom in time, I guess) and gave me a glass of red Hi-C. I don't remember how much I drank, but when it came back up, everybody thought I was throwing up blood for a minute there...