#1203 – Recycle

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It’s such a bummer when a restaurant you liked closes up. Unless it’s on a street that you travel on frequently it may even close up without you noticing. It’s really crummy when you don’t know one of your regular places is gone until you show up there ready to eat. “When did this happen? I would have eaten here 3 times a day if I had some sort of warning! Where will I get my fried pickle sandwiches now?”

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15 thoughts on “#1203 – Recycle”

  1. PsychoDuck says:

    I had a situation like that once, where a pretty good Chinese food restaurant closed down nearby. I was pretty sad until I saw the sign in the window explaining the failed health inspection, at which point my emotion turned. As did my stomach.

    The Duck Has Spoken.

    1. Long says:

      How ironic. I had a similar experience. There was this Chinese restaurant that my family and I would always go to after church called, ‘The Big Apple.’ The food was average, but we didn’t complain cause the price was right. After a while, it soon closed down, because people were getting food poisoning. I was sad.

  2. MaskMan says:

    I’ve rented a few meals in my time…

    I’ve also lost a few really good (often very quirky) restaurants over the years. But mostly, I move and they lose *me.*

  3. Gwid says:

    Flush ‘n’ Munch, eh?

    The first really disappointing time a restauraunt closed without me knowing about it was the restaurant we went to on holiday – once. It was called “The Restaurant at the End Of The Universe”. It had hot chips – But CURLY! And it also had a cool museum/playground/anti-gravity room (that was, now I come to think of it, probably something like a trampoline…). We came back a year later to find it closed.

    ~Gwid

  4. ladyamethyst83 says:

    this has happened to me many times. Places seem to come and go at times.

  5. Baughbe says:

    How about your favorite restaurant that never opened? Years ago in college we got a door hanger on the house we were renting. From a new place called Roller Chicken, which did delivery fried chicken. We were tired of pizza so we gave them a call. It was amazingly good. Next week we called again. The person who answered the phone said they weren’t due to open for another week. After that nobody ever answered and eventually the number went out of service. The place never opened up, yet we ate their food.

    1. extremist343 says:

      I’ve had numerous instances where things just seem to mysteriously change on me. I went to this place that was run by a man and had two doors to enter but one of them was always locked then one time I went there and only the one time and it was being run by a woman and both doors were open. After that, it went back to normal.

  6. Wally East says:

    My favorite sandwich place, Chinese place, and taco joint (which are rare things in Connecticut) all closed within a year of each other. It was a very sad year.

  7. MaskedMan says:

    @Baughbe;
    Cue Rod Serling… <.<

  8. Jonesy138 says:

    That happened to me a few years ago, I was on my way to Bobak’s Polish buffet and my friend called me and told me it had closed, I pulled over and cried about my lost perogies!

  9. -2! says:

    There is this place near my friends house called The Smoking Bull, and it makes the most delicious artery clogging burger I have ever had. It is still open and still delicious. Another place called Flapjacks made amazing breakfasts, but its gotten progressively less tasty over time and we never go anymore.

  10. Tanos says:

    There was a great Italian place that we ate at often. My wife and I went to go for our anniversery only to find it closed up a week before, upsetting to say the least. We have since taken up cooking so hardly go out anymore. Our little town just got an Olive Garden so we tried it. My wife said my homemade lassagna was better than thiers.

  11. Cyndaquazy says:

    How about a restaurant that was your favorite, until someone, it seems, decided to change the recipe of your favorite dish, turning you off forever?

    P.S. @Gwid: I like your avatar, Alot.

  12. Jesso says:

    Fried pickle sandwich? As in, a sandwich with fried pickles on it (mmmm) or a fried sandwich with pickles in it (not so mmmm)?

    There was a fantastic sandwich shop near my office called Heartland. They closed a few years ago, and I was so sad when I found out. I still occasionally get cravings for one of their sandwiches. I go to Jimmy John’s now, but it’s not the same without the cranberry-orange bread 🙁

  13. it’s really annoying when the restaurant you like closes 1 day before you plan to go there with your friends

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