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Fast-Food Buffets Are a Thing of the Past. Some Doubt They Ever Even Existed.

A McDonald’s breakfast buffet. An all-you-can-eat Taco Bell. This isn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but a real yet short-lived phenomenon.

When we think of buffets, we tend to think of their 1980s and early ’90s heyday, when commercial jingles for Sizzler might have been confused with our national anthem. We think of Homer Simpson getting dragged out of the Frying Dutchman, “a beast more stomach than man.” I think of my parents going on buffet benders resembling something out of Hunter S. Thompson’s life, determined to get their money’s worth with two picky kids.

What we don’t typically think about, however, is the fast-food buffet, a blip so small on America’s food radar that it’s hard to prove it even existed. But it did. People swear that all-you-can-eat buffets could be found at Taco Bell, KFC, and even under the golden arches of McDonald’s.

That it could have existed isn’t surprising. The fast-food buffet was inevitable, the culmination of an arms race in maximizing caloric intake. It was the physical manifestation of the American id: endless biscuits, popcorn chicken, vats of nacho cheese and sketchy pudding — so much sketchy pudding. Why, then, have so many of us failed to remember it? How did it become a footnote, relegated to the backwoods of myths and legends? There are whispers of McDonald’s locations that have breakfast buffets. Was there, in fact, a Taco Bell buffet, or is it a figment of our collective imaginations? Yes, someone tells me — an all-you-can-eat Taco Bell existed in her dorm cafeteria. Another person suggests maybe we were just remembering the nachos section of the Wendy’s Superbar.

The fast-food buffet was inevitable, the culmination of an arms race in maximizing caloric intake.

The fast-food buffet lives in a strange sort of ether. You can’t get to it through the traditional path of remembering. Was there actually a Pizza Hut buffet in your hometown? Search your subconscious, sifting past the red cups that make the soda taste better, past the spiffy new CD jukebox, which has Garth Brooks’s Ropin’ the Wind and Paul McCartney’s All the Best under the neon lamps. Search deeper, and you might find your father going up for a third plate and something remaining of the “dessert pizzas” lodged in your subconscious. This is where the fast-food buffet exists.

The history of the buffet in America is a story of ingenuity and evolution. Sure, it originated in Europe, where it was a classy affair with artfully arranged salted fish, eggs, breads, and butter. The Swedish dazzled us with their smorgasbords at the 1939 World Fair. We can then trace the evolution of the buffet through Las Vegas, where the one-dollar Buckaroo Buffet kept gamblers in the casino. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chinese immigrant families found loopholes in racist immigration laws by establishing restaurants. They brought Chinese cooking catered to American tastes in endless plates of beef chow fun and egg rolls. By the 1980s, buffets ruled the landscape like family dynasties, with sister chains the Ponderosa and the Bonanza spreading the gospel of sneeze guards and steaks, sundae stations and salad bars along the interstates. From Shoney’s to Sizzler, from sea to shining sea, the buffet was a feast fit for kings, or a family of four.

And of course, fast-food restaurants wanted in on the action. As fast-food historian and author of Drive-Thru Dreams Adam Chandler put it, “every fast food place flirted with buffets at some point or another. McDonald’s absolutely did, as did most of the pizza chains with dine-in service. KFC still has a few stray buffets, as well as an illicit one called Claudia Sanders Dinner House, which was opened by Colonel Sanders’ wife after he was forbidden from opening a competing fried chicken business after selling the company. Wendy’s Super Bar was short-lived, but the salad bar lived on for decades.”

How something can be both gross and glorious is a particular duality of fast food, like the duality of man or something, only with nacho cheese and pasta sauce.

In a 1988 commercial for the Superbar, Dave Thomas says, “I’m an old-fashioned guy. I like it when families eat together.” A Wendy’s executive described the new business model as “taking us out of the fast-food business.” Everyone agrees the Wendy’s Supernar was glorious. And gross, everyone also agrees. How something can be both gross and glorious is a particular duality of fast food, like the duality of man or something, only with nacho cheese and pasta sauce.

“I kind of want to live in a ’90s Wendy’s,” Amy Barnes, a Tennessee-based writer, tells me in between preparing for virtual learning with her teenagers. The Superbar sat in the lobby, with stations lined up like train carts. First, there was the Garden Spot, which “no one cared about,” a traditional salad bar with a tub of chocolate pudding at its helm, “which always had streams of salad dressing and shredded cheese floating on top.” Next up was the Pasta Pasta section, with “noodles, alfredo and tomato sauce…[as well as] garlic bread made from the repurposed hamburger buns with butter and garlic smeared on them.” Obviously, the crown jewel of the Superbar was the Mexican Fiesta, with its “vats of ground beef, nacho cheese, sour cream.” The Fiesta shared custody of additional toppings with the salad bar. It was $2.99 for the dining experience.

Santa Claus. The Easter Bunny. The McDonald’s Breakfast Buffet.

The marriage of Wendy’s and the Superbar lasted about a decade before it was phased out in all locations by 1998. Like a jilted ex-lover, the official Wendy’s Story on the website makes zero mention of Superbar, despite the countless blogs, YouTube videos, and podcasts devoted to remembering it. At least they kept the salad bar together until the mid-2000s for the sake of the children.

Santa Claus. The Easter Bunny. The McDonald’s Breakfast Buffet. Googling the existence of such a thing only returns results of people questioning the existence of this McMuffin Mecca on subforums and Reddit. Somebody knows somebody who passed one once on the highway. A stray Yelp review of the Kiss My Grits food truck in Seattle offers a lead: “I have to say, I recall the first time I ever saw grits, they were at a McDonald’s breakfast buffet in Alexandria, Virginia, and they looked as unappetizing as could be.” However, the lead is dead on arrival. Further googling of the McDonald’s buffet with terrible grits in Alexandria turns up nothing.

I ask friends on Facebook. I ask Twitter. I get a lone response. Eden Robins messages me “It was in Decatur, IL,” as though she’s describing the site where aliens abducted her. “I’m a little relieved that I didn’t imagine the breakfast buffet since no one ever knows what the fuck I’m talking about when I bring it up.”

“We had traveled down there for a high school drama competition,” she goes on to say. “And one morning before the competition, we ate at a McDonald’s breakfast buffet. I had never seen anything like it before or since.”

I ask what was in the buffet, although I know the details alone will not sustain me. I want video to pore over so I can pause at specific frames, like a fast-food version of the Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot footage. Robins says they served “scrambled eggs and pancakes and those hash brown tiles. I was a vegetarian at the time so no sausage or bacon, but those were there, too.”

McDonald’s isn’t the only chain with a buffet whose existence is hazy. Yum Brands, the overlord of fast-food holy trinity Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut, is said to have had buffets at all three restaurants. I confirm nothing, however, when I reach out to the corporate authorities. On the KFC side, a spokesperson offers to look into “some historical information,” but doesn’t get back to me. My contact at Taco Bell tells me, “I’ll look into it. Certainly, nothing in existence today. I’ve never heard of it. Looks like there are a couple threads on Reddit.”

Reddit, of course, speculates a possible Mandela Effect — the phenomenon of a group of unrelated people remembering a different event than what actually occurred — in the existence of Taco Bell buffets. But I have a firmer lead in Payel Patel, a doctor who studied at Johns Hopkins, who tells me there was a Taco Bell Express in her dorm that was included in an all-you-can-eat meal plan option, though it only lasted one fleeting year. “You could order anything, like 15 nachos and 11 bean burritos,” she says, “and they would make it and give it to you, and you walked off without paying a cent.” A Johns Hopkins student newsletter published in 2001 corroborates the existence of the utopian all-you-can-eat Taco Bell, saying, “you can also gorge yourself on some good old Taco Bell tacos and burritos. Don’t forget, it’s all-you-can-eat. Just don’t eat too much; you don’t want to overload the John.”

There are some concrete examples of fast-food buffets that still exist today. When a Krystal Buffet opened in Alabama in 2019, it was met with “excitement and disbelief,” according to the press release. Former New Orleans resident Wilson Koewing told me of a Popeye’s buffet that locals “speak of as if it is a myth.” When I dig deeper, I come across a local paper, NOLA Weekend, which covers “New Orleans Food, things to do, culture, and lifestyle.” It touts the Popeye’s buffet like a carnival barker, as though it is simply too incredible to believe: “The Only Popeye’s Buffet in the World! It’s right next door in Lafayette! Yes, that’s right: a Popeyes buffet. HERE.”

Somehow, the KFC buffet is the most enduring of the fast-food buffets still in existence. And yet everyone I speak with feels compelled to walk me through the paths and roads leading to such an oasis, as if, again, it were the stuff of legends. There are landmarks and there are mirages, and the mirages need maps most of all.

To get to the KFC buffet in Key Largo, Tiffany Aleman must first take us through “a small island town with one traffic light and one major highway that runs through it. There are the seafood buffets and bait shops, which give way to newfangled Starbucks.”

The buffet adds the feel of a hospital cafeteria, the people dining look close to death or knowingly waiting to die.

New Jerseyan D.F. Jester leads us past the local seafood place “that looks like the midnight buffet on a cruise ship has been transported 50 miles inland and plunked inside the dining area of a 1980s Ramada outside of Newark.”

Descriptions of the food are about what I would expect of a KFC buffet. Laura Camerer remembers the food in her college town in Morehead, Kentucky, as “all fried solid as rocks sitting under heat lamps, kind of gray and gristly.” Jester adds, “for all intents and purposes, this is a KFC. It looks like one, but sadder, more clinical. The buffet adds the feel of a hospital cafeteria, the people dining look close to death or knowingly waiting to die.”

Then Jessie Lovett Allen messages me. “There is [a] KFC in my hometown, and it is magical without a hint of sketch.” I must know more. First, she takes me down the winding path: “the closest larger city is Kearney, which is 100 miles away and only has 35K people, and Kearney is where you’ll find the closest Target, Panera, or Taco Bell. But to the North, South, or West, you have to drive hundreds of miles before you find a larger city. I tell you all of this because the extreme isolation is what gives our restaurants, even fast-food ones, an outsized psychological importance to daily life.”

The KFC Jessie mentions is in North Platte, Nebraska, and has nearly five stars on Yelp, an accomplishment worthy of a monument for any fast-food restaurant. On the non-corporate Facebook page for KFC North Platte, one of the hundreds of followers of the page comments, “BEST KFC IN THE COUNTRY.”

Allen describes the place as though she is recounting a corner of heaven. “They have fried apple pies that seem to come through a wormhole from a 1987 McDonalds. Pudding: Hot. Good. Layered cold pudding desserts. This one rotates. It might be chocolate, banana, cookies and cream. It has a graham cracker base, pudding, and whipped topping. Standard Cold Salad bar: Lettuce, salad veggies, macaroni salads, JELL-O salads. Other meats: chicken fried steak patties. Fried chicken gizzards. White Gravy, Chicken Noodle Casserole, Green Bean Casserole, Cornbread, Corn on the Cob, Chicken Pot Pie Casserole. AND most all the standard stuff on the normal KFC menu, which is nice because you can pick out a variety of chicken types or just have a few tablespoons of a side dish.”

In the end, the all-you-can-eat dream didn’t last, if it ever even existed.

Then she adds that the buffet “is also available TO GO, but there are rules. You get a large Styrofoam clamshell, a small Styrofoam clamshell, and a cup. You have to be able to close the Styrofoam. You are instructed that only beverages can go in cups, and when I asked about this, an employee tells me that customers have tried to shove chicken into the drink cups in the past.”

In the end, the all-you-can-eat dream didn’t last, if it ever even existed. The chains folded. The senior citizens keeping Ponderosa in business have died. My own parents reversed course after their buffet bender, trading in sundae stations for cans of SlimFast. Fast-food buffets retreated into an ethereal space. McDonald’s grew up with adult sandwiches like the Arch Deluxe. Wendy’s went on a wild rebound with the Baconator. Pizza Hut ripped out its jukeboxes, changed its logo, went off to the fast-food wars, and ain’t been the same since. Taco Bell is undergoing some kind of midlife crisis, hemorrhaging its entire menu of potatoes, among other beloved items. At least the KFC in North Platte has done good, though the novel coronavirus could change things.

In the age of COVID-19, the fast-food buffet feels like more of a dream than ever. How positively whimsical it would be to stand shoulder to shoulder, hovering over sneeze guards, sharing soup ladles to scoop an odd assortment of pudding, three grapes, a heap of rotini pasta, and a drumstick onto a plate. Maybe we can reach this place again. But to find it, we must follow the landmarks, searching our memory as the map.

MM Carrigan is a Baltimore-area writer and weirdo who enjoys staring directly into the sun. Their work has appeared in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and PopMatters. They are the editor of Taco Bell Quarterly. Tweets @thesurfingpizza.

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A McDonald’s breakfast buffet. An all-you-can-eat Taco Bell. This isn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but a real yet short-lived phenomenon.

The fast-food buffet was inevitable, the culmination of an arms race in maximizing caloric intake.

How something can be both gross and glorious is a particular duality of fast food, like the duality of man or something, only with nacho cheese and pasta sauce.

Santa Claus. The Easter Bunny. The McDonald’s Breakfast Buffet.

The buffet adds the feel of a hospital cafeteria, the people dining look close to death or knowingly waiting to die.

In the end, the all-you-can-eat dream didn’t last, if it ever even existed.

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pupinpants · 5 years ago

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Week 9 Lecture

Since I’ve basically written all my notes on tumblr, I’m gonna keep doing so:

What it means to be engineer:

- Focus on Processes (Logging and documentation)

- Testing

- Reviewing is different from testing as reviewing isn’t only done with testing. Review your code.

- Proffessionalism where we have a duty to security engineering

- Measure everything you can.

Not everything that can be measured is worth measuring.

Concept: Closing the Loop

When you actually check if your idea is right. Art of being an engineer is the art of closing the loop.

Aviation Safety Conference: Safety inspector working on oil rig and audits site. Talks about an accident where 350 alarms went off.

Rather than being reactive to the threats that occur, we need to focus on the system. Similar to being a barbarian.

System properties - Maybe the system is at fault where the working conditions result in errors occuring.

Coherence is vital in system properties.

The main reason why humans can never be closed off the loop from processes because a system can’t resolve every scenario.

Voting system is a single point of failure, technology is not properly tested and since it’s only done once every year.

Security is an End to End propety where it has to be secure all the way across.

Work to undermine limits- Romans and the Greek government tries to remove the limits that were imposed onto the system. When an individual gets into power, it starts to dismantle the power. The system must be strong enough to withstand such dismantling and must be designed to last.

Ruler of the Galaxy- If anyone wants to be the ruler off the galaxy, they can’t be the ruler of the galaxy.

Assange and Free speech-

Cars and trolly cars - We have systemic failure and thus nobody can be safe. Also addresses End to End system.

Trust with third party- Simpson episode where Homer always suggests to live under the sea as a solution.

Everything about security is about trust. Insider threats are as big as external threat or maybe even bigger.

Communication-

We are all going to communicate, without communication there’s no change. Global warming debate is a result of poor communication.

The secret to communication - Communication between individuals is about the delivery of the message towards the receiver and how the receiver perceives.

Gun license book.

New phones have a thing called face sucked in which sucks in data in the environment and send the information off.

We are all Cyborgs - Physical structure of the home is memorised. Hence the house is like an external memory.

COMP6841 Presentation:

Reverse Engineering is to disassemble malwares.

Reverse Engineering - CTF -> fun

Profit - Bug Bounties, Corporate Espionage

Malware Analysis

Interoperability - Extend the function you own

Security Audit Closed Source Software?

How to Reverse Engineer:

- Static- Read the disassembled decompiled code to determine purpose

Safe to use since it is more offline.

Using GDB is an example of Static.

Understanding x86

Generally just used to understand registers

System calls - black box

Function calls

Branching - if statements

Just read mnemonic and guess

Use regerence manual

Google

- Dynamic

Story Time-

Farmers are hacking their own tractors. In places like Ukraine and Eastern Europe the software is sold to farmers without the encryption they have in other countries like the United States

Stack

-Ainti reverse engineering abilities: Anti Re: Don’t release debug build

Remove symboles from the binary

Dump symbols

Disable asserts

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fivegreatestblog-blog · 6 years ago

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Five Greatest “TV Cartoon Series”

October 4, 2018

Honorable Mentions -

Rugrats - A great children’s show chronicling the adventures of Tommy Pickles and friends. If you’re a fan of Rugrats, check out this conspiracy theory https://www.bustle.com/articles/169393-this-rugrats-fan-theory-is-dark-af-so-please-read-with-cautio

Recess - worth watching just for the occassional showcasings of Mikey Blumbergs vocal skills, or sometimes the insane Yo-Yo skills of Gretchen Grundler.

Magic School Bus - An odd show, but it’s uniqueness is what made it stand out. A magic bus can perform a variety of maneuvers such as shrinking, expanding, or transforming. The bus’s abilities allow a science teacher, Ms. Frizzle, to take her students on educational adventures. Who remembers the episode where the class went inside Ralphie’s body? #Terrifying.

*Looney Tunes and Mickey Mouse are not included on this list because they are classified as short films rather than episodic cartoon series.

# 5 - The Flintstones - Without the Flintstones, many other adult-oriented cartoons would not exist. The Flintstones takes place during the Stone Age and depicts the life of Fred Flintstone, his family, and his friends. It was the first animated show that aired in a primetime slot and became one of the most profitable animated series of all time.

# 4 - Pokemon - Although I, like many of its cult-followers, believe Digimon Season 1 is a better show, Pokemon, has a longevity that Digimon can’t match. Although the show about digital monsters came out around the same time and has always been viewed as a sort of rival for Pokemon, Pokemon set itself apart and reached unparalleled levels of success through a larger fanbase. Boosted by merchandise from the card game and gameboy games, the Pokemon anime built a strong following as children loved tuning in to watch Ash Ketchum’s quest to become a Pokemon Master. The first season of Pokemon featured an iconic theme song, cute Pokemon characters, and the daily game of “Who’s That Pokemon!?” Ash’s time in Kanto and his interactions with the original 151 Pokemon will never be topped. Congratulations to Pokemon for surpassing 1000 episodes.

# 3 - Spongebob Squarepants - With one of the catchiest theme songs around, Spongebob Squarepants is a show that despite recent rumors of its ending, continues to put out new episodes. The first three seasons of the show are arguably the best because they were helmed by creator Stephen Hillenburg, a marine biologist and animator. After the first Spongebob Squarepants movie was released, Hillenburg, who intended the film to be the series finale, left after disagreements with Nickelodeon who wanted to continue the show with more episodes. Hillenburg returned in 2015 after over a decade away from the show. Spongebob Squarepants features the titular character (voiced by Tom Kenny) interacting with the various inhabitants of Bikini Bottom on his daily adventures. Most episodes revolve around Spongebob’s experiences with a dim-witted starfish, a greedy crab, or a clarinet-playing octopus, but there is a whole host of characters equally as exciting as Patrick Star, Mr. Krabs, and Squidward. The charm of the show lies in the vast world that exists surrounding Spongebob’s home in the pineapple under the sea where Bikini Bottom’s many side characters are just as memorable as the three main ones. Whether Mrs. Puff, Larry, Sandy Cheeks, Gary, Plankton, or many of the other supporting cast, each character has their own unique personality and makes for a fun watch. Best episodes: Band Geeks, Sailor Mouth, Krusty Krab Training Video, Just One Bite

# 2 - Arthur - Arthur is still airing new episodes, having started 20 years ago with its premiere on October 7, 1996. It is the second-longest running animated series behind The Simpsons. Primarily targeted toward children, young viewers get to see life through the eyes of this anthropomorphic aardvark and his friends. Arthur teaches various concepts from bullying, asthma, autism, and diabetes. This show is especially nostalgic for me because I remember watching it before and after school even though they were the same episodes on repeat. I still find myself referencing Arthur with my brothers today, whether it’s when I stuff a whole piece of cake into my mouth as Arthur does, or listening to songs like The Binky Song or Crazy Bus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdHv493m34 And how could any of us forget some of the most gruesome moments in television history, like when Arthur cut his knee on a lima bean can in the junkyard or when and he cold-cocked D.W. and nearly killed her? I mean...look at the face of this monster...

# 1 - The Simpsons - Since this show is a satirical description of the average working-man in Homer Simpson, it allows its writers to tackle almost any topic they want. Many times, episodes will focus on in-world stories between characters, but other times it will use current events or celebrity cameos (in Simpson-like form) to provide a running gag. Although the show has declined in quality in recent years, it still airs new episodes and shows no sign of slowing down. It is the longest running-animated show on television. Oddly enough, the show has a knack for foreshadowing real-life events. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-simpsons-is-good-at-predicting-the-future-2016-11

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nexttattoos-blog · 6 years ago

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Definitely

Was born in the 80s? This tattoo is for you!

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The big bang

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Declare your love to your partner at all times

Playboy rabbit

One of the most famous people in the world

Pizza lovers

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Tattoos with numerous elements in the chest, shoulder and arm

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Symbol of intellectual perception

Pointillism

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Black and white tattoo of trees on the leg

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Beware that the panther is going to catch!

Negative and positive

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Enjoy the inner area of your hand and set your favorite stage!

The most beloved villain in theaters and comics

Yin yang symbolizes the balance

Give a comic touch to your tattoo and get rid of it!

Classic and traditional dragon

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Amazing texture of dog hairs

Guardian of the night

World traveler

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He has the strength!

Samurai are synonymous with honor, loyalty and courage

The male version of the mastrioska

Black and white cross tattoo on the finger

Energetic, vibrant and full of style!

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For lovers of photography

The eagle combines perfectly in the pectoral

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Attitude and personality does not lack!

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The tattoo expresses your personality, that’s why, risk it without fear!

Innocent flower wrapped by a snake

Fox in watercolor tones

Like a wave in the sea

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Homer simpson in the Japanese version

Awesome realistic moon on the back

The feminine power stamped on the arm

A duo of noise in the pectoral

The shark is synonymous with audacity, power and courage

A jewel in the leg

I’m online

The Virgin Mary in shades of gray

How about stamping your self-portrait on your arm?

The pineapple is pop, use and abuse!

The beauty of the geisha hypnotizes

Manifest your passion for music!

Use and abuse creativity

Innovate and put your favorite scenario

Self-portrait in shades of gray on the leg

The elbow adapts perfectly to the stem of the flower

Burning the calories

A friendship test

Combine two elements in a single tattoo: the heart and the skull

Fish represents life, fertility and endurance

The labyrinth of life

The candle celebration

The dragon is an imposing, powerful and grandiose figure

The naughty bart simpson

Stimulus of desire, the pin-ups still impregnate the imagination of men

While I breathe, I will have hopes

Different hourglass

Realistic and remarkable elephant in the arm

Do you prefer a small, hidden tattoo? This model is ideal for you!

Charismatic crabs scattered on the arm

Guardian angel

Customize your Mexican skull!

Soft contours and watercolor tones give more lightness to tattoo

Skull and snake outline on the arm

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Start in Evergreen Terrace. Drive straight ahead to the bus-stop and pick up the passenger. They will want to go to the Kwik-E-Mart. Drop them off and pick up the passenger just outside the Kwik-E-Mart. They will want to go to Smither’s apartment. Drop them off and shoot down the alley opposite to pick up the passenger waiting at the end. They will want to go to Smither’s appartment. The passenger will always be Martin, or the Sea Captain or Barney. Do a quick 180 and shoot down the alley to drop them off. Then, shoot up the alley again to pick up the next passenger, who will always want to go to Smither’s apartment. Keep repeating this for easy money.

Extra Time

To get +2 seconds, hit the phone booths that have Mr. Burns’ picture on them. You can get +2 seconds in the road rage levels by running over the Transit bus stops.

Mission Skip

Intentionally fail a mission five times to have the option to skip the mission. Note: This cannot be done on the final mission.

Hidden Car

Successfully complete all ten missions in mission mode to unlock The Homer car. The car is selectable in any mode by choosing Homer’s picture at the car select screen.

Cheats

Flat People

Go to the options menu. Hold L+R. Press x(4).Then when you enter road rage or sunday drive you will notice that every single person, besides you looks and walks like a carboard cutout.

Nighttime Mode

At the options menu, hold L + R and press A(4). If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound.

No Map Display

At the options menu, hold L + R and press Y, B(2), X. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound.

Turbo

At the options menu, hold L + R and press A, B(2), A. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound. While driving, hold and release Y for a turbo boost.

Overhead View

At the options menu, hold L + R and press X(3), Y. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound.

Slow-motion Mode

At the options menu, hold L + R and press A, X, B, Y. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound.

Stop Time

At the options menu, hold L + R and press X, B, Y, A. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound. Press R to start, stop, and reset the timer.

Drive As Smithers In Mr. Burn’s Car

At the options menu, hold L + R and press B(2), Y(2). If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound.

Finally.. Some Codes!!!

Go to the options screen, hold L + R, and push a combination of 4 directions and/or buttons. If it is a code you’ll hear a beep. If it was not, you will hear a crow. Here are some of the codes:

B,B,B,B - More camera angles (pause during game to change angles) A,A,A,A - Changes day to nightY,Y,Y,Y - Estra MoneyX,X,X,X - Makes passangers cardboard cutouts B,B,A,A - Wire frames B,A,A,A - UnknownB,B,Y,Y - Play as smithers (in Mr burn's car that mocks you at the start) B,B,X,X - Play as thanksgiving marge (without having to wait till thanksgiving or mess with your gamecube's clock)

Hidden Christmas Character

At the options menu, hold L + R and press B(2), X, B. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound. Alternately, set the system date to December 25 to unlock Christmas Apu (dressed in a Santa costume) under the “?” at the character selection screen.

Hidden Thanksgiving Character

At the options menu, hold L + R and press B(2), X(2). If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound. Alternately, set the system date to the third Thursday in November to unlock Thanksgiving Marge (dressed in a Pilgrim costume) under the “?” at the character selection screen.

Hidden Halloween Character

At the options menu, hold L + R and press B(2), X, A. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound. Alternately, set the system date to October 31 to unlock Halloween Bart (dressed in a Frankenstein costume) under the “?” at the character selection screen.

Hidden New Year’s Character

At the options menu, hold L + R and press B(2), X, Y. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound. Alternately, set the system date to January 1 to unlock New Year’s Krusty under the “?” at the character selection screen.

Drive Nuclear Bus

At the options menu, hold L + R and press B(2), Y, A. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound.

Drive Small Red Box

At the options menu, hold L + R and press B(2), Y, X. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a sound.

Unlockables

Currently we have no unlockables for The Simpsons: Road Rage yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.

Easter eggs

Currently we have no easter eggs for The Simpsons: Road Rage yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.

Glitches

Currently we have no glitches for The Simpsons: Road Rage yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.

Guides

Currently no guide available.

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A McDonald’s breakfast buffet. An all-you-can-eat Taco Bell. This isn’t the stuff dreams are made of, but a real yet short-lived phenomenon. When we think of buffets, we tend to think of their 1980s and early ’90s heyday, when commercial jingles for Sizzler might have been confused with our national anthem. We think of Homer Simpson getting dragged out of the Frying Dutchman, “a beast more stomach than man.” I think of my parents going on buffet benders resembling something out of Hunter S. Thompson’s life, determined to get their money’s worth with two picky kids. What we don’t typically think about, however, is the fast-food buffet, a blip so small on America’s food radar that it’s hard to prove it even existed. But it did. People swear that all-you-can-eat buffets could be found at Taco Bell, KFC, and even under the golden arches of McDonald’s. That it could have existed isn’t surprising. The fast-food buffet was inevitable, the culmination of an arms race in maximizing caloric intake. It was the physical manifestation of the American id: endless biscuits, popcorn chicken, vats of nacho cheese and sketchy pudding — so much sketchy pudding. Why, then, have so many of us failed to remember it? How did it become a footnote, relegated to the backwoods of myths and legends? There are whispers of McDonald’s locations that have breakfast buffets. Was there, in fact, a Taco Bell buffet, or is it a figment of our collective imaginations? Yes, someone tells me — an all-you-can-eat Taco Bell existed in her dorm cafeteria. Another person suggests maybe we were just remembering the nachos section of the Wendy’s Superbar. The fast-food buffet was inevitable, the culmination of an arms race in maximizing caloric intake. The fast-food buffet lives in a strange sort of ether. You can’t get to it through the traditional path of remembering. Was there actually a Pizza Hut buffet in your hometown? Search your subconscious, sifting past the red cups that make the soda taste better, past the spiffy new CD jukebox, which has Garth Brooks’s Ropin’ the Wind and Paul McCartney’s All the Best under the neon lamps. Search deeper, and you might find your father going up for a third plate and something remaining of the “dessert pizzas” lodged in your subconscious. This is where the fast-food buffet exists. The history of the buffet in America is a story of ingenuity and evolution. Sure, it originated in Europe, where it was a classy affair with artfully arranged salted fish, eggs, breads, and butter. The Swedish dazzled us with their smorgasbords at the 1939 World Fair. We can then trace the evolution of the buffet through Las Vegas, where the one-dollar Buckaroo Buffet kept gamblers in the casino. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chinese immigrant families found loopholes in racist immigration laws by establishing restaurants. They brought Chinese cooking catered to American tastes in endless plates of beef chow fun and egg rolls. By the 1980s, buffets ruled the landscape like family dynasties, with sister chains the Ponderosa and the Bonanza spreading the gospel of sneeze guards and steaks, sundae stations and salad bars along the interstates. From Shoney’s to Sizzler, from sea to shining sea, the buffet was a feast fit for kings, or a family of four. And of course, fast-food restaurants wanted in on the action. As fast-food historian and author of Drive-Thru Dreams Adam Chandler put it, “every fast food place flirted with buffets at some point or another. McDonald’s absolutely did, as did most of the pizza chains with dine-in service. KFC still has a few stray buffets, as well as an illicit one called Claudia Sanders Dinner House, which was opened by Colonel Sanders’ wife after he was forbidden from opening a competing fried chicken business after selling the company. Wendy’s Super Bar was short-lived, but the salad bar lived on for decades.” How something can be both gross and glorious is a particular duality of fast food, like the duality of man or something, only with nacho cheese and pasta sauce. In a 1988 commercial for the Superbar, Dave Thomas says, “I’m an old-fashioned guy. I like it when families eat together.” A Wendy’s executive described the new business model as “taking us out of the fast-food business.” Everyone agrees the Wendy’s Supernar was glorious. And gross, everyone also agrees. How something can be both gross and glorious is a particular duality of fast food, like the duality of man or something, only with nacho cheese and pasta sauce. “I kind of want to live in a ’90s Wendy’s,” Amy Barnes, a Tennessee-based writer, tells me in between preparing for virtual learning with her teenagers. The Superbar sat in the lobby, with stations lined up like train carts. First, there was the Garden Spot, which “no one cared about,” a traditional salad bar with a tub of chocolate pudding at its helm, “which always had streams of salad dressing and shredded cheese floating on top.” Next up was the Pasta Pasta section, with “noodles, alfredo and tomato sauce…[as well as] garlic bread made from the repurposed hamburger buns with butter and garlic smeared on them.” Obviously, the crown jewel of the Superbar was the Mexican Fiesta, with its “vats of ground beef, nacho cheese, sour cream.” The Fiesta shared custody of additional toppings with the salad bar. It was $2.99 for the dining experience. Santa Claus. The Easter Bunny. The McDonald’s Breakfast Buffet. The marriage of Wendy’s and the Superbar lasted about a decade before it was phased out in all locations by 1998. Like a jilted ex-lover, the official Wendy’s Story on the website makes zero mention of Superbar, despite the countless blogs, YouTube videos, and podcasts devoted to remembering it. At least they kept the salad bar together until the mid-2000s for the sake of the children. Santa Claus. The Easter Bunny. The McDonald’s Breakfast Buffet. Googling the existence of such a thing only returns results of people questioning the existence of this McMuffin Mecca on subforums and Reddit. Somebody knows somebody who passed one once on the highway. A stray Yelp review of the Kiss My Grits food truck in Seattle offers a lead: “I have to say, I recall the first time I ever saw grits, they were at a McDonald’s breakfast buffet in Alexandria, Virginia, and they looked as unappetizing as could be.” However, the lead is dead on arrival. Further googling of the McDonald’s buffet with terrible grits in Alexandria turns up nothing. I ask friends on Facebook. I ask Twitter. I get a lone response. Eden Robins messages me “It was in Decatur, IL,” as though she’s describing the site where aliens abducted her. “I’m a little relieved that I didn’t imagine the breakfast buffet since no one ever knows what the fuck I’m talking about when I bring it up.” “We had traveled down there for a high school drama competition,” she goes on to say. “And one morning before the competition, we ate at a McDonald’s breakfast buffet. I had never seen anything like it before or since.” I ask what was in the buffet, although I know the details alone will not sustain me. I want video to pore over so I can pause at specific frames, like a fast-food version of the Patterson–Gimlin Bigfoot footage. Robins says they served “scrambled eggs and pancakes and those hash brown tiles. I was a vegetarian at the time so no sausage or bacon, but those were there, too.” McDonald’s isn’t the only chain with a buffet whose existence is hazy. Yum Brands, the overlord of fast-food holy trinity Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut, is said to have had buffets at all three restaurants. I confirm nothing, however, when I reach out to the corporate authorities. On the KFC side, a spokesperson offers to look into “some historical information,” but doesn’t get back to me. My contact at Taco Bell tells me, “I’ll look into it. Certainly, nothing in existence today. I’ve never heard of it. Looks like there are a couple threads on Reddit.” Reddit, of course, speculates a possible Mandela Effect — the phenomenon of a group of unrelated people remembering a different event than what actually occurred — in the existence of Taco Bell buffets. But I have a firmer lead in Payel Patel, a doctor who studied at Johns Hopkins, who tells me there was a Taco Bell Express in her dorm that was included in an all-you-can-eat meal plan option, though it only lasted one fleeting year. “You could order anything, like 15 nachos and 11 bean burritos,” she says, “and they would make it and give it to you, and you walked off without paying a cent.” A Johns Hopkins student newsletter published in 2001 corroborates the existence of the utopian all-you-can-eat Taco Bell, saying, “you can also gorge yourself on some good old Taco Bell tacos and burritos. Don’t forget, it’s all-you-can-eat. Just don’t eat too much; you don’t want to overload the John.” There are some concrete examples of fast-food buffets that still exist today. When a Krystal Buffet opened in Alabama in 2019, it was met with “excitement and disbelief,” according to the press release. Former New Orleans resident Wilson Koewing told me of a Popeye’s buffet that locals “speak of as if it is a myth.” When I dig deeper, I come across a local paper, NOLA Weekend, which covers “New Orleans Food, things to do, culture, and lifestyle.” It touts the Popeye’s buffet like a carnival barker, as though it is simply too incredible to believe: “The Only Popeye’s Buffet in the World! It’s right next door in Lafayette! Yes, that’s right: a Popeyes buffet. HERE.” Somehow, the KFC buffet is the most enduring of the fast-food buffets still in existence. And yet everyone I speak with feels compelled to walk me through the paths and roads leading to such an oasis, as if, again, it were the stuff of legends. There are landmarks and there are mirages, and the mirages need maps most of all. To get to the KFC buffet in Key Largo, Tiffany Aleman must first take us through “a small island town with one traffic light and one major highway that runs through it. There are the seafood buffets and bait shops, which give way to newfangled Starbucks.” The buffet adds the feel of a hospital cafeteria, the people dining look close to death or knowingly waiting to die. New Jerseyan D.F. Jester leads us past the local seafood place “that looks like the midnight buffet on a cruise ship has been transported 50 miles inland and plunked inside the dining area of a 1980s Ramada outside of Newark.” Descriptions of the food are about what I would expect of a KFC buffet. Laura Camerer remembers the food in her college town in Morehead, Kentucky, as “all fried solid as rocks sitting under heat lamps, kind of gray and gristly.” Jester adds, “for all intents and purposes, this is a KFC. It looks like one, but sadder, more clinical. The buffet adds the feel of a hospital cafeteria, the people dining look close to death or knowingly waiting to die.” Then Jessie Lovett Allen messages me. “There is [a] KFC in my hometown, and it is magical without a hint of sketch.” I must know more. First, she takes me down the winding path: “the closest larger city is Kearney, which is 100 miles away and only has 35K people, and Kearney is where you’ll find the closest Target, Panera, or Taco Bell. But to the North, South, or West, you have to drive hundreds of miles before you find a larger city. I tell you all of this because the extreme isolation is what gives our restaurants, even fast-food ones, an outsized psychological importance to daily life.” The KFC Jessie mentions is in North Platte, Nebraska, and has nearly five stars on Yelp, an accomplishment worthy of a monument for any fast-food restaurant. On the non-corporate Facebook page for KFC North Platte, one of the hundreds of followers of the page comments, “BEST KFC IN THE COUNTRY.” Allen describes the place as though she is recounting a corner of heaven. “They have fried apple pies that seem to come through a wormhole from a 1987 McDonalds. Pudding: Hot. Good. Layered cold pudding desserts. This one rotates. It might be chocolate, banana, cookies and cream. It has a graham cracker base, pudding, and whipped topping. Standard Cold Salad bar: Lettuce, salad veggies, macaroni salads, JELL-O salads. Other meats: chicken fried steak patties. Fried chicken gizzards. White Gravy, Chicken Noodle Casserole, Green Bean Casserole, Cornbread, Corn on the Cob, Chicken Pot Pie Casserole. AND most all the standard stuff on the normal KFC menu, which is nice because you can pick out a variety of chicken types or just have a few tablespoons of a side dish.” In the end, the all-you-can-eat dream didn’t last, if it ever even existed. Then she adds that the buffet “is also available TO GO, but there are rules. You get a large Styrofoam clamshell, a small Styrofoam clamshell, and a cup. You have to be able to close the Styrofoam. You are instructed that only beverages can go in cups, and when I asked about this, an employee tells me that customers have tried to shove chicken into the drink cups in the past.” In the end, the all-you-can-eat dream didn’t last, if it ever even existed. The chains folded. The senior citizens keeping Ponderosa in business have died. My own parents reversed course after their buffet bender, trading in sundae stations for cans of SlimFast. Fast-food buffets retreated into an ethereal space. McDonald’s grew up with adult sandwiches like the Arch Deluxe. Wendy’s went on a wild rebound with the Baconator. Pizza Hut ripped out its jukeboxes, changed its logo, went off to the fast-food wars, and ain’t been the same since. Taco Bell is undergoing some kind of midlife crisis, hemorrhaging its entire menu of potatoes, among other beloved items. At least the KFC in North Platte has done good, though the novel coronavirus could change things. In the age of COVID-19, the fast-food buffet feels like more of a dream than ever. How positively whimsical it would be to stand shoulder to shoulder, hovering over sneeze guards, sharing soup ladles to scoop an odd assortment of pudding, three grapes, a heap of rotini pasta, and a drumstick onto a plate. Maybe we can reach this place again. But to find it, we must follow the landmarks, searching our memory as the map. MM Carrigan is a Baltimore-area writer and weirdo who enjoys staring directly into the sun. Their work has appeared in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and PopMatters. They are the editor of Taco Bell Quarterly. Tweets @thesurfingpizza. from Eater - All https://ift.tt/33e4Z8k

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