I ran across an article on The Lost Ogle by accident the other day. I don't usually read TLO because it seems they just like to run down Oklahoma personalities. I guess some might see it as satire but the Pioneer Woman article from the other day really came off as jealous whining. But that's whole other topic. The article I'm talking about was a list of OKC restaurants that the author missed. A lot of the ones on the list were names that you hear often as restaurants that are missed. But I started thinking about it and began thinking that when some of those places still existed, I don't recall thinking they were all that great. Some were okay, some were good, some less so. But I just wonder if nostalgia has more to do with it than anything. If those places remind us of a good time in our lives or a time when our lives were simpler.
I don't recall ever loving the pizza at Crystal's but I loved the restaurant. I went there as a young teen so my life was certainly more simple then as my parents took care of all the important stuff in my life. The Crystal's building was cool with the different rooms (it was like a quest finding different, out-of-the-way rooms) and all the games on the two different levels.
Applewood's fritters were great but I don't remember their food being all that...well, memorable. Is it just nostalgia that makes us miss Applewoods?
Was Molly Murphy's really that cool and fun or were they just mean? Was the Eagle's Nest really upscale and metropolitan or do I only think that because it's where I had my first grown up meal on my 13th birthday? And the list goes on.
Thoughts? Feelings?
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