I haven’t been there since a gayling but feeling nostalgic.
You haven't been there since 1980 because they went bankrupt after serving poison green onions.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 24, 2024 9:53 PM |
R1 who do fuck do you think you are talking 2? They went out of business in 2007.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 24, 2024 10:01 PM |
R1 gets all of his information from deep deep inside his ass
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 24, 2024 10:05 PM |
I enjoyed Chi Chi’s
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 24, 2024 10:06 PM |
As a teen, I'd go there with my mother about once a month. The seafood nachos were my favorite, and of course the fried ice cream. It was always fun to watch other customers being humiliated by the waitstaff singing, "Happy Birthday (To you, To you, To you, OLÉ!)"
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 24, 2024 10:11 PM |
I had a chihuahua named Chi Chi. He was the sweetest little dog
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 24, 2024 10:11 PM |
I got my fill of them in Hawaii. They don’t even have any alcohol!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 24, 2024 10:41 PM |
I used to love their seafood salad back in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 24, 2024 10:45 PM |
We are there fairly often when I was in college. I think they had a lunch buffet. Loved it at the time. It wasn’t until years later that I had authentic Mexican food.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 24, 2024 10:50 PM |
Loved it back in the '80s when I was a kid. There weren't exactly a ton of Mexican restaurants in the heartland then, and it beat the hell out of Taco Bell.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 24, 2024 11:02 PM |
I remember their jingle: "Chi Chi's: a celebration of food!"
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 24, 2024 11:08 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 24, 2024 11:09 PM |
Is this the one with the "I want my baby back" ribs commercial? Or is that Chili's? Is there much of a difference?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 24, 2024 11:10 PM |
Yes!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 24, 2024 11:13 PM |
She's conducting writing workshops in Albuquerque tomorrow !
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 24, 2024 11:16 PM |
Yup. Bloomington, IN late 80s/early 90s margarita happy hour with limitless appetizer buffet on Tuesdays I believe it was.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 24, 2024 11:18 PM |
Hey, turns out R1 wasn't stuffed completely full of hepatitis-laden green onions! He just was off by 23 years.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 24, 2024 11:20 PM |
Wasn't Chi Chi's was really big in Houston?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 24, 2024 11:26 PM |
R10 And what does that have to do with Chi Chi’s?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 24, 2024 11:26 PM |
I spent many happy hours there in the 80s as there was one right next to my office building. How I never got a DUI driving 40 miles home I will never know.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 24, 2024 11:27 PM |
[quote]Is this the one with the "I want my baby back" ribs commercial? Or is that Chili's? Is there much of a difference?
That was Chili’s
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 25, 2024 12:58 AM |
R22 You dumb cunt. I thought like most Gen Zers you grew up on fast casuals?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 25, 2024 4:04 AM |
No, I grew up on shows that are much funnier than SNL, R23.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 25, 2024 4:40 AM |
My family at there few times a year on the 80s — a 40 minute drive from home. I loved their chicken chimichangas.
I learned in college that chichis in Mexican Spanish means “titties.”
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 25, 2024 5:10 AM |
Loved their seafood enchiladas. Their salsa is still available. Max McGee (former GB Packer, RIP) was a one of the owners.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 25, 2024 5:44 AM |
You can buy the mudslide premixed in the liquor aisle. Not sure if it’s exactly what they served but it might feel nostalgic.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 25, 2024 5:52 AM |
I was implying the OP was a gaming long ago in 1980, not that's when they closed down. Sorry, I should've made myself clear.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 25, 2024 4:08 PM |
GAYLING^
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 25, 2024 4:08 PM |
What kind of person goes to Chi Chi's and says, "I'd like to take my chances with some seafood!"?? That's like going to the Olive Garden and ordering Ceviche Marinara or something else that shouldn't exist. 🤮
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 25, 2024 4:10 PM |
I'm another who confuses it with Chili's. I've been to each only once.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 25, 2024 4:46 PM |
Chili’s, years ago, had chicken nachos that I loved. Recently I was driving cross country and stayed at a hotel that was next to a Chili’s. I looked at their menu online and they were gone. Alas.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 25, 2024 4:52 PM |
My sister-in-law worked as a waitress there for a short spell, serving up chimichangas. Cute peasant dresses as server outfits in the late 1970s.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 25, 2024 5:30 PM |
I remember the SHITS that place gave me.
💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩SHITS FIRED!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 25, 2024 5:35 PM |
Speaking of mudslides.....
💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 25, 2024 5:36 PM |
My grandmother LOVED Chi Chi’s and took me there a lot as a kid. She always got the taco salad with salsa as her dressing. She also would get the fried ice cream and feed the whipped cream to my baby sister. have absolutely no memory of what I used to eat.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 25, 2024 5:39 PM |
We had one at the mall but it was gone around the time they put an Applebees in the late 90s or 00’s.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 25, 2024 5:40 PM |
I remember in our little podunk town it was always an hour wait on a Friday or Saturday night to get a table.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 25, 2024 5:43 PM |
Hepatitis A
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 25, 2024 5:45 PM |
This seafood enchilada recipe is from a 16-year veteran employee of Chi Chi's.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 25, 2024 5:53 PM |
Was this restaurant an enterprise of porn maven Chi Chi LaRue? I was told there was a Mildred Pierce like story involving her and the establishment, so steer away from Chi-Chi’s, which was a shame because I wanted to try their famous blooming onion.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 25, 2024 7:19 PM |
I moved from Southern CA (where I grew up) and all the Mexican food joints like Roberto's, Rolberto's, Alberto's, Adalberto's, Juan Berto's, Filiberto's, Jilberto's, Broberto's, Humberto's, Royberto's to the vast wasteland of non-existent Mexican food in Western NY when I was 18. They had Taco Hell and some local monstrosity called "Mighty Taco" that I believe still exists today. That was it. It was soul crushing to not have the favorite food of my youth available to me, and for people to not really even know, in general, what a taco or burrito was.
Until I was about 21, I suffered in silence, then Chi Chi's opened a place near to me and my depressive food-fog lifted. They weren't like all the taco places in SoCal, but they were *somewhat* like it. We weren't rich, so couldn't go there that often, but we went as often as we could. I liked them. Eventually other local places opened up (independently owned and chains as well - Don Pablo's, anyone?) and Chi Chi's went on the decline until they ultimately died off. I had already moved back California by that time, so they were kind of a fond memory at that point anyways.
That's my Chi Chi's story.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 25, 2024 7:29 PM |