I still have the original menu from my first ever night out, 15 years ago in Bath. Anyone else own a tragic item that has weird sentimental value?

by lerpo

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  5. Never trust a restaurant that has photos of the food.

  6. Used to love Al Falafel after a heavy night at Second Bridge, Ponanas or Club XL.

  7. I’ve still got a ‘postcard’ that I took from a central London phone box during my first trip there back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.

  9. Why did you go there when Schwartz Bros is just around the corner???

  11. Al falafel was great. One of my first nights out as a teen ended up going there, defacing a pillar on the building opposite with a pen knife, and asking the fella there what a falafel was.

    He gave me one, and it was good, but he shot me a filthy look when I said I wanted them on my burger.

    I miss Bath sometimes…

  13. Does anyone remember the Pizzaland Platter? 2 slices of pizza, coleslaw and jacket potato with butter, plus coffee.

  14. Extra large chicken doner and large chips please mate. All the trimmings

  15. I was too young to experience these prices, and it makes me sad to know I’ll probably never experience them as an adult.

  16. I have a menu from the Angus Steak Restaurant which was on the 192 in Florida in 1991.
    Had a bar with a crappy portable TV showing continuous news in the corner. An interview came on with the local Police Chief came on, and a drunk woman at the bar shouts out, “Hey! That’s the same Sheriff that arrested me!”

  17. A very badly made clay dinosaur that I made when I was 11 in my 1st year at secondary school. It looks bad, but I won’t get rid of it.

  19. I have a ruined, half-worn-down-by-being-scraped-over-pavement, detatched suitcase wheel. The damn thing fell apart when I was moving out of my parent’s place for uni.

  20. I stole the ‘reserved’ sign off the table from my 21st birthday meal. Also when I was on holiday, I was playing air hockey with a friend and the air turned off halfway through, so I took the puck.

  21. I have a couple of coins from the 1800s. I took them from my grandfather’s antique shop before it closed down.

  22. £1.50 garlic bread 10″

    Can you imagine????

    I’ve seen takeaways charging 7-8 for one of these nowadays

    £3.50 doner kebab and chips also

  23. Posters of Moby’s ‘Honey’ and something by Theaudience, mounted on cardboard. They were weaved into the railings at traffic lights in London. Nicked them to provide a bit of warmth while sleeping, pissed, on a bench near Big Ben. Bloody stupid thing to do.

  24. Keep hold of it. In a hundred years, this might be the only remaining copy because it brought someone great nostalgia

  26. Genuinely amazed that you own this. You should be proud.

  29. I took a photo on my phone of the pub when I was waiting for a girl I was going on a first date with, in case it worked out and it would be a romantic memory. It didn’t go especially well, there was no second date, but it still pops up in my memories every December.

  31. I started seeing my first boyfriend when I was 15. It lasted 3-4 years. I kept every card and gift he ever got me. All the cinema tickets and beer mats from places we went to. Honestly it was weird. I even kept the envelopes. It’s all in a box in my mums loft bedroom but the weirdest thing in that box is a 20 year old Thorntons chocolate bear head still in the original box and a Nokia 5110 with our first ever texts on it. Also there’s a few of those roses that you could buy in nightclubs although I’m assuming only the cellophane is left. It’s been a good 10 years since I’ve looked in that box but I know it’s there. I was a weird kid. I’ve grown up to not be sentimental at all. I bin most of the stuff that comes in the house within a few months.

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