Do you remember Pup 'N' Taco? If so, then you probably remember their delicious taco burgers and grape & cherry slushes. Oooh, the fabulous fattening goodness! That is the taste of childhood for me. If I only had a time machine, I would go back to 1980 just to have a taco burger and a cherry slush one last time. I can even remember the taste of their hot sauce that I use to pour all over it. Mmmmm

My Uncle Skip was good friends with Russell Wendell (who is the founder of both Pup 'N' Taco and Big DoNut. Yep, the place with the GIANT doughnut on the roof in Inglewood). According to my Mom, my Grandfather liked to go and help in the kitchen of the South Normandie store just for fun after he retired. She says he liked to be compensated for his work in silver dollars that he shared with his grandchildren on their birthdays. The manager of the Normandie store was Barry Harmon, my uncles best friend since the first grade. I guess that's why we were there so much.

Sadly, Taco Bell bought all the Pup 'N' Taco stores (nearly 100 locations) in the 80's. I guess that's where they got the idea for the Bell-Beefer, which was good but not the same. {hmph!}