On 12/15/2016 5:00 PM, dsi1 wrote:

>>>>>>>> How about drive-n Poke!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well these places are not real drive-ins.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh come on!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mostly they're plate lunch places.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not really, see this menu:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.yelp.com/biz/rainbow-dri...?osq=drive+ins
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://rainbowdrivein.com/menu/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.bestdrivein.com/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They offer BOTH plate lunches AND drive-n fare.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's pretty goofy if you ask me. There might be real drive-in here but I don't know of any. Too bad!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You're wrong and I proved it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Deal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rainbow's is probably the most well-known Drive-in in the state so I know a thing or two about it.
>>>>
>>>> Oh good, so we can agree then that it is a drive-in?
>>>>
>>>>> I have had burgers and fries at the place but mostly, they serve plate lunches.
>>>>
>>>> It's Hawaii, not a surprise is it?
>>>>
>>>> Local food for local folks at a "drive-in"!
>>>>
>>>>> Nobody goes to Rainbow's for burgers and fries.
>>>>
>>>> If so they would not serve them.
>>>>
>>>>> I'll get burgers because they're cheaper and smaller than a plate lunch and my stomach can't handle a big plate.
>>>>
>>>> A reasonable decision.
>>>>
>>>>> They serve fried rice there too - that don't make Rainbow's a Chinese restaurant.
>>>>
>>>> So it's still a drive-in?
>>>>
>>>> Even with plate lunches?
>>>>
>>>>> They also serve ice cream but it ain't an Ice Cream Parlour.
>>>>
>>>> So it's still a drive-in?
>>>>
>>>>> You people take things too literally.
>>>>
>>>> Literally it remains a drive-in, you even admitted as much.
>>>>
>>>> . You have not proved a thing - except your pettiness.
>>>>
>>>> I and Yelp proved it IS a drive-in and that Hawaii has quite a few, just
>>>> not of the Sonic flavor.
>>>>
>>>>> That's par for this course, I'm sorry to say.
>>>>>
>>>>> Deal.
>>>>
>>>> I always do.
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZig8jvVEwQ
>>>>
>>>> Well they all agree, it is a drive-in.
>>>>
>>>> One started in 1961!
>>>>
>>>> And the first to put a late lunch at a...wait for it...drive-in!
>>>
>>> Do you even know what a drive-in restaurant is?
>>
>> I am pretty sure I do, yes.
>>
>> Your typical fast food car service under an awning with a squawk box to
>> order into.
>>
>>> The drive-in restaurants in Hawaii are not drive-ins because there is no in-car service.
>>
>> What????
>>
>> who did this to you?
>>
>>> If you want to eat in your car you have to go in the restaurant and get the food yourself and then waddle your
>>> fat ass back to your stinkin' roach filled car.
>>
>> Do stoners still leave their roaches in cars?
>>
>>> People on the mainland might think this island is filled with drive-in restaurants but they're in for a shock
>>> because the drive-ins here are not like the drive-ins on the mainland. We just call them "drive-ins" to fool
>>> the tourists and people that might post to Usenet.
>>
>> Ya but, that means you misapplied the classic term.
>>
>> But there was then...
>>
>> http://archives.starbulletin.com/199...ess/index.html
>>
>> And there is now:
>>
>> https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Locati...hu_Hawaii.html
>>
>> So is that just covered parking?
>>
>> I know you lost your drive in theaters:
>>
>> http://www.driveinmovie.com/HI.htm
>>
>> So did everything else get gobbled up too?
>
> I was raised in Kailua and I loved Andy's Drive In. You could see the red roof from the top of the Pali. I went
> there from small kid time. They didn't have any in-car service back then either. Alex Drive-in had carhop
> service. That's was very cool but that closed down back in the 80's. Andy's closed down over 15 years ago. Now
> it's an O'Reilly's Auto Parts store. Hardly the generator of fond memories.
>
> Sorry to dash all your hopes and dreams of real drive-ins in Hawaii. You best go somewhere else to peddle your
> trollish wares.
>
> http://www.honolulumagazine.com/core...In/&mode=print
>
No troll at all, just replying to the Sonic observation and using Yelp.

Sorry you all lost those drive-ins.

:-(

Calling a standard plate lunch place a drive-in is a misuse of the term
though.