25 Forgotten Kmart Cafeteria Meals Kids Begged For Before Mom Finished Shopping

25 Forgotten Kmart Cafeteria Meals Kids Begged For Before Mom Finished Shopping By 1966, there were Kmart cafeterias tucked into stores across half the country, and nobody in Troy, Michigan ever wrote down why customers were staying two hours longer than the shopping list required. These are the 25 forgotten Kmart cafeteria meals everyone grabbed before the blue light special faded for good — grilled cheese and tomato soup, soft pretzels with yellow mustard, chili dogs, Friday fish and chips, sloppy joes, Swiss steak dinner, hot turkey sandwich with gravy, tuna melts, apple dumplings, liver and onions, meatloaf and mashed potatoes, the Kmart cheeseburger, golden fries, the submarine sandwich, baked chicken, macaroni and cheese, club sandwiches, chicken fried steak, Crazy Bread, Little Caesars personal pan pizza, the Icee, hot dogs off the roller grill, and the popcorn cart by the door. This is good old days retail history the way nobody else tells it — real 20th century American nostalgia from a discount store nobody expected to matter this much. Ask anyone who grew up going to one, and they will not describe a menu. They will describe a smell. These are the memories of yesteryear that stuck with an entire generation of kids and parents long after the doors finally closed for good. If Kmart nostalgia means something to you, if the blue light special still means something decades later, this video is for you. Subscribe — because every week we bring back the meals and the memories America forgot.