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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wake Up with Robin and kid.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
A couple of days ago, we just posted on instam
Facebook about if there's one thing in Brisbane's past that
you could bring back, what would it be? And there
was just this overarch like just so many people responded
with the same answer, and that was Sisler.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Yeah, there's some there were some great answers that came through,
by the way, I think some of them are worth mentoring.
These are some of the things. City Rowers was one.
Oh gosh, the tops, like the you know, the big
roller coaster at the Mycene, remember that was it?

Speaker 5 (00:33):
The Dragon? The Dragon roller coaster.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
That got a ton of likes. Amazon's was one. Oh yes,
someone wrote a pay packet that covered my groceries.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
How about cheap housing, Yeah, cheap housing that there was
apparently there was a restaurant.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
There was a Holly's restaurant in Kmart, do you I
don't remember that? Yeah, remember that, I remember that. But
there was a lot of a lot of great options,
but one that overwhelming was was Sizzler and particularly cheesy.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Yeah, and it just I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
We were talking about this and like our Sizzler memories
because I reckon every one of my kids had at
least two of their birthday parties at either Sizzler Ipswich
or Sizzler tooo right. Yeah, and every single party, and
I'm now talking say six kids' birthday parties, someone would
throw up, so I'd all like, we'd have to have

(01:23):
multiple adults so someone could monitor what was going on,
and someone and it was always the boy's dad that
had to go into the toilets with whatever child had
decided that the dessert bar was the place to start
their meal.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I actually I do. I feel sorry for Rafael, my
four year old. He's never going to get to experience
Sizzler because that was like such a part of child
or like you know. And then and then it being
a teenager would be one of the first places you'd
go with your mates because you had whatever it was
twelve dollars and then you'd have your salad bar.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
Did you ever have anything off the menu? I mean
rich people did that.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:56):
No, I was never.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
I think maybe maybe if it was your birth day,
dad would let you get the steak or whatever else,
but otherwise it was always just the salad bar.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
And what was your favorite bit of the salad bar?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
For me, I would get the you know, the pumpkin soup,
which I never I know, I never get pumpkins.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Okay, you should see my face.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Everyone.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
I'm like, I'm like, yeah, going what I.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Get the pumpkin soup and the potato skins. Oh, and
I dip the skins in the pumpkin soup. And I
once said, who once said, you know, if they ever
get rid of the pumpkin soup, I'm stopped coming here.
And a guy who was like in his ninety said,
I hear you.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
Young man.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Oh wow, a ninety year old.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
We bonded over our love of pumpkin soup and potato skins, with.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
Potato skins with their best were.

Speaker 7 (02:36):
Why does anyone do them anymore?

Speaker 5 (02:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
And of course the cheesy toast, I mean, my goodness,
that was just institutional.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
People used to say, don't fill up on the cheesy toast.
That's how they get you.

Speaker 7 (02:45):
But it's the best thing. No, that's right, And.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
It always came out first.

Speaker 7 (02:49):
Yeah, I don't care if I fill up on it.
It's the best.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
I want to fill up on it.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I remember once that I think it was that Tuwong
the cheesy toast machine ded.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
Oh no, and it was like you actually have to
close your doors.

Speaker 7 (03:00):
They'll be right.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
You cannot not serve cheesy toads.

Speaker 7 (03:03):
No, and remember that cues like.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
You're trying and get there a little bit earlier because
they'd be cues out the door and you have to.

Speaker 7 (03:10):
Wait right up to the right up till they closed
their doors.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
They closed their.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Doors, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
And Brisbane loved Sizla more than anyone else.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, oh yeah, it was around the country, but really
this is this week.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
We were the heart of Sizzler.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, so do you remember it? And what was your
what was your fond memory of Sizzler? What was your
menu item?

Speaker 7 (03:27):
What did you get from the salad bar?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
And like did you ever take a first date to
Sisla and what happened?

Speaker 7 (03:34):
It's a fancy first I do remember.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I do remember watching actually a young couple like I
mean they would have been I don't know, eighteen nineteen,
and she was desperately trying not to eat, like she
was picking at her food, right, and the guy's going, mate,
I've paid for this Sizzla, can.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
You go come on?

Speaker 7 (03:51):
It's all you can eat?

Speaker 4 (03:52):
This is this isn't going to work out if you're
not eating thirty six fives out talk talk us through
your sizzler.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
Harry of Beppngary, Hey, here you going. What did you do?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
So?

Speaker 8 (04:06):
My favorite memory at Sizzla was when Mum tried to
sneak all the skittles in the coffee cups. So she
used to always make me run up to the candy
bar and I used to steal all the skittle allies.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Okay, so they're the things you were supposed to put
on top of your ice cream, but you'd fill up exactly.

Speaker 8 (04:23):
So I used to get the coffee cup so we'd
actually win with the coffee cups to take home. And
Mom used to put it in their handbag all the time.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
So take away coffee cup forks. You got to get
your three bucks.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Harry, Lisa of Beppengary.

Speaker 7 (04:39):
I love this.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
What did your mum make you steal?

Speaker 6 (04:43):
It? Wasn't me, she used to steal it. So yeah,
my dad would get steak and they would ask for
too steak knife so that she could have some of it.
And at the end of it she would be like, Okay,
get the napkin and wrap the too steak knife because
we need some extras at high and I would just
fly down in the chairs and think we are going

(05:04):
to get arrested. At Sizzlers and out we'd go with
two State Knights every single time we went there.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
And how many steak knives did you wind up with? It?

Speaker 7 (05:14):
You would have had a lot, I reckon.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
We had a good twelve. We didn't have to buy any.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
Did you still have them? Does she still have them?

Speaker 6 (05:23):
Well, my mom's passed, but I'm sure my dad still has.
He doesn't get rid of anything.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
That mean, yes, still got the Sizzler steak knives cam.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Of Deception Bay.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Now, I was asking if anyone went on a first
date to Sizzler and here you are, how old were you?

Speaker 9 (05:43):
I was twelve? Hang on, I'm just I was Hello, guys,
I was at thirteen. Sorry, I was thirteen years old? Okay,
And first date. I remember his name was Richard, and
I think I think we ended up having to go
on a double date because you know, Mum wouldn't let
me go alone with a boy.

Speaker 8 (06:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (06:05):
Look, you know, you get dropped off there and like
you said, the lines and it was you know, typically
awkward because you have to go up and get your
food not not the most romantic of first.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
No fairly bright fluorescent lighting.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Did you hold hands?

Speaker 7 (06:20):
Did you kiss?

Speaker 5 (06:21):
Did anything happen?

Speaker 9 (06:22):
Of course we held hands, and yes there was a
little kiss at the end of the night.

Speaker 7 (06:26):
And what was the men?

Speaker 4 (06:27):
And what did you get into at the menu? Was
there something on that?

Speaker 9 (06:30):
Oh yeah, something like probably completely gross for everyone else,
But I loved Do you remember their their seafood salad?
But it was actually seafood extended.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Wasn't It wasn't even from the sea.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
It's true, I did.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I loved it as well, and the mao and the
celery seafood extend.

Speaker 7 (06:52):
It was disgusting that you think about it.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
And Melissa of Locan Reserve.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
Good morning, Hey, how are you going?

Speaker 5 (07:01):
What would you like to say?

Speaker 8 (07:03):
So?

Speaker 9 (07:04):
I saw the other night on Facebook that a guy
in South Bank is bringing out his own version of
Cheezy Toes.

Speaker 7 (07:11):
Really coming back? Yes?

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Oh wow?

Speaker 7 (07:14):
How was he doing? Was he found the recipe or
what's he It said that he bought he bought the
cheese toast machine from.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Sisler, the old one.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Oh my goodness. We need to find this man.

Speaker 9 (07:26):
Yeah, I would assumed. So he's serving it up for free,
free toes between the tenth and the sixteenth of June.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
I got to jump on that. Okay, do you remember
do you remember which restaurant.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
It's called Fritz and Berger?

Speaker 7 (07:43):
Mate, Okay, okay, all right, I.

Speaker 9 (07:46):
Thought you guys love to know that.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Absolutely, Thank you, thank you, Melissa. All Right, let's let's
get pigged.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Feverishly trying to find we can have cheesy TOAs this
morning potentially.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Okay, that's maybe a little ambitious on the phone.

Speaker 7 (08:03):
Okay, let's work on it.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Wake up with Robin and kid.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
We are talking about Sizzler right now because people want
it back, and specifically the cheese toast.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
Okay, and I know it was called cheese toast.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
I do know that that was the official word on
the menu, but everyone used to call it cheesy.

Speaker 7 (08:22):
Yeah, cheese toasty. Yea cheesy toast. You knew either way.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
You knew what we were talking about.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
And thank you so much to Melissa who said that
there is a place in South Bank called Fritz and
Burger who are bringing back the cheese toast, and we've
tracked down their head. Chef Sebastian, Good morning, Sebastian.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Good morning, good morning.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Good is this early Is this an early phone call
for a head chef?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Usually it is, but yeah, today, like we've been working
out lately or okay.

Speaker 7 (08:51):
Now is this now?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Is this true that you've bought the old Sizzler cheese
toast machine?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes, it is. H we got it from a Yeah,
we got it from a friend from my boss as
a source of commercial equipment, and it's been he's been
holding onto it four years and it was really said,
poor thing. He had his mom polishing it vice when
he dropped it. Yeah, it was really really sad.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yeah, oh wow.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
So you've got the machine and we and we're ready
to crank it over. So like next week, are you
starting to make the cheese toast cheese bread?

Speaker 2 (09:27):
We already started doing it, yeah, but we're doing like yeah,
there's a big promotion starting next week. Yeah, we're pretty
excited about that.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
It doesn't work, So what's your promotion that people can
come in and get cheese toast with something?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
So basically, you buy any burger or many meals and
you get free che stores for the all week.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Now is that a French accent Sebastian?

Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yes, it is.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Did you have I mean when you first tried this,
did it take you back home? Was there anything like
this in France? The cheese, the bread.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
We've got. We've got bread and cheese, but was definitely
being different for me.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
You had bread and cheese, but the genius of putting
them together onto some type of machine, possibly.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Of my fellows.

Speaker 7 (10:22):
Yeah, you've got to train your part to enjoy the
cheese bread.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
Okay, Sebastian, how would you feel?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
And I understand that you're doing that all week and
lots of people can come in and enjoy Fritzenburg, But
how would you feel if you opened early for us
on Monday morning, like from say seven am, and anyone
who wants cheese toast can come and have.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Some, not a product.

Speaker 7 (10:47):
Oh this is amazing.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Okay, So Fritzenburger South Bank Monday morning from seven o'clock,
free cheese toast for Brisbane.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
This is amazing, Sebastian.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
Do you know what you've just said yes to?

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Like it's sizzler, people would queue up around the board.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Hide your steak knives, Hide your steak knives.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
Is what we're learning as people.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
People get into the sizzler frame of mind and start
taking extra stuff. But this is great, okay, So free
free cheese toast from Monday Morning.

Speaker 7 (11:20):
Done, Sebastian, Oh my goodness, it's happening. It's happening.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Wake up with Robin and Kid.
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