What did people eat mostly in the US before McDonald's ?

@saragoodtimes I remember eating there, in the town where I was born, (far western Nebraska).

I must have been around 10 or 11 years old, and for some reason I was wandering around with one of my cousins, unsupervised.

We had enough money to buy lunch, and I had something called a French dip sandwich. It was ham and cheese, deep fried, and then you were supposed to dunk it in a little bowl of beef au jus.

@4meAndyou was little when Grandpa and I went there after school before they closed. he had coffee and a donut and I a coke to go with mine