QB1

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Didn't Subway have a van that used to park outside of South?

Yup, the Subway owner must have bought his South Campus access. Not setting the quality food bar too high, but the local local food truck before Subway was much better.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Didn't Subway have a van that used to park outside of South?

Ate a lot of Taco Bell and Little Caesars on the weekend - $4 went a real long way at both back then.

Cheap weekend hotdogs at Wawa. Gumby’s pizza.

 

[Guapo]

Cheap weekend hotdogs at Wawa. Gumby’s pizza.

UConn had a Wawa?

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Didn't Subway have a van that used to park outside of South?

Ate a lot of Taco Bell and Little Caesars on the weekend - $4 went a real long way at both back then.

Yes....I was there 3 times a week after passing on the grey meat. Early food truck I guess.

 

[Pudge]

Yes....I was there 3 times a week after passing on the grey meat. Early food truck I guess.

A full decade before ... there were three good food trucks right in front of ROTC (where that Garage is on North Eagleville - next to Visitirs Center). Grinders. Sub sandwiches. Burgers. Something other than dorm food.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

A full decade before ... there were three good food trucks right in front of ROTC (where that Garage is on North Eagleville - next to Visitirs Center). Grinders. Sub sandwiches. Burgers. Something other than dorm food.

Irma's. Great cheeseburger grinders

 

[HuskyHawk]

UConn had a Wawa?

Yeah it came in where Store 24 was. Not sure what’s there now. It was past South, across from EO Smith I guess. There was a cool record shop in that plaza.

 

[Fishy]

Cheap weekend hotdogs at Wawa. Gumby’s pizza.

Yup. And yup.

And, if you didn't mind waiting until 11 pm for dinner, free pizza at Oscars.

 

[uconndogs]

Any of you remember Bill’s #7 in Willimantic? Easily one of the oddest places I’ve ever eaten, but open late at night into early morning and cheap.

 

[TRest]

Alumni is so much better nowadays. she made a good choice lol

Yeah she's steps.away from McMahon and South cafes, center of campus nearby, etc. She was in Towers freshman year and didn't like it much.

 

[Kolumbo]

Haffenreffers, funnels, and late night burritos from Store 20-Free.

 

[Huskygrad88]

UConn had a Wawa?

2 for $1 chili cheese dogs at Wawa was a little piece of heaven

 

[JMick]

Yeah she's steps.away from McMahon and South cafes, center of campus nearby, etc. She was in Towers freshman year and didn't like it much.

hey, could be worse. I got stuck in shippee my freshman year

 

[TMB4405]

2 for $1 chili cheese dogs at Wawa was a little piece of heaven

I guess I am really old. Used to head to wawa for 3 dogs for $1.

 

[Scrutiner]

And for 9 PM snacks, when Wes Bialosuknia was the star of the BBall team, you could buy grinders from Wes as he carried a cardboard box of grinders for sale from Lou's from dorm to dorm and fraternity to fraternity.
Then, Sunday nights, you could go to the Park Central hotel in Willimantic for 95 cent plates of shells and meatballs, served up with dime beers.
Oh, the good old days.

 

[History Geek]

I lived in Towers in the late 80"s. Back then each "small dorm" had it's own chef that cooked family style. No weekend meal plan, so I would go to TED's sub shop and get the Cheeseburger grinder, six patties. Half on Saturday and half on Sunday. I would wash it down with a milkshake from the Dairy Bar. My whole caloric intake would be the sub, milkshake, and assorted low quality beer.

I lived in Terry in the early/mid 80s. Our chef Johnny D. was a great guy, decent cook, and would join us at Huskies every Thursday for happy hour. Some of my best memories from college.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Any of you remember Bill’s #7 in Willimantic? Easily one of the oddest places I’ve ever eaten, but open late at night into early morning and cheap.

The guy never wrote down an order. Worked the counter by his lonesome and just cleared the dishes, glasses and flatware til closing.

 

[uconndogs]

The guy never wrote down an order. Worked the counter by his lonesome and just cleared the dishes, glasses and flatware til closing.

Right, and if you ever challenged him on the “bill” or asked where your order was he would tell you to FO. Couple all of that with a place packed with drunk college students and you have some real comedy.

 

[storrsroars]

Speaking of gray meat, can't remember the name of that craphole little breakfast/lunch joint that preceded the Hardees across from South Campus, but I recall a time when we were served sandwiches with gray roast beef with full rainbow slime/sheen, and watched as the busboy went about collecting plates with a dog attached to the bus cart on a leash. The dog proceeded to lick all the scraps from every plate put into the bus trays.

Missing out on treats like this is why kids today just don't have strong immune systems.

 

[Milo65]

The guy never wrote down an order. Worked the counter by his lonesome and just cleared the dishes, glasses and flatware til closing.

I thought the place in Willi was Gil’s. Breakfast spot, Texas style breakfast sandwich with chocolate milk, syrup on the bottom with a long spoon.

Gil’s Sign discovered

 

[whaler11]

I thought the place in Willi was Gil’s. Breakfast spot, Texas style breakfast sandwich with chocolate milk, syrup on the bottom with a long spoon.

Gil’s Sign discovered

yep such a surly bastard

i worked across the street at WILI - many nights made it across.

 

[ucjoet]

We had a giant garbage bag in the middle of our dorm where we collected all the beer bottles and other glass and plastics and once every month or two we’d pack it in a car and drive to the Big Y and deposit them to get money for more booze.

Totally unrelated:

We also had flies.

We did basically the same thing. We collected cans etc and would keep in large garbage bags. We called it "cans for kegs". We would keep track of can total on a paper thermometer which we would color each day, until we reached our goal. Those were the days

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Haffenreffers

Private Stock Malt Liquor aka the Green Death & JP’s Finest ... available at Universal grocery store when your final pinched pennies couldn’t quite afford PBRs, Nasty, and other fine brews. Complementary puzzles to boot! The rest of the story:

August Haffenreffer; concocted potent ‘Green Death’ beer at family’s Boston brewery

Microbiologist August H. Haffenreffer Jr. marveled at the longstanding popularity of the beer he helped concoct decades ago at the brewery his grandfather founded in the 1880s in Jamaica Plain.

archive.boston.com

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

We collected cans etc and would keep in large garbage bags. We called it "cans for kegs". We would keep track of can total on a paper thermometer which we would color each day, until we reached our goal.

Rote amateurs ... as if experienced veterans couldn’t identify keg-qualification via accumulated can level

Speaking of accumulation, Tiger Piss beckons some recognition ...

 

[J187Money]

I thought the place in Willi was Gil’s. Breakfast spot, Texas style breakfast sandwich with chocolate milk, syrup on the bottom with a long spoon.

Gil’s Sign discovered

Right - had to go behind the counter to get your own coffee half the time...