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What is your favorite menu item or the one that first comes to mind in the OSU commons when you were in school? I ate in the commons my FR year in '90 and '91.

I'll start as when I was responding to a thread I typed Texas (in reference to the Rose Bowl) and I immediately thought....

TEXAS STRAW HAT!

However my favorite memory of living in Baker Hall was tossing trash cans of water on people from the fourth floor as they came in or out of the dorm! In the spring I started a water fight b/c it was to hot (no AC) and we made our own slip and slide on the fourth floor linolium. We got busted for that one as the water was falling down the stairwell like Niagra Falls! Then there was the fire hose I threw out the attic window and cranked it on! LOL! Water was spraying everywhere and the hose was jumping like a snake! That one was funny as $hit!

HAYN
 
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In the commons? The enchiladas, easily.

Going over to Buckeye Express when I was in Stradley, getting a baked potato or fries coated with the orange goo they called cheese sauce was awesome. Or going on Friday to use your extra meal plans for the week and stocking up on Nutty Buddies and chips.

No wonder I gained about 50 pounds in my first two years here.

One of my floormates in Stradley sprayed the fire extinguisher all over the hall. We had to clean it up, stuff tastes like pepper spray. This is the same guy who wanted to make weed brownies in the lobby kitchen.

The stairwells in Morrill were often coated with pizza, bbq, ranch, or apple sauce.
 
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The best things we ever got out of Kennedy Commons were a couple of chairs. A friend of mine still has them in his apartment, though they're a little broken now.

On the rare days when they'd have the Snickers ice cream bars, we'd usually walk out with several dozen. I believe the record was 97.

Other than that, I really just remember eating a lot of cereal. The milk machine things were fabulous, as was the lunch lady who was always shouting in that voice that could only come from a lunch lady to "Keep the liiiiiiine movin'."
 
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PrincessPeach said:
The best things we ever got out of Kennedy Commons were a couple of chairs. A friend of mine still has them in his apartment, though they're a little broken now.

On the rare days when they'd have the Snickers ice cream bars, we'd usually walk out with several dozen. I believe the record was 97.

Other than that, I really just remember eating a lot of cereal. The milk machine things were fabulous, as was the lunch lady who was always shouting in that voice that could only come from a lunch lady to "Keep the liiiiiiine movin'."
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Wait..."walk"?
 
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tedginn05 said:
Wait..."walk"?
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It's called "meal plan". You'll figure it out once you go to college.

All you older guys missed out on what they turned south campus into. With the Gateway, and completely re-doing all of Neil Ave. it's pretty ridiculous how much good food is down there now.

EDIT: I forgot about Common's breakfast...with the waffle irons that pressed a Block O into the middle of your belgian waffles. I gotta get my hands on one of those.
 
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R0CK3TM4NN said:
\ With the Gateway, and completely re-doing all of Neil Ave. it's pretty ridiculous how much good food is down there now.
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Hopefully they'll have more than half of the Gateway open when we get back from winter break. Should have known it wouldn't be ready for fall quarter. Mad Mex opened just this week, Coldstone was closed as of a couple weeks ago, Eddie's thing is way behind schedule and opening in February.

In two years, I don't think I was ever up early enough to go to the Commons for breakfast with my roommates. I do remember finishing up all-nighters with with a breakfast of chicken nuggets at Buckeye Express, though.
 
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tedginn05 said:
I think you knew what I was thinking, I understand what the "meal plan" is now. When I heard "walk out" I'm just imagining someone walking into a 7-11 and "walking off" with a bag of chips.
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Well, technically I believe you were only supposed to take out one per person. But had we wanted to, we could have sat in the commons for hours gorging ourselves and consuming as many as we wanted, so...

On the other hand, I do not believe the chairs were included in the meal plan. :biggrin:

Oh, and I don't care how much generic 'great food' the Gateway has to offer. It doesn't have Mustard's or Maxwell's. :(
 
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I went to Mad Mex tonight actually. Needless to say, Don Pablos at Lennox is gonna lose a lot of business to this place. It's basically a cooler don pablos at about the same prices (maybe even cheaper) with better food and more items on the menu, also like 27 different margaritas and 20 something beers on tap, not to mention a tequila shot "sampler" to name a small portion of the shit load of drinks they had available.
 
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PrincessPeach said:
Oh, and I don't care how much generic 'great food' the Gateway has to offer. It doesn't have Mustard's or Maxwell's. :(
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Whoa...We may have crossed paths a few times back in the day and didn't know it...I loved Maxwells, the Pit/Edge/Whatever else they changed the name to, and Mustards...I was at Mustards for their 24 hour closing/shut down party. Sad day in C-Bus. They stopped serving at the regular time and only had water until they were allowed to start serving again...I also "walked off" with a bucket of beer or two from that place...Not part of the meal plan either I don't think...:biggrin:
 
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The chicken fingers were the best dinner item and the french toast sticks the best breakfast item.

I usually went Buckeye Expresss for lunch, 94-98.

You remember jambox man? The guy who used to go around campus singing out loud while carrying the jambox on his shoulder?

I dropped a bag of water on him from a 4th story window once, he wasn't happy.
 
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The chicken fingers were by far the best meal at the commons. It seemed like by winter quarter they figured out what everybody really liked, and then made those items appear once a month instead of once a week. By May the good food never came back. Needless to say I spent many nights making the walk from North campus to Mirror Lake.

Commons brunch was a great cure for the Sunday morning hangover.

LMAO about the Snickers bars. We did the same thing. Everybody's microfridge/freezer consisted of Snickers bars and Natty by the end of the year.
 
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I'm with HAYN- the Texas Straw Hat was the best by far.

I also liked the little scrambled egg omlette things they had for breakfast. I ate in the Park Hall cafeteria for several years- 87-90 or so.

HAYN- a friend of mine was an RA in Baker, might have been there in '90. Maybe he busted you and your water buddies? :biggrin:
 
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Sausage gravy and biscuits at buckeye express were the best along with the popcorn chicken. You could do anything with that chicken...use it in a salad, hot sauce, etc...

I was also a sucker for the frozen drumsticks and ate about 3 a day
 
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