Today I ate a sausage sub and 1/2 pound of French fries.

[LuckyCharms]

I shared those things though, so I didn't really eat it all myself.

I used to eat garbage like this when I was younger. I had a wicked craving for this stuff today, so I went to the "take out only" place that I used to go to when I was a kid. It's like a food truck, only it's in a brick and mortar building. It's been there over 70 years I think, and it hasn't changed one bit. It was like travelling back in time. It even smelled the same in there.

It had all of the major recommended food groups:

Sausage
Peppers
Onions
Bread
French fries

Now everything is repeating on me and I feel like shit.

That being said, you have to love a place that sells "1/2 pound of fries".

[Wicked Blue]

1. I had a tuna sub yesterday

and have been riding the porcelain pony all day.

[LuckyCharms]

3. Oooh...feel better soon! It's funny you mention that!

i actually was on my way to Subway to get a tuna sub, but on the way there, I changed my mind and said "Fuck it, I'm going for the gold", and drove to the take out place instead.

[Wicked Blue]

6. Thanks, LuckyCharms

I hope you feel better too

If I'd eaten a sausage sub, I would likely be in orbit by now

[LuckyCharms]

8. Sometimes you just have to do it, even though you know it's

going to mess you up.

[Wicked Blue]

11. Years ago I used to claim I had a cast-iron stomach

and now karma has caught up with me

[LuckyCharms]

19. This place is located near the railroad tracks where we used to drink beer at night...

when I was a teenager.

We used to get drunk at the tracks, then when everyone left to go home, I would walk to this place and get a half pound of fries and sit on the curb at midnight and scarf them down.

Like an animal.

[Wicked Blue]

25. My place was Greasy Tony's in New Brunswick NJ

back in the '70s when I was a student at Rutgers U. Tony made the best cheese steaks I ever ate. He had a sign on the wall that said "No charge for extra grease."

Then he moved to Arizona and opened 3 or 4 places there.

New Brunswick was never the same again.

[LuckyCharms]

31. Oh shit...cheesesteak subs are my weakness.

We have several places around here that make great ones.

We have a "Texas hot" place here that my mother, rest her soul, made me take her to every Saturday for chili dogs.

I drove, she didn't drive.

Then it was always a race to get home before we shit ourselves.

[Wicked Blue]

36. All this food talk...

and me feasting on Gatorade and Saltine crackers for dinner.

[LuckyCharms]

37. Don't dip the saltines in spreadable cream cheese...

like I do.

[Wicked Blue]

39. Wouldn't dream of it

if I'm better tomorrow, there's a nice bowl of instant masala upma, sweet lime pickle and mint chutney on my breakfast menu. I love Indian food but can't eat it often these days.

[LuckyCharms]

40. I don't know what any of that is, but...

I'll try it!

[Wicked Blue]

41. Upma is a kind of savory cooked farina

with bits of cashews, curry leaves, and slightly spicier seasonings (masala) than the plain variety. I throw in a handful of frozen peas too. I use the instant kind sold at Indian grocery stores.

Sweet lime pickle is chunks of lime in lots of sugar and hot peppers. Mint chutney contains mint and cilantro leaves plus some hot pepper. I buy both in jars.

A dollop of plain Greek yogurt adds protein and subdues the heat a bit for a non-Indian palate.

It's my favorite breakfast.

[royable]

43. I'd walk or drive by two of his locations in Tucson, next to the University of Arizona.

I'd always chuckle at the "extra grease" sign.

Over the years, I got dine-in or take out a handful of times. It was always very good, I recall. Nothing fancy at all, just good ol' subs.

Over time, he closed one location that then got torn down for a big UA parking garage.

I remember the last time I dropped by the last location on the opposite side of campus, he was working behind the counter all by himself and no other employees were there, or customers either. He was very nice, and while he looked old and grizzled and tired, he seemed to thoroughly enjoy his work. I remember thinking, he and his business are not long for this world.

I read in the newspaper a few months later that he'd died and the property was sold and bulldozed, and now a giant pricey private mega-dorm complex for rich students covers that land and other land for several blocks around.

The only thing that is constant is change.

[Wicked Blue]

46. Tony was a master at making Philly cheesesteaks

I'm sorry to hear his Tucson place was sold and bulldozed.

His first restaurant was in Trenton NJ. Then he moved from one place in New Brunswick to another across the street. The first location is now a pricey university dorm and I can't recall what happened to the other one. Can't handle seeing New Brunswick now. It used to be a great college town that J&J redeveloped into a sea of parking decks and restaurants that students can't afford.
sigh

This was his initial location in New Brunswick



from this blog
https://paradelle.wordpress.com/2022/02/24/long-tail-greasy-tony/

[Ptah]

45. I'm glad he moved to Tucson.

Yum!

[Wicked Blue]

49. Have you eaten at Greasy Tony's?

That makes you and me fellow Greasers.

[Ptah]

54. Back in the early 1980's:

[Wicked Blue]

56. That building's a work of art

[True Dough]

48. I've had that same fallout

from tuna subs at Subway, more than once! My fault for ordering them on multiple occasions!

[Kali]

51. Greasy Tony's!

Tucson UofA favorite.

[Ptah]

55. Back when I was in high school (1969), that location was an El Taco!

[Kali]

58. my high school el taco was in south Scottsdale

remember their cheese"crisp?" would be called a quesadilla now. made in what looked like and old clothing steam presser?

[Ptah]

60. Being a transplant from Montana, I thought "Wow, real Mexican food!"

[pdxflyboy]

44. Me Too, Wicked Blue!

[Shermann]

22. Sometimes the tuna there looks kind of nasty like it wasn't drained adequately. nt

[Wicked Blue]

33. My sub was from a pizza place near the Jersey shore

It was late in the evening so the tuna salad may have been past it's prime.

[PJMcK]

2. Okay, I had a BBQ triple play for dinner

We’re at my mother-in-law’s and I don’t care for her cooking! My wife and I ordered out.

I had a half rack of BBQ pork ribs, two skewers of grilled chicken breast meat and six grilled Hawaiian shrimp. It came with a mound of fried onion strings and a large bowl of Cole slaw.

It was a ton of food. It was tenderly delicious.

I’m lying in bed waiting for my stomach to question my dinner choices.

[LuckyCharms]

4. Even with a stomach ache, your post is making me hungry again.

[PJMcK]

5. Order in!

You shouldn’t go to bed hungry!

[LuckyCharms]

7. Well, I'm going to try to eat healthy before I go to bed, so...

I'll be having a piece of cheesecake.

[Permanut]

12. Perfect..

Cheese is healthy food, right?

[LuckyCharms]

14. So is cake! Cheese/cake : win/win.

[Wicked Blue]

18. Make sure you get whipped cream

[LuckyCharms]

20. Yep, it has whipped cream and cherries...from Wegmans.

[PJMcK]

16. Add chocolate syrup

Maybe a cherry!

[LuckyCharms]

38. Reading this post made me have a food orgasm.

[dickthegrouch]

9. I have similar binge days

My favorite is Habit Burger with Smashburger a close second.

[LuckyCharms]

15. I don't know what those are, but they sound delicious.

[dickthegrouch]

21. Both burger chains

Far better menu than any others.
Smashburger is mostly on the East coast of the US. Habit Burger mostly on the west coast.

[JoseBalow]

10. I like the concept of Fries By The Pound

[LuckyCharms]

13. They're wrapped tight in a small paper bag (double bagged), and by the time you

get home to eat them, the outside of the bag is soaked in grease.

[dickthegrouch]

23. Sounds like any good British chippie.

Fish and chips (fries) were always served in newspaper when I was a kid. Always soggy when eaten, utterly irresistible.

[LuckyCharms]

27. We used to have a place here that served fries with vinegar. I had never heard of that before...

and when I first tried them, I thought I died and went to food heaven.

[Wicked Blue]

29. Long John Silver?

[LuckyCharms]

32. Hmmmm..Arthur Treacher's maybe?

[Wicked Blue]

34. Treacher's for sure

[Wicked Blue]

17. You could always visit a Heart Attack Grill and have their lard-fried fries

and a multiple bypass burger

[central scrutinizer]

24. Okay, you win the thread

I want one

[Wicked Blue]

28. Here's their Las Vegas menu

https://nitethrive.com/heart-attack-grill-las-vegas-menu-prices-and-hours/

[dickthegrouch]

26. Where's that???

I’d probably lose my dentures before getting very far into that, but I’d sure like to attempt one.

[Wicked Blue]

30. I think mostly in California

[JoseBalow]

35. Yowza!

[Lemonwurst]

42. I love this unabashed hedonism!!

Sometimes we forget, we're just here for a very short ride. Live well, be well, and make the experience everything you can, if you can.

I personally love sausage subs - about twice a year I will indulge myself. And who can resist a place that sells 1/2 pound of French fries as if that's business as usual???!!! Hats off to you, my sketchy-bellied friend!

[LuckyCharms]

47. My feelings exactly!

[onethatcares]

50. Mmmmm, just too many options here to chose just one

and all I can think is, "I'd better get to eating before the docs come along and stuff a tube in me". They don't make subs, pizza,, burgers and dogs that
fit in those tubes

[LuckyCharms]

52. About 20 hours later, and this stuff is oozing out of my pores.

My office smells like sausage sub and French fries.

It's making me gag.

Maybe I'll eat another one today.

[Kali]

53. sounds good

we actually had something similar a few nights ago, hot Italian sausage grilled over mesquite wood, peppers and onions grilled too in a bbq "wok" and some cheap mozzarella, no sub rolls at the store so got telera rolls instead. wrong shape but good texture and toasted on the grill. too lazy to make marinara but they were so good.

chopped up the leftovers and added tomatos, sauce and paste + spices and had over pasta the next day. YUM

[Different Drummer]

57. Sounds like something I would love to eat!

Unfortunately, my metabolism isn't what it used to be, so I have to avoid such splurges as much as possible.

[OldBaldy1701E]

59. The other day, I broke down and got a foot long meatball sub.

I got it my usual way: green and banana peppers, liberally covered with parmesan.

I spent the next 24 hours wondering if I was going to have to go to the hospital. Mostly from all the sweating and panting.

Yeah, I can't just eat whatever I want anymore. I wish I could. Because it literally feels like 'if it has any taste, then I cannot eat it'.

[LuckyCharms]

61. Oh, I hear you!!!

[Aristus]

63. There are three stages of comfort food consumption.

Young: I can eat whatever I want. Bring it on!

Middle-aged: I need to be careful about what I eat so I can live longer.

Old: What the hell. I’m too old to care. I’ll eat whatever the hell I want.

[LudwigPastorius]

64. Did you have a liter o' cola to go with it?

[XanaDUer2]

65. Kick