What were the Big Three drunk foods at UVA after 1 AM
Had to be:
Gus Burgers
Little John’s - personal preference
Chanellos cheese sticks.
This has probably already been covered, but I think those were the three things i ate late night when I was drunk.
I might be missing something.
By the way @wafflehouse- a small city in Virginia is yearning for you.
I worked night shift at Littlejohn’s for a year or so. The main thing I learned from the experience is that grilled knockwurst makes every sandwich better.
Cisco Kid for life! IYKYK
How can you leave Gumbys Pizza and Pokey Sticks off this list?
The Pizza was a piece of cardboard with a spritz of sauce, possibly some cheese and a large tub of ranch dressing for less than $10 for an XL.
Pokey sticks were unabashedly just a fat stick to drown in the ranch dressing.
Any chance you know the recipe for the chipotle chicken??
Littlejohn’s, White Spot, Dumplings for me.
Dumplings are such an underrated drunk food and deserve more love in other places
Sorry, no. That must have been after my time.
I used the know the herb and horse mayo recipes. Would have sworn I’d never forget them, but here we are.
In my time, they had one prep cook who cranked out pretty much everything solo; an old Armenian guy they paid under the table. The guy was always smiling, always sweating, and never wearing any sleeves.
There’s one on 29. Used to be one on 5th street too, closed around two years ago. I used to rent a place off of Stribling in 2011 and hit it up from time to time on late nights
Way way back, late night gave you two choices - the Spot or University Diner (UD). The menus were interchangeable, but my preference was always UD, Miss Ethel taking orders, Faye and Elwood (?) Shifflett handling the grill (nothing like having a one-eye bacon cheese burger all the way (hold the salad) with extra onions and then your grillswith made right on top of where the onions had been). If I had a time machine and could go back just once more.………ahhh, life was much simpler and it’s the little ordinary things that turn out to be most worth the memories.
Was so sad when Gumby’s closed
Someone needs to find him and extract the recipes before it’s too late
These were definitely the big three in that era. Couple buddies of mine put on a lot of pounds thanks to those Chanelo’s cheese sticks (and the beer that preceded them). Damn that shit was good
I went to UVa during the intersection of Gumby’s AND Chanelo’s. What a time to be alive.
Gather round children as I tell you about the pros and cons of each cheese stick contender…
(I’d vote for Chanelo’s just because everything is perfect when you’re 18. It starts going down hill by the time you’re 20)
I was wondering when someone would mention the greatest late night food of all time!!
Thank you @htraylor
True that! My kids when little loved it for dessert - found that 2-day-old Dunkin glazed generally worked best - needed the dryness to soak up the melting vanilla ice cream. Krispy Kremes worked pretty good but there was more sugar to caramelize. Since they were way too young to have had multiple beeras deleted, I did not grill up any onions with the donuts so the actual experience was still lacking.
TIL that Gumby’s still exists with about a dozen locations.
Fun story:
Especially this part:
They had already secured the rights to the Gumby’s name in Florida. When Gumby’s creator Art Clokey came through Gainesville on a college speaking tour, they threw him a party and the founders said he had such a good time that he granted them the national rights to Gumby’s and Pokey’s names for 100 years.
Those frat bros got the Gumby guy high/drunk and made him sign a one-sided contract! He coulda had a piece of every Pokey stick sold (maybe even literally with some creative lawyering).
i was aware of that… I looked it up a few years ago… I’m sure their signature ingredient is still ranch dressing. I remember handing money to folks to pool buying 2x XL pizzas and them coming back to me to give my money back saying… “we didn’t order… they are out of ranch!”
Congrats on your graduation. Good luck!
Thanks all! Crazy time. 4 years went far too fast.
