[amanda]

So, as some of you probably know, I live in a college town and go to America's #5 party school (GO DAWGS!!!). The odd thing about Athens, though, is that there isn't much of a "house party" or frat party culture like most colleges have - we have a downtown area with 70+ bars occupying historic buildings, some of them well over 100 years old, that also contains lots of cute little restaurants and boutiques. When the bars close down at 2 a.m., the streets kind of look like a tiny version of Manhattan - everyone walking instead of driving, and food vendors EVERYWHERE. And everyone is hungry...

The most famous food vendor in Athens is the Polish Sausage Guy (that might as well be his real name, because no one knows what he actually calls his business) that vends sausage instead of hot dogs with his famous Comeback Sauce (said to sober you up enough to walk back to your driver's car). Mostly it's hot dogs, but some people sell barbeque, hamburgers, french fries, kielbasa, pretzels - anything you can eat with your hands.

Also popular are the after-hours restaurants; mostly the Grill, a 24-hour establishment that serves hamburgers, hot sandwiches, milkshakes, and thick-cut fries with feta cheese dressing. At 2:30 a.m., there's up to an hour wait for a table, and the same is true at most of the Waffle Houses in town. The line of cars snakes around the Krystal's on Lexington so people can get bags full of tiny hamburgers (think the redneck version of White Castle), and it's always the same creepy old manager working the window on Friday and Saturday nights.

I've been known to frequent all of these places in my 4 years of college, and it's rare to find me drunkenly stumbling down Clayton Street without a hot dog in my hand. I have a good friend who will have a hot dog, but then some compulsion requires her to go home and eat Totino's pizza rolls. Every time. She almost burned down her apartment one time because she was drunk and left the oven on.

So what are YOUR drunk food traditions? What about the morning after? My roommate and I are known to go get some next-day fajitas at On the Border (a margarita does wonders for a hangover), or wait in line in our pajamas (the only time I will appear in public in sweatpants) with the after-church crowd to get the Sunday fried chicken special at Cracker Barrel.

[addicted2chanel]

We'd (my SO and a couple friends) would always go to Denny's and have a Grandslam..but that was only because they were the only place open besides gut-rot fast food, and we didn't want to risk dying by cooking LOL.

[Blue824]

I went to school in Washington DC, and we would often go out to an area of the city called Adams Morgan, and we would never leave without getting a piece of pizza from Jumbo Slice. I honestly never ate that pizza sober, but I doubt it would taste good if I was. I don't even remember if it tasted good drunk, but we ate there every time. There was also a hot dog vendor in the Froggy Bottom area, he was quite popular with us too... Ooh and Steak n Egg, a total greasy spoon. For breakfast the next morning, it was often the Pancake House in Bethesda.

In Chicago, late at night we go for mexican food. Like hole in the wall little places open late and get tamales or tacos... or, there is one bar we sometimes go to that they come in selling tamales, lol. And there is a place La Bamba that has HUGE burritos, as big as your head, which we have numerous pictures to prove... and we have ended up there many times after nights out

So gross... I don't really want to remember what I have eaten after nights out drinking.

[Pursegrrl]

I don't know...I'm usually blacked out and don't know what I'm eating....kidding!!

In the olden days of the mid 1980s when I was in college we ordered in pizza (hello, Dominos!) or made mac & cheese or whatever cereal was available in our sorority house. Many a drunken/deep convo was had in the kitchenette!!

A little OT, but Amanda I so wish we had an On the Border here in Seattle. I ate at one nearly every night when I was in Reno on business a few years ago (and sober). Out of this world!!

In more recent post-drunken news, I find a good Bloody Mary works wonders. This helped immensely in Vegas earlier this year...bloody mary's and Keno for breakfast, LMAO.

[MsTina]

I go Penn State (#2!) so its pretty similar to you Amanda.

I usually eat everything and anything! I'm joking but not! I have an incredible appetite to begin with so adding drinks to the mix - OH BOY! People are in disbelief!

Usually I end up at a fastfood place - like McDonald's, Taco Bell, Subway, or the 435345 pizza places like Gumby's (home of the Pokey Stick!), R U Hungry (home of the fat sandwiches!), and other shops that wouldn't make much money if the student body was sober! Or I would make and eat anything and everything in my house.

The morning after I am using crawling to the trash can or the bathroom! I enjoy a good chinese buffet, anything greasy or the famed Waffle Shop or the Diner. Pretty much anywhere that doesn't have a line of hungover kids.

We are...drunk and hungry!

[claireZk]

I'll eat anything when I'm drunk

Usually it's Wendys or Wawa though. Wawa, btw, is a regional convenience store chain out here. They have a deli counter where you can order sandwiches and stuff and it is literally the only thing that stays open all night. Even the diners close around 1 or 2 am. Out of towners are always like Wa? Huh? What's it called?

[tokyogirl]

Originally Posted by Pursegrrl

In the olden days of the mid 1980s when I was in college we ordered in pizza (hello, Dominos!)

me too!

[kcf68]

Denny's the Drunk's paradise!

[coach4me]

In the past I've eaten the most horrible, greasy, bad for you food after drinking... fast food, big diner breakfasts, nachos, hot wings... all kinds of horrible things.

I've developed some bad intestinal problems in the last few years and I just can't tolerate that kind food, drunk or sober, anymore.

The last time I ate anything after drinking, I made some asian dumplings...not the best thing, but certainly not the worst... and no tummy trouble the next day.

[Divyaangana]

Man, I was just having this conversation with my roommates this past weekend after a drinking binge. I go to Kansas State and it's set in a very tiny town for a college town;s standards. There are very few restaurants that are actually open after the bar's close.

But after a night of heavy drink, my friends and I always have to go to Bob's Diner. It's a hole in the wall, but one of only 2 places in town that actually stay open all night. It's got the reputation that you can only eat it when you are drunk because the alcohol will keep you from getting food poisoning. Usually the line is out the door and around the building to get in.

After Bob's our only other alternative is McDonald's. Which is usually where my friends and I end up when we have someone else driving us home.

But that is pretty much it in my little town. We have an IHOP, but it closes up at 12, so it's not even really worth it. Although it is a very popular spot the next morning to help curb the hangover. A stack of Strawberry Banana pancakes with black coffee.

[daphodill84]

Mm.... Denny's if someone is DD, otherwise we'll stumble into a mcdonalds, random pizza place, or donair place around the area. I *love* my donairs!

[luvsbags&shoes]

My friends and I usually went out for Chinese food after a long night of drinking.

[graceful]

When I was in college at LSU, we would go to fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, Taco Bell or Raising Cane's. Cane's has what they call a Box, which included fried chicken fingers, a piece of bread, salty fries and some kind of thousand island dressing sauce...they stayed open extra late on the weekends!

The next day I would normally eat pizza or french fries. For some reason, those two always sound sooo good and can cure a hangover for me. I also like bloody marys!

[floridagal23]

[quote=Blue824;6240842]I went to school in Washington DC, and we would often go out to an area of the city called Adams Morgan, and we would never leave without getting a piece of pizza from Jumbo Slice. I honestly never ate that pizza sober, but I doubt it would taste good if I was. I don't even remember if it tasted good drunk, but we ate there every time. There was also a hot dog vendor in the Froggy Bottom area, he was quite popular with us too... Ooh and Steak n Egg, a total greasy spoon. For breakfast the next morning, it was often the Pancake House in Bethesda.


Yah! Jumbo slice! I went to GW undergrad and am moving back in August! The hot dog guy in foggy bottom...Manoush? He was always by tower records and burned the pretzels big time.

[amanda]

oh man...it's funny to hear about the Raising Cane's and Gumby's in other college towns, we have them too! But there's none in Atlanta. There are restaurants out there that apparently just make their money feeding drunk college kids, lol.

We went out hard last night and ended up at The Grill eating a philly steak and cheese with mushrooms and french fries with feta dressing. mmmm. One of the guys I was with asked the server for jesus on a stick, but the Grill is the kind of place where the servers don't flinch over that kind of stuff. And then I had to buy that guy's roommate his omelette because it was my fault that his roommate was drunk and belligerent...oops.