What got YOU through college?

[Eric Wettschreck]

Dude, I love pigs eye!!! I'm a pabst drinker. Only us select few can drink the higher quality beers.

I didn't go to college.

[Roscoe16]

What got me thru college? My Mom!!! I lived in Grand Rapids and went to Bemidji State for college so I would go home about every other weekend and she would load me up with hot dishes, pot pies, ham, carmel rolls, soups, fried chicken, all kinds of stuff. When I'd get back on Sunday night my roommates would be waiting at the door for me. We lived in a cabin at Ruttger's Resort on the north end of Lake Bemidji. We fished right in front of our place, in the boat and ice fished, so we ate a lot of fish too. Hunted ducks, grouse, venison, did a lot of BBQing. We used to have breakfast for supper sometimes too, bacon, eggs, hashbrowns. None of us ever ate breakfast in the morning because we were too hungover. Our beers were Strohs, Old Style, Schmidt, and High Life. We were living the High Life back then, and didn't even know it!

Roscoe

[Nate McVey]

I am a HUGE Pig's Eye Light fan..........when I lived in CO, I would beg for people to bring it to me when they traveled from 'sconnie!

[dirtking]

High life light - boy it was cheap - Mankato 96-00 - saved our money to go to the bars - I really do not remember eating - I guess I do remember raiding the parents fridge every time I stopped at home

"We were living the High Life back then, and didn't even know it!" - A-men to that Roscoe

[toughguy]

Dirt King - I was in Kato 96-00 too. Tell me you tried Hauenstein. $9 for a case of returnables.

[harvey lee]

Guys, this started out as a food post and lets try to keep it in that direction and not get off subject.

[Tom Linderholm]

Agreed Harvey, certainly not the place for a dispute over the best/worst adult beverages, when we are promoting a family friendly site.

As for me it was working in a restaurant. No easier way to stay fed than eating at work and bringing home the leftovers.

Thanks in advance for keeping this on topic.

[Scott M]

Basically everything I ate was referred to in one of my economics classes as an "inferior good." We're talking Easy Mac, Ramen, PBR, Gluek, Blatz, Cheap returnables that you never saved money on anyways, Anything called "Natural" or "Ice" or "Natural Ice", Tater Tot Hot Dish, Totinos Pizza. We ate at the churches whenever they gave stuff away, or when colleges had little celebrations at the "U" we would go. Like IT would have some student luncheon and we would go even though we weren't in IT. Stuff like that.

Lots of walleye, crappie, and gills, pheasant, grouse, you name it. Venison....Any money I saved was for hunting and fishing and the ridiculous cost of gas.

These are the things getting me through...one more year to go.....

[Jorgie]

Hey no fair, I work for IT and I had to work hard for those crappy luncheons.

[Duffman]

Godfathers Pizza dumpster diving down in Kato after a night at the 'tross.

Two Rules;

1 Only in winter

2 Only the bags that were still steamin'

Oh yea, picking off cottontails with our pellet guns behind our apartment building near the Devonshire Apts. Good eats!

[DigitalFisherman]

Trout; I went to school in Wyoming and Saturdays were the days to refill the freezer with brookies. On Sundays my three roommates and I would each throw in fifteen bucks and buy the rest of the groceries for the week… I think we ate pretty well.

We never had to worry much about liquid provisions; we were the only students that we knew who had our own washer and dryer. There was always someone showing up with a box of beer and a sack of laundry.

[fishyguy]

We lived pretty well. We ate all the cafeteria food but at about half the price. The rich kids had their parents pay the tuition and room and board. We would take turns using the cafeteria passes and bringing food home for the others. It wasn't high quality food but we never went hungry.

As far as the beer goes I have to admit we were also a Pigs Eye group. One of the Dad's worked at the brewery. We got the cases at the employee price of $3 or $4 bucks a case. There was also the occasional case of Pfieffer's or Black Label mixed in there.

[fishlips]

Taco Johns, Reser burritos from Valley Dairy and Schmidt big mouths....if they would have had Taco Bell in Grand Forks back then, I could have ate like a king for $2 a day.

[Borch]

Smack Ramen, Cheap white bread, cheese, lots of crappies and venison. Maybe a few beverages as well.

[nolte]

venison, grouse, ducks and walleyes. Plus anything I'd bring back from home. Went to school in Duluth and whacked many a deer in the Superior city bowhunt. Good eats. Had a ton of stuff in a crock pot, or on the George Foreman.

As for beverages, keystones, milwaukee's best light (the beast), and more Busch Light returnables that seemed humanly possible. Never bought furniture, so we stacked the cases to use as TV stands, end tables, night stands, coffee tables and a magazine stand in the bathroom. Once we ran out of room, we'd start returning. At the end of the year we had a lot to return and would cash in for a party.

[Grant]

Beer (its a meal in a bottle!)

Beer

Beer...

Seriously, venison and whatever was cheapest that week.

[so haaad]

Fishlips, surprised you didn't mention a late night at Happy Chef.