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Garbage Plate

Written by Love Without Nagel | 11 April 2009

This week Armchair Culture salutes Nick Tahou Hots restuarant in Rochester, NY and Henrietta, NY. This dive of dives serves up their world famous Garbage Plates (trademarked) for drunks, fat people and college students alike every day, and they've been doing it since 1918.

What is a Garbage Plate ^TM? Is it boiled trash served to hobos on fine china? No, it's a gluttonous treat. It is a base of home fries, macaroni salad, baked beans and/o french fries topped with your choice of meats and covered in spicy mustard, chopped onion, and Nick's "special sauce," which I'm pretty sure is delicious lard and fatty ground beef. It also comes with two pieces of Italian bread with a cold pad of butter for each. The bread is basically useless because you can't make a sandwich out of this meal.

So what kind of "meats" can you get on your garbage plate? Red hot, White hot, Cheeseburger, Hamburger, Italian Sausage, Chicken Tender, Fish, Fried Ham, Egg, Veggie Burger, Grilled Cheese. Fish sounds like a terrible idea by the way. Keep in mind, the Cheeseburger plate has 93 grams of fat!

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mmmmmmmmm

that looks delicious

KAPLAN572 , April 11, 2009

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"drunks, fat people and college students"

Please don't cut and paste my resume

smokeymctrees , April 11, 2009

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Shit was good man. Didn't we pop our Garbage Plate cherry together, before "We're all gonna fucking die!!!"

Also, for some reason I think I tried the fish one, and it wasn't that bad.

smokeymctrees , April 11, 2009

fish?

i never heard of the fish one, but noone would be dumb enough to order that one. whoever ate one of those must now have SERIOUS stomach problems. oh.... Hi Bill!

THRILLHO , April 11, 2009

throw some fish sticks on that thing

i'd eat it. you like fish sticks? you like to put fish sticks in your mouth?

KAPLAN572 , April 11, 2009

rochester

i've learned that virtually every restaurant here in rochester makes their own try at the Garbage Plate, with varying degrees of success. it is a perfectly acceptable business lunch option, and that "special sauce" is just referred to as hot sauce throughout town. i learned this at a hotdog stand when, after giving the nod to hot sauce, my sandwich was drenched in that greasy meat lard - it was delicious of course.

jbailey017 , April 12, 2009