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Filling aTable For One

It’s a Thursday night, and like many of my fellow students, I was starved. Finding food at City can be difficult for the average student, and it doesn’t help that I’m directionally challenged.

The wonderful state of California handed me money and told me to use it toward education. I bought five Wendy’s Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers. Half-way decent burgers for a buck? What a wonderful world! The path to the land of cheap food becomes familiar and inviting.

It’s Tuesday evening again and I ate Carl’s Jr. for the first time in a year. I’ve learned that it has the best burgers nearby. If you have the cash, go there. Even if you don’t, see if they have any specials.

If no two-for-five buck deals are available, Famous Stars are the cheapest and most filling. But that day I tried the promotional burger: the cheap Six-Dollar Burger. With a student discount, the price became little less than advertised. Huzzah!

Tuesday evening, the last meal of the day for me, and Pacific Café chili cheese fries sounded good. Two bowls sounded even better! I pried myself out of my steel chair, set down my book and entered the café.

As fate would have it, Murphy’s Law dropkicked me in the face when I discovered prices had gone up. My life-long dream of two bowls of chili cheese fries cruelly denied.

It’s late Tuesday once more and I decided to try a place that a few friends recommended: Au Lac, a vegetarian joint only a block away from City. They said the food is well worth the money you pay. The atmosphere within proved comfy and the chess board tables off to the side made me smile.

I was served a Happy Burger and it owned anything McDonald’s ever has to offer. But my schedule yanked me away from a peaceful meal and I took it with me. Even after it had cooled, it was the best vegetarian burger I’ve had yet.

It’s a Wednesday afternoon and a friend of mine treated me to lunch at the cafeteria here at City. It’s a wonder that so many people cram themselves in there and a greater wonder that thevy can hear themselves think over all the noise.

But as I walked into the food court, the noise died away and only the sights and smells of food remained. The selection was overwhelming and I changed my mind a hundred different times before settling on a quesadilla. Though I don’t go there often, it was a nice place to get food. Having any money to buy food in the first place is nice, but that goes without saying.

While the mule tried to decide which pile of hay to eat from, it starved to death. That probably won’t happen with you, but even so, I hope the suggestions help.

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