Garbage Plates explained

I talk about garbage plates constantly. It's because I miss them. Weekly I would get a 'plate at Nick's when I was in school, and now I'm lucky if I get one a year. For those who have heard me talk about them, I'm finally posting pics.

First a little refresher course.

A garbage plate is a meal that Nick Tahau's in Rochester makes. For my example, we'll consider the ever-popular cheeseburger plate with everything. It consists of a paper plate (or styrofoam container if you get it to go) on which the server dumps a couple scoops of mac salad and home fries, followed by two cheeseburgers, two big scoops of hot sauce (in Rochester, "hot" sauce isn't tobasco or red-hot, it's hot-dog sauce, which is similar to sloppy joe sauce without ketchup), a couple scoops of onions, a slathering of mustard, and finally two stale pieces of bread. Back when I was in school, such a cullinary masterpiece would set you back $5.25 plus beverage. The beverage of choice is a large soda, which comes in a special Nick's cup with bendy straw. Upon taking ownership of your plate, it is necessary to drown it in ketchup and red-hot. Shown in the pic below are three plates along with the necessary fixin's.

In the next pic, we have my personal garbage plate, which is a ham & egg plate without mustard instead of the traditional cheeseburger garbage plate with everything. For anybody who's seen me take my egg yokes and put them on top of my home fries when eating breakfast, you now know why. It's my pathetic need for a garbage-plate fix.

And finally, we have the last picture. This is my plate with the first layer of ketchup and red-hot. More is applied as the plate is consumed. Generally 3 guys will go through 1/2 bottle of ketchup and 1/2 to 3/4 of a bottle of red hot when eating a plate.

Enjoy!!!!