FSAE Dinner

[Nick Renold]

What's your favorite cheap dinner food for those late nights in the shop?

My goal is to fill up our mini-fridge with food to keep the seniors fueled and the freshmen interested.

My first instinct is Hot Pockets but those things just burn everybody. Thoughts?

[Nick Renold]

What's your favorite cheap dinner food for those late nights in the shop?

My goal is to fill up our mini-fridge with food to keep the seniors fueled and the freshmen interested.

My first instinct is Hot Pockets but those things just burn everybody. Thoughts?

[Mikey Antonakakis]

Pizza!!

[Adambomb]

+1, last year somebody either brought in or abandoned one of those radiant pizza cookers, and it cooked like 5 of those $2.50 pizzas a night. Was awesome. Plus cheapo frozen pizzas have more oz./dollar and more kCal/dollar than hot pockets. $0.25 burritos are the only thing with higher oz./dollar or kCal/dollar, but eating more than 2 a day will probably kill you.

[EHog]

freezie pops.

[AxelRipper]

well normally it is the McDouble McChicken combo, occasionally pizza...

Or if the Sunday is right, a store bought pumpkin pie and Tab cola

[Jersey Tom]

Those small, cheap frozen pizzas... the ones that are just the right size to cook in the heat treating oven. Worked like a charm.

[MegaDeath]

There is a taco bell right across the street from campus. It wins.

[RollingCamel]

Fool/Falafel sandwich.

[Nicky]

We drive 10km away from college(outskirts) so that we could catch some bread and egg with steaming hot tea. The city closes by 11pm hence the distance. But its more like a break.. Its fun to drive with over 10 hungry people on bikes.

PS: Its pretty cold!

[ibanezplayer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by MegaDeath:
There is a taco bell right across the street from campus. It wins. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Our campus is spread throughout the downtown core...you can literally have whatever you want, whenever you want, depending on how far your willing to travel.

Unfortunately team excursions to McDonald's at 3 am become more and more frequent the closer to competition it gets.

There is always the street meat guy outside our door who was recently "exposed" in a school paper as being on welfare, working for cash, sleeping on the job, and using the side of our shop as his personal restroom.....but you know....the stand is open 24 hours.

[Ben K]

HEY. My Mini-fridge won't have any diarrhea pockets inside of it.

Also--Chicken Shack is open pretty late.....

Ben

[coastertrav]

We don't dare keep food in our fridge unless you're trying to start some kind of mold experiment.

There is a McDonalds that has seen our crew far too often and is where one of our team members discovered the McChubble.

Also there was a CNC event that occurred during a question of whether the operator wanted a Del Taco taco or burrito.

Also every Saturday is lunch at Chipottle (pronounced Chi-Pote-le).

[KyleD]

Earlier this semester we invested in a pizza cooker for our computer lab, it's infinitely useful. The adjacent fridge is also always stocked with mountain dew.

[JasperC]

We have a small (and dirty :P) kitchen in our workshop so every day some random team member is told to cook dinner.

Macaroni bolognese (or pasta red sauce as we simply call it) is probably the most popular dish because it's relatively easy to cook for 20 people. Because obviously you just take a few jars of Heinz tomato sauce and throw in the cheapest mince meat and vegetables.

We had an Italian guy in our 2009 team. When we served him our "pasta red sauce" he hardly knew what was happening to him. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

As the year evolves into the assembly phase and nights become longer and longer, 2am trips to the nearby Burger King or McDonald's become more and more frequent just to keep you going for a few more hours.

Also, near our testing ground there is a McDonald's so the testing crew will go there like 3 times per week. At that point you can no longer deny that FSAE is bad for your health. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Interesting topic by the way!

Cheers,
Jasper

[ibanezplayer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by JasperC:
We have a small (and dirty :P) kitchen in our workshop so every day some random team member is told to cook dinner. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Do want this.

Someone usually brings pizza to testing, and bbqs have been known to show up too.

[Ben K]

Moral of the story:

"If it's free, they will come."

Ben

[DanVaan]

We happen to have a fume hood in our office, for some unknown reason. It contains a small coleman propane bbq for burgers and smokies, as well as a deep fryer for fries and onion rings.

[Mehul Botadra]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by JasperC:
We have a small (and dirty :P) kitchen in our workshop so every day some random team member is told to cook dinner.

Macaroni bolognese (or pasta red sauce as we simply call it) is probably the most popular dish because it's relatively easy to cook for 20 people. Because obviously you just take a few jars of Heinz tomato sauce and throw in the cheapest mince meat and vegetables.

We had an Italian guy in our 2009 team. When we served him our "pasta red sauce" he hardly knew what was happening to him. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

As the year evolves into the assembly phase and nights become longer and longer, 2am trips to the nearby Burger King or McDonald's become more and more frequent just to keep you going for a few more hours.

Also, near our testing ground there is a McDonald's so the testing crew will go there like 3 times per week. At that point you can no longer deny that FSAE is bad for your health. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Interesting topic by the way!

Cheers,
Jasper </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

You should ask them for sponsorship, they wouldn't deny looking at your frequency! :P

Here in India, there are roadside eateries which serve good spicy food and its a bliss to have during the nights. But then the team becomes sluggish and sleepy! http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Mikey Antonakakis]

Although most of the time trying to do FSAE in Manhattan is a hindrance, when it comes to quick food, it's unbeatable. There are at least a dozen places to eat delicious food within a 10 minute walk, and everywhere delivers. The best places in the neighborhood are across the street from the engineering building. Che Bella pizza and Appletree Supermarket (rather, the deli at Appletree), I'm looking at you.

[ed_pratt]

We got ourselves sponsored by our local papa johns pizza - seriously guys, this is the way forward. FREE PIZZA FOR ALL!

Ed

[CeReJa]

Mostly pizza and roast chicken, but we also got the most out of an old forge in our workshop http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7735/hpim2869b.jpg

[Ben K]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ed_pratt:
We got ourselves sponsored by our local papa johns pizza - seriously guys, this is the way forward. FREE PIZZA FOR ALL!
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Now that is one epic win. Maybe we should try to get sponsorship from local eateries....

[wagemd]

A few chips from one of the mills or lathes usually hits the spot... Then maybe Subway or JimmyJons to wash that down.

[ESaenz]

Don't forget about the not meat foods for us vegetarians. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[Mehul Botadra]

How many teams got their own beer on board?

[Dsenechal]

We usually stick with a 1 AM McDonalds run...

We had a refrigerator in the shop "Back in the day", but they got busted for having beer in it. Now we cant have one http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Xeilos]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mehul Botadra:
How many teams got their own beer on board? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

We used to in the last April rush. Strictly speaking, not allowed beer on campus but at 2 AM in the morning, no one is around to care. We would stock the fridge for those late, late night builds and running of wires/brake lines (NOTE: we were not using power tools at this point) and in the morning there would be no beer left. The next day involved a repeat performance.

We moved into a new building with glass walls and doors. Sadly no more beer is possible, although safer to work in the environment.

[BrendonD]

Aforementioned fridge with requisite post-it note.

http://imgur.com/Xf2Ubl.jpg

[RobbyObby]

Our freezer is stocked with $1 tv dinners from safeway!
You also cant go wrong with little caesars hot n readies!

[Nick F]

Coles garlic bread. Cooks great in the sandwich press.

[Mehul Botadra]

I guess the European teams kill in the beerfest! They just have too much of stock! But we did beat them in chugging! http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif