{"id":165,"date":"2008-08-27T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T14:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-08-27T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T14:31:26","slug":"the-roach-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"The Roach Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, at Purdue, whenever it was morning-time, and the call of sustenance rang through my belly, the thing to do was to walk over to the Union and either go to Pappy’s for a down-home, eggs&sausage breakfast sandwich, or go the healthy route, and pay an exuberant, rip-off price for a bowl of cereal & fruit. But here at Illinois, we don’t have a tunnel system connecting our buildings. Nor is there an indoor cafeteria nearby… Well, the union is sort of nearby, I’d say the distance from STEW to the CL50 or MATH building.<\/p>\n

But the glory of a free-market economy is that where there is demand, there shall be supply.<\/p>\n

Enter: Derald’s Catering. A.K.A. the "Roach Coach".<\/h2>\n

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Like a shiny beacon lighting the way for all who suffer the pangs of hunger within a three-to-five-block radius, Derald’s Catering offers everything for the fat lazy american connesieur: Breakfast Sandwiches, Hamburgers, Cajun Chicken sandwiches, chips, pop… You name it.<\/p>\n

I even got their number, so in the winter months, I can call ahead, make my order, and pick it up without having to wait 5 minutes in a snowdrift while they cook my custom sandwich!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, at Purdue, whenever it was morning-time, and the call of sustenance rang through my belly, the thing to do was to walk over to the Union and either go to Pappy’s for a down-home, eggs&sausage breakfast sandwich, or go the healthy route, and pay an exuberant, rip-off price for a bowl of cereal &… Continue reading The Roach Coach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}