[OT] Hot Truck or Louie's?

[CowbellGuy]

Since when does a (normal) sub from HT cost $8?

[Adam \'01]

Louie's wins hands down.  The hot truck is often so damn busy that you get little or no interaction at all with the staff.  At Louie's the owners always greet you with good conversation; they actually care about the classes you're taking, what the Yankees score is, and what the scuttlebutt is around campus.  Let me highlight why Louie's trumps the Hot Truck in a few points:

1) Pickles, olives, tomatoes, mustard, ketchup, vinegar.  Try asking for those at the Hot Truck.

2) The damn flaky bread at the Hot Truck gets all over the place.  Louie's bread is easily smooshed (a scientific term!) down to confine to one's mouth.

3) When you get to know Ron, he is very generous in offering free milkshakes and other treats.  Once for my birthday, I got a milkshake with a candle in it (don't ask).

4) Less drunk frat boys at Louie's.  Just more drunk...well...other people, which somehow makes it more tolerable.

5) As mentioned ad naseum now...variety, variety, variety.  Where else can you get a decent mixed grill for under 5 bones?

6) The convienent Collegetown Video drop box right outside! :-P

[Adam \'04]

[q]The damn flaky bread at the Hot Truck gets all over the place. Louie's bread is easily smooshed (a scientific term!) down to confine to one's mouth.[/q]

That is one of the best parts about eating HT; it gets everywhere.

[gwm3]

Having lived with Adam '01 for two years, I can personally vouch for the fact that he was incapable of keeping Hot Truck crumbs (or sauce for that matter) out of the carpet ::rolleyes::

[kaelistus]

There's a collegetown video drop box in front of Louie's now? Damn! That would have  been cool to have...

[Lowell '99]

Hot Truck is a Cornell institution.  Louie's is not.  It's one thing to be crazy enough to actually like Louie's better; it's far more incriminating to be crazy enough to admit it.  

It's like saying you'd much rather watch intramural water polo at Cornell than men's hockey.

:-)

[gwm3]

How can you say Louie's is not a Cornell institution?  It has been on campus since 1918.

[Lowell '99]

That can't be true.  The wheel wasn't invented until 1926.  And let's not even mention Yosemite Sam....

[gwm3]

For the uninformed:

http://www.louieslunch.com/history.htm

And on this note, can we stop bickering about greasy food and go back to bickering about hockey?

[Will]

Hot Truck.  Hands down.  Order a Big Willie (my own creation) if you want to try something good and new, if a bit pricy. :-D

[Adam \'01]

Louie's has been in Ithaca sooooo much longer than the Hot Truck.  I bet if we got some alums from the 30's and 40's to chime in here, some of you Hot Truck facetimers might change your views! :-P

[Will]

This is the second time today (on this forum, no less) that I've been collectively labeled as a "facetimer". With respect to the Hot Truck example, I am no facetimer. I go there because I love the food. I go there because I love the people (the ones working inside the truck, not the drunks waiting outside the truck--they vex me far too often). This isn't to say that Louie's Lunch is a bad place to go, but in my mind, it just doesn't compare to the Hot Truck experience. Louie's has been around longer than Hot Truck...so what? Harvard's been around longer than Cornell, and I'd never dare to say they're better than us. :-D

[Jim Hyla]

Age, for your poll, you should probably add "Too long since I've eaten at either" so us old-timers can vote.:-)

[littleredfan]

I believe they've actually gotten rid of the CT video drop box in front of louie's

[bigred apple]

I always saw Louie's Lunch, but I never heard anyone say that they ate there.  I went to Hot Truck all the time.  

Hot Truck is remembered so fondly because while Louie's is a place to get something to eat, Hot Truck is a place to go when you are druuuuuuuuuunk.  Those stories are always more memorable.