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Summer 1987 Daily Nebraskan Page 13 Blood money, bologna and yogurt: Lincoln on two dollars a day c By Kevin Cowan Staff Reporter Walking out of the plasma center, blood money in hand, you've got a serious decision to make. Do you spend the cash on multiple beers or do you, being the rational college transient, allocate the $10 towards basic nutrition. "But what will 10 bucks buy in the way of food," you think to yourself. You can't even walk into a fast food joint without spending at least $4 ... can you? . Of course you can. In fact, that 10 bucks, coupled with the other 20 you'll receive for opening your veins to the plasma vampires will feed you for a week seven days and you can still have five bucks to squander at the bars. If you can live on one meal a day, there are places in Lincoln where you can eat for under $2.23 a day. That comes out to $15.61 a week which still leaves a few dollars for those much needed necessities. If you need more than that, get a real job. But forget that. On to the inexpensive fast food joints. The Loft. Best hogie prices in town hands down. Prices start at $1.24 for a German bologna and cheese hoagie and escalate, depending on the variety, to a whopping $1.90 for a roast beef, pepperoni, ham and cheese super hoagie. So, start with a German bologna and cheese sandwich, throw in a pile of chips (25 cents) and a monsterous cup of Coke and you come out at $2.20. Not a bad deal for a well-filled stomach. And as hoagies tend not to digest quickly, you'll be full for several hours before you have to start rummaging around in Pizza Hut's garbage cans for your next meal. The best part is, the Loft's prices are always this cheap . . . no specials to wait for. W.C. Franks. I know quite a few people who cringe when hot dogs are mentioned. All those nasty little horror stories about all 'n whatever thrown into the little weenie, so you have to make a choice, cost or contents. Think of it this way, chances are frankfurters won't kill you and they probably have fewer diseases than a public toilet seat. When you look at it that way a footlong doesn't sound all that bad. Footlong. A beastly weenie. Yes, at W.C. Franks you can get a footlong with one topping, chips and a medium drink for $2.26. Three cents over the $2.23 ceiling but who counts pennies when you're hungry? If you're willing to knock your food budget to $2.74 on Thursdays, you can get all the footlongs you can eat, with all the toppings (cheese, chili, nacho cheese) you can stomach, as well as chips and a medium drink. However, if you're into summer starvation you can purchae a mini-frank, a topping and a large drink for $1.23. Not a bad deal. Tastee's. This place isn't downtown but as far as being cost effective, Tastees is on top. Forty-nine cents for a tastee. You can get three of the unique creations and a large drink (though, don't be fooled). Large is a relative term. And Tastee's large drinks do leave something to be desired only about six ounces and still be under $2.23, the magic number. Or provoke variety and get a tastee, onion chips and large drink for just around the same price. Oh, yes. Now all the vegetarians are screaming that food is not all hot dogs, hoagies and hamburgers: they're right. So for the yogurt freaks who have yet to try some of the yogurt bars in Lincoln, here's a sample that fits nicely into our moot budget. Yogurt Pump. Not a great deal of diversity here, but the yogurt's good and there are a couple combinations that fit the bill. A twelve ounce cup of yogurt with three different toppings will run you about $2.07. Opt for one topping and you can include apple juice for a grand total of $2.32. T.C.B.Y. Seemingly head honcho in the kingdom of yogurt. For gurtniks, The Country's Best Yogurt offers a Belgian waffle - with vanilla yogurt, granola and carob cashews, for a measly $2.20. "But where's the soft drink?" you say. Let's face it kiddies, with a dandy special like that, you'll just have to settle for water. Just a portion of the fast food restaurants available in urban Lincoln. Of course, there are more. But part of the "on the edge" excitement of sum mer survival is finding out just where those outrageously under-priced holes in the wall do business. Anyway, you can eat in those places for the same prices every day of the week. There are, however, a few ultra cheap specials that do deem themselves worthy of mention. 0! -- - -i - i .11 ii ii- -t - - - -T- AOS dzy cvgzvj dcrej UNL Nt x: BREADEAUX 333 N. Cotner A "O" Street i . . " ' f 1 "-Af" "n wmri mm I r m a r D r J In) Carry-Out only 333 No. Cotner (In front cf the Plsn Dcwl) J Amigos. Specials everyday. Though on Tuesdays you can get one of the more interesting maxi-American crea tions: the crisp meat burrito. Ya know how, when you're eating Mexican fast food in the car, that the lettuce and refried beans always seem to end up in your lap? Well, for only 79 cents you can get two of these car-lunch companions and a drink, and still stay under the not written in stone, $2.23. Besides being really high in cholesterol, which all fast food addicts severely need, you can eat crisp meats on the run and not make too much of a mess. Taco Johns. More Mexican food basic tacos. Two twilight tacos run every night and all day on Tuesdays. You can much down three tacos and a medium drink (to eat the cup is optional) for $2.18. Simple. Straight forward. The only problem is Mexican food tends to digest quickly. So, onto fast food with substance. P.O. Pears. An over-grown ham burger and large handful of fries for $1.99. Probably the most common special in Lincoln. With one large Sunday competitor . . . Sams. Three burgers for a buck. They make McDonalds look like gour met cuisine, but they're the cheapest substance available for only one dollar. The trick to surviving on Sams burgers is to order them plain. That way they have to be made fresh they don't have as much time to gel. Now that you've thought all this through, your journey from the plasma center has probably landed you in the vicinity of a bar. Before you go make this jump into budget poverty, better go have "just one beer" and think it over. D a a a a a a a a a a a a a n a a a a nnnnnnnnnananaaaannnannannnnannnnana 3 Welcome to UJNL from si n n J L : COOKIE COMPANY 138 No. 12th 475-0625 2 for 1 special on 50c cookies only Hours: Mon.-Sat. 7:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Expires 73187. One coupon per person please. Gateway Lower Level Side Trips 465-7292 I 1 B cls DOQDDOaaaaaDQaQOaaODQDDDDDaDDBDDDODDa Editor Managing Editor Jeanne Bourne 472-1786 Julie Jordan Hendricks The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board Monday through Friday in the fall and spring semesters and Thursdays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. 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