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National Champion [7944]
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Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 7:20 AM
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Warm blueberry cake doughnuts at 2AM.... with copious chocolate milk, of course. My favorite stop after downtown closed for the night.
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Commissioner [970]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 7:32 AM
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The current weather reminds me that they kept hundreds of sleds stacked up for snow days.
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Hall of Famer [8930]
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Tru Dat. Fun snow days!***
Jan 19, 2018, 9:46 PM
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Orange Blooded [2481]
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Eating there every morning
Jan 18, 2018, 7:33 AM
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for the first 3 semesters before I moved off campus as a co-op student (I am a breakfast person and ate copious amounts of bacon and grits there). Then I remember those 2 summers I was there and Harcombe being overran with kids that came on those summers camps.
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110%er [3843]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 7:47 AM
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I always kind of liked the vegetable sculptures decorating the serving lines - palm trees made out of carrots and bell peppers, etc.
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Paw Master [16363]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 7:50 AM
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Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids is my best memory of Harcombe Commons.
Mystery meat, overcooked veggies, stone cold toast and runny grits also come to mind.
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Tiger Titan [50675]
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and leather night i mean steak***
Jan 18, 2018, 11:34 AM
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Hall of Famer [22966]
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Flash and the Kids played out at the Amphitheatre too.....
Jan 18, 2018, 1:58 PM
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having grown up in the community, I actually knew some of and was known by some of the Harcombe staff so I was less nervous about the food than I probably should have been....I don't think any of them would've purposely let me get ill....but perhaps I counted too much on locale....:~)
Because of the nature of breakfast cooking, I'd go along with it as best choice of the day's meals.....otherwise, as close to fresh as fruit and veggies got in those days
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TigerNet Elite [69783]
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Two things...
Jan 18, 2018, 7:52 AM
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cheese grits and midnight cookie breaks during exams.
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1st Rounder [632]
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Re: Two things...
Jan 18, 2018, 7:56 AM
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Yes. Never found any cheese grits as good as they were in harcombe. Also when someone would drop a glass or tray the whole place would give out a collective oooooooohhh!
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Orange Beast [6523]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 7:54 AM
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The clanging of knives, forks, and spoons against the drinking glasses right before the first salvo was launched 
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Rival Killer [2708]
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Harcombe was so bad in the late 1970's
Jan 18, 2018, 8:02 AM
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that the food potentially costs us team national championships in soccer, tennis, wrestling and golf.
I ate there five days a week and cookie break most week nights. The food was barely consumable. The milk was good though.
Just sayin'.
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Associate AD [1047]
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I was the champion of
Jan 18, 2018, 8:17 AM
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Making the tallest and most perfect ice cream cones. It took 15 minutes to eat.
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Dynasty Maker [3117]
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Re: I was the champion of
Jan 18, 2018, 11:32 AM
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And using said cones to bomb unsuspecting motorists from the fourth floor of Johnstone F.
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Dynasty Maker [3468]
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Re: I was the champion of
Jan 18, 2018, 8:45 PM
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That was you, you jerk???
Nothing like fishing with an empty wallet used for bait on the laundromat side of Johnstone D5 section. Caught quite a few culprits but mostly was to quick for them to actually catch the bait! They sure looked goofy chasing it though!
Go Tigers!!!
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Heisman Winner [78281]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 8:22 AM
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soft serve machine was nice
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Paw Warrior [4913]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 8:33 AM
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To this day freshest best milk I’ve ver had. Came from our own cows.
Also loved midnight breakfast during exam week - nice diversion.
Steak and shrimp night. Worst toughest steak I’ve ever had. Alternative was beanie weannies.
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CU Guru [1262]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 8:43 AM
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Agree that the steaks on steak night were beyond bad. If you think today's beef from Mexico is tough,which it definitely is,the steaks from Harcombe were even worse. Also remember the time when two of my buddies were playing around and one gave the other a mashed potato "willie". Pretty crude but so was a lot of the food.
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Orange Beast [6523]
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Midnight breakfast during exams***
Jan 18, 2018, 8:50 AM
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1st Rounder [685]
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Re: Midnight breakfast during exams***
Jan 18, 2018, 11:42 PM
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You guys are pikers. I date back to 71. Harcombe was never as pretty or modern as Schilletter but always better. I remember the bricks of Clemson made ice cream, served as much as you want, all the toppings you wanted. Hard to keep breakfast mass produced in buffet vats appetizing but they did a good job. My second year or so, they brought in a soft ice cream dispenser for cones but it was not as good. Best mass produced coffee ever.
Pretty girls on their way to Harcombe under the breezeway getting hooted at by the morons in the cans. The BiLo bull stolen from a store and placed on the roof of Harcombe. Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine seemed to be played at least twice per meal on the juke box and the little juke box base notes shook the whole hall.
Went there with my IPTAY buddy and his GF three years ago and it is now crazy good. Oh to be young! In the immortal words of Augustus McRae, "the sunny slopes of long ago."
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CU Guru [1508]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 8:51 AM
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fruity pebbles and bacon....copious amounts....
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Rival Killer [2769]
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two great memories . .
Jan 19, 2018, 12:08 AM
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freezing the drink glasses to the tray and watching them go down the conveyor to the worker taking items off the trays. Oh . .such fun!!
And having pancakes with vanilla ice cream on top, at midnight, during exams . .ahh yum.
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110%er [9174]
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Breasticalia Bouncing..
Jan 18, 2018, 8:56 AM
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-Doc
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Letterman [268]
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Blonde brownies...and girls.***
Jan 18, 2018, 8:56 AM
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All-In [27366]
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Did you mean "blonde girls" and "brownies?"
Jan 18, 2018, 10:45 AM
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Associate AD [1074]
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Re: Blonde brownies...and girls.***
Jan 18, 2018, 8:38 PM
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The time Nurse Goodbody (or a facsimile thereof) came in for what I presume was someone's birthday.
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Rival Killer [2779]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 9:08 AM
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Trying to get extra tickets for "premium entree night," only to realize that was the worst steak and shrimp anywhere.
Getting my first Phd freshman year...Post Harcombe Dump.
Drinking coke at every meal, because I was raised in a health conscious family and never had soft drinks at home. Always a stomach ache in 8:00 classes because I drank coke for breakfast every morning!
Coming from a super small school in rural SC and having no idea about "segregated" cafeteria dining, meaning fraternity tables, etc. I can't tell you how many times a couple of friends and I sat at the "wrong" table and remained oblivious to it. Pretty funny looking back on it.
I wonder if they still do cookie break and have midnight breakfast during exams. It was little things like that made for a lot of memories.
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1st Rounder [632]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 9:11 AM
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It was better than Sh1teater!!
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All-TigerNet [5618]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 9:13 AM
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I learned to like chicken livers in Harcombe. Also I remember gray looking rice pudding that I liked for some reason.
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All-TigerNet [5618]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 9:16 AM
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I also remember seeing a film on emergency child birth in Health class right before lunch. I walked into Harcombe and saw their spaghetti then turned right around and walked out.
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Orange Blooded [2112]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 9:18 AM
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Barbara Lewis, 1965 Rat Hop, "Baby I'm Yours."
The Tams also.
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Solid Orange [1373]
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i arrived at CU as a freshman in August, 1972 ......
Jan 18, 2018, 9:30 AM
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at 6'1" and weighing 125 #'s. I came home that Christmas weighing 155. I'm not a picky eater and love to eat, so I loved me some Harcombe food. Had the 7 day meal plan. Bacon and grits, chocolate milk, unlimited ice cream, steak night , theme night, cookie break at 9:30 or so- you name it, I thought I was in heaven. My mother was not a very good cook, BTW, I guess you surmised.
Also enjoyed Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids concert there. Good times.
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Asst Coach [828]
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I graduated in '80
Jan 18, 2018, 9:33 AM
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That place was disgusting. I remember the mashed potatoes crunched when the ice cream scooper was pulled across them. And "gravy." Over everything.
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Heisman Winner [85790]
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Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids concert in Harcombe,
Jan 18, 2018, 10:03 AM
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by far the best memory. As far as actual menu stuff, I remember:
Monday: Veal Cutlet
Tuesday: Breaded (Dreaded, leftovers from Monday?) Veal Cutlet
It was not unusual to see people with trays with like (literally) 8 to 10 or more glasses of milk on them. I think the highest I ever counted was 18. Siriusly, who needs 18 glasses of milk? Butt, to each his own.
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1st Rounder [632]
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Do you remember
Jan 18, 2018, 10:34 AM
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Pork chop suey. I actually liked it.
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Ring of Honor [23720]
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The first time seeing my eventual college sweetheart there
Jan 18, 2018, 10:31 AM
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across the long tables sitting with her sorority. Back then the fraternities and sororities sat with their own.
It was truly love at first sight. The first and only time it ever happened to me like that. College. Sigh.
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Rival Killer [2850]
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I remember the "greeter"
Jan 18, 2018, 10:36 AM
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In the 80's there was an older lady who welcomed you into Harcombe - she alternated between "hi" and "hello" with a deep southern drawl (haaa hello haaa hello haa hello...)
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Athletic Dir [1186]
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always getting ice cream after every meal
Jan 18, 2018, 10:47 AM
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And seeing a frat pledge mowing the floor with a chair. He was pushing it all over Harcombe??
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Orange Blooded [3247]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 10:47 AM
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Every 2 weeks or so during my first 2 years, my roommate and I would take empty book bags into Harcombe and fill them to the zipper with breakfast cereal from the dispensers. I mean we would completely empty those things. To this day, I have no idea how we avoided getting caught doing that.
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Game Changer [1601]
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Rose & Bulldog***
Jan 18, 2018, 10:50 AM
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Varsity [104]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 11:01 AM
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Lived just off campus on Freedom Dr by the old TigerMart. My roommate and I would chow down while stuffing 4-5 additional fried chicken breasts in our pockets to take home for later in the week.
That’s also where I got my spices and condiments!!
Good times. Fastest weight gain I’ve ever experienced!!
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Tiger Titan [48079]
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We didn't reall have Texas Pete or things similar...
Jan 18, 2018, 11:04 AM
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in California where I grew up. We just had Red Tobasco which I think sucks. So, Harcombe is where I realized I love Texas Pete and things similar.
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Associate AD [1095]
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Taco night, before it became racist***
Jan 18, 2018, 11:24 AM
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Head Coach [757]
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or sexist***
Jan 18, 2018, 11:37 PM
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Dynasty Maker [3117]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 11:35 AM
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Asking the worker in the serving line for Beef Strokin off, Cowballs and Gravy, #### on a Shingle and other delicious entree's.
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Team Captain [452]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 12:42 PM
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Plenty of space to find a place to sit, unlike the dinning facilities today.
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Orange Blooded [2102]
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"Touring" around campus in the middle of the night and
Jan 18, 2018, 2:33 PM
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seeing the delivery truck off loading. The boxes read, "Steak, Grade D but edible."
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Rival Killer [2649]
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Three pages ..... FOODFIGHTS!!!!
Jan 18, 2018, 2:45 PM
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Some times you would be half way enjoying your meal (rectangular pizza and baked beans). Well, that’s too freaking bad when a good food fight breaks out.
Those were the days.
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All-In [10774]
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Stocking up on baked potatoes from steak night
Jan 18, 2018, 2:49 PM
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I was only on the 5 day plan, and Sunday meals sometimes were just baked potatoes reheated in the toaster oven.
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Standout [305]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 6:04 PM
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1973-1977
Breakfast followed by the continental breakfast (warm doughnuts), milk, milk, and more milk, ice cream, 2 hour suppers, social time, streakers
Loved almost all of it, except the steaks--still won't eat steaks
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Tiger Titan [50697]
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Miss Iola’s omelets.***
Jan 18, 2018, 8:47 PM
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Associate AD [1013]
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Ate breakfast (loaded up) every day...
Jan 18, 2018, 9:07 PM
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I scheduled 8:00 classes every day and never missed breakfast.
Buttered and toasted hamburger buns for lunch.
Tickets for "premium" night (like we were gonna go back for seconds).
GIANT soft serve cone every day on the way out after supper. My kids are amazed at my pro-cone abilities. Catch me at Golden Corral or a Chinese buffet and I'll make you a masterpiece!
Midnight pancakes during exams.
PhDs (a few so impressive that they were left for observation)
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Freshman [-99]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 18, 2018, 11:00 PM
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Chops! She was my first crush.
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All-Conference [424]
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"Omelet Lady"
Jan 18, 2018, 11:14 PM
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My freshman year was '96. There was an omelet station and a lady that we affectionately referred to as the "omelet lady." She made a great omelet and if I remember correctly, she'd have 8-12 going working on the flat top grill at the same time.
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Tiger Titan [50697]
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That was Miss Iola. She was the best.***
Jan 19, 2018, 8:06 PM
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All-Conference [424]
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Definitely! Best thing about Harcombe.***
Jan 19, 2018, 8:10 PM
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Valley Protector [1410]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 19, 2018, 12:11 AM
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Me, "What's this?"
Food service worker, "veal paramecium".
Me, "I think I'll take the chicken."
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Game Day Hero [4309]
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"Premium Entre Night"***
Jan 19, 2018, 10:11 AM
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [101565]
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Yep, Thursday nights. Steak or shrimps.***
Jan 19, 2018, 10:40 AM
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All-Pro [795]
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The great Harcombe food fight of 1988***
Jan 19, 2018, 10:38 AM
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CU Guru [1251]
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Going Through The Line One Day
Jan 19, 2018, 7:52 PM
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and the guy in front of me ask one of the female servers if they have any dark meat. The young lady response was "Look around you".
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Valley Protector [1426]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 19, 2018, 7:58 PM
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steak and shrimp night...could not beat it.
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110%er [7011]
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1969 in Harcombe following a yankee
Jan 19, 2018, 11:41 PM
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Eating breakfast one morning. Yank in front of me asks server "What is THAT?"
She tells him "Grits..."
He says(You cannot make this up...), " Give me one grit."
When she did, ONE on a full size plate, he asked: "What am I supposed to do with this?"
Coach K's rants on the sideline are Baptist Sermons compared to what she said...
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Orange Blooded [2104]
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2 things:
Jan 19, 2018, 9:20 PM
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1. All you can eat ice cream.
2. Midnight cookie breaks during exam weeks.
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Paw Master [17544]
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PHD***
Jan 19, 2018, 9:22 PM
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Paw Master [17544]
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Trays made great sleds***
Jan 19, 2018, 9:24 PM
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Rival Killer [2667]
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Re: Best memories from Harcombe....
Jan 19, 2018, 9:37 PM
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Early in my freshman year (1980), I saw the staff re-stocking one of the milk dispensing machines. The crate of milk was labeled "Clemson Experimental Dairy." I never drank on-campus milk again.
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Hall of Famer [8930]
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In the late 70s, it was Shrimp on Friday & ice cream machine
Jan 19, 2018, 9:56 PM
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The quality and variety were not close to the present day Clemson cafeterias. But I appreciated the healthy food and being able to go back for seconds. I ate there almost every day for 4 years - missing breakfast only when I wanted to sleep late.
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CU Medallion [20786]
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Taking the most enormous dumps within 30 minutes of eating
Jan 19, 2018, 10:07 PM
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Big giant dumps of feces. Big.
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Tiger Titan [50697]
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Called the Ph.D. for a reason: post-Harcombe dump.***
Jan 20, 2018, 12:16 AM
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