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This Issue 03/29/2007

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• Ego of the Week
• Best of Food & Drink
• Ego of the Week

Best Kielbasa
Frita's Food Cart
33rd St. and Walnut
by Veronica Zapasnik
Frita's brings a true taste of old-world Europe to DRL's doorstep - without the shortages. This stern-faced Greek woman serves up a massive, plump kielbasa sandwich worthy of your Polish grandfather for only $2.50. Forget Magic Carpet meatballs; this is lunch, and it's best eaten with sauerkraut, cooked onions, and mustard - and washed down with a shot of vodka.

best place to drink for free during the day
MBA pub
by Stephen Morse
The Wharton MBAs have a pub on Friday afternoons in Vance Hall. Just flash your PennCard and the Spectra guard will let you in. Worlds of free beer (including fine imports like Guinness on tap) and pizza await you.
Runner-up: Drinking with the graduate architecture students outside Meyerson Hall on Friday afternoons. If you're more the hipster type, this is your spot. But beware of bad weather and crappy beer.

Best Hangover Cure
Bui's Bacon, Egg and Cheese
Sandwich
38th and Spruce
by Vince Levy
Every weekend morning you can find two lines of Penn students waiting to fix last night's mistakes. One is at Student Health, the other is at Bui's. No matter how wicked your hangover, there's nothing like a Bui's Bacon, Egg and Cheese sandwich to sop up last night's poison (for the record: salt/pepper/ketchup, please).
You've got carbs for the leftover booze, protein to restore your blood sugar levels and enough grease to lubricate the recovery. Top it off with a Gatorade (electrolytes, bro!) and some Advil. And at a mere $2.50 a pop, you can afford to have an excruciating hangover every morning.

Best Dubious Cross-Cultural Food
Greek Lady Chips, i.e. Greek Lady Nachos
Runner-Up: Qdoba Gumbo
by Derek Mazique
Go ahead, pick two ethnic eats that have absolutely nothing in common. Chinese and Italian? Indian and German? Well, how about Greek Lady's one-two punch of Greek Lady Chips. Don't let the name fool you, this delicious concoction combines all of the trappings of a Greek Lady sandwich, piled on top of freshly made pita chips: Tex-Mex ingenuity, Peloponnesian execution.
Not only is this appetizer larger and more filling than the typical Greek Lady sandwich, it also inexplicably costs less. Really, there's no reason to ever order a typical sandwich again. Unless, of course, Greek Lady decides to break out the jalape¤o gyro.

bestOnlinefoodService
Diningin.com
Runner-Up: Campusfood.com
by Derek Mazique
The problem with the regular food Web sites is that they're all variations on a theme: pizza, Chinese, hoagies. Which is fine to order all the time, if you don't mind the inevitable heart attack or the love handles (more to hold onto!). But sometimes, you just want to have Glazed Chilean Sea Bass or Bhindi Masala without having to go downtown or even put on pants.