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Downtown Bryan restaurants
serve up a “Food Frenzy”
By Marium Mohiuddin
Staff writer
A lecture
nderstanding
Id at 8:30ic
ine restaurants in eight
hours for five bucks. It
sounds like an All-You-
Can-Eat dream come true.
I A wide variety of foods at an in-
Ispensive price is every poor, starv-
re will beaTjQoiiege student’s dream,
i. starting in on Saturday Oct. 4, from 11
All students^ t 0 7 p.m., Alpha Phi Sorority,
Hcome. CaloRA and the Downtown Bryan
ny questionsLociation will bring to life this
IFood Frenzy.”
ib (TABC)A yj ne different Bryan restau-
oe held at7i, nts w j)i opening their doors
ith Ale House^ a u ow i n g people to sample
interestediiLgi,- S p ec i a ii t i es \Yith such foods
me to attend^bardeque, Italian and Mexican,
-Itojoin-Fjood Frenzy offers many choices
itact Abel aL^e mos t discriminating tastes,
belmann@ir j| for$5<
Gwen Grimes, vice president of
uarketing for Alpha Phi and a se
al meeting tU,. e d uca uon major, said she has
scuss upcoit ?en occupied with this event,
at 10:30 p.m “Everyone will go away full, with
gate. Contac ^j,- stomachs hurting,” Grimes
for details. ^ is a great way to sample
iany foods and see what you might
> a Battalion'
jn-profitstu- "ft began when I was shop-
entsandafr‘ nf \ one day A i ? t u Cor "® r 2 f J ime .
• . . .rearing my Alpha Phi T-shirt,
)Uia 06 fjyimes said. “The owner ap-
n three days^jc^gd me an d asked if I and Al-
desired ruiha Phi would be interested in
n deadlinesdping with this event,
t events and “Now we have 50 members (of
'ampus CalfP^ Pbi) working, and each is
e any quw 11 ^ se ^bng tickets, advertising
le newsroom
and preparing for the frenzy,”
Grimes said.
Tickets will be on sale at the MSG
Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m., or the Wehner building
Monday through Wednesday from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be an estimated 3,000
people attending. All proceeds will
go to three charities: the local food
bank, Scottie’s House, and the Al
pha Phi Foundation, a foundation
supporting cardiac care.
Buck Buchanan, chair of Food
“Everyone owns a business, so their
hands are tied, and we needed an
organization that was willing to do
the work.”
Buchanan said the variety of
stores and restaurants in the
Frenzy and owner of
the Corner of Time
antique store, said he
feels this will further
enrich the downtown area.
“We had a Food Frenzy three
years ago, but we waited (for the
next one) because we wanted to
work with the campus, so we could
benefit each other,” Buchanan said.
Photos by
Robert McKay
downtown Bryan area
go unnoticed by many
potential customers.
“This is a great op
portunity for us to extend our hands
and show people what we have to
offer,” Buchanan said. “Many peo
ple do not know we exist. There are
so many different types of stores
you can stroll up and down the
street and see.”
The nine restaurants are located
in a three-block radius of each oth
er. The food will be set in a buffet
style and will be served by the
restaurant’s staff. Each restaurant
can be visited only once per cus
tomer.
Alpha Phi members will be on
hand for any assistance.
Luis Hernandez, a waiter at
Gina’s Restaurant said the store has
been making accommodations for
Food Frenzy.
“The restaurants will be open for
regular customers, but there will be
extra tables outside for the guests,”
Hernandez said. “We will be serving
floutas, and gordittas to name a few.”
Brendan Reilly, co-owner of the
Square One restaurant and a former
student, is anxiously awaiting this
weekend for the exposure.
"We offer cafe-style dining and
the atmosphere is really relaxed,”
Reilly said. “We serve eclectic Ital-
ian-American dining, and for this
weekend, we will be serving an as
sortment of sandwiches and pasta.
“We will be setting aside a big
section of the restaurant, and we
will be constantly cooking so our
food will be fresh. It will be one
long weekend.”
Shattering hraclttion
Aggies find alternative methods to
dunking their senior rings in beer
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By Travis Irby
Staff writer
D unking the Aggie ring—it is
one of those traditions
everyone knows about, but
few know why or how it started.
Such a memory lapse may be at
tributed to the stereotypical large
amount of alcohol involved.
The typical ring
dunking, much to ^
the chagrin of the
Texas Alcoholic Bev
erage Commission,
starts with the drop
ping of a newly ac
quired ring into a
schooner of alcohol, usually
beer.
Then all the alcohol in the
schooner is consumed until the
ring is reached. This event is con
sidered by many students to be the
hallmark of the A&M experience.
Some students have added a
new twist to this tradition — they
have eliminated the use of alcohol
in this ceremony.
The reasons may be religious,
personal or just out of general
gratitude for the liver.
Local businesses like Sweet
Eugene’s House of Java and
Swensen’s Ice Cream and Fine
Foods have taken advantage of
this niche market, offering a vari
ety of ways to dunk rings.
Swensen’s offers the Earth
quake Sundae or double shake to
meet the demand. The Earth
quake Sundae consists of eight
scoops of ice cream with eight dif
ferent toppings. The double shake
is equivalent to two large shakes.
Matt Simmons, Swensen’s gen
eral manager, said these two items
are particularly popular the weeks
during the distribution of rings.
“The restaurant will be so
crowded, it’s standing room only,”
Simmons said. “Everyone’s family
and friends are there, just like any
oth
er ring dunkinv.”
Benjamin Brennan, a sopho
more psychology major, said he
plans to go the frozen dairy prod
ucts route when he receives his
ring. He said there are advantages
to a non-alcoholic dunking.
“There is none of the usual
trouble involved with alcohol, you
can still have all the fun, and the
worst you might get is a tummy
ache,” Simmons said.^
Sweet Eugene’s offers an eclec
tic mix of beverages in which stu
dents can dunk dieir ring.
Matt Brown, Sweet Eugene’s
owner, said rings get dunked in
everything from coffee to Italian
soda.
“People will come in and ask for
a pitcher,” Brown said. “Then they
can fill it with whatever they
want.”
Erin Logan, a senior English
major, saw a friend dunk her ring
with a taste of Italy.
“She drank a whole pitcher of
Italian soda,” Logan said.
They are not limited to coffee
houses and ice cream parlors.
Non-alcoholic dunkers are limited
only by their imagination.
Please see Dunking on Page 4.
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