This past weekend I went with my boyfriend to the city to explore new things that I haven’t seen in New York before. On this trip we went to Bryant park and little Italy and got some good food. When we went to Bryant park it was earlier in the afternoon but we hadn’t eaten all day and were starving. We both were extremely tired and the first thing we found when we walked in was coffee of course! Then we tried to find a snack before we went to an early dinner late lunch. We came across a station that said fried pickles and for him and I anything that says fried sounds good. So the first thing we ate that day was some fried pickles and drank some coffee. Which to me showed wow we really are college kids in the way we eat.

I think the psychology behind these food choices is very interesting to look at. Not all people would even dare to look at a fried pickle when they are drinking coffee. But the way that we have been living these past few months you learn to eat what you can when you can. So to us it was not a big deal to have a weird combination of things because we have learned this behavior. But for other people who are not college students they would think this is such a disgusting combination that we were even getting weird looks. This situation and the college dining situation is kind of like the optimal forging theory as to where you do what you need to do to waste the least amount of energy and gain the most amount of energy back.

The weirdest combination but the best fried pickles!