The Fat Sandwich Was Invented Here In New Jersey, And You Can Grab One From RU Hungry In New Brunswick

They got their start in the 1980s, and at the time, they parked throughout campus. The University sent them to a large parking lot in the 1990s, with plans to create a dining courtyard. Those plans never quite came to fruition, and the food trucks parked outside of Scott Hall and stayed open late into the night until they were dispersed by University Policy in 2013. Students who were studying late (or out partying) would stop by on their way to their College Avenue campus dorms or apartments and pick up the kind of greasy fried food that tastes best at 2 a.m.

While many of the food vendors and students were upset about this, the one silver lining is that the most famous Grease Truck - and the inventor of the Fat Sandwich - got a true storefront on the Yard's main square.

The story goes that a student named Darrell was broke and hungry, and asked the Grease Truck to put a whole bunch of fried items on one sandwich for him, thus creating the Fat Darrell.

The real story is that Fat Sandwiches had been popular at Grease Trucks since the 1980s, when they served the "Fat Cat". The Fat Cat was a double cheeseburger topped with fries, lettuce tomato, and condiments. The Fat Moon was created around the same time, and that one was a chicken finger, bacon, egg, and french fry combo. A few other variations existed and changed throughout the years, but the Fat Darrell relaunched the Fat Sandwich craze altogether.

The Fat Darrell is a stack of chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, French fries, and marinara sauce on a hoagie roll, and it's the most popular item at the Grease Truck restaurants today.

With everything on one sandwich, the prices are lower, and hungry, broke students can afford all of their favorite indulgences.

After all, they don't call them the Grease Trucks for nothin'!