By SARA HOFFMAN
STAFF WRITER
Students at Rutgers University say they are upset about the relocation of the grease trucks, which are home to the famous “fat sandwich.”
Many got very accustomed to the trucks being in the same lot on College Avenue at the New Brunswick campus.
Some students say they’re upset because it changes their daily routines.
Meagan Salvadore, 22, a senior, said she has been going to the grease trucks for four years. Even when she lived a 15 minute walk away from the trucks, she said, she always knew where they were.
“It’s going to take some getting used to trying to find them somewhere else,” she said. “Especially when they’re scattered.”
A lot of students are also upset because the lack of communication from the university about the relocation.
Jenna Bedard, 20, a junior, arrived for the semester not even knowing that they were gone. She was confused by the construction and had no idea that the grease trucks were even going to be moved.
“I’m from out of state, so I was never here over the summer when people talked about them being moved,” she said, “I had no idea. I asked my sorority sisters what was going on.”
There were also students who have never had a fat sandwich or visited a grease truck in their life, but got comfortable with them being where they were. Now that they have been moved, many say the College Avenue atmosphere has changed.
“I’ve only ever had one fat sandwich,” says Alexa Rocha, 20, a Rutgers University junior, “but it just feels weird with the trucks not being there. We all got familiar with them.”
A friend of Rocha’s had a similar take on the situation, since both of her parents went to Rutgers and often brought her around the grease trucks.
“I’ve never eaten a fat sandwich. But it does feel strange walking past an empty lot. They grease trucks were there when I was a little kid. My dad loved them,” said Shelby Bellaran, 20.
They liked the trucks being featured on the hit Food Network show “Man vs. Food,” which multiple students say has influenced them to even try the food considering these food trucks in their own backyard were on national television.
Rutgers has made a big decision to trade the lot that was home to the Grease Trucks since 1979 for a multi-million dollar construction project that would consist of more student housing and apartments, and a more active environment for many of its students.
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