Author Megan Pizzo

A tire. A condom. A basketball. What do they have in common? Rubber and leather, otherwise known as the taste of a Stag chicken wing. Processed chicken smothered in some form of paste, defrosted and heated. That is not a chicken wing, it is a chicken pandemic.

B-R-A-A-A-V-O has nothing to offer besides the opportunity to sip $8 chocolate martinis while conversing with divorced women about their high paying jobs. Have you learned nothing from this overpriced university? On a Tuesday night at the Grape, if you can drink four vodka tonics for $8, why would you venture to Bravo, and pay four times as much? Similarly, let's just say that Bravo is analogous with the '06ers Black Rock and Blue; there's no scanner, get my drift.

A staple of Connecticut life and a must for the Fairfield student: happy hour wings at Archie Moore's. If you have been anywhere near Post Road you have smelled the nationally renowned chicken wings. Maybe this is a slight exaggeration, but if you have ever had an Archie Moore's chicken wing you know that it is dead-on.

Admittedly, Cold Stone is quite expensive and some may argue that you can buy two pints of Ben ' Jerry's for the price of one small size ice cream at Cold Stone. However, what Cold Stone lacks in value, it offers in quality and sheer variety. Anyone who has ventured into the store knows that the menu board listing the flavor combinations is overwhelming: from Birthday Cake Remix to Oreo Overload to Fruit Stand Rendezvous, it is nearly impossibly to settle on just one.

To be a student at Fairfield University and never taste a hot dog from Super Duper Weenie would be a sin. To be completely honest, I go through serious withdrawal if I haven't had SDW in over a week. Conveniently, the famed SDW truck is on campus at least twice a week.

While the service at McDonald's is considerably faster than past Worst pick Sky Ranch Grill in the Stag Diner, this fast food restaurant cannot boast about their meat products. I can pretty much assume that almost everyone at Fairfield has once in their college career, stopped at the 24-7 McDonald's on 95 for some drunken late night binge eating.

How many people have you seen eating a dollar dog from the Stag? That's what I thought. That is unless you happened to see me take two bites of one on Tuesday. Purely for research purposes, I ordered a hot dog from Rob ' Iggy's Pizza. The first problem with the hot dogs at The Stag is that they are not on the Rob ' Iggy's menu or on the Sky Ranch Grill menu.

If you're willing to put down more than just a couple of bucks to get a juicy burger and you're a connoisseur of ground beef like myself, then the obvious place to get a good burger is Joe's. While their burgers are more expensive than McDonald's, they are well worth it since they come with hand-cut fries served on an actual plate unlike fast food joints that stick a paper bag in your hand and wish you well.

Despite the fact that the Grape has square footage comparable with a Gonzaga dorm room, its location alone is enticing enough for it be rendered "best bar." When else in life will there be a drinking establishment closer to your house than your mailbox? Two dollar Tuesdays are a Godsend, and for the most part the DJ provides music that would allow you to dance, if there was room.

Spam Jam is a tradition we've all come to love and look forward to. Conceived as an alternative to the notoriously wild Clam Jam, at its peak one of the most legendary annual parties of the New England academic corridor, Spam Jam is what its name implies: a spoof in itself, a lackluster imitation of the original.