"LOAD UP"

For as long as I know Buster, the man could eat.

The above photo of Big Nicks Pizza Burger Joint was a frequent late night hang out. Typically out visits there were after a long night of relatively free alcohol at Bamboo Bernies or the new Green Kitchen for us. At the end of an evening, whoever was still around met there for a blue cheese burger (my favorite), fries and kibutzing.

Buddy always partook in the same, however in addition to the aformentioned he always started out with at least 2 monster everything pizza slices (or slices of pizza), somewhere between 2 and 9 pickles, garlic knot and or course they never gave you enough blue cheese so he had the super deluxe vats of blue of the side. He always commented on the crap quality of the mutz-a-rell. up until the last few years the guy hardly ever gained weight. In camp he swore by loading up on potato pancakes, like 20 and he weighed 60 lbs, max.

For breakfast, forget about it. He had 4 -5 loaded up bagels with salmon salad, tuna salad, novy and the super delux whitefish salad. Buddy would bring around 30 pounds of the fish salads in these massive containers to fire island, put out the spread and just say "load up baby". There was of course the famous time when he was so fed up with the gavoning that he threw 2 of the buckkets overboard on the ferry, which was the only time I ever saw Dave Zitman weep.

There were many nights and happy hours where we repulsed anyone within 20 feet with the disgusting fish smell on our breath. There was no meal where his warm up did not consist of 2 starter sushi rolls, or 5 dinner rolls, or a couple a shrimp cocktails and up until the last few years the guy stayed in shape and wasn't a self described "fat bastard".