'Fat Darrell' named best sandwich Thursday, August 19, 2004 Posted: 10:04 AM EDT (1404 GMT) NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (AP) -- What do you call a sandwich made of chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and french fries? Around here, it's called a Fat Darrell -- and you also can call it a winning combo. The "Fat Darrell" has been crowned the best sandwich in the country by Maxim magazine. The concoction was created early one morning in 1997 by Darrell Butler after a night of partying. Butler, a Rutgers University sophomore, conceived of the sandwich as a way to save money by combining his various cravings on one bun. "Separately, they would have cost me, like, $12.75, and I was on a college budget," Butler, 26, of Eatontown. The Fat Darrell is named for its caloric content, not Butler, a 160-pound physical trainer and aspiring actor. "So, I'm standing there eating it, and all of a sudden the guy standing behind me says, 'That thing that guy's eating looks pretty good, can you make me one of those?' And, it was like a movie scene, the next 10 people order the same thing. So, I'm like, 'Whoa!' like I think I might be onto something." The man who assembled the sandwich was Abdul Eid, working in an R.U. Hungry food truck, parked in a campus lot in New Brunswick, catering to beer-soaked undergraduates with the late-night munchies. Eid now runs R.U. Hungry Grill & Pizza, a store on Easton Avenue he was able to open in part due to the success of the $4.75 Fat Darrell. Maxim's September issue, which lists the top 10 sandwiches, hits newsstands Tuesday. http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/08/19/best.sandwich.ap/ .......................... Looks kind of plain... and gross.
