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As I lived on North Campus for my four years on The Hill, I usually ate at Louie's. When compared to Hot Truck, one isn't better than the other, just different. Louie's offers a wide range of sandwiches and other items. If you ever make it back, you must try (in this order of priority) a Maven (a chicken sub with Buffalo wings sauce, blue cheese dressing, BBQ sauce, lettuce, and tomato). Other great items include the Natewich (bagel, ham, cheese, tomato, egg, pepper), German Fries (french fries, chopped sausage links, and kraut), and Chicken Cordon Bleu subs (chicken, ham, swiss, blue cheese dressing, tomato, lettuce).

Still, I loved Hot Truck equally. Despite living on North, I often schlepped down in the middle of winter, down the slope to wait 30 minutes in a blizzard for a Little Sicillian: third loaf of garlic bread with meatballs, cheese, sausage and BBQ potato chips. *drools*

Mmm... Bananas on the Rum is easilly one of my favorite flavors. I wish they had kept Sweet Potato Pie ice cream so I could have tried it. Oh well. I'm getting an ice cream attachment for my KitchenAid mixer for my birthday next week, so I'll just have to give it a crack after I make David Lebovitz's bacon ice cream.

Deviled eggs. So many deviled eggs.

Challah. It is like regular bread but 100% more awesome! Dipped in chicken soup, battered for French toast, sliced into sandwiches. :)

I love sticking ham into an apple pie. Mmm-mmm-good!

I hate the cake batter flavor...too sweet and artificial, as everyone else seems to think. And I'm mad at B&J's...my favorite flavor (Coconut Almond Fudge Chip) can only be had at the scoop shops now, not in the grocery store. I hope it's not going the way of the dinosaur...

Hi there!
Great question. Yes, I must say that prices have gone up dramatically and are continuing to rise. I usually shop in Monteverde or Testaccio, because the Campo, and even Piazza San Calisto are expensive. Produce is still relatively reasonable, depending on what you buy. That day, I also bought 3 big potatoes, and 2 big red onions, and it was €.90, so it evens out sometimes. The strawberries were maybe €1.50.

Meat is really, really expensive; I only eat it twice a week, maybe. Pasta is more expensive than it used to be, but still an economical way to eat. I've been making pasta lately and it is a real money saver. With 3 eggs and 300 gms of flour, I can make enough pasta for 4-5 meals.

Most Romans know that prices can vary greatly from shop to shop, block to block, so they will go out of their way to find a good bargain.

Rome is overall a very expensive city. I am in Torino right now for a few days. Prices are much less expensive here, for everything. And the shopping is great, I must add. Eveyone who loves Italy should visit Torino. It is one of the great, grand European cities. I'm going to post on it soon!

I recently tried B & J's cake batter flavor and I LOVED it. I then bought it again and loved it at first, but a few spoons later it started to make me feel sick and I didn't finish it. I don't know why the inital love of it faded so fast, but I think it comes down to it being too sweet and too authentic to cake batter - while that should be a good thing, but realistically, who eats the whole bowl of batter? You lick the beaters and the remains of the bowl, not the whole thing~!
I would love to try an ice cream with cake pieces, that sounds great.

Haven't tried the cake batter ice cream - probably won't.

I miss B & J's Rainforest Crunch flavor. It was so good, I'm surprised that they discontinued it.

I have had a flavor called Piece of Cake from Perry's Ice cream it is very good, I haven't had any ice cream in a while because I don't eat any sugar and find the sugar free types not worth it.