A recent adventure, so to speak, started a month ago during a touch base with Luke. We were game planning the month ahead for content needs and general ideation. 

“Have you heard of a garbage plate?” he asked.

“Um, no?” I responded, somewhat bemused. 

“Just google it,” he offered. 

That was the beginning of a rabbit hole. Born in Rochester, New York, the host city of this week’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill County Club, the Garbage Plate is a meal consisting of macaroni salad, home fries, meat, meat sauce, ketchup, mustard, Frank’s RedHot, and 2 pieces of white Italian bread.  Local restaurant Nick Tahou Hots was the first to offer the fare, a dish invented out of necessity during the late 1800s.

You might be having the same reaction I initially did, but Luke reassured me: “Trust me, it’s good, albeit it tastes even better after a few adult sodas.” These items don’t typically go together, which is where it’s name sort of came from. But regardless of if it made sense to me or was something I did or didn’t want to do, it was something I had to do– my curiosity was piqued beyond measure and I simply had to create this dish… and of course shoot content around it for all of you to live vicariously through me.