re: Dives you like in every SEC town

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I thought paying $10 after a game to go to Bogie's or Fred's was bad. I'll never underappreciate that again. Next week we hit both for $10 a piece and free drinks at both. God bless LSU.

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If your college bars can charge a cover just to come in and drink, at any time, you don't have enough college bars.

A cover on Dickson Street means:

1) a good band is playing

2) It's NYE (and only then, it applies at a small minority of places)

That's pretty much it, but then again we have 30-something bars within a few blocks, and half that many restaurants with bars in the same area. Parking costs $5.00 though.

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Tuscaloosa is a rip off most places. I remember friday night and after the game saturday we would walk from bar to bar on the strip and almost every one told us their cover was $40-60 and no free drinks. We laughed in their face. I thought paying $10 after a game to go to Bogie's or Fred's was bad. I'll never underappreciate that again. Next week we hit both for $10 a piece and free drinks at both. God bless LSU.

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I would never pay that (and thats why everybody gets a wristband before games so you dont pay that), but thats quite an apples to oranges comparison. Most people drive to Bogies and Freds whereas youre paying for the convenience of Gallettes - it being like 12 feet from the stadium. By the time you get to Tigerland in BR gameday traffic, its almost time to turn the Saints game on.

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Oxford - Big Bad Breakfast.

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Dive bar vs Greasy Spoon semantics aside, BBB is becoming a regional southern chain having opened across AL and one in SC with plans to spread across the South.

That said, it is pretty good.

Of the smaller, likely lessor known, local restaurants to visitors in Oxford, I like Rice and Spice (thai) and Volta (Greek - across the street from BBB in a converted gas station). There is also a steak/burger/seafood place off of 6 called The Sizzler (not to be confused with Western Sizzler or Sizzler Family Steakhouse national chains). It has been around since the 70s.

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Most football fans irl are great.

The internet brings out the bad ones.

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Agreed. Ive had people generously go out of their way several times to feed me, give me free drinks and get me tickets in Baton Rouge several times. Wouldn’t accept a dime of payment or any offers to help clean up after the game.

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Ive had people generously go out of their way several times to feed me, give me free drinks and get me tickets in Baton Rouge several times. 

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Point of clarification, are you female with large chest, or, perhaps, did you venture into a BR area gay bar, as your experience is anecdotal and may not be sports fan related.

If the former post pics here to prove it. If the latter, post the pic on the Aggie board.

Handy Andy sounds like a common nickname among yell leaders or something

Haha, it does. It's great food though

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Art's Place Fayetteville

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Good burger.

Maxine's used to be a dive, but it's a hip cocktail bar now (ironically, I hung out at Maxine's when I was in college, and now I hang out at Maxine's since I'm older. My tastes changed, and so did the bar).

White Horse Tavern is a good dive.

The Beer Keg was one, but it's no more.

The Nines is kind of a dive, but it's like a hipster dive.

Roger's Rec was the most amazing dive in Fayetteville, but it also died with the gentrification of Dickson Street. That's kind of been the issue with Fayetteville in general. Dickson Street was once shady as hell with occasional shootings and other issues down there, so there were dive bars galore. Then it gentrified, and there's not really a whole lot of longstanding dives with a good history to them any longer as they were mostly on Dickson.

Don’t forget beef jerky.

I was there that night at Hotty Toddys. True Rednecks, not like we joke about us all being here. Real beat your arse on a wrong look, might get cut, shot, "runned over", I barely graduated high school rednecks mixed with college bros and coeds. True dive, but you're young dumb and...you know the rest, so you go.