The Penn Stater Magazine

Uhhhh … Remind Me Who Joseph Garatti Was?

May 26, 2009 at 1:13 pm Tina Hay Leave a comment

A section of the Fraser Street Deli menu. Click to enlarge.

I have a meeting at noon tomorrow, and they’re serving us food—a classic illustration of the “no such thing as a free lunch” concept. The good news is that we get to pick what we’re eating; we were invited to go to the online menu of the Fraser Street Deli and make our choices in advance.

Those of you who lived in State College, say, 10 years ago probably remember this same restaurant as the Stage Door Deli, with sandwiches like the Marlon Brando and the Kate Hepburn. I think the place changed hands a few years back, and the new owners have named all of their sandwiches after famous Penn Staters. There’s the George Atherton (corned beef), the Heinz Warneke (Genoa salami), the Kelly Mazzante (a veggie wrap), and the Jack Ham (ham, silly!), to name a few. Even the late radio mogul and occasional College of Communications lecturer Bob Zimmerman ’58 has a sandwich in his honor.

A sandwich named “The Ultimate Hero” honors, appropriately enough, Adam Taliaferro ’05, with a dollar of each purchase going to the Adam Taliaferro Foundation.

For a couple of the names, I had to do a quick Google search to figure out who they heck they were. You get extra-credit bonus points if you know—without looking it up—what Joseph Garatti’s Penn State-related claim to fame was.

Tina Hay, editor

Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: Adam Taliaferro, Adam Taliaferro Foundation, Bob Zimmerman, Fraser Street Deli, George Atherton, Heinz Warneke, Jack Ham, Joseph Garatti, Katharine Hepburn, Kelly Mazzante, Marlon Brando, Stage Door Deli.