The Saddest Meal I Ever Ate

It was, of course, at Sbarro in a train station

Matt Ufford
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7 min readSep 24, 2019

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The location is a given, right? When you see a headline that says “The saddest meal I ever ate,” your brain is already going train station Sbarro before the first words can confirm it. Slate once noted that “appealing to the sort of person who actually likes food has never been Sbarro’s strong point” and called the restaurant “devoid of…

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Matt Ufford
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Director of Digital Video Social Content at ESPN. Previously: U.S. Marine Corps, Uproxx, SB Nation. Recovering blogger. Tired dad.