If you've ever had a plate lunch, you'll know why. Usually priced under $10, one lunch can easily weigh over a pound. It’s a miracle anyone gets anything done in Lafayette after lunch.

By the 1930s, new mobile meal services called lunch wagons popped up to cater to laborers and drive-ins; instead of being served on bento boxes, they were served on compartmentalized paper plates ...

Each plate lunch comes laden with an over-generous mound of rice (or mashed potatoes) drowned in Landry's celebrated gravy, a recipe that dates back to a restaurant her parents, Norris and Bootsie ...

Plate Lunch-A-Palooza, which is 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Sugar Mill Pond, is free to the public and will feature music from local bands, pop up shops and activities for all ages.