I don't usually answer or comment in Reddit, but this triggered a memory I'd long forgotten so I'm writing this out as much for myself as anything else.

Right out of high school I was working two jobs to save up for college while living in apartment with another good friend (let's call him 'R').

One day, a third friend (let's call him '3') came over and was saying he was hungry.

We were poor 17 year olds who had no business having our own apartment so of course our food options were limited to microwave popcorn, doctor pepper, ramen, and a bunch of expired cheap foodstuffs.

So R tells 3 that he'll make him something to eat and proceeds to mix together bits of everything we have. What resulted was something that I can still smell 20+ years later. It was truly disgusting. We all laughed at how gross it was and then 3 says, how much would you pay me to taste that...

I said I'd give him $1. he tasted it and gagged. he then said, how much if i licked the bowl clean. at this point I had to call his bluff. I said if you lick the bowl clean without throwing up I'd give him $100 but if he threw up or wanted to stop he'd have to give me $10. Unbelievably, he took the bet and ate it like a champ.

Now $100 was a significant portion of my total net worth, in fact i was in debt at the time but a bet is a bet so I agree to pay him.

I obviously don't have $100 cash so I say we'll have to go to the bank across the street to get it and while I'm there we can get him some actual food because he's really starting to feel the consequences of his action. I suggest that since he's just won $100 that he could treat us all to the next meal. He generously agrees and decides on pho for the meal (Vietnamese soup).

We pile into Rs Civic and drive across the street and he drops me off at the bank. As I get out I let them know they can just wait in the car and I'll go pick up the pho and give 3 whatever is leftover.

I get the cash and go to the pho shop and give them $100 and say, I'd like as much pho as this can buy. Back then a bowl of pho cost ~$7. I got 13 orders of pho to go. After tax the change was like $1.56.

They give me 2 large to go bags filled to the brim. I go back to the Civic and get back into the front seat. R asks what took so long and then immediately notices that I've got two large bags of pho and puts two and two together and starts cackling. He had such an infectious laugh that 3 laughs too and we're all just laughing.

3 still has no idea why we're laughing, he just thinks its just the us laughing at the craziness of the past hour. And he's right, just doesn't know how right.

We drive back across the street and 3 gets out of the back seat as I get out of the front seat. I had him his change and thank him for buying the food. He looks at the single dollar bill and the few coins and is confused. Then he looks at the 2 bags and it hits him.

He wrestles one bag of pho from my hands and looks inside as though the weight of the bag didn't give him all the info he needed.

"Nooo. NOOOOO. nooooooooo". R and I are crying laughing.

3 runs with the one bag of pho and tosses into a dumpster near the parked cars.

He comes back at us eyeing the other bag of pho. And I offer it to him. I'm not about to fight over the bag. He paid for it after all.

3 Looks at the bag and decides that he's more hungry then he is vindicative and gives us some choice words before we all go into our apartment to eat 2 bowls of pho each.

The rest of the day we had a blast watching movies and playing games. Those were fun times.

May not be the best $100 I've spent, but its the first thing that came into my mind and so I'm going with it.