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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 10:14 pm
The comment about Canada being invaded three times and never declaring war was my favorite.
The Swamp
It's the sixth version of The Swamp. What could possibly go wrong?
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:41 am
Found this doing research for work: http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/spec ... in_donuts/
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:51 am
Awesome. We have like three Dunkinses here. And a hundred Starbucks.EdRomero wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:41 am Found this doing research for work: http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/spec ... in_donuts/
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 10:44 am
I don't understand the love for Dunkin's. Some of the sandwiches are palatable by fast-food standards, but the coffee is god awful.
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 10:53 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:04 am
The app is wonderful and their customer service is much better than Starbucks.
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:08 am
I think it is in MA because there's 75 other Dunkin's that you can hit up...we go to a DD every so often because the 5-year-old is addicted to chocolate doughnuts, but our local Dunks suuuuuucks.
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:11 am
I generally don't like Dunkin (but can and will drink it if desperate, since they're everywhere in NJ - see above) but every so often during the Q I've run past one at just the right time and caught a whiff and couldn't help thinking it smelled great.
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:12 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:19 am
Same. At the in-laws we'll drive 10-15 minutes for coffee (depending on which day of the week it is) rather than drink the Dunkin 2 minutes away. Just terrible, terrible coffee.
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:26 pm
Anyone who says they like DD's coffee doesn't like coffee, but likes 6 scoops of sugars in warm water and thinks it's DD's that they like. When forced to go there, I always ask for no sugar, because if you ask for 1 spoon, you get 4. I almost never put sugar in coffee, but DD's requires some. I also ask for a shot of espresso in their regular coffee (Turbo!) to make it more similar to actual coffee. This is a controversial stance to take in NJ, but bagel shop coffee almost all sucks, too. Very similar to DD in that it's weak ass coffee with too much milk and cream.
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Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:49 pm
Around here the best coffee is almost always starbucks. I will support the local shops when im around them but if Im just looking for coffee while out starbucks is the most reliable.
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2020 12:46 pm
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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:05 pm
Same with Tim Horton's swill up here.The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:26 pm Anyone who says they like DD's coffee doesn't like coffee, but likes 6 scoops of sugars in warm water and thinks it's DD's that they like. When forced to go there, I always ask for no sugar, because if you ask for 1 spoon, you get 4. I almost never put sugar in coffee, but DD's requires some. I also ask for a shot of espresso in their regular coffee (Turbo!) to make it more similar to actual coffee. This is a controversial stance to take in NJ, but bagel shop coffee almost all sucks, too. Very similar to DD in that it's weak ass coffee with too much milk and cream.
4,300 places to buy that coffee - roughly one per 8,000 Canadians.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:20 pm
I don't know why, but this map drives home just how far east the northeast is. Maybe it's the lack of framing from Canada.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:51 pm
Holy shit. Now I’m going to have nightmares.
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 12:27 pm
The rabbit hole awaits!
Fantastic stuff.
Fantastic stuff.
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:24 pm
Utah is so boring, its nickname is “Utah.”
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:14 pm
My wife is from Missouri. I guess I must have seen this map in my sleep. Because I also think of it as the puke state.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:11 pm
Can you post the link to that? I'd love to zoom in.
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:43 pm
Right click > open image in new tab
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:09 pm
That's great.
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:03 pm
Looking forward to reading this.
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:18 pm
Any comments welcome:
(This is from reddit so there was going to be an 80% Johnnie would post it anyway)
(This is from reddit so there was going to be an 80% Johnnie would post it anyway)
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:16 pm
Yeah, fuck the NJ style Sloppy Joe. Who named it?
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:27 pm
I guess it proves the point....but how is soup beans considered "weird"?
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:38 am
Never even heard of sauerkraut balls. 45 years as a Hoosier and nothing. Sounds delicious.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:12 am
They’re quite popular in the Cleveland area, too. But I don’t remember them at all while growing up in Cincinnati, which is odd since Cincinnati is historically a German town.
One of the golf courses around here sells the walking taco. I’ve never been desperate enough to eat one.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:31 am
I’m sorry, but “biscuits with chocolate gravy” doesn’t sound weird. It sounds delicious.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:53 am
Lutefisk is prepared with lye.
What's wrong with these people?
What's wrong with these people?
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:58 am
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:14 am
I've never heard of the grape-nuts ice cream, btw. Will have to defer to Ryan.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:17 am
There's one brand that I always see in the supermarket, but it's from Maine and I wouldn't have guessed it was regional/statetional beyond the fact that it's weird.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:36 am
According to my Google search, sauerkraut balls are from Akron, OH. Never heard of most of these things, willing to try most, even if they sound a bit gross.Sabo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:12 amThey’re quite popular in the Cleveland area, too. But I don’t remember them at all while growing up in Cincinnati, which is odd since Cincinnati is historically a German town.
One of the golf courses around here sells the walking taco. I’ve never been desperate enough to eat one.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:39 am
Oooo ... I've never heard of this but as a kid we'd put corn flakes on ice cream so that's kinda similar?Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:17 am There's one brand that I always see in the supermarket, but it's from Maine and I wouldn't have guessed it was regional/statetional beyond the fact that it's weird.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:54 am
I was poor as a youngster living in MI. Definitely put food coloring and sugar on snow MANY times. It's actually pretty decent (just a snowcone or whatever you want to call shaved ice, really.)Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:14 am I've never heard of the grape-nuts ice cream, btw. Will have to defer to Ryan.