ENBB's New England Cultural Corner

the merritt also has my fav tree

http://hooniverse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Fake-Trees-650x487.jpg

the taconic has to win the whiteknuckle award tho, recall driving on that shit during a thunderstorm my lord

http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140404/shake-shack-in-new-haven-closed-after-worker-exhibits-flu-like-symptoms-to-re-open-saturday

http://i.imgur.com/uQxtNGG.png

the best conn pizza is in mystic tho

sally's is sublime. apparently they are trying to sell the place though, pretty sad.

BAR definitely does not have the old world new haven italian charm but tbf their pizza is really good. beer is nothing special but it's nice enough.

somehow i have never been to the original pepe's, i've been to the fairfield one and it's great.

My favorite anecdote about new haven is this apocryphal story I heard there

That new haven and new york were both major ports back in the 19th century and were comparable

Then some law or something happened so they diverted all the ships to New York and not New Haven

If only this reg hadn't done that then New Haven would have been as big as New York today

It makes me smile because I'm like... aw that's sweet but don't kid yourselves

I just checked on google maps and Sally's has apizza in their name too. Apizza apizza apizza apizza

new haven also has a mamoun's falafel joint that it is open super late and has really cheap falafel and all kinds of cool rugs on the walls:

http://newhavenliving.com/imgs/media.images/1628/mamouns-falafel-restaurant-best-ethnic-2013-new-haven-living.jpg

hey how u doin lemme get a apizza

you pronounce it "a-beets" iirc

Lot of NH institutions are done

Yankee Doodle closed, Rudy's "moved"

lol lagoon wtf is up w/ that tree on the merritt xxxxp???

Enjoy your Cosi + Panera's + Chipotle + Potbelly New World Order, new haven

is it a huge fake tree? i may be confusing it with a large fake tree on the mass pike. or somewhere between CT and boston

its just a cool normal tree that maybe also sends out cellular signals nbd keep driving

xxp tbf those places are everywhere

i find myself in CT (the Lymes) 6x a year or so bcz what's left of my family is there.

i was at a minor-league baseball game im Norwich and the mascot slapped me on the head.

watch out for ticks!

I was friends with someone from Vermont who had moved down to Arkansas. She was amazed by the huge gas and fast-food signs on the interstate that she had seen on the way down, and wondered if any of us had ever actually seen them get lowered telescopically to change the light bulbs.

http://i.imgur.com/BEtWLfb.png

Kinda hated having to reveal the truth on that one.

co-worker: Ticks in the conference room.
ILXor: Yeah, I'd like to suck on some of that!
co-worker: o_O

<ILXor goes to conference room, sees it's actual Lyme-disease carrying ticks and not minor-league baseball game tickets>

ILXor: Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe if you're from a family of whalers, you think everything works like a telescope.

lol xp

aw vt

also re: pizza sally's and pepe's use COAL-fired ovens for their pizza. not even wood-fired. kind of crazy

all the super old school places use coal grimaldis and lombardis in ny, mustve been the thing at the time

There's also a mamouns right around NYU or at least there was when I was in school. It was cheap and good and now I want falafel.

The Merrit is my favorite road to drive. So twisty!

I'm glad my facebook is working out for you all.

baleen on this thread

ive always thought pepe's & sallys were overrated

this is my fav ct pizza, note also coal-fired, but its really abt the sauce -- http://hartford.firstandlasttavern.com/about-us

mamouns is great b/c the falafel is priced accordingly. it's like $3.50. i went had lunch there with some friends before my wedding. it was like $2.80 back then. it can feel kind of hard nowadays to find falafel for less than $5. some places even charge like $8 bucks, fuckin ripoff

The Mamouns on macdougal and cream cheese bagels from bagels on the square is basically how I eat for less than $10 a day in NYC

or springfield, or new bedford, or lynn, or chelsea, or holyoke, or or or or or

See now I like Holyoke. It's like, liminal. A lot of New England feels too, like, organized or something. Where is the weird?

new england is not about the weird, you have the rest of the country for that

btw check out this map the green parts are census blocks with zero residents, n maine is the least populated place east of the rockies (w texas maybe)

http://i.imgur.com/43FAR8c.jpg

new england is not about the weird, you have the rest of the country for that

Yeah I guess that's my point!

New England can be pretty weird, for example they sell homemade beef jerky at gas stations

This is more my style:
http://www.desertofmaine.com

i been there

northern vt has some pretty weird shit but its so vt you can hardly get worked up over it

haha

there's a desert . . . in maine?

its just some sand dunes iirc

Desert Dunes Disc Golf!
Click here For Details

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RSIFVReGBuA/TmLLO6mWxwI/AAAAAAAAAzk/6ycoOQOHGaw/s1600/Desert%2Bof%2BMaine.JPG

btw the volleyball hall of fame is in holyoke you know what its called the volleyhall

http://i.imgur.com/F7HH8X9.png

100% certain i mentioned that before on ilx but i just cant believe they did it

road trip to the volleyhall

http://sportsbra.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/top-gun-volleyball-maverick1.jpg

So what do you all like best about New England?

Probably how new it is