i know right
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
yea no trucks too
― marcos, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:40 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is key
Do they call it a parkway because there are areas every few miles where you can park
― 龜, Monday, June 9, 2014 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there are also gas stations scattered throughout the merritt where you can pull over and park & get some gas
― marcos, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OMdJNkh-6is/T4GnLiW4N2I/AAAAAAAAS0M/gvdEfM6UL1o/s1600/IMG_4826.JPG
I mean for cute
― pplains, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
also they are very twisty w no shoulder and people drive 20mph over the speed limit so it kinda like a video game except if you die you really die
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
The pizza in new haven is okay I never actually went to sals or pepes the storefronts I would always just eat the free stuff they delivered
Modern's is good only because they call it apizza instead of pizza
BAR had good mashed potato pizza before it became a thing I think plus they brew their own beer
My favorite actually was brick oven pizza which I think is a chain
Don't go to Louis Lunch it's a scam
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Now there's a shake shack (that got closed for some kind of infestation or something) and a chipotle and I bet a billion other chains haha suck it new haven
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
the merritt also has my fav tree
http://hooniverse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Fake-Trees-650x487.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
the taconic has to win the whiteknuckle award tho, recall driving on that shit during a thunderstorm my lord
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
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
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― marcos, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
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
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
I just checked on google maps and Sally's has apizza in their name too. Apizza apizza apizza apizza
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
hey how u doin lemme get a apizza
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
you pronounce it "a-beets" iirc
― marcos, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
Lot of NH institutions are done
Yankee Doodle closed, Rudy's "moved"
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
lol lagoon wtf is up w/ that tree on the merritt xxxxp???
― marcos, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Enjoy your Cosi + Panera's + Chipotle + Potbelly New World Order, new haven
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
its just a cool normal tree that maybe also sends out cellular signals nbd keep driving
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 June 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
watch out for ticks!
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
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!!!!!!!!!!!!
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
Maybe if you're from a family of whalers, you think everything works like a telescope.
― pplains, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
lol xp
aw vt
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
also re: pizza sally's and pepe's use COAL-fired ovens for their pizza. not even wood-fired. kind of crazy
― marcos, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
all the super old school places use coal grimaldis and lombardis in ny, mustve been the thing at the time
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:01 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad my facebook is working out for you all.
baleen on this thread
― dn/ac (darraghmac), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― marcos, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Kornblud (admrl), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
new england is not about the weird, you have the rest of the country for that
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I guess that's my point!
― Kornblud (admrl), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
New England can be pretty weird, for example they sell homemade beef jerky at gas stations
― 龜, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
This is more my style:http://www.desertofmaine.com
― Kornblud (admrl), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
i been there
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
northern vt has some pretty weird shit but its so vt you can hardly get worked up over it
haha
― Kornblud (admrl), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
there's a desert . . . in maine?
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 9 June 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
its just some sand dunes iirc
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Desert Dunes Disc Golf! Click here For Details
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RSIFVReGBuA/TmLLO6mWxwI/AAAAAAAAAzk/6ycoOQOHGaw/s1600/Desert%2Bof%2BMaine.JPG
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 June 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link