Everything But Anchovies

[Beeeej]

Just make sure you bring enough for the whole class, young lady.

Beeeej

[Greg Berge]

Favorite place on the road to eat: Catamount Brewery, Burlington.

Favorite place on the road to grab something really quick when someone has made you late for the game, again: Wings to Go, Providence.

Favorite place on the road to eat, coming back from Boston (or Ithaca): Dakotas, Great Barrington.

Favorite place on the road to drink: (tie) Holmes and Watson, Troy; John Harvard's, Cambridge.

[jkahn]

If I hadn't just finished dinner, after reading this thread I'd probably be trying to cook myself a PMP right now.  After I graduated I used to make them for a while, but they do taste better after you've waited on the Hot Truck steps when it's 5 degrees out and past midnight.  What's a WGC?  Either I've forgotten or don't know.  I was always PMP w/Pep or MBC w/mush.

[gwm3]

WGC=Wet Garlic and Cheese.  Essentially a PMP on garlic bread.  It's huge and relatively cheap  :-))

[Josh '99]

Graham Meli '02 wrote:

WGC=Wet Garlic and Cheese.  Essentially a PMP on garlic bread.  It's huge and relatively cheap  :-))

Well, technically, a PMP is on a third of a loaf of bread, and a WGC is on a half.  A WGC also has less cheese on it.

-Josh "I worked there, trust me"

[CowbellGuy]

Yes, it's supposed to have less cheese on it, which is why I always used to order a WGC/G&G/Pep/Mush..., until the guy taking orders kept insisting that a Sep-Pep/G&G... was identical. So I'm not convinced there's actually a difference in cheese.

[Josh '99]

The guy taking orders probably doesn't know.  He most likely was saving you a little bit of money, though nothing significant in the scheme of things.  You can specify lighter cheese, too, if that's what you want.

[ericho_4511]

The NYS drinking age was raised from 18 to 19 effective Jan 1, 1985, but
there was a grandfather clause. It was raised again from 19 to 21 effective Jan 1, 1986 without a grandfather clause (the federal government would withhold federal highway money from any state that did not comply with the
21 drinking age).

How do I know this?  My birthday is Jan 2, 1967. Therefore I missed legal drining age by ONE DAY both times. The running joke in my family was that they would raise it to 30 once I was about to turn 21.  ::worry::

While it made it inconvenient (sometimes nearly impossible) to go to the Palms (the smokiest dive in town), and attend "Group Therapy", or hang out at the Connection. it certainly didn't stop me from drinking. Hey that's what dorm and off-campus parties were for!!!!

[Keith K]

Melissa, I think the length of this thread has a lot to do with the number of alums who like reminiscing about "the good ole days on the hill."  I know I really miss getting Hot Truck for dinner...
The fact that there isn't a long thread about this weekend's games probably has a lot to do with a 7 point lead eliminating most of the (ECAC) implications of the final two weekends.

[Greg Berge]

And the jinx factor, perhaps.

[zg88]

WARNING:  Skip this post if you don't give a crap about the history of the drinking age in New York.   ::nut::   (Yes, when I'm in procrastinatory mode, you all suffer!)  :-))

OK, Eric... I feel a bet comin' on...

(Man, I never would've guessed, at the time (16 years ago), that I'd someday be having one of these "geezers-in-rocking-chairs" arguments (especially in a hockey forum (hell, there wasn't even an internet then!)) over a date that was so "traumatic" to so many of us in the Class of '88...)  (Cornell Hockey Tie-in:  But, hey, at least we had the '86 ECAC championship a few months later to help us forget our sorrows!)  :-))

Umm... back to the bet...  A case of beer (appropriately enough) says that the age went from 19 to 21 on Dec. 1, '85 -- not on Jan. 1, '86.  (I've searched the internet (I'm not too good at that sorta thing), and all I've been able to come up with is that "19-->21" happened "in 1985").

While I was fairly confident about "late '82" being the timing of the 18-to-19 jump, I will concede that, since I was only 16 at the time, I'm not totally positive about the precise date for that one (it wasn't as acutely painful as the '85 change).

One thing's for sure, however:  There's no way the age went from 18 to 19 on Jan. 1, '85, because that would've meant that I became legal on my 18th birthday (in '84), and that definitely didn't happen!  That's for damn sure!  (If your dates were both correct, then that would mean that I became legal on 3 separate occasions!!  Yikes!!)

Also, I am very sure that I was legal for exactly 6 weeks, and that that period of legality ended on Dec. 1, '85.  For "evidence", I looked at my '85-'86 Cornell calendar, and, on Wed., Nov. 27, there is the following notation:

"FINAL BEER RUN... (2) 6-packs: Tuborg & Michelob"  :`(

The reason why that "final" beer run occurred 3 days sooner than on the absolutely last possible day was that I spent those final 3 days out of state (for Thanksgiving break).

The reasons why I only purchased two 6-packs are... ummm... well...  1.) How much beer can you fit in a dorm-room fridge?  2.) Hey, we all knew that, thanks to fake ID's, it would pretty much be business as usual, anyway!  B-]

And the reason why I would buy such crappy beer... well...  All I can do is use the "poor student" and "ignorant youth" excuses.  When I became legal again, two years later, my malt beverage purchases betrayed a more sophisticated palate (thanks, in part, to finally having some money).

Yeah... and that's all I have to say about that...   ::help::

Woo-hoo!!  100th post!!

(PS -- Significant editing at 3:30pm).

[CUlater \'89]

Eric Hoffman wrote: "...it certainly didn't stop me from drinking. Hey that's what dorm and off-campus parties were for!!!!"

And Dino's too!

[kaelistus]

Of course... you could live in one of those states that foregoes said federal highway money and continues to have the legal age of 18.

Okay there are no states like that, but half-state Puerto Rico does it. And it has the lowest drunk driving rate in the country. Makes you think.

[AdamGanderson]

Yes, but what's the DRIVER rate in Puerto Rico?  I have to imagine that cars per person is lower than, say, Connecticut.  

Pretend John's silly quote about statistics is here.

[jeh25]

Felix Rodriguez wrote:

Of course... you could live in one of those states that foregoes said federal highway money and continues to have the legal age of 18.

Okay there are no states like that, but half-state Puerto Rico does it. And it has the lowest drunk driving rate in the country. Makes you think.

Uhh. Then why is the drinking age 18 in New Orleans? Maybe because the loss in tourism revenue would be greater than the gains in highway funding...