Placid v Albany

[jtwcornell91]

For that matter, I'm amazed you live in Albany and have never heard of Freihofer's (more local and better cookies if you ask me).  You are familar with Stewart's, right?

[jtwcornell91]

Are people who only went to one site allowed (ethically) to vote for the one they went to, or do they have to vote "Didn't go"?  In particular, are the "I would never go to Placid because it's such a ripoff crowd" voting for Albany or N/A?

[Greg Berge]

Stewart's root beer is a keeper.  Amazingly I've even seen Stewart's sodas in the grocery stores all the way out here.

[Ivyman]

Biggest ice effect was when the Harvard shot headed straight for our empty goal turned on its side and veered left and missed by a foot.  I'm happy for that ice!:-D

[marty]

The Root Beer is from a very different Stewart's from Colorado:

http://www.root-beer.info/brews/stewarts.html


This Saratgoga NY Stewart's is known for bargain priced soft drinks and mid-priced dairy items:

http://www.stewartsshops.com/history.php


Oddly or maybe not so oddly, Entenmann's and Freihofer's are both currently owned by the same conglomerate - CPC International, Inc., aka Bestfoods.  Freihofer's originated in Troy and was family owned until the 1990's.



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[dadeo]

Man was the ice shitty, Ive never seen so many people laying on their be-hinds... and man, i want the video of when the harvard dude was checked through the glass...

[crodge2k]

And how many times did the Zamboni guy look back over his shoulder and realize that he'd missed a spot and would have to go over that part again?  I wondered if we had the Safety Zamboni guy all weekend.

That ice was terrible.  When you leave only 2 minutes for it to refreeze in a warm building before the team returns, you are not doing yourself any favors.

[ugarte]

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:

Are people who only went to one site allowed (ethically) to vote for the one they went to, or do they have to vote "Didn't go"?  In particular, are the "I would never go to Placid because it's such a ripoff crowd" voting for Albany or N/A?

I am one of those people.  I don't have an ethical problem with my vote.  (Not that either of us stay up nights thinking about the moral consequences of internet polling.)  I think it is valid to vote for "going" over "not going" and that is why I think Albany is better than LP.  All of the reasons that you think LP is cool make me think that I missed out on something by not going, but if it was there for another 5 years, I may have gone once.  I will go to Albany every time, so it is much much better.

[Mike Steinfeld]

Well, the one thing that irked me a bit was that horrendous commercialized period break trivia crap. I did appreciate the cheering when we started playing over him on Saturday though. :-p I missed whatever witty (or snide) comment he made afterwards, though I was told that he crossed his arms and waited for us to finish. The arena people did tell us to go ahead and play over the announcers and whatever else we wanted to, just not over the game though. Oops.

[Roy Kornbluh]

I had some friends who went to SUNY Albany (or whatever they are calling SUNY schools these days) in the early 80s. They introduced me to a dive of a place with the world's best chili. Frank's was the name, I believe. If urban renewal didn't claim it, that is some good late night eating.

And yeah, Friehofer's and Entermann's are pretty much the same chocolate chip cookie these days. Still the original chewy eat-the-whole-box-and-feel-sick-later cookie.

Wasn't Tim Horton a hockey player? There has to be some value in that. Good coffee cake.

Ravenous Roy

[Greg Berge]

Hey, at least they didn't have some jackass saying "Let's Get ready to rummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmblllllllllllle!"  ::help::

The commercial crap will come and go with sponsorship so I don't really think it's valid to ding Albany as a venue for it.  The "personality" doing the commercial stuff was the dime-a-dozen local radio clown who's in between gigs shelling for the local Buick dealership that you see in every third/fourth tier city.  I'd bet Providence and Worcester will have something similarly inane.

[jd212]

can we have a none of the above choice? I've never had Krispy Kreme and never heard of Tim Horton

[schoaff]

Take a cup of sugar and a stick of butter, melt them in a pan, drink it through a straw. Now you know what Krispy Kreme tastes like.  ::yark::

[jtwcornell91]

Yeah, but it lacks the charm of a mooing contest where a cow uses its udder as a slingshot to project t-shirts into the crowd.  Wow, that sounds even weirder when I actually write it down.  ::nut::

[Al DeFlorio]

Let's just hope Cornell resists introducing tasteless hype like Greg describes into the Lynah experience.  Arthur, please live forever.