Things I miss:
- Raw apple cider (i.e. the non-alcoholic version you get at farmer's markets)
- The mulled cider you make from raw apple cider
- Pumpkin pie
- New England clam chowder
- Clam cakes
- Maple syrup
- Pancakes. Like, real pancakes. Not the stuff they serve here cold, in a bowl, with custard.
- S'mores nights in front of the King House fireplace
- Ovens (and baking sugary, buttery treats with friends at 1am)
- Group-studying with friends until the wee hours in the morning
- The Blue Room
- Brown student theatre (PW, how I miss thee!)
- RISD
Things I don't miss at all:
- The all-pervasive cloud of pot smoke in dorm halls
- Pants-drenching, fierce New England rain
- My Brown mailbox, which was always too damn high for me
- Smelly, musty dorm carpets (they vacuum ours every week)
- Overcooked mystery meat at the Ratty
- Overcooked almost-everything at the Ratty
I would like it noted that Trough pancakes are not the normal way of doing pancakes here; they are an abomination against God and should never have been allowed.
ReplyDeleteHot damn, girl, I put off trying to wish you a happy birthday until I could send something or trying to mail you a care package because I had no idea what would be sufficiently New England-y, but ... consider half of those things sent. (:
ReplyDeleteomg u don't have pumkin pie?! please tell me u have pumpkins over there... it's almost thanksgiving... u need pumpkin!
ReplyDeleteThey have pumpkins here... except that the Brits treat it strictly as a vegetable. It's as if I said, "I wanna eat sweet squash pie."
ReplyDeleteClearly, they are missing out.