Things Blue and White People Like
These "Things (Blank) and (Blank) People Like" have been circling around the internets the past few weeks, but I have yet to see anyone do one for Penn State. So I figured what the heck. Here are some things Blue and White people like.
Eat n Park
It's 2 AM on a Sunday. You're cruising down I-99 through Altoona on your way home to Johnstown after another Primetime Penn State game. In the past 24 hours you have consumed a case of IC Lite, half a fifth of Jack, and a margarita some cute girl gave you just to make you leave her tailgating area before you puked on her. Your face and the back of your neck sting from standing in the sun all day and you haven't had anything to eat in over ten hours since the shoe leather hot dog that sat on the grill way too long. Your buddies are passed out in the back seat and your eyes are getting heavy. Then you see it. Eat n Park is coming up at the next exit, and you're thinking nothing would hit the spot better than a Super Griddle Smile right about now. Screw your friends. You need to Eat n Park right friggin' now. Buy them a round of Smiley Cookies to smooth it over.
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World Famous Grilled Stickies
You started out drinking Ice-T's at the Café 210 West. Then someone suggested you head down to the Saloon for a Monkey Boy pitcher. The bars are closing down and you and your buddies are getting hungry. You stumble down the block to McDonalds to find the line out the door. Screw that. If you can't get flesh, cheese and grease at 2 AM you'll go for the next best thing...fat and sugar. The trek up College Avenue in the bitter January wind is totally worth it for that delicious sticky bun dipped in butter and fried on the grill. Of course it wouldn't be a grilled sticky if you didn't go ala mode.
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Fumble Drills
You play ring toss to pass the time? Please. Penn State fans prefer something a little more manly. Like decking yourself out in spandex and diving into piles of empty beer cans.
Beer
One thing all Nittany Lion fans agree on is their love for beer. The only question is are you a Yinzer or Youzer. If you're from western Pennsylvania yinz like to kick back with an Iron City. If you're from eastern Pennsylvania youz prefer the smooth taste of Yuengling Lager.
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Add your own things Blue and White people like in the comments.
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Laughing at Pitt's expense
by MarkoMancuso on May 6, 2008 11:29 PM EDT 0 recs
I guess I don't fit in with you all
- I am from Pittsburgh, but definately prefer Yuengling.
- I would never eat Grilled Stickies, The Diner has been shut down 3 times in the last 4 years for major health violations.
by JGuiher on May 7, 2008 7:25 AM EDT 0 recs
So...........
There are moments in life that simply scream for lower standards.
Besides - the antibiotics available these days are miraculous.
by Pete the Streak on
May 7, 2008 7:49 AM EDT
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My point
by JGuiher on
May 7, 2008 7:57 AM EDT
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ya know
Blue and White people like an Ernie's Cheesesteak and fresh cut fries...that was the best pre-game food, you could drink all night if you scarfed some of that down
by Lion Alum on
May 7, 2008 8:53 AM EDT
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College Pizza
Ernie's Cheesesteaks are kind of a new creation. It was not too long ago that your only food options at the Phyrst were peanuts and micro-wave popcorn.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 8:57 AM EDT
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Canyon?
by 06Lion on
May 7, 2008 12:13 PM EDT
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JG
Anyone not desiring mouse shit and mold is understandable, and worth emulating. I just wasn't up to it.
Didn't mean to snark on ya.
by Pete the Streak on
May 8, 2008 7:14 AM EDT
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Acme
by jesse. on
May 8, 2008 11:53 AM EDT
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Late night food.
If the lines were too long I was not above stopping at local gas station for mini meatball sandwich, not great tasteing but at 2:30 am anything looks good...that goes for the big girls too.
by SweepTheLeg on May 7, 2008 9:12 AM EDT 0 recs
Agreed
by spakajewia on
May 7, 2008 10:37 AM EDT
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Mini Meatballs!!
by speedomike02 on
May 8, 2008 11:28 AM EDT
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ACME and Griller's
College Pizza was my preference for sober eating.
by WETSU on May 7, 2008 9:33 AM EDT 0 recs
Hmmm...
Of course, you kinda allude to that in your post by mentioning Altoona and Johnstown... and not Allentown or Hazleton. Personally, I'll take Perkins any day.
For your convenience... http://www.perkinsrestaurants.com/home.html
by BSM PSU 93 on May 7, 2008 9:46 AM EDT 0 recs
I will tell you what would make a killing...
by carolinaeasy on May 7, 2008 10:02 AM EDT 0 recs
I should clarify,
by carolinaeasy on
May 7, 2008 10:03 AM EDT
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I wanted to open a Sheetz MTO Downtown
by JGuiher on
May 7, 2008 10:13 AM EDT
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Uni-mart
by lionalum05 on
May 7, 2008 10:18 AM EDT
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I remember hearing that too...
by Screen Name 20 on
May 7, 2008 10:35 AM EDT
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MTO baby!
by BSD on
May 7, 2008 10:42 AM EDT
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True story
by carolinaeasy on
May 7, 2008 12:01 PM EDT
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How Much
by jtothep on
May 7, 2008 2:15 PM EDT
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lemme see
by lionalum05 on
May 7, 2008 5:40 PM EDT
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well
by carolinaeasy on
May 8, 2008 7:49 AM EDT
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So you went to Altoona Campus, too, Mike?
I can remember many a drunken stroll down through Juniata to get to Sheetz in the middle of the night after a night of boozing at 6th Ave.
by Ab4PSU on
May 8, 2008 3:27 PM EDT
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Eat N Park
I second the downtown Sheetz idea...cheap and good coffee, breakfast sandwiches, etc...yum.
by PSUWifey on May 7, 2008 10:16 AM EDT 0 recs
Breakfast & Buzz Management
by jtothep on
May 7, 2008 2:20 PM EDT
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god rest its soul
by lionalum05 on May 7, 2008 10:20 AM EDT 0 recs
RIP
no set hours-if someone was in there at 4 in the morning, they would open up and cook you a melon-sized burrito.
by psudrozz on May 7, 2008 10:26 AM EDT 0 recs
That place was...
The food was good and value better.
RUTS and I went there on a regualar basis...wasn't there a chinese place there before La bamba?
Another good place was Boots...they would deliver 6+ times per weekend.
by SweepTheLeg on
May 7, 2008 11:39 AM EDT
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Skeller...
College Pizza always hits the spot.
by QBsneak12 on May 7, 2008 10:28 AM EDT 0 recs
never settled?
The Pittsburgh Brewing Company, which produces and distributes Iron, has been on the verge of going under for the past twenty years. Meanwhile, you can go to nearly any bar from New York to North Carolina and order a yuengling.
The only contest Iron could win against Yuengling would be in marketing contests: some of the old Iron ads, with pissed off steelworkers downing beers, were unbelievable. Even this more recent, underground effort is great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS18r2k8JVo
by spakajewia on May 7, 2008 11:13 AM EDT 0 recs
Uni-Mart "Death Dogs"
The youz and yinz comment cracks me up. My junior year, I (a Philly guy) lived with 4 guys from Pittsburgh. It was like they spoke another language to my high-class East PA ears!! My favorite was when they would put on their "tennis shoes" to play basketball.
by NJ lion on May 7, 2008 12:01 PM EDT 0 recs
listen to you...
by lionalum05 on
May 7, 2008 5:46 PM EDT
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ha
wait, western pa'ers don't say spigot? what do y'all call it?
by psudrozz on
May 7, 2008 5:51 PM EDT
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haha
by lionalum05 on
May 7, 2008 6:53 PM EDT
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The better comparison for Pittsburgh
by carolinaeasy on May 7, 2008 12:03 PM EDT 0 recs
No way
Second, well, it's Iron City.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 12:15 PM EDT
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But its like nominating a presidential canidate..
I have a tough time liking anything from a brewing co. that makes American Beer...that is the worst stuff the in history of beer.
by carolinaeasy on
May 7, 2008 12:18 PM EDT
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Bad Beer
by Gopher Broke on
May 7, 2008 3:08 PM EDT
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Try American Lager
by PSU Nick on
May 7, 2008 3:59 PM EDT
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don't forget...
by lionalum05 on
May 7, 2008 5:48 PM EDT
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really?
by psudrozz on
May 7, 2008 5:53 PM EDT
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that beer
by lionalum05 on
May 7, 2008 6:55 PM EDT
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But you once could order a box of Rocks
by PSU Nick on
May 7, 2008 2:18 PM EDT
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It's not.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 2:20 PM EDT
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Rock Pony's
by WETSU on
May 7, 2008 2:53 PM EDT
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Case of Ponys
As a employed taxpayer, I encourage everybody in college to get drunk on Tuesday afternoons. While you still can.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 2:58 PM EDT
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Midweek, early afternoon drinking...
by WETSU on
May 7, 2008 3:09 PM EDT
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When I was reading
By junior and senior year, I scheduled back to back 10 and 11 o'clock classes to defeat the trend.
Summer session at Penn State was like summer camp, only with beer and chicks.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 3:13 PM EDT
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Yeah, Nick -
One summer term my buddy and I umpired intramural softball, and post-game was always celebrated at the 'skeller. Teams made it a point to drop a box of Rocks at our table, with the caveat "Keep it fair, Blue". What a great summer, except for the GPA.
Side note: In the early 90's, I attended a conference in Dallas each year at the Loews-Anatole Hotel (6 stars out of 5). A sports bar in the hotel had a shelf displaying the 'premium' beers, which consisted of every pricey import you could imagine, plus...Rolling Rock. $6 for a 12 oz. bottle, 15 years ago. Crazy.
by Pete the Streak on
May 8, 2008 7:08 AM EDT
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Sam Adams
by QBsneak12 on May 7, 2008 12:37 PM EDT 0 recs
you
by Lion Alum on
May 7, 2008 1:23 PM EDT
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Troeggs
by Spats on
May 7, 2008 2:33 PM EDT
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Really?
I grew up in Park Forest - so when I'm visiting Mother, we usually get HiWay or Papa John's.
And since I lived on campus while at school, late night food was almost always the Penn State Sub Shop - but the hoagies from the North Atherton Street shop were better than the ones downtown.
by PSUgirl on May 7, 2008 1:11 PM EDT 0 recs
Where in Park Forest?
Penn State Sub Shop wings are the standard that all other chicken wings are measured against. Few are better, most are worse, but to this day, every chicken wing I eat is compared to the Sub Shop's.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 1:28 PM EDT
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Over by Douglas Dr.
You are correct about the chicken wings - no one makes them with enough vinegar.
But the simple recipe of Frank's hot sauce and melted butter (I use a ratio of about 1:2) comes close. (oh, and roast the wings in the oven at 425 for 60 minutes)
My one roommate loved wings from Champs - she would order their hottest variety and then douse them in cayenne pepper -
by PSUgirl on
May 7, 2008 4:20 PM EDT
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I know where that is
Obnoxious wings are solid, but not as good as the Sub Shop, and there are leat 10 things on the menu at Champs better than their wings, starting with the Colorado Rockie (Prime Rib with Au jus).
Nothing should be as good as that sandwhich.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 4:45 PM EDT
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Beer and Food
The best beer deal was 1/2 keg of Bud Dry, for some reason it was real cheap. Even though Bellefonte is like 10 minutes away, it seemed an hour away in college life so I didn't take advantage of the Rolling Rock cheap kegs as often as I should.
I still get pissed off at state college beer distributors closing super early on weekends forcing you to pay the higher prices at the six pack shops. Aholes.
by wookieeman on May 7, 2008 1:25 PM EDT 0 recs
I think it was Nastse's Beer Distributor
But then they started selling cheap cases of Yuengling cans and having reasonable prices on Kegs and it really exploded on the fraternity party circuit. This would be in the mid to late 90's.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 1:33 PM EDT
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Yup Nastasi
I wanted Yuengling kegs, but back in the late 90's the kegs were prong tap and I only had a ball tap.
by wookieeman on May 7, 2008 1:39 PM EDT 0 recs
Bigger Debate
by QBsneak12 on May 7, 2008 1:40 PM EDT 0 recs
Busch
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 1:41 PM EDT
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Busch bottles...
by WETSU on
May 7, 2008 1:49 PM EDT
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Ha...
We bought the cans, which is somehow more pathetic. But over the course of 25 or 30 cases of beer, those are savings you can take to the bank, or buy more beer with. Which is of course what we did.
by jesse. on
May 7, 2008 1:53 PM EDT
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Yuengling if we had money
by PSU Nick on
May 7, 2008 2:21 PM EDT
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We Rocked......
Depending on the mood I either drink New Castel, Stella Artois, or Bass.........but oftentimes I hit the PBR Pounders, The Champagne of Beers and I still drink a lot of Natural Light. American Light was good too.
I will never be too good for low budget American Beer.
Eat N Park.......used to tear up the buffet and clean em out of corn beef hash.
by ech2os on
May 7, 2008 4:03 PM EDT
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My Beer of
I just bought a case of Sammy Summer Ale yesterday.. for my couple afterwork nightly beers.
by wookieeman on May 7, 2008 1:43 PM EDT 0 recs






