McDonald's doesn't have that weird slimy and greasy thing going on with its food that places like Checkers/Rally's and Sonic do. I don't love McDonald's but I can count on it to not be a sloppy, bad-tasting mess like Sonic if I eat it. Maybe it's just the consistency or familiarity, but McDonald's isn't actively off-putting to me like Sonic.

Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa plates are the real golden geese. I've only ever seen the first one on the mainland.

None of that really speaks to why I don't like it, except what you said about the popcorn chicken. But nearly every chain has something like that, something that's pretty good. Sonic's food tastes extra processed and greasy overall. It's much more Midwestern/Southern than Northeastern/New England, from the food quality to the overall experience.

I like fast food, I like sugary drinks occasionally. But I don't need a giant cherry limeade slush or something, a can of Coke is plenty.

I've been to two Sonics in Michigan and one in Illinois, they have the same food as the ones in CT. It's that extra greasy fast food like they have at Rally's/Checkers. It's a gross restaurant no matter where you are.

I can tell you DJ Hernandez is a grown man with a degree from UConn and still wrote "realeyes" instead of "realize" on his brick-note.

That's a lot of what the article is about, the one in Canton closing.

You're not understanding the difference between not being a licensed driver at all and being a licensed driver but not having a physical copy of your license with you.

I used to love going here, it was very nostalgic but the donuts, breakfast sandwiches, etc. were good.

Glad to hear it will still be donuts, at least. Luke's is pretty decent and it has the same sort of traditional vibe as the Whole Donut. The brightly colored donut places with the funny or punny names can be good too. But I like the "this is a simple place to get a donut or greasy breakfast sandwich" atmosphere more than the trendier "this is a place to get a whimsical treat" atmosphere.

Moxie is only one flavor though. Hosmer Mountain makes a bunch of flavors, and none of them are Moxie or a copycat flavor.

It's wintergreen flavored, that's the closest flavor that most people will know.

I really don't like it. I'd definitely call it bad, but it's probably not fair to say that it's objectively bad.

I think the general attitude is more casual or less caring about details and presentation and things like that than I am, or what I'm used to back home. Stuff like how people dress at weddings, or whether you directly introduce two people you know who don't know each other. Or how people in the Midwest make this "Ope" noise as a kind of replacement for "excuse me."

It's mostly small stuff, but there's enough of them that they add up. The city and metro isn't as nearly as bad with it. People tend to care more for lack of a better phrase (although they have their own minor issues -- constant little brother syndrome with NYC, how they think they invented pepper and egg sandwiches, etc.). But you can still feel it around the edges and I'm tired of it.

I moved from CT to Chicago and can't wait to move back to New England, we're planning on it in the relative short term.

There's a Midwestern tinge to everything that I am so excited to get away from, having to deal with that for like 10 years is probably the biggest motivator.

Where did I say Bean Boots are good boots? All I did was imply you guys are too hickish and dull to know how to dress well. You're not doing so hot in this exchange haha.

I'll take that over thinking it's OK to wear Bean Boots with a blazer haha.

I will say that if you're trying to convince people to not go to Maine, you're doing a good job.

A rare move where, considering you're starting in Enfield, you'd end up in a place with even more Dunkin Donuts per capita. Fewer Whole Donuts, though, to be fair.

You mean like the little bitches who pop into day-old comment threads about trashy Maine license plates so they can tell people to stay out of Maine? lol

I just visited this summer and don't plan to go back again anytime soon haha. I was around Portland and it was decent, but it also mostly felt like a less interesting, more dirtbag Cape Ann.

I'm not denying it can be funny, because it definitely can be. But having a license plate like PUSSYDR or BUKKAKI or what have you is real trashy, too.

Maine let residents get anything they wanted on license plates for a while. It was super trashy and rednecky. They just started enforcing certain rules again.

I grew up here too, but in an era when there was the Whole Donut, Bess Eaton, a few local shops in the towns around me, etc. Dunkin Donuts was the worst one, but they weren't as bad. If I remember right, DD made their donuts more locally and they weren't quite as bad as they are now.

It's interesting that CT has had what seems like a big drain on good donut places, but RI still has tons of really good independent donut shops.

It used to be great when you could put on Big D 103 and know you'd hear older rock 'n roll, doo-wop, etc. They played a lot more '50s and '60s than other radio stations. I liked having something different than the standard classic rock radio format.

That copy isn't from the Chowder Pot that's closing. You need an editor too lol.

Is that at the Food Bag on the Berlin Turnpike? Food Bags are always the most disgusting convenience stores. The one in Granby is especially greasy.

Oh man, it's such a long and drawn out "look how funny I am" thing. Especially when you picture someone taking the time to edit a Reddit post over and over while they're at a bar.

It might make sense for Google to do that, but they don't owe it to truck drivers or anyone using a free app. It doesn't benefit Google — it doesn't collect your data or serve you ads — if you don't use it.

Why is it not a problem at all to use one app, but some kind of huge burden, compounded by the all of the info on the dash, to switch between two apps? They don't need to have both active at once.

Yeah I'm not saying they can't use Google Maps. I'm just saying it's part of their job to drive safely and follow the rules of the roads they choose to use. However they want to get there is fine with me. But they're the ones causing the problem when they don't do that, not Google Maps.