Washington State

  • Short Bus Kings: An Ode to CFB’s Most Underrated Tailgaters

    Short Bus Kings: An Ode to CFB’s Most Underrated Tailgaters

    Having traveled all over the country for college football games and scoured campuses far and wide for the best tailgates, I’ve arrived at an important theorem: tailgates featuring short buses are, without fail, some of the most fun and inviting on campus.

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  • Recipe: Cougar Gold Mac n’ Cheese

    Recipe: Cougar Gold Mac n’ Cheese

    During World War II, the United States government and the American Can Company provided Washington State’s agricultural programs with research funding. The objective? To find a way to keep cheese fresher for longer by storing it in tin cans so that soldiers overseas could enjoy American-made dairy products without risk of spoilage.

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  • Tailgater of the Week: Washington State

    Tailgater of the Week: Washington State

    Sometimes things are so obvious — literally right in front of your face for years — and somehow you still miss them. The hot new things (e.g. Deion and Colorado) divert your attention away from the continual, steady things that have been right in front of you all along. For almost 300 consecutive fall Saturdays,…

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  • Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe (Washington State)

    Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe (Washington State)

    Along the rolling hills of the Palouse, a unique topographic region in eastern Washington, sits Washington State University. Unlike its rival across the state in Seattle, Wazzu is located in a sleepy college town, surrounded by wide open spaces and offering a rural yin to the University of Washington’s bustling city yang.

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