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The town I grew up in has a ski resort in it, so there's a fair amount of shops and restaurants that have opened over the years for the tourists. A lot of the ones that were around when I was a kid are closed now, but I feel like talking about them anyway. (The closed restaurants will be marked as such, all others are still open.)

1. The Cupboard Deli: One of the most popular places in town. Everyone goes here for sandwiches, baked goods, and snacks. They have a huge variety of wraps, of which my favorite is the meatballs with marinara sauce. Their donuts are delicious as well, though those are put out in the morning and are usually gone by 10:30-11. The chocolate ones with whipped cream filling are the best. They also have a seasonal ice cream window that's open in the summer. Get the maple creemee.

2. Dinner's Dunne at the Windridge Bakery (closed): I'm pretty sure that's how it was spelled. This place closed when I was in middle/high school. It was open for breakfast and lunch, but my family mostly went to breakfast there. The one time I remember going there for lunch, I got chili. It was good. Usually, when we got breakfast, I got pancakes or biscuits and sausage gravy. It was good food. They baked all their own bread, too, so the toast was always tasty.

3. 158 Maine: The current restaurant in the space Dinner's Dunne was in. It's fancier and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I've had their biscuits and sausage gravy, which is very tasty. At dinner, they have a really good scallop dish that's kind of like chowder, and it's topped with fried onion strings. Their hot chocolate is also really good.

4. Cafe Banditos (closed): This was a Mexican restaurant that closed in 2001ish. I went there a couple of times. I remember getting a chicken dish with cheese and salsa that was really good. There's an Italian restaurant where this used to be that I have never been to, though it opened in 2002 or so.

5. Brewster River Pub and Brewery: I haven't been here for a while, but it has good food. They have music sometimes (or did) and they have a volleyball court and a horseshoe area. The fish and chips are very good. They have a nice deck where you can eat if the weather is nice.

6. The Mix (closed): I loved this place and went to it a lot. It closed in the summer of 2016. They served breakfast and dinner; I was usually there for breakfast (often with my mother). I nearly always got the creme brulee french toast with drunken blueberries (seriously drunken blueberries, they made my mouth numb), which was delicious. Their omelettes were great as well, as was the breakfast flatbread. I did go there a couple of times for lunch, but I don't really remember what I got those times. It was always good food, though.

Does anyone else remember Ben & Jerry's seconds? I'm not sure how widespread a product it was, since they stopped making them after Unilever bought them out. The idea of it was that sometimes batches of ice cream weren't mixed right, often with the result of all the add-ins glomming together in one clump. Instead of throwing it out, they marked it down to half price, put them in different containers, and sold it as seconds. I bought them at least once with a friend when I was a kid. It still tasted just as good.