Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Soy Sauce Atrocity
Have you ever crawled out of your dorm on a mucky, freezing day, walked to class and almost puked upon entering because of the vile smell radiating around campus. Yep, if this has happened to you, then you know the smell I am talking about: soy sauce. After any winter storm the beautiful white snow is no longer beautiful and the appeal of walking through a winter wonderland is no longer appealing because of the nauseating smell left lingering in the air and the heinous brown color of the snow. Apparently this mixture is used to prevent ice from forming, hence the salt, but really, soy sauce? Is it necessary to ruin all things fun about snow storms by rendering kids unable to breathe and see because of the horrific air and aesthetic pollution. A few sources have said that this mixture is actually not soy sauce but either way, what is the difference? It still smells and looks disgusting. The soy sauce-esque mixture is no doubt a distinguishable UMass wintertime atrocity.
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Ugh the dreaded soy sauce...glad to know others have shared my pain. It's a surefire way to ruin any pair of pants.
ReplyDeleteI always wondered what that sticky stuff they put down was!
ReplyDeleteAfter someone wrote a letter to the Amherst Bulletin asking about the molassesy smell after a snowstorm, one of the reporters (maybe it was me now that I think about it) wrote a story about this stuff called, I think, Ice-B-Gone. Could be a good Collegian mini-feature if it hasn't been done.
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