<p>Never EVER drop your cup in the Ratty cos it will bounce around for like 5 minutes, sending shrill and indomitably loud clinking noises to the ears of 100 people whom you don’t know but will instantly think you an idiot. Always hold your Ratty cups sturdily.</p>
<p>One time, this kid in the Ratty did a face-plant while holding a completely full tray, sending everything on the tray flying in incredible fashion. Some things went like 30 feet. The guy gets up, looks around, pulls the hood of his hoodie down, and runs out of the Ratty. Everyone in the area sat around in stunned silence for like 2 solid minutes.</p>
<p>My friends and I debate to this day about whether it was real or a piece of performance art.</p>
<p>Possibly worse than dropping a Ratty cup: dropping a V-Dub plate. The cups make noise, but they don’t break. V-Dub plates, as I have learned from experience, shatter into millions of tiny sharp pieces.</p>
<p>^^ That is the stuff of nightmares. I guess one of the benefits of the probable elimination of trays by the time I graduate will be that that can never happen (although doing it with just a plate and maybe a cup would still be awful)</p>
<p>^ haha yeah, that probably is, especially considering the comparatively cramped nature of the facility (at least the one time I’ve been there)</p>
<p>If my math is right, no one currently at Brown remembers having the big cups at the ratty. Those were the days…</p>
<p>V-Dub still has big cups! I hate having to go back for refills all the time at the Ratty.</p>
<p>as far as i was concerned when i was at brown, the v-dub only existed on fridays at lunch</p>
<p>That’s the benefit of living in Pembroke your first year. You realize how great the V-Dub is early on.</p>
<p>CFFFTW…(10 char)</p>
<p>The question of cups is a complicated one.</p>
<p>On the one hand, it is true that Ratty cups are inferior in size and require multiple trips to fill, or multiples cups, if one doesn’t want to get up to refill. Constantly refilling is a hardship for students. Having multiple cups of the same drink at a meal is an absurd practice. </p>
<p>The logical thing would SEEM to be to replace Ratty cups with their larger V-Dub counterparts; however, it is difficult to fill these with milk due to their size. Milk is inevitably spilled in the process.</p>
<p>This is a complex issue that will not be solved any time soon, but we can make .000001 steps of progress in solving it by holding sustained and balanced dialogues and inter-eatery discussions.</p>
<p>Solution: VW for lunch, Ratty for dinner, Gate/Jo’s/Ivy Room for a late night snack (or Blue Room for breakfast). This way, you get the best of both worlds (unless you dislike Ratty food like I do, or VW food like several of my friends).</p>
<p>The Blue Room needs to accept meal credits all day long. I’d just live there if it did. Yes, my name does stand for something.</p>
<p>Blue Room is kind of a rip off, IMHO. :/</p>
<p>Ivy Room doesn’t have enough. </p>
<p>Ratty generally sucks (except for breakfast).</p>
<p>VW is great! But it’s not open weekends…</p>
<p>Jo’s is awesome, but of course it can get a little repetitive. Still, it’s good. Wish they had an egg station, but that’s almost a whiney complaint. </p>
<p>Never been to The Gate.</p>
<p>Never been to the Gate? Ooh. You should go for late-night pizza. I like how chill it is there, especially compared to Jo’s on a Saturday night.</p>
<p>The Gate is awesome as well! Between its pizzas and spicy with’s at Jo’s, I think we’re covered in terms of late night junk food.</p>
<p>Gate calzones are the shiz as well</p>
<p>Lmao I never worried about this before today! One more thing to add to the list…</p>
<p>The hot cups at the Ratty/V-dub are horrendously tiny. I can’t go a day without spilling burning hot liquid all over the floor/myself/innocent bystanders.</p>
<p>Psh, hot cups? Who needs em. Hot chocolate in a large v-dub cup? Problems solved.</p>
<p>I used to get like three of those tiny cups worth of coffee when breakfasting in the Ratty before morning exams.</p>