美国国家公共电台 NPR What's In That Coffee Cabinet? A Delicious Taste Of Rhode Island History
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2016年NPR美国国家公共电台9月
What's In That Coffee Cabinet? A Delicious Taste Of Rhode Island History
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When you go to Rhode Island, you got to have a coffee cabinet. For you non-New Englanders, that's a drink known as a milkshake in most other parts of the country. So why do they call it a cabinet?
Rhode Island Public Radio's John Bender tried to find out.
ERIC DELEKTA: How you doing?
BENDER: Good, how are you?
DELEKTA: Good.
BENDER: Walking into Delekta's Pharmacy 3 in downtown Warren, R.I. is like stepping into the past. An old-school silver soda 4 fountain sits atop a stone bar. You can still fill prescriptions 5 in the back. The guy behind that bar is Eric Delekta. And you should know, if you order a milkshake here expecting a frothy, thick drink, you're going to be disappointed.
DELEKTA: A milkshake here is just milk and syrup 6.
BENDER: If you want ice cream blended into that cup, you're going to have to order a cabinet. Delekta's has been serving up the drink with the quirky name since before World War II. Delekta says, he's got regular customers, some daily, just for the beverage 7.
Rhode Island resident, Justin Riley's been coming here for years.
JUSTIN RILEY: It's Rhode Island. It's the drink you've got to have. And you've got to have them here.
BENDER: But as to the name, Riley's stumped 8. So is fellow customer, Lisa Murphy.
LISA MURPHY: I don't know. I know there are different names for it in different parts of the country, but I don't know. It's always been a coffee cabinet to us.
BENDER: All this sleuthing has got me thirsty. So I order - what else? - a coffee cabinet. Delekta takes out an aluminum 9 cup and begins adding ingredients.
DELEKTA: So we put in some coffee syrup.
BENDER: That's homemade syrup, by the way. The exact recipe is top secret, Delekta tells me.
DELEKTA: A couple of scoops 10 of ice cream - we use Hood 11 ice cream and a carton of milk from local surplus dairy. Then we put on the mixer and blend it all up.
BENDER: And that's it, just three ingredients. Likely, the drink was a happy marriage of the state's historically robust 12 dairy production, European immigrants' love of coffee and coffee syrup and modern-day refrigeration technology.
And as for the name, Eric Delekta says the story might be as simple as the drink itself.
DELEKTA: I've heard that they used to keep the machine inside of a wooden box or a cabinet, hence the name. But I don't, definitely, know for sure.
BENDER: But as long as Delekta's keeps churning out these coffee cabinets, perhaps it's fine to just let the mystery be.
Wow. That is insanely good. That's - oh, that's delicious.
For NPR News, I'm John Bender in Rhode Island.
- View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
- I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
- His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
- We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
- She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
- Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。
- She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
- I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。
- The hospital of traditional Chinese medicine installed a computer to fill prescriptions. 中医医院装上了电子计算机来抓药。
- Her main job was filling the doctor's prescriptions. 她的主要工作就是给大夫开的药方配药。
- I skimmed the foam from the boiling syrup.我撇去了煮沸糖浆上的泡沫。
- Tinned fruit usually has a lot of syrup with it.罐头水果通常都有许多糖浆。
- The beverage is often colored with caramel.这种饮料常用焦糖染色。
- Beer is a beverage of the remotest time.啤酒是一种最古老的饮料。
- Jack huffed himself up and stumped out of the room. 杰克气喘吁吁地干完活，然后很艰难地走出房间。
- He was stumped by the questions and remained tongue-tied for a good while. 他被问得张口结舌，半天说不出话来。
- The aluminum sheets cannot be too much thicker than 0.04 inches.铝板厚度不能超过0.04英寸。
- During the launch phase,it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.在发射阶段，它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。
- two scoops of mashed potato 两勺土豆泥
- I used three scoops of flour and one(scoop)of sugar. 我用了三杓面粉和一杓糖。 来自辞典例句
- She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
- The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。