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Duke needs spicy food
By Jessica Luan | April 2, 2024Spicy food is a delicious way to bring some heat to the Duke experience.
Spicy food is a delicious way to bring some heat to the Duke experience.
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It’s a shame that Panda is gone, but it’s also a shame that It’s Thyme’s arrival — what should have been an exciting occasion — coincided with the elimination of Panda Express.
There are definitely better fried chicken sandwiches out there, like at the Popeye’s at RDU or Cane’s on Franklin Street. But the Pitchforks sandwich is bewitchingly delicious, easily accessible and better than its on-campus competitors.
When my summer ended, I realized I should have cherished my college experience a lot sooner because of its flexibility, its friendships and its fleetingness. I sometimes thought Duke was a dungeon, but I should have realized it is Neverland.
Eating this dish feels like bathing in a health-and-wellness ocean of chlorophyll and vitamin C.
When we graduate and disperse across the country, weu2019ll eat breakfast at home and our packages will be delivered to our front doors...Our time with familiar faces is fleeting.
When they are at the gym, the presence of a gym crush is more powerful than the most caffeinated pre-workout and the hypest gym playlist. Suddenly, those last two reps feel like nothing and the heaviest barbell on your back barely registers. The prospect of three sets of planks is less repulsive when you spot a certain somebody nearby.
Protein bars and other on-the-go “health” items are a lesson in trying to please everybody but actually pleasing nobody. No dessert blogger would feature a protein bar that looks like a bootleg 3-Musketeers; no whole food nut could advocate for eating protein bars too frequently either -- the fiber would warrant WAY too many trips to the bathroom.
At school the learning process is much more formulaic. Attend lecture, do your homework. Study with practice problems, go to office hours for extra help. Unfortunately, there’s no textbook for how to handle sticky (or rather, juicy) situations in the workplace.