New CT border signs

[ColchVEGAS]

Tell this guy to forget about the pizza, get us into the Big 10!!

I am actually slightly embarrassed to admit how triggered I was by this video. I have never met anybody who eats pizza with a fork and knife in CT. In Europe, yes, but not in CT.

 

[Icehawk]

Which one is supposedly the foodie capitol?

This was done at Parkville Market so I guess this is the spot? I am spoiled in Miami I guess and the folks I know in CT just don’t know food the same way I do… but I will have to check this place out next visit.

 

[uh-no]

Before the ubiquity of GPS I was 100% in favor of this move. Now it probably doesn't matter, but I still think it makes sense. If I get on exit 1 and I need to go to exit 20, I know it's about 20 miles and 20 minutes if I'm lucky lol

untimately the DoT wants country-wide uniformity, and states were dragging their feet....so the DoT told them to get with the program or lose federal funding.

 

[LwrcasefaN]

Tell this guy to forget about the pizza, get us into the Big 10!!

What's that on his plate? Pizza?

 

[CL82]

I don't get the big deal with pizza. To me it's a mediocre food at best. What's next? Fast food capital?

 

[temery]

I need someone who drives by one of the signs to tell me the sign was changed to at the very least get rid of the first C and replaced it with the branded C.

Has anyone actually seen any of these signs in place?

 

[temery]

What's that on his plate? Pizza?

It's one of those cheesy topping-less burrito slices that people from New York and New Jersey brag about. "You have to be able to fold it up to eat it. And if you blot out the pint of grease you see floating on top of the pizza, you should be banished from the city!"

I'm not sure what cheap ass classic truck food wanna-be locals in the rest of the world eat with delusional pride, but this is little more than a cheap ass overpriced cheesy/greasy slice of garbage bought in NYC and NJ.

It's not pizza. It's not good. It's barely food.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Tell this guy to forget about the pizza, get us into the Big 10!!

Other than the shore, there is no reason to go to Jersey. Ever.

 

[Kolumbo]

Other than the shore, there is no reason to go to Jersey. Ever.

We just go through jersey to get to points south. Then end up on the southern section of the NJ Turnpike, 2 lane hell where everyone insists on cruising in the left lane. I don't think I've ever had the NJ style pizza board.

 

[dvegas]

I suppose this is as good a place as any to comment on CT renumbering exits on all the state highways. Rt. 8 is being done next week, which will surely cause confusion among already non-attentive drivers.

Merritt Parkway also starts next week, that's my exit in the picture Connecticut DOT starts work to renumber Merritt, Wilbur Cross parkways on Monday

 

[temery]

Merritt Parkway also starts next week, that's my exit in the picture Connecticut DOT starts work to renumber Merritt, Wilbur Cross parkways on Monday

At the very least each exit should be changed incrementally - exit 8 becomes exit - 8-mile x. In five years to exit 8-x. Then ten+ years to exit x.

Or, just stick with a mile marker for every exit, but keeping the exit number unchanged.

 

[HooperScooper]

I don't get the big deal with pizza. To me it's a mediocre food at best. What's next? Fast food capital?

We found Fishy's alias!

No wonder we haven't seen him around at all. He's gone incognito.

 

[cullaville]

At the very least each exit should be changed incrementally - exit 8 becomes exit - 8-mile x. In five years to exit 8-x. Then ten+ years to exit x.

Or, just stick with a mile marker for every exit, but keeping the exit number unchanged.

In States where this has already been done I see lots of signs attached to the new ones "old exit number xxx"

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Merritt Parkway also starts next week, that's my exit in the picture Connecticut DOT starts work to renumber Merritt, Wilbur Cross parkways on Monday

Prior to taking Metro North, I used to love cruising up the Merritt on the way home from work thinking I’d make good time, then coming to a screeching halt and seeing a line of traffic going up that hill. Good times.

 

[AidanFan20]

I don't get the big deal with pizza. To me it's a mediocre food at best. What's next? Fast food capital?

Pizza is only the greatest food in the world!

My fave style is Chicago deep-dish, followed by Detroit deep-dish.

 

[Husky Johnny]

Which one is supposedly the foodie capitol?

That would be Mystic, CT. The restaurant is Shipyards Daughter, and the head chef/owner is David Standridge. He was named the Best Chef in New England in the prestigious James Beard Culinary Awards for 2024. Another finalist in that category was the Oyster Club & Chef Renee Toupounce (may have misspelled that name), also in Mystic. Suffice it say that those two joints probably serve better food than the Old Jungle Cafeteria at UConn.

 

[AtlHusky]

I am actually slightly embarrassed to admit how triggered I was by this video. I have never met anybody who eats pizza with a fork and knife in CT. In Europe, yes, but not in CT.

I spent a number of years making pizza in Connecticut in my younger days (mid 80's-mid 90's), from Danbury to Storrs to a small southern Fairfield county chain, and never saw anybody grab a fork or a knife when a pizza was put in front of them.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Tell this guy to forget about the pizza, get us into the Big 10!!

 

[uh-no]

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ohhhhhhhhh!

 

[dennismenace]

That’s a federal initiative. All highways when needing sign replacements need to adopt mileage markings for exit numbers.

I saw at least one on I 495 that showed the miles to a destination in an illuminated scoreboard type light for the number. Are they expecting the distance to possibly change?

 

[dennismenace]

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That "slice of pizza" looks like a fragment of truck tire you might see on the side of the road on the NJ Tpk.

 

[uh-no]

I saw at least one on I 495 that showed the miles to a destination in an illuminated scoreboard type light for the number. Are they expecting the distance to possibly change?

those are minutes, not miles...

 

[Hunt for 7]

This was done at Parkville Market so I guess this is the spot? I am spoiled in Miami I guess and the folks I know in CT just don’t know food the same way I do… but I will have to check this place out next visit.

I live in Palm Beach County and unless you have a specific liking to South American foods not sure how you can make this comment.

Seafood down here is like three levels below CT. Unless you catch it bring it home that night and cook it. I am thinking red snapper maybe wahoo. But flounder swordfish way better in the NE. Lobster no comparison. My boys had NE lobster along the CT shore first time in June they have been jones for it ever since.

Pizza, I have not found one good pizza place in this whole county that is above a 6 on a scale from 1-10. It’s so bad that Dominos is a legitimate option. My son is playing football in Stuart this morning so my wife is going to stop at the place Barstool Portney reviewed Fantini’s so I will see. But Stuart is not Palm Beach county.

Now I love living in Florida maybe not Miami but I spend enough time down there on business so I have some reference points. Lived down here since 2010.

Also lived in Chicago 18 years which has very good not better than CT pizza.

They also had some very good Italian restaurants. Pretty much Maggianos only in South Florida.

Give me a Midwest grain fed steak over a Florida grass fed everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.

I guess it is all a matter of personal preference.

 

[dvegas]

I saw at least one on I 495 that showed the miles to a destination in an illuminated scoreboard type light for the number. Are they expecting the distance to possibly change?

Should have done that on the UConn natty sign, avoid the expense of changing the "6" to a "7" next April (and into the future!)

 

[HooperScooper]

I suppose this is as good a place as any to comment on CT renumbering exits on all the state highways. Rt. 8 is being done next week, which will surely cause confusion among already non-attentive drivers.

Work to replace more than 70 exit signs along Route 15, including renumbering several, will begin Monday.

Crews said the work to replace signs from Exit 27 to Exit 68W northbound and Exit 27 to Exit 67W southbound along CT-15 will begin Sept. 9 and is expected to conclude by July 11, 2026.

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/ct-dot-begins-work-monday-renumber-merritt-19745336.php?utm_content=hed&sid=64d56664fd58dd01358f5583&ss=P&st_rid=null&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CT_NHR_MorningBriefing

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Connecticut DOT starts work to renumber Merritt, Wilbur Cross parkways on Monday​

 

[HooperScooper]

“We want everyone entering our state to immediately feel proud of what we do well here, whether it’s making the nation’s best pizza, world class meals, national championships, or the most complex machines in the world,” Lamont said in a news release. “Each sign is an invitation to experience all that we have to offer as one of the best states to live, work and play.”

https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/ct-lamont-highway-signs-pizza-basketball-foodie-19747171.php?utm_content=hed&sid=64d56664fd58dd01358f5583&ss=P&st_rid=null&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CT_NHR_MorningBriefing

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Connecticut's neighbors taking issue with new highway signs that are being mocked on social media​

 

[temery]

“We want everyone entering our state to immediately feel proud of what we do well here, whether it’s making the nation’s best pizza, world class meals, national championships, or the most complex machines in the world,” Lamont said in a news release. “Each sign is an invitation to experience all that we have to offer as one of the best states to live, work and play.”

https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/ct-lamont-highway-signs-pizza-basketball-foodie-19747171.php?utm_content=hed&sid=64d56664fd58dd01358f5583&ss=P&st_rid=null&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CT_NHR_MorningBriefing

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Connecticut's neighbors taking issue with new highway signs that are being mocked on social media​

They are very mock worthy.

 

[Icehawk]

I live in Palm Beach County and unless you have a specific liking to South American foods not sure how you can make this comment.

Seafood down here is like three levels below CT. Unless you catch it bring it home that night and cook it. I am thinking red snapper maybe wahoo. But flounder swordfish way better in the NE. Lobster no comparison. My boys had NE lobster along the CT shore first time in June they have been jones for it ever since.

Pizza, I have not found one good pizza place in this whole county that is above a 6 on a scale from 1-10. It’s so bad that Dominos is a legitimate option. My son is playing football in Stuart this morning so my wife is going to stop at the place Barstool Portney reviewed Fantini’s so I will see. But Stuart is not Palm Beach county.

Now I love living in Florida maybe not Miami but I spend enough time down there on business so I have some reference points. Lived down here since 2010.

Also lived in Chicago 18 years which has very good not better than CT pizza.

They also had some very good Italian restaurants. Pretty much Maggianos only in South Florida.

Give me a Midwest grain fed steak over a Florida grass fed everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.

I guess it is all a matter of personal preference.

There are multiple Michelin started restaurants, for example. Our pizza does almost universally suck though, I finally found a spot that a decent NY-style pie though.

 

[CL82]

That "slice of pizza" looks like a fragment of truck tire you might see on the side of the road on the NJ Tpk.

Or some kind of roadkill anyway.

(For what it's worth, speaking of someone who's had plenty of both, New Jersey pizza isn't even in the same universe as Connecticut pizza.)

 

[superjohn]

Or some kind of roadkill anyway.

(For what it's worth, speaking of someone who's had plenty of both, New Jersey pizza isn't even in the same universe as Connecticut pizza.)

Great Italian food in North Jersey, never thought the pizza was all that great. CT easily has the best pizza.