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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.

JOHN BENDER, BYLINE²: Hey.

ERIC DELEKTA: How you doing?

BENDER: Good, how are you?

DELEKTA: Good.

BENDER: Walking into Delekta's Pharmacy³ in downtown Warren, R.I. is like stepping into the past. An old-school silver soda⁴ fountain sits atop a stone bar. You can still fill prescriptions⁵ 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 syrup⁶.

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 beverage⁷.

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 stumped⁸. 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 aluminum⁹ 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 scoops¹⁰ of ice cream - we use Hood¹¹ 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 robust¹² 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.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• 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。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• 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。

3 pharmacy   

n.药房，药剂学，制药业，配药业，一批备用药品

参考例句：

• 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。

4 soda   

n.苏打水；汽水

参考例句：

• 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。

5 prescriptions   

药( prescription的名词复数 )； 处方； 开处方； 计划

参考例句：

• 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。

6 syrup   

n.糖浆，糖水

参考例句：

• 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。

7 beverage   

n.(水，酒等之外的)饮料

参考例句：

• 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。

8 stumped   

僵直地行走，跺步行走( stump的过去式和过去分词 )； 把（某人）难住； 使为难； （选举前）在某一地区作政治性巡回演说

参考例句：

• 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。

9 aluminum   

n.(aluminium)铝

参考例句：

• 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。

10 scoops   

n.小铲( scoop的名词复数 )；小勺；一勺[铲]之量；（抢先刊载、播出的）独家新闻v.抢先报道( scoop的第三人称单数 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）

参考例句：

• 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

11 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• 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。

12 robust   

adj.强壮的，强健的，粗野的，需要体力的，浓的

参考例句：

• She is too tall and robust.她个子太高，身体太壮。
• China wants to keep growth robust to reduce poverty and avoid job losses,AP commented.美联社评论道，中国希望保持经济强势增长，以减少贫困和失业状况。