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There's no way I can let this day slide, since I'm from Boston. The Boston Cream Pie actually was invented in Boston, at the Parker House Hotel, which is also where they invented the Parker House Roll. But that would be another post.

It was invented by a chef named Sanzian, and is the official dessert of Massachusetts. It's called a pie but it's actually a cake. That link has a basic recipe for Boston Cream Cakes from 1879, but here's a more complex version. Here's another recipe from Yankee magazine.

Not that we here at Slashfood would condone drinking, especially when you have a lot of homework to do. But the truth is college students drink, and Boston has a lot of bars and a lot of colleges. Ergo, a lot of college students are going to drink in Boston. Here's a quick guide, with the bars around each college highlighted.

I can vouch for some of these places. I've been to the Sunset Grill & Tap several times, and not only do they have over 100 beers on tap, but they also have close to 400 in bottles. They should have added Bukowski's Tavern though. It has two locations (on in the Back Bay, one in Cambridge), the drinks are fairly cheap, and it's an interesting place (named after writer Charles Bukowski) even beyond that.

Come on current and ex-Boston area college students, add on to this list. It just doesn't seem complete.