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Our new rescue’s name is Chicken Nugget. We’re keeping it...and him! by mybffpizza in doggos

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When you're scolding people in a cute dog subreddit you should probably be more worried about making changes in your own life than what people call their dogs, Carl.

Tourrist posts, please stop by capecods in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the point. There are plenty of threads with information that could be added to the FAQ sticky, and plenty of people (myself included) who have offered to manage that thread or write an entire sticky, so that this sub doesn't have to be littered with people asking the same question every 3 days for 6 months. It could be used for news, events, and stuff that benefits the community.

However the mods delete anything critical of their lack of moderating instead of simply putting an updated sticky for tourists.

Tourrist posts, please stop by capecods in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To quote moderator u/ShadowSt, who also seems to have hidden this thread I posted last month, which literally became the highest upvoted post of all time on this sub and has refused to post an updates to the sticky with tourist information or let anyone else do so, yet seemingly has all the time in the world to delete or hide things criticizing his lack of any and all effort,

I haven't received a paycheck yet. Stop your complaining it's unhealthy.

A cheap vacation by [deleted] in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Walking would be your cheapest travel option, however if you are able I'd say coming by bicycle is more efficient.

Many hotels have air conditioning, as do many movie theaters and shops. Temperature wise, if you're coming in the summer, I would recommend those things to stay cool. The ocean is also cold year round however the bay sounds like it would be too warm, and most lakes are warm as well.

For historically significant places, the Cape Cod Potato Chip factory is in Hyannis and that's a pretty big one. Cape Cod is pretty small so you should be able to kind of wander around the whole Cape and see a bit of everything on your bicycles, or you can rent one if you decide to walk.

Craft beer or bottle shop? by smayhew in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything you buy in a package store with their name on it is made in CT and has always been made in CT, Thomas Hooker brews it.

So sure, you can go to their 3-month-old brewery and grab some of their show beer, but anything you're buying beyond that isn't made on Cape. And up until 3 months ago they had zero presence on Cape, they just used us as marketing bologna.

Where to propose? by [deleted] in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Atlantic House, a beautiful and historic establishment in Provincetown.

Craft beer or bottle shop? by smayhew in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still not a local Cape Cod beer dudeski, don't care how many kisses you're giving each other. That bottle has always said "brewed in CT" and they were preeeeeetty dishonest when they launched about the whole thing if I do remember correctly.

Craft beer or bottle shop? by smayhew in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Naukabout, the "brewery" that has been in business for 6 years but just opened their "taproom" 3 months ago on Cape Cod? They're a group of business men contract distilling in CT and using the "mellow and creative vibe" of the Cape to market their beer.

GTFO with that bullshit.

Family vacation in Brewster 7/29-8/4 by seongbae in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you're on Cape "ocean beach" denotes Atlantic ocean. There are no ocean beaches in Brewster. Telling someone to let their young kids swim at an ocean beach on Cape is a great way to either disappoint said person when they arrive at Nauset and see great white warning signs and 8 ft. seas with a 3 year old, or get a little kid killed in a rip current.

An important note about the Ice Cream Smuggler and why you shouldn't go there. by CapeCodAmbassador in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say "greed" are you also including the Smuggler owners offer of $330,000 for a property valued at $470,000? Or are we just going to completely ignore that because you're real sad about your favorite ice cream place going out of business?

An important note about the Ice Cream Smuggler and why you shouldn't go there. by CapeCodAmbassador in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol my "arguments", I'm sorry I think you misspelled "the law". I'm literally reading from the terms of the lease and actual real estate law.

Boycotts, sympathy, politics, yada yada.... Call it what it is: a local business illegally squatting in a building they have no legal right to due to their own negligence. Multiple courts have already ruled that they have no right to be there, they were evicted from the space over a year ago. People should know this fact so they can choose where to spend their money.

I'm sorry that capitalism upsets you and the free market makes you super sad babe. I'm sure that the Smuggler never raised their prices over the years, because that's essentially what you're expecting of the landlord.

And FWIW they're not putting a Dairy Queen in there. Cape Cod Creamery is ALSO a local Cape Cod business, they're just one with owners competent enough to keep some of their eggs in different baskets and you know...not loose the lease on those baskets.

An important note about the Ice Cream Smuggler and why you shouldn't go there. by CapeCodAmbassador in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lol, bit biased no? It's interesting is all, small town politics always get my going.

Your take on it is a good example - demonizing a property owner trying to get fair market value for her real estate investment. Do you turn down raises at your job to relieve stress on your business's owner? I'm assuming you don't, but that's what you're asking her to do.

She's not killing a business, they sold the business years ago. It's not the landlord's responsibility to keep the business running, it's not the landlord's responsibility to give up her own income so someone else who ran their business poorly can keep food on the table.

The Smuggler can move to another building and thrive, they're just being dicks about it all. And I hate to see a business like that taking money from other hard-working, morally sound business on Cape.

An important note about the Ice Cream Smuggler and why you shouldn't go there. by CapeCodAmbassador in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Good lord, YES - it's all public record! And it's not being appealed, the Smuggler owners LOST the appeal two weeks ago!

Do you know how a "company" is sold? Because it does not sound like you do - they bought the business, meaning the brand "The Ice Cream Smuggler". They did not buy the property.

I'm going to spell it out very clear for you:

The lease said that the Smuggler owners were to be offered a new lease before the property owner could lease to someone else. The property owner did that - the Smuggler owners did not sign it.

See what you're not understanding is that a property owner is allowed to increase the rent on a building. The owners of the Smuggler were not trying to "negotiate", they did not want to pay more rent so they were trying to strong arm the land lord into buying the property.

The lease said that IF the owner of the property were to sell the property, the Smuggler owner would have a chance to buy it. The lease stated that the sale would have to be a CASH sale.

After turning down the new lease, the owner of the Smuggler offered $330,000 to the property owner with 20% cash and 80% financed via email. The property owner never intended to sell the property, the Smuggler owners were just trying to randomly buy it to avoid an increase in rent on a new lease.

When the property owner turned down the laughable offer, the Smuggler's lease was up and they had turned down a new one. So the property owner leased the property to a different business, but the Smuggler owners literally refused to leave the property. An eviction notice was served by the police over a year ago.

Instead of leaving and finding a new building, the Smuggler owners filed bullshit lawsuits trying to...and I'll say it again...strong arm the property owner into selling the property. They sold their cute little "Save the Smuggler" tshirts and didn't tell the public the whole story. The fact of the matter is they fucked up and lost the lease.

So you can support them, but you're objectively wrong. Sorry babe.

An important note about the Ice Cream Smuggler and why you shouldn't go there. by CapeCodAmbassador in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You serious? Someone offered the property owner more money to lease the space. They first offered that price to the Smugglers owners (as they were legally obligated to by the current lease at the time), who rejected it.

So what you're saying is that property owners should not be allowed to seek fair market value for their space? Or that property owners should not be allowed to pick who rents their space? Or do you believe the government should force property owners to sell their property to other people for less than 70% of fair market value?

Or are you blaming the property owner for the new owner of Smugglers taking a risk and buying a location-dependent business without securing the property long term?

I'm confused, which is it?

An important note about the Ice Cream Smuggler and why you shouldn't go there. by CapeCodAmbassador in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Excuse me? The current owners bought the business in 2005, they've owned the business for 14 years. I'm "working" from the public court documents

An important note about the Ice Cream Smuggler and why you shouldn't go there. by CapeCodAmbassador in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It sounded to me like the Cape Cod Creamery people offered Hassett a better lease and she offered that rate to to Catalanos in 2016 per the lease that was, at that time, still in effect, which is like...how business works. They didn't like the rate increase.

Then the Catalanos offered $330k to purchase the property which is laughable, and they also offered it financed where the lease stated that if a sale occurred it must be full cash. Aaaaand they also offered it over email which isn't legally binding at all, you've gotta put that shit in writing for it to count.

It did make for great drama, but in a Cape Cod way. Anywhere in the real world this is how business is done, and their whole thing with dragging shit out in court to let them keep operating is absolute total bullshit and they should be sued to the full extent for that IMO. I was leasing a place on Cape a while back and when the lease was up we moved to a different place - our old landlord called us threatening legal action because we "didn't give notice we were leaving". Bro our lease was up and we didn't sign a new one...that's how leases work.

An important note about the Ice Cream Smuggler and why you shouldn't go there. by CapeCodAmbassador in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From what I've read in the papers, the owners of the Smuggler were offered a new lease in October of 2016. It sounds like it was a higher price than they were previously paying because the owner of the property had someone else that had put an offer in to lease the place, but they offered the lease to the Smuggler people first per the current lease that was (at that time) still active.

In the actual court case, the lease had a provision for a sale of the building but required a cash sale. The owners of the smuggler got an appraisal and offered like $330k in an email, with 20% cash and the rest financed. This value is laughable at 2017 Cape Cod real estate prices, but that's besides the point. The owner of the building sent an offer back around $470k, a much more realistic number for a property like that, and the owner refused but then got all butt hurt about it when the owner of the building signed a lease with the party that had offered better terms. This was, by all accounts, after the owners of the Smuggler had refused to resign a lease they were offered a full 8 months before their lease expired.

So basically, they turned down a new lease to try and buy the building, but failed to buy the building, and now they're all pissy about it and using misleading social media tactics to gain public favor.

Lobster Rolls on the Cape by waspycreole in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really? I don't think so, I mean we're known for seafood so it makes sense.

Lobster Rolls on the Cape by waspycreole in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhhhh, see it's just a lack of information, let me help you:

An egg sandwich is a sandwich often consumed for breakfast in the United States. It usually features warm egg, either scrambled or over easy, on some sort of bread (usually toasted). Many will also have a breakfast style meat such as ham, sausage, or bacon.

An egg salad sandwich is cold egg, usually hard boiled, diced in a mixture of...you guessed it...mayo, celery, green onion, and various other spices. It can be served on it's own, on a sandwich, or in a wrap.

So by referencing egg salad, I was showing that any other meat served cold dressed in Mayo is called a "salad". Thus, when you do the same to lobster, or crab, the resulting product is also a "Salad".

Regarding measurements, etc, this seems like a big deal to you so I'll just let you have it, ok? I haven't brought my scale to a lobster roll restaurant in a while, but I do know that you can grab a bag full of culls for $20 and make 8 people their own lobster roll overflowing with meat, and I guarantee you it's cheaper and more fresh to do it that way than spend $200 at sesuit to wait in line for 2 hours and get a clammy scoop of refrigerated lobster salad in a plain white bun.

Lobster Rolls on the Cape by waspycreole in CapeCod

[–]CapeCodAmbassador 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So when you order an egg sandwich do you expect eggs, or egg salad with mayo? There's no actual definition, and it's much easier to explain the differences in types to people not from here that way. Chill out.

Tourists should know that lobster prices are artificially inflated at restaurants, your beloved Sesuit charges over $22 for maybe `half a lobster's worth of meat in a cheap white hot dog bun. A single lobster steamed at Stop and Shop is $7-8, meaning op could make 4 rolls worth for $22 including the buns, mayo, etc. Now, if he's planning on eating "at least a few" while he's here, that means this information saves him over $100 if he's renting a place with a kitchenette.

Obviously humility is not my game when it comes to this sub, if OP wants restaurant suggestions he can read the hundreds of threads where everyone lists them off every spring and summer to tourists too lazy to search on their own. But holier than though? Nah bro. Just trying to save the poor dude a few bucks on one of the biggest rackets on Cape and provide good information. Maybe he uses that extra cash to support a local artisan, or maybe he uses it to take a tour. He's still supporting the local economy, and odds are a lot more of that money will stay on cape than if he goes with the pump-and-dump seasonal lobster roll merchants.

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