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State College has a Waffle Shop, a downtown diner so beloved that locals will fight you over whether the waffles or the sticky buns are the real draw. Everyone has a loyalty oath about it anyway. It's the only town where breakfast has a custody dispute.
Beaver Stadium seats over 100,000 for football Saturdays, in a borough of about 40,000 people. For seven Saturdays a year you're one of the biggest cities in Pennsylvania, and then everyone leaves and you go back to being a very nice parking lot with a Sheetz.
The nickname dates to the Great Depression, when the town was buoyed by Penn State and weathered the economic misery better than most. That's a cute origin story for a place whose whole personality is being fine while the rest of the country isn't. Nothing says 'happy' like a town that's been insulated from consequences since 1929.
The Berkey Creamery has a rotating lineup of flavors, including Peachy Paterno, named after Joe Paterno, and the line outside is longer than at most DMVs. Your town's crowning achievement is a college cafeteria's ice cream, and honestly, it's so good that you've all gotten away with it. The ice cream is world-class; the rest of you are just standing near it.
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