Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard was a student-run cafe sort of place in Skibo, back when there was a Skibo. The place was noisy, cramped, and not that well lit. But it had several positive points:

A lot of CMU memorabilia. Notably a life-sized "Wild Thing" from a "Where the Wild Things Are" Carnival booth. (Whose booth?)

A large booth in the middle. Not a Carnival booth, a restaurant seating booth. It was this bizarre square gazebo thing in the middle of the Yard. You could fit an awful lot of KGB members in there, if they were all skinny undergrads.

Bread, Fruit, and Cheese. This was by Zog a loaf of bread, with some sliced apples and (I think) port-wine cheese food spread substance. An excellent value in calories for your ruble.

Nachos. A nachos platter. By "platter", I mean "chips and stuff, microwaved and served on a styrofoam plate". The cheese would melt into the styrofoam and form a toxic crust that you would pick off and eat anyway.

Slurry drinks. (I have forgotten the original name.) This would be, say, strawberry stuff and ice that had been thrown into the blender and slushified. Occasionally flavored with broken glass.

(Not kidding about the broken glass. I once ordered one, and when it arrived it had little bits of broken glass in it. Turned out someone had knocked a glass into the ice bucket, where it broke. He was really sure he'd picked out all the pieces. Fortunately the blender had reduced it to small glass crumbs, not sharp splinters. --Zarf.)