This common misconception is understandable given that the house is a co-op and its yummy name comes from a famous vegetarian cookbook. Actually, however, EBF often has a small hippie contingent but (at least lately) is not at all characterized by hippieness. The house also usually has a punk/KZSU faction, plenty of artsy types, varying numbers of Alpha Delts, and a large proportion of people who refuse to be pigeonholed (especially all of the former. "Stop pigeonholing us!" they cry).

Happy Hours are still every other Wednesday, but occasionally they are rescheduled if the bands can't make it on Wednesday.

Kind of. But it's very scenic!

No! Why does everybody keep asking me that?

Things are not always as they seem, and so laminated signs on Hobarts were invented to explain the discrepancies between appearance and reality. The Hobart (as you would learn from reading the sign) is a sanitizer which kills people's germs by briefly blasting the dishes with very very hot water. This does not mean it washes your dishes. In fact, if you leave food on your dishes and Hobart them, the food petrifies and is virtually impossible to remove. On the bright side, you don't have to Hobart pots and pans, Tupperware, graters, or measuring cups unless you ate off them. In short: WASH EVERYTHING you use; only Hobart things you ate with.

You are undoubtedly listening to the wrong music. Turn off that Mazzy Star, ask people on your crew what they like, and go get something energetic that you all can dance to, or at least sing/yell to. It makes all the difference!

You can start with hot water, although recently we heard that it leaches heavy metals into the water. If you don't start with hot water, you should put the water on by 3 or so, and make sure to cover it. Really, it takes that long. If it gets to be about 5:20 and your water still isn't boiling, pour it into one of those deep rectangular baking pans and put it over 2 burners of the stove. You probably won't be able to fit all the water in there, so just use whatever fits. Cover it. It should boil within about 15 minutes. And of course, don't watch the pot or it will never boil!

Demons. (Also people who don't make absolutely sure they put all their stuff away.)

If you see someone leaving stuff around the kitchen, you can say, "Are you done with this?" and start putting it away. This should make them scurry to help, and if they don't, at least it's a little cleaner.

It's good to get in the habit of putting away one or two things for other people while you're cleaning up your own stuff, even when they would probably clean it eventually. It is friendly and it also helps people realize that someone does notice the stuff they leave out. Don't hate people who need this extra reminder, or you will soon be very bitter and angry.

Most people mean to put their stuff away, but don't for various reasons. Besides the obvious (forgetfulness, laziness, drunken stupor), there are gray areas in cleaning responsibility, which can lead to messy areas in the kitchen. A few examples: If someone gets out the cream cheese and someone else uses it afterwards, who puts it away? (The last person who uses it, otherwise the first person will be waiting in the kitchen all morning). If someone bakes brownies for the house and then goes away before they are all gone, who has to wash the pan? The last brownie eater or the baker? (Ideally the brownie finisher would, but if that doesn't happen, it's the baker's responsibility.) And how many dishes does a Hobart rack really hold before you have to get out a new one? (Just get a new one out already. It's not that hard.)

Because the Health Inspector said so. The question of whether or not we will really all get botulism and die a gruesome death is interesting and has been hotly debated, but don't let a dissenting opinion influence your behavior. Whether or not our lives are at stake, we are sure to be fined if we don't store things properly.

To people's rooms. Much silverware is also sacrificed to the garbage disposal, which is why you should always stick your hand down the garbage disposal and see if there is silverware in there before you run it.

It had a mural for blacklights, but the Man said it was unsafe to have the hallway so dark all the time, so it got painted over. Ideas for new mural themes (Star Trek, Hell, Where the Wild Things Are, Finland) have been bandied about for years, and some (notably Hell) have even been approved by the University, but nobody has been organized enough to repaint Deep Space.

This fraternity-turned-co-ed-literary-society has a Web page, but it's really best to meet them if you want to know about their organization (Brooke and Abina, for example, are ADs). They are lovely folk who enrich our lives with their alphadeltic presence, and their Friday kegs. EBF used to be the Alpha Delt frat house (see history).

The free store is a marvelous, useful communal closet where people can put clothes, books, and other treasures they don't want, and other people can get them. Some former residents have amassed considerable proportions of their wardrobes from this facility. The free store is generally fuller when the drinking fountain is not overflowing nearby, and when there are many people in the house with a high clothing turnover rate, such as people from Portland or other places where clothes are sold for 70 cents per pound.

No one seems to know! There is even some debate as to whether it's really the I-room or the eye-room. Some have heard that since it was originally a library, it was named the eye-room because your eyes are what you use to read all the lovely books in there. Others argue it's the I-room, "because it's shaped like an I". Both rumors are unsubstantiated (not to mention ridiculous). For all we know, it could even be the "aye" room or the "ay!" room. If you have a guess (or know the answer), email it in!

At Broccoli Central.

It used to be at 375 Campus Drive, but it has been renumbered (not moved) to 1115 Campus Drive. For driving purposes, you can remember that's it's on Campus Drive East, but that's not part of the official mailing address, which is
      Enchanted Broccoli Forest
      1115 Campus Drive
      Stanford, CA 94305
(note ZIP code is 94305 not 94309 like the PO boxes).
Crazy, no?