There are pockets of it all over the country, but RI's milk-and-bread thing is directly related to the Blizzard of '78. Maybe MA's, too. I was in Wilmington during that storm. Hella big piles of snow.

just do [marquee]fill in text[/marquee], only use the < > tabs instead of the [] ones. You write out the "marquee", there's no keyboard symbol AFAIK.