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Al_4_ISU

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  1. Oyster spots in Uptown or Garden District? Google hunting gave me Cooter Brown's at the west end of St Charles. Looks like my kind of place, but I'm sure there's plenty of other places around town too. Getting in Wednesday around 1. Ready to be childless and out of the cold (of course it's going to be unseasonably warm up here while we're gone) for a few days.
  2. I don’t mind liver, but I won’t buy it. I just cook the ones that come from our hogs. Heart and tongue as well, but I actually enjoy those quite a bit.
  3. Lefse and virmapolse (sp? It’s a Norwegian sausage that I’m spelling in phonetic English) are good, but more Norwegian than Swedish
  4. I had a huge Chili Peppers phase. I still enjoy them, but rarely listen these days. I also completely understand the haters. Saw them live 2-3 years ago and it was a fucking blast. BSSM is their peak, but I liked everything up through Stadium Arcadium. That album has shitty songs for sure, but Frusciante just drops his nuts all over it.
  5. Yeah. Lutefisk is irredeemable.
  6. Pickled herring slams though
  7. I'm living in this world right now.
  8. This would be my in-laws if it were up to my MIL. When her folks were still around, everything was bland except for the weird Norwegian shit my wife's grandpa liked. Thankfully my FIL has a stunningly adventurous palate for a Boomer who's lived his entire life in a small northeast Iowa town, so we never have to eat bland there.
  9. The Big 12 CCG was a real ass whipping. Trust me. I was there. But I'm not going to argue much, as the cumulative rating validates my long time argument that there's more of a gap (on the field) between the Big 12 and ACC than the Big 10 and Big 12, and that (on the field) the Big 10 as a whole is closer to the Big 12 than the SEC.
  10. Yeah, and I grew up in Ground 0 of that shit. That's not to say that there aren't amazing Midwestern contributions to our national palate, but there's a lot of Depression era blandness that still clings on in places. Granted, my kitchen is not one of those places, but just a couple years ago the wife of one of our landlords cooked us a hot supper while we were harvesting around their house. As grateful as I was for my first hot meal in a month, it was good old macaroni/tomato juice/ground beef goulash with literally nothing else in it. She's a very sweet lady, but I don't think she'd even try mild salsa.
  11. How on god's green earth are we behind a KSU team that we A) beat and B) had 2 more wins than?
  12. Cold pizza is sublime. But room temperature pizza that has been sitting for about 4-5 hours is unde-fucking-feated. I'm talking about pizza that was delivered after 2AM, the people consuming it passed out well before they were anywhere close to done with it, and being an early riser regardless of the previous night's imbibement, come across said pizza between 6-7AM.
  13. There’s at least some attempt at flavor between the Worcestershire and parm
  14. That looks amazing, and really similar to how we make beef stew. I can't tell you how many times as a kid I'd be at a friend's house and we'd get served macaroni noodles in tomato juice with ground beef and it would be called "goulash".
  15. Shit, we're up to 24 degrees. Feels like shorts and tshirt weather compared to yesterday AM.
  16. I was always surprised as a kid at how often I'd see some national weather report and we were colder than Anchorage in the winter. Back before I knew about the effects of being on the ocean.
  17. Some pics I took while visiting Dubuque a couple years ago. Downtown, the Loras football field, a few biking pics, and Dimensional Brewing.
  18. Love Dubuque. Loras is a beautiful campus. I have a good friend who went to Loras (we met as adults well after college) and he enjoyed his time there a lot. My wife had actually committed to run track there before Northern Iowa offered her a partial scholarship. I've never met anyone who went to school there and didn't have a quality experience they remember fondly. It's a good school, in an area with more to do than you'd think. There are a couple quality ski hills in the area (Sundown in Iowa, Chestnut in Illinois), 3 mountain bike parks, a longer crushed limestone bike trail. Downtown Dubuque has gotten a lot of investment in recent years and has some really solid restaurants, breweries, bars, and decent music venues. Galena, IL is just down the road (small charming Midwestern town where people from Chicago go to "get away from it all"). Dubuque has several cool state parks nearby (Mines of Spain, Backbone) with lots of hiking. The Mississippi itself provides a lot of cool outdoor recreation. If you're good with private religious schools and all that entails, you could do a hell of a lot worse than Loras, IMO.
  19. My dad had -21 on his. His house is about 45 miles north and west of mine.
  20. My defrost isn’t keeping up
  21. It’s going to melt in 2 days
  22. Going to NOLA next week and it's supposed to be 68 and sunny with overnight lows in the 50's. Will be hilarious to hear the locals recount their brush with winter.
  23. I figured it was just "northern". I've seen an increase in "north" branded stuff in Minnesota and northern Wisconsin recently. Really leaning into the lake/northwoods culture. I was surprised that Missouri was ahead of Illinois and Wisconsin. A lot of people in non-Missouri Midwestern states try to pass them as the South. Obviously they don't see themselves that way.
  24. I've seen that episode, but totally missed Paulie fucking up the ethnicity.
  25. This has to be a reference I don't understand.
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