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Al_4_ISU

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  1. 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.
  2. How on god's green earth are we behind a KSU team that we A) beat and B) had 2 more wins than?
  3. 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.
  4. There’s at least some attempt at flavor between the Worcestershire and parm
  5. 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".
  6. Shit, we're up to 24 degrees. Feels like shorts and tshirt weather compared to yesterday AM.
  7. 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.
  8. Some pics I took while visiting Dubuque a couple years ago. Downtown, the Loras football field, a few biking pics, and Dimensional Brewing.
  9. 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.
  10. My dad had -21 on his. His house is about 45 miles north and west of mine.
  11. My defrost isn’t keeping up
  12. It’s going to melt in 2 days
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. I've seen that episode, but totally missed Paulie fucking up the ethnicity.
  16. This has to be a reference I don't understand.
  17. This is the one, but it lines up similarly. https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/ope-didnt-count-you-new-study-asks-who-exactly-lives-in-the-midwest/ My initial take away from this was "who are the 3.3% of Iowans who don't think they live in the Midwest?"
  18. I have family in Tulsa, and they're very quick to ID with the Midwest over the South or Southwest. But I totally see it. Tulsa is a lot more like KC, Omaha, Wichita, Des Moines than it is Memphis, Little Rock, NOLA, Birmingham or Tucson and Albuquerque. Go about 30 miles south of there en route to Dallas? That's the fuckin' South. In the study I was referencing, there was a surprising amount of Coloradans that ID'd as Midwestern (although the far eastern part is indistinguishable from western NE or KS). Over half of Wyomingites too.
  19. Yeah, that's Midwestern as fuck. I think the western parts fits culturally for sure. Plus, the Midwest is a massive place and it isn't monolithic. You've got the Rust Belt, Northwoods/Great Lakes, and Plains that are all pretty distinct from each other. Even most Okies think of themselves as Midwestern per a recent study of self-identification (which I agree with RE certain parts of the state). The Midwest is a big, weird place.
  20. Oh, I agree completely. I actively avoid shedding my accent and linguistic quirks. The world's boring when everything is the same. But alas, I'm not sure I would consider your birthmother a fellow Midwesterner. One of my personal hills to die on is "Ohio isn't in the Midwest", although I realize I'm not exactly in the majority on that one.
  21. I didn't even know that was a thing. Ope!
  22. I think the kind of snow and typical amounts matters a lot too. I know in the NE you guys get really wet heavy snow, and those noreasters can dump a metric fuck ton of it. As far inland as I am, we get pretty dry in the winter and 4-6" is a big snow any more. A lot of times that falls as a cold front is blowing in, so that snow is lighter and fluffier. We get the wet heavy shit in high amounts when the temperature crashes from 65 to 25 in a few hours during March and April. The good part there is that often times there will be above freezing temps in the next few days that take some of the pressure off of home snow removal.
  23. It was for you. We didn't get shit. My brother lives in the Highland Park area of St Paul and he was XC skiing at that golf course they groom every day, and I think I went out twice that year. Crazy how different weather patterns can be 150 miles apart. I sweater god they go slower once the temperature drops below freezing.
  24. I don't know that I've ever really "needed" one. I shoveled my last driveway by hand for years, but my mom gave me one for Xmas 5-6 years ago after a snowier than normal winter, and 3 out of the last 4 winters I've hardly touched it.
  25. I've run the snow blower once this season and I probably didn't need to. It would have melted a week later. Such a weird winter.
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