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SaraV said:
Neither should I...

Jello salad ice cream? Only in Minnesota.

Story: My husband was friends with a girl from St. Cloud while at ISU. Of course, there's a different vocabulary up in Minnesota. He finds out from her that it isn't called a casserole in MN, but a hot dish. This leads my husband to ask "So what do you cook it in? A hot dish dish?" She actually didn't have an answer to that, but came back about a week later saying "My mom says it's a hot dish glass pan!"

Needless to say, we gifted them the casserole dishes she registered for when she got married a few years later.
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When I found out my wife (then GF) spent several of her formative years in Minnesota, I made sure to verify that she didn't use "hotdish". Absolute deal breaker, so we're lucky that one hadn't stuck.

She does, however, use duck, duck, grey duck (instead of goose), but since I'm above 4th grade, I was able to overlook that one.
 
SaraV said:
Neither should I...

Jello salad ice cream? Only in Minnesota.

Story: My husband was friends with a girl from St. Cloud while at ISU. Of course, there's a different vocabulary up in Minnesota. He finds out from her that it isn't called a casserole in MN, but a hot dish. This leads my husband to ask "So what do you cook it in? A hot dish dish?" She actually didn't have an answer to that, but came back about a week later saying "My mom says it's a hot dish glass pan!"

Needless to say, we gifted them the casserole dishes she registered for when she got married a few years later.
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Yeah between peculiarities like "hot dish", "spendy", "din't", "coun't", "woun't", "shoun't" and the incomprehensible "Duck, duck, grey duck" it is always a lexical adventure up here.
 
VeloClone said:
Cybirdy is right. Mrs. Velo grew up going to the IS Fair every year so now we try (but don't always make it) to both fairs every year. They each have their plusses but the MN State Fair has a wider variety of food. Part of that could be that they can support more variety due to the higher attendance. The cheese curds at The Mouth Trap at the MSF are pretty darn good considering the incredible volume they serve. They are nothing like Culver's cheese curds which I like just fine. These are on a whole different level and still probably not as good as the ones CG is talking about.

The one place we absolutely cannot miss at the MSF when we go though is the Milk booth. $1 gets you all of the milk you care to drink - white or chocolate - and on a steamy day at the fair I can drink a hell of a lot of icy cold milk, especially when we have a bucket of cookies or some other snack with it.
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My God, that is one heck of a deal.
 
VeloClone said:
Yeah between peculiarities like "hot dish", "spendy", "din't", "coun't", "woun't", "shoun't" and the incomprehensible "Duck, duck, grey duck" it is always a lexical adventure up here.
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HEY! My fiance is from Tiny Soda. She really doesn't have much of an accent though because she's from Albert Lea, right over the border, and she's been living in Iowa for about 8 years.

I did date a girl in college from St Cloud though. She pronounced the word bag, like the beginning of the word bagel. She would get really ****** if I asked her to say "bag of bagels".
 
VeloClone said:
Yeah between peculiarities like "hot dish", "spendy", "din't", "coun't", "woun't", "shoun't" and the incomprehensible "Duck, duck, grey duck" it is always a lexical adventure up here.
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I grew up with "grey duck" as well. My wife just adds it to the ongoing list of weird **** she doesn't understand about me.

Also, I had to look up the word "lexical"
 
cyhiphopp said:
HEY! My fiance is from Tiny Soda. She really doesn't have much of an accent though because she's from Albert Lea, right over the border, and she's been living in Iowa for about 8 years.

I did date a girl in college from St Cloud though. She pronounced the word bag, like the beginning of the word bagel. She would get really ****** if I asked her to say "bag of bagels".
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My mom lived in Albert Lea. It's the MOST boring town ever.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
I grew up with "grey duck" as well. My wife just adds it to the ongoing list of weird **** she doesn't understand about me.

Also, I had to look up the word "lexical"
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Sorry about that. I often am searching for just the right word to make sure I get me meaning across just the way I want it - sometimes to a fault.

:embarrassed:
 
VeloClone said:
Cybirdy is right. Mrs. Velo grew up going to the IS Fair every year so now we try (but don't always make it) to both fairs every year. They each have their plusses but the MN State Fair has a wider variety of food. Part of that could be that they can support more variety due to the higher attendance. The cheese curds at The Mouth Trap at the MSF are pretty darn good considering the incredible volume they serve. They are nothing like Culver's cheese curds which I like just fine. These are on a whole different level and still probably not as good as the ones CG is talking about.

The one place we absolutely cannot miss at the MSF when we go though is the Milk booth. $1 gets you all of the milk you care to drink - white or chocolate - and on a steamy day at the fair I can drink a hell of a lot of icy cold milk, especially when we have a bucket of cookies or some other snack with it.
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Is the Brownie place still right next to the milk stand? Does anyone know if the honey producers still sell that honey sunflower seed ice cream? I tried the kind at the ISF but it wasn't as good. I should visit the MSF again haven't been there in ages.
 
cyhiphopp said:
HEY! My fiance is from Tiny Soda. She really doesn't have much of an accent though because she's from Albert Lea, right over the border, and she's been living in Iowa for about 8 years.

I did date a girl in college from St Cloud though. She pronounced the word bag, like the beginning of the word bagel. She would get really ****** if I asked her to say "bag of bagels".
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I took a phonetics class in college (big part of my "major") where we learned the phonetic alphabet and each week we would have a spelling test of sorts where we would have to spell words phonetically. I had grown up close enough to the MN border that I had the slightest "Minenesota Accent". When I would get certain vowels wrong, I blamed it on that. The professor (also my advisor) didn't think that was legit enough to count them right.

Okay, now admit if you had to google phonetics. :)
 
NWICY said:
Is the Brownie place still right next to the milk stand? Does anyone know if the honey producers still sell that honey sunflower seed ice cream? I tried the kind at the ISF but it wasn't as good. I should visit the MSF again haven't been there in ages.
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No, the brownie place, at least the one I'm thinking of is a couple of blocks away. The milk stand is clear over by the animal barns pretty much across the street from the animal birthing building.
 
Cybirdy said:
I took a phonetics class in college (big part of my "major") where we learned the phonetic alphabet and each week we would have a spelling test of sorts where we would have to spell words phonetically. I had grown up close enough to the MN border that I had the slightest "Minenesota Accent". When I would get certain vowels wrong, I blamed it on that. The professor (also my advisor) didn't think that was legit enough to count them right.

Okay, now admit if you had to google phonetics. :)
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I didn't have to google it. Everybody knows that phonetics are scholars who study the Phoenecians.
 
cyhiphopp said:
It definitely is not exciting. Her parents still live there. We've gone to the country club a few times and their tiny movie theater to see the latest HObbit movie.
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A while back, I took the wife back to the movie theater in Le Mars that I went to when I was growing up. I think the movie I projected on our living room wall this past weekend was about the same size as that screen.
 
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