Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

My mother makes a shrimp and egg-salad 'salad' with spring onions and grapes in it. It's VERY Minnesota, but it is not the named salad.

very Edina maybe

There's also a tuna variant, for those of you who haven't thought about throwing up already.

My mother would rip the nuts off any man who suggested she was from *spits* Edina.

My mom's summer picnic go-to is a tuna salad with shell pasta, cheddar cheese, some salad vegetables, and halved grapes. It's seriously not bad at all.

Xpost listen I'm sure yr mom is nice but if you don't want ppl to think yr from Edina stop making luxurious shrimp salads

Mostaccioli, diced onions, peas, cubed turkey, mayo.

who is the minnesota heiress??

*sheepishly raises hand*

And I'm Scott Seekins.

Love your work

ooh I saw him the other night

man, your cute little state got all upset over one lil recipe in the Grey Lady, huh?

Until you've had a midwestern Thanksgiving meal, STFU NYT.

If it helps, for New Jersey they had something called "crepes-style manicotti" which I think maybe they saw on The Sopranos or something.

So this was where the grape salad controversy discush was happening

Did other states raise as much a stink? Didn't bother to see what other presumptions had been made. Honestly, tho, I think if you served grape salad in some church basement, no one would bat an eye in MN.

i have some very sketchy evidence but i think i know who the 'mn born heiress' is

Hmmm... The woman that used to be married to the Suburbs guitarist Beej?

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like i said i'm not entirely sure

Hi everyone I died of frostbite at the Vikings game. RIP bury me beneath the Stadium Village Bruegger's Bagels.

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knew a dude who ran sound at bars in eau claire who worked a day job doing tech/sound/camera stuff for those menards commercials in the 90s, said the menards guy was a chill dude

sometimes ppl will bring up some Twin Cities/MN thing and I'll be all "... did I even grow up there because I don't remember that AT ALL"

this is not one of those things; I will be humming this jingle through the weekend

save big money my man

seasons greetings to you all (from menards)

Dale Burback

I remember being young and all the kids singing my nards instead of Menards

save big money my man

idk why but this just slayed me

I haven't lived in MN since 1990 and I don't think a single day elapses without the menards jingle playing in my brain.

best wikipedia paragraph of all time:

"Menards commercials are accompanied with banjo music played by Gary Shaw of Wisconsin.[8] In reference to creating the musical piece, Shaw said, "I just started playing on it and they said, 'That's perfect; that's exactly what we need.' Took me a half an hour. I got $50 for a one-time fee, and I've had to listen to that commercial every day for 20 years." Spanish commercials are accompanied with a mariachi mix of the banjo accompaniment."

The other ones that still haunt the bejesus out of me are:

Instyprints (kind of a Vic mizzy Addams family riff OH THE PRINTING WILL APPEAR/SO CRISPLY AND SO CLEAR)

Tombstone (we piiiiile on the goodness/we're loaded with real cheese/we're SURE our pizza's gonna PLEASE/YOUR/FAMILIES"

lmao gt that's great

Hygge

http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Minnesota-Monthly/January-2015/How-Hygge-Will-Help-You-Through-Winter/

comradeship gtfo you commie scum this is america

(pronounced hYOO-guh)

also the old b96/ktwin has changed formats again:

https://twitter.com/Go963MN

Where modern music is going We love music. And where it's going. We are local and independent. We care about our people, our city and our community. We play wha

can't tell if that's a legit character limit goof or if clowning jackfm is really what they're attempting

so is this some kinda corporate current type thing?

yeah we're a Hip™ for Basics kind of town

i saw some billboard with that OK logo and didn't know what was up

I'm pretty sure Dessa in on a YMCA billboard on 35W by electric fetus and i've almost gotten into an accident trying to visually confirm

god are we ever Hip For Basics Capital of America

lmao i've heard of this billboard

how much of this concept to i have to play along with if i just want to eat there

http://bettydangers.com/

wtf is that supposed to be?

the new old psycho suzi's

i'm seriously gonna get so contrarian i'm only gonna drink bud bottles at jimmy's anymore

if i'm not on the 4th floor of the MOA i'm not drinking

is there anything still up there? hooters? is bubba gump still going?

Movin' on up. We've got a Dick's Last Resort now.

all those are still alive and kicking, so is the game room/bowling alley place too.

work function holiday buffet was some of the worst food i've had this side of the knock-off benihana in maplewood my brother dragged me to

is dick's last resort the one with "sassy" waitresses that insult you and shit?

i think my mom was telling me about that

i went to Little Tiajuana's again for the first time since it reopened a couple years ago, p much the same, Don Pablo's level food in a scungy environment staffed by complete passive aggressive loonies. now it's not even open after bar time which sort of makes me wonder why it even exists. def feels like a relic from a long-past (thankfully) era in minneapolis mexican food. i'm sure you could find a better place literally every two blocks on lake street now.