SPLIT TOPIC: Minnesota's the place to be, you betchya

whyfi

BrookFetish wrote: I agree. That Wiki entry was probably written by someone from southern MN who had recently moved to Mpls - and it was their first experience in the "big city". If anything, the traffic there is horrible because of the vast number of hesitant drivers clogging the overly used freeways.

Yup. How sad it is that it really IS faster to take back roads and drive through residential streets?

Although this is going to sound bad, unfortunately politeness extends to driving in MN. Can't tell you how many times I've sat behind a car at an intersection while s/he and another driver had a "you go first," "no, you go first" showdown.

Oh, and an evil pleasure when I visit the family - bringing the NYC driving style to the streets of MN... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: People hear horns so infrequently there that I really think that they're a little confused when I use mine so liberally!

apollonia666

SO funny -- I was listening to last weekend's "On the Media" on my iPod on the way home from work and they had a piece on the new anchor at KARE in Minneapolis and how people are concerned he's not "Minnesota nice" enough. After looking at this thread today it gave me a giggle. Y'all should check it out.

Here's the MP3:
http://tinyurl.com/ghkw8

And here's the transcript:
http://tinyurl.com/kvhcd

raw

CHE wrote: Brooklyn actutely lacks Gedney pickles, Summit, cheese curds, $12 cases of Huber Bock, vietnamese farmers selling thai basil bunches for $1, Isles cinnamon rolls, canoe put-ins, snow emergency parking, food-coops with non-working memberhip, xc ski trails, punk kids on double-high bikes, abundant Ethiopian food, wild rice soup, Radio K, Surdyk's, loons/mergansers/grebes, and swimming lakes.

(I'm OK without seed art, real mosquitoes, and Katherine Lanpher.)

Go gophs.

Ouch!

I don't even know what a Gedney Pickle is. Pickles are my favorite food and I hope I’m missing out.

Does your list apply to Park Slope only or all of Brooklyn?

Park Slope is definitely missing a grocery store selling Indian products and a kosher vegetarian Indian restaurant (or a GOOD Indian restaurant).

Any plans to send this list to Marty Markowitz? If it’s accurate, you might make him cry.

whyfi

raw wrote: I don't even know what a Gedney Pickle is. Pickles are my favorite food and I hope I’m missing out.

Gedney?
It's no ordinary pickle.
Gedney - it's the Minnesota pickle.

carnivore

What, so you guys don't miss the lutefisk?

che

raw wrote: I don't even know what a Gedney Pickle is. Pickles are my favorite food and I hope I’m missing out.

Gedney makes a whole variety of pickles, but two kinds stand out. First are their annual State Fair pickles. They reproduce the recipe of the prize-winning pickle at the State Fair, put the recipe-creator's name and photo on the label, and distribute widely. They also do that with the jam and jellies winners, every year. Regardless of the results, which are usually very good, that's just a cool thing to do. But the very best Gedney Pickle of them all is the Dill Zinger. It's very crisp, fresh, and packed in chili peppers. Mini-Zingers are perfect snacks, and a half of a large one slipped in with a hot dog/SmartDog is its perfect brother.



Where does someone get a comparably great Brooklyn pickle? I bought some on 5th Ave at the street fair once, and they were a little soggy and soft. Recs?

carnivore

CHE wrote: Where does someone get a comparably great Brooklyn pickle? I bought some on 5th Ave at the street fair once, and they were a little soggy and soft. Recs?

I'm not sure of local pickle vendors, but Ba-Tampte, a local brand, makes a pretty tasty half-sour that's available at most supermarkets in the dairy (refrigerated) section.

quijibo

there's a couple of guys at the Sunday JJ Byrne park green markette
that make their own pickles.
they have a great selection of brooklyn born pickles in barrels

che

raw wrote: Does your list apply to Park Slope only or all of Brooklyn?

(Well, I don't think I'm going to find any xc-ski trails here, and the Gowanus is no Minnehaha ... but, more realistically,)

has anyone eaten Ethiopian food on this side of the river?

anonymous

CHE wrote: Brooklyn actutely lacks: canoe put-ins

Hello, Gowanus Canal Canoe Club (Gowanus Dredgers). Yes, technically, it's Gowanus. But plenty of people from the Slope belong, so I think it counts.

maayan

quijibo wrote: there's a couple of guys at the Sunday JJ Byrne park green markette
that make their own pickles.
they have a great selection of brooklyn born pickles in barrels

I just passed these guys an hour ago. They're called "Dr. Pickle" and they say they have the cure for what ails you.

Of course all kinds of jokes about pickles being the cure for what ails me went through my head, but I just kept walking down the street with a goofy grin on

theoryofpractice

I registered just to say I am a part of this 'hota-in-Brooklyn group, and have a fair number of friends here from Minneapolis

whyfi

theoryofpractice wrote: I registered just to say I am a part of this 'hota-in-Brooklyn group, and have a fair number of friends here from Minneapolis

Screenwriters really need to get off their asses and start writing about this here phenomenon.

che

via Pharyngula, the woman at this blog http://www.schmlog.com/schmlog/2006/08/see_you_at_the_.html
is taking votes on what she should eat at the Minnesota State Fair. Frrrried Rrrraviolis!

1. Fried cheese puffs
2. Cajun Season Alligator Sausage on-a-stick
3. Deep Fried Cheese on a stick
4. Jerk pork chop drummy
5. Pancake wrapped around sausage on-a-stick
6. Uffda Treat
7. Belgium waffle on-a-stick
8.Australian Battered Potatoes
9. Cheese-burger calzones on-a-stick
10. Wild Rice corndogs
11. Key Lime Pie on-a-stick
12. Dogzilla
13. Egg-roll on-a-stick
14. Fried-Egg Bagel Sandwich
15. Pizza on-a-stick
16. Political pop
17. Deep-fried twinkies
18. Chicken-chops
19. Frozen Coffee on-a-stick
20. Deep fried cheese curds
21.Tater-tot hotdish on-a-stick
22. Spaghetti and Meatball on-a-stick
23. Deep-fried candy bar on-a-stick
24. Deep fried oreos
25. Deep-fried spudsters on-a-stick
26. Spicy buffalo chicken filled wonton
27. Blackened Cajun steak on-a-stick
28. Bug juice
29. Scotch Meatball on-a-stick
30. Puff-daddy on-a-stick
31. Pizza burgers
32. Ice-cream on-a-stick
33. Fresh chocolate dipped marshmallows on-a-stick
34. Wall-Eye on-a-stick
35. Mac-n-cheese on-a-stick
36. Batter-dipped deep-fried chocolate chip cookies on-a-stick
37. Fried ravioli garlic bread

whyfi

CHE wrote: via Pharyngula, the woman at this blog http://www.schmlog.com/schmlog/2006/08/see_you_at_the_.html
is taking votes on what she should eat at the Minnesota State Fair. Frrrried Rrrraviolis!

1. Fried cheese puffs
2. Cajun Season Alligator Sausage on-a-stick
3. Deep Fried Cheese on a stick
4. Jerk pork chop drummy
5. Pancake wrapped around sausage on-a-stick
6. Uffda Treat
7. Belgium waffle on-a-stick
8.Australian Battered Potatoes
9. Cheese-burger calzones on-a-stick
10. Wild Rice corndogs
11. Key Lime Pie on-a-stick
12. Dogzilla
13. Egg-roll on-a-stick
14. Fried-Egg Bagel Sandwich
15. Pizza on-a-stick
16. Political pop
17. Deep-fried twinkies
18. Chicken-chops
19. Frozen Coffee on-a-stick
20. Deep fried cheese curds
21.Tater-tot hotdish on-a-stick
22. Spaghetti and Meatball on-a-stick
23. Deep-fried candy bar on-a-stick
24. Deep fried oreos
25. Deep-fried spudsters on-a-stick
26. Spicy buffalo chicken filled wonton
27. Blackened Cajun steak on-a-stick
28. Bug juice
29. Scotch Meatball on-a-stick
30. Puff-daddy on-a-stick
31. Pizza burgers
32. Ice-cream on-a-stick
33. Fresh chocolate dipped marshmallows on-a-stick
34. Wall-Eye on-a-stick
35. Mac-n-cheese on-a-stick
36. Batter-dipped deep-fried chocolate chip cookies on-a-stick
37. Fried ravioli garlic bread

What's the vote for? Why not eat all of them? When in Rome...

che

Sorry to be all linky, but this could hardly be more relevant. There's now a video of same woman as above eating "Tater-Tot Hot Dish on a Stick." It's pretty magical.

That's fried, and then baked, and then fried, if you're counting.

http://blip.tv/file/get/Schmlogger-FoodFunTaterTotHotdishOnastick542.m4v?source=3

whyfi

That girl is SO Minnesota...

brookfetish

theoryofpractice wrote: I registered just to say I am a part of this 'hota-in-Brooklyn group, and have a fair number of friends here from Minneapolis

Give us your story....

theoryofpractice

No real story, just living in NYC for the last ten years after school; wife works in TV so it's here or LA for us. Was in Manhattan first, then Queens, now the Slope. Maybe I'll shuffle off to Riverdale when I'm gray and be buried on Staten Island for teh win.

Or, maybe it's my destiny to stay in Brooklyn! (from wikipedia's entry on Minneapolis):

The abundance of lakes led Charles Hoag, an early settler and Minneapolis's first schoolmaster, to suggest a name derived from minne, the Dakota word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city. Other names considered at the time were Brooklyn and Albion. The early use of "Brooklyn" for the then-village lives on into the 21st century in the names of two suburbs north of Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center.
(emphasis added)

anonymous

WhyFi wrote: That girl is SO Minnesota...

I'll take that as a compliment!

Thanks for the link!

-Karina
www.schmlog.com

whyfi

Karina wrote: [quote=WhyFi]That girl is SO Minnesota...

I'll take that as a compliment!

Thanks for the link!

-Karina
www.schmlog.com
You're welcome! So, why AREN'T you just eating one of everything at the fair?! Us expats need as much vicarious state-fair-on-a-stick as we can get!

anonymous

WhyFi wrote: [quote=Karina][quote=WhyFi]That girl is SO Minnesota...

I'll take that as a compliment!

Thanks for the link!

-Karina
www.schmlog.com
You're welcome! So, why AREN'T you just eating one of everything at the fair?! Us expats need as much vicarious state-fair-on-a-stick as we can get!

Hmmm mostly because of my quickly deteriorating stomach lining. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining...but a girl can only handle so much!

I think it'd be cool to do a documentary a la super size me for the Minnesota State Fair. Not only could one explore the consequences of a 100% fair food diet, but also one could explore the great opportunities and benefits it presents for increasing the social capital for the state and how that compares with other states.

But you should keep checking out Minnesota Stories (www.mnstories.com) for the next few weeks. I'm predicting there'll be some Fair-themed videos up there in the next few weeks. And I'll be having 1 more food video up there on Monday (most likely). But you can also check www.schmlog.com for that as well.

-Karina

whyfi

Okay, fine, so only one more MNSF video - on to the REALLY important part -

Did you read about our cheese curd desires in this thread?! Can you drop some off when you swing through NYC? We'll need enough for 3-4 dozen people... How great does that sound?! Dozens of people in Brooklyn eating cheese curds! THAT'S the video that I want to see on http://www.schmlog.com!!! We'll set things in motion on our end! Thanks! /

theoryofpractice

^^^I'm in.

anonymous

Subject: check your facts

Speaking as yet another Minnesotan to Park Slope, this guy really needs to check his facts before he runs his mouth. MN is the land of TEN thousand likes, not "Land of a thousand lakes"
Also, I think I drive more aggresively than half of the locals in this town.

Livetotravel wrote: Re Minnesota - this made me pee in my pants I laughed so hard - from http://www.cupofjohn.com/hate/

"Now, the important thing here is that I'm from New York, which indicates that I pretty much hate everyone and everything. This proved to be a problem when I went to school in Chicago and encountered a bizarre breed of people who come from a state called Minnesota. Now until I learned more about the Midwest I regarded Minnesota as a forgotten state lost somewhere up by Mount Rushmore and the Northwest Territory. This presumption was later confirmed upon a visit to the "Land of A Thousand Lakes." The people are much like Canadians - slow, often blind to sarcasm (and therefore confused), overly gullible, and just too freakin' nice. Not to mention the damn accents: "I'll go up to my rum now and dif I hear anyding else on da ruff, den I'll letchya know. Okie dokie?" So what am I getting at here? Minnesotans tend not to hate anything, and I just find that unhealthy and a little disturbing. I don't hate Minnesota or Minnesotans, I hate that they don't hate anything. Most of them don't even honk their car horns! That's just wrong."

apollonia666

And if you want to see everything that's on-a-stick at the Minnesota State Fair, check out this video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5Lr2IhB_o

Found it on BoingBoing.net.

erikka

I just found this thread--did the Minnesotan drink-up meet yet? If not, can we do one soon? We could do it as a potluck--but everyone better not bring rolls!

theoryofpractice

Should I bring the cheese? You know, as in,

Wow, that looks good. But I'm sure it would be better if you melted some cheese on it.

whyfi

erikka wrote: I just found this thread--did the Minnesotan drink-up meet yet? If not, can we do one soon? We could do it as a potluck--but everyone better not bring rolls!

Hasn't happened yet, but where would you suggest this happen?

erikka

Monday and Tuesday nights at Great Lakes are generally pretty quiet--how does a happy hour sound? I'll make jello with a bunch of shitty canned fruit stuck in it