Minnesota/Minnesotans C or D

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the bacon cannoli is O_o

this looks delightful IMO

I need to go to one of those eventually

omg @ Comet Corn, I may need to revise my summer travel plans

I have no idea which month my mn visit is gonna be this year, it's totally up in the air. I always try to make it encompass fair time. VG I want to go to mn state fair w u and watch yr reactions!

lol ok let's go!!!

oh gawd almost all of those foodstuffs look horrifying

Things I eat at the fair every year: jerk chicken roti from Harry Singh's (because I don't get to his actual restaurant often enough), deep fried pickles (gtfo with chocolate and powdered sugar though), deep fried turkey sandwich, and an andouille from Sausage by Cynthia. And I really love the stuffed green pepper (from the little hut that's shaped just like one.)

These are all last year's new foods.

i never made it to harry singh's despite living not that far away, on a scale of one to remorse what am i feeling

Depends on if there are a ton of really good Caribbean restaurants where you are now? Mpls really has no others. (I've been following him to various locations since the 80s.)

i live in rural NH, there is nothing here, food exists in dreams only

Aw man, then I guess remorse might be appropriate. It's an overly-lit hole in the wall, and there's no beer license - he makes his own ginger beer and peanut punch, and there's Ting! - but the food is incredible, the hot sauce is serious, and there's soca on the cassette player. Pretty much heaven in MN imo.

These are all last year's new foods.

― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, June 4, 2014 9:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sheeeeit

Editor's note: The 2014 new-food lineup is expected to be announced the week of June 23.

haha a friend of mine sent me this and i didn't even look. i post in good faith i swear.

Hah, not sure why, but that story has gotten viral bumps multiple times over the last few months.

Could have something to do with the unpalatable food.

http://youtu.be/t3RiV9zJfCk

Minnesotans - I will be visiting your fine state for the first time in July. Thought I'd ask if anyone would like to gather for a drink or something the night of July 16th. Would love to meet folks.

have it marked should be able to

lol at how it's just assumed u mean the twin cities

I forgot to add I'm visiting the Twin cities. My bad!

I might be due for a mpls weekend this summer. I look down my nose at your fair, though.

don't know how many of you make it over to Lowertown on the reg and maybe this is old news but the Bedlam is reopening there after 4 years thanks in part to the tireless efforts of a dear friend of mine.

visiting last month on a beautiful weekend, going to parades, backyard bonfires, etc, made me wonder why the hell I left. then I remembered that it snowed the week before.

I'm hoping to make it to MPLSSTPL in July as well. Will watch this space.

Jon, if your visit overlaps with my visit that would be amazing.

totally!

i'm down

I might be due for a mpls weekend this summer. I look down my nose at your fair, though.

this is a mistake

sorry, it was from the perspective of the iowa state fair. it's not much of an incline, to be fair

I am still really annoyed that I went to east siders' night at the iowa state fair last year and saw zero fights! Damn it, that is where the fights are supposed to be.

Fights over deep fried pickle twinkies.

iirc the bud tent (really a building) is the single location with the most budweiser served per year, nationwide, and it's only open for the iowa fair

are you trying to win an argument or…?

no, explaining how it's the prime backdrops for fights

ohhh

BUDVARDOME

we don't need another pilsner

http://www.twincities.com/transportation/ci_25953023/past-battles-aside-university-minnesota-sees-bright-future

lol college

Mitchell, the U sophomore, says many students have gotten used to ignoring the "overabundance" of signs and signals along Washington. Now, they'll have to start paying more attention. New signs and road markings might be confusing to some bicyclists at first, said Chase Taylor, a sophomore who bikes on campus.

Taylor, who is from Reno, Nev., said he rarely has ventured across the Mississippi River since starting at the U. In St. Paul, he'd like to check out several music venues and the Science Museum of Minnesota.

"St. Paul was never easy to access from campus," Taylor said. "It's a whole new city to explore."

What the

I don't get it

welp the train does go down p. much one of the 4 main ways to get from the east bank to saint paul, and it's not like 2 of the others (over franklin bridge, over lake/marshall bridge, or i guess even the back way thru prospect park) are inaccessible to bikers

unless you're a college student

ah, I get it now. That guy must be one of the dudes whose chain is just a mass of rust, seat is down as low as it can go, and "bikes on campus" means "bikes exclusively on campus"

i figured he was just one of thousands of students who are trepidatious about going anywhere outside the campus zone, or just can't think of any reason why to

omg the stone arch bridge is fucking amazing tonight; beyond it being a perfect evening, the mississippi is absolutely raging right now because of all the rains, they've got the lock and dam open, and the effect is not unlike blasting a firehose down a small sluice. the amount of water pumping through there is unbelievable... if you've been through a lock and dam it's not hard to picture the horror of capsizing in it, because the sheer force going through there is immense, but overall it is mesmerizing and amazing. the 15 minutes i spent there almost makes up for this winter...

Damn I wish I was there right now I live that place

Live = love

i miss home :(

Live = love

― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, June 24, 2014 6:47 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

live, laugh, love

i heard that Minnehaha Falls is off the fuckin chain right now!

I saw it. It was like the chocolatefall in Willy Wonka's candynasium.