The Midwest has so many important cultural outputs. There’s the obvious, like cheese and corn. Then there are the slightly less obvious, like John Hughes movies and scotcheroos. Then there’s the music, like almost every indie dad-rock band you can think of (Wilco, The National), and more hip-hop artists than can be mentioned (Kanye and …
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24 Memes That Exemplify Good Times
You often hear the saying, «I’m here for a good time, not a long time.» But what if I want both? What if I want to live until I’m 120 and wake up every day with a smile on my face and a song in my heart? What then? I think it’s entirely possible, with …
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‘I didn’t see an escalator until I went to college’: Wyomingites charmingly recollect the first time they saw an escalator living in the state that only has two of them
It’s amazing to think of the things that most of us take for granted that a select part of the population has very little exposure to. For example: not everywhere has any buildings that rise over two stories. While not everybody gets to walk among the skyscrapers in Manhattan, that’s a pretty crazy thought for …
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25+ Midwest Memes for Nice Folks Who Say Ope (September 20, 2024)
My favorite thing about the Midwest has to be our sense of humor. Without the elitism of the coasts, we have the perfect sense of self-deprecation and irony. Take, for example, the pride and joy of Chicago: Malört. For those uninitiated, it’s a wormwood liqueur invented by a Swedish immigrant in Chicago, known for its …
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25 Midwest Memes for Nice Folks Who Say Ope (September 13, 2024)
It’s Friday the 13th, which means something spooky is in the air. There’s a chill that’s more than just the dawning of fall weather. Something is… haunted. The Midwest can be an underratedly spooky place. You know this if you’ve ever driven through endless fields of corn at night. There’s something about the vast emptiness …
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25+ Midwest Memes for Nice Folks Who Say Ope (September 6, 2024)
It’s arguably my favorite time of year in the Midwest, which is what I’m calling shorts and a big sweater season. Or if you’re an Anglophile, Princess Diana season. It’s warm during the day, but at night you’ll need your favorite cozy sweatshirt, sweater, or hoodie to keep you warm. Your legs get to run …
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25+ Midwest Memes for Nice Folks Who Say Ope (August 30, 2024)
Nobody maximizes the potential of the potato quite like a Midwestern home cook. We can turn the odd spud into a tater tot casserole, a side of home fries, a baked potato so loaded you forgot there’s a potato under there, heavenly scoops of dairy-laden mash, or a clock if we’re in 5th-grade science. The …
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28 Pacific Northwest Memes With a Fondness for Gray Skies and Rain
Ah, the good ole PNW, known for its beautiful landscapes, fidelity to craft beer, and gloomy yet inspiring weather. It’s the perfect place to play grunge music, get really into coffee, and stare out the window pretending you’re in a music video. I’d venture to say that the Pacific Northwest is an underrated part of …
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28 Midwest Memes for Nice Folks Who Say Ope (August 23, 2024)
Before the summer is out, let me put forth a simple ode to corn. It’s our nation’s greatest product. Taken simply grilled, with butter and salt, a cob of corn is summer perfection in each juicy bite. And the way you go about eating corn on the cob can tell you a lot about a …
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American tourist gloats about inferior European GDP, gets roasted by Europeans: ‘This is why everyone hates Americans’
The USA and the continent of Europe have a contentious social media relationship these days. It seems like a certain kind of person from the States loves nothing more than having a ‘Euro summer’, but then they get on the likes of TikTok and Twitter and complain about things like having to walk, or not …
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