More than 39,000 pounds of cheese curds moved through the concession stands at Lambeau Field this past season, according to the Green Bay Packers’ tally. Nobody at Lambeau calls that unusual. These are the Wisconsin cheese rules Wisconsinites enforce without ever saying so. 1. Squeaky Curds Cheese curds are the small, rubbery pieces of curdled…
Harveysburg, Ohio has about 600 year-round residents. One weekend every fall, its streets disappear under an out-of-town crowd. The village pushed back, and it’s far from the only Ohio town with mixed feelings about its festival crowds. These are the Ohio festivals locals wish out-of-staters hadn’t found. 1. Circleville Pumpkin Show The Circleville Pumpkin Show,…
New Jersey’s Assembly introduced a bill this year that would let workers legally ignore their boss’s pings once a shift ends. Lawmakers don’t write rules like that for nothing. These are the problems New Jersey workplaces create when conversations move to a group chat. Note: This is general information, not legal advice. Employment and wage…
Minnesota’s frost line reaches five feet deep in the northern half of the state, according to maps Minnesota’s Department of Labor and Industry publishes for builders. The ground freezes that deep every winter. Homeowners bury, pour, and build all kinds of expensive extras into a Minnesota lot, and every one of them has to survive…
The best food in Kentucky rarely comes with a corporate logo bolted to the roof. Some of the state’s most memorable plates come from a walk-up window that never got remodeled, or a family that has run the same counter for generations. These are the Kentucky roadside foods worth pulling over for. Windy Corner Market…
Would you believe a product could prove your body just cleared out its toxins? Some marketers say it can. Federal regulators have already taken multiple wellness marketers to court over claims almost exactly like it. These are the detox claims Californians, and Americans everywhere, should treat with skepticism. Note: This is general information, not medical…
The St. Louis Blues once practiced hockey on ice built right into a Hazelwood shopping mall. That rink is gone. So is almost everything else a shopper could once wander into between two big anchor stores. These are the things Missouri shopping malls had that nobody will experience again. 1. Sit-Down Diner Inside a Discount…
Ask an Alabama host whether the house looked as good two hours ago, and the honest answer is almost never yes. These are the things Alabamians do before a guest ever rings the doorbell. 1. Lane Cake for Company A Lane Cake means a guest is on the way, never a Tuesday night dessert. Emma…
North Carolina and Oregon grow more than half of the roughly 14.5 million evergreens cut and sold each year, according to the latest federal agriculture census. We’re not even in October yet, and some families are already negotiating whether they need one of those trees at all. The argument rarely stops at the tree. These…
You’ve got a short Utah trip and a list of places you want to try. Then you arrive and find a line out the door. To a local, that same stop might be an ordinary Tuesday lunch. The difference has a lot to do with what brought you there. These are the Utah restaurant chains…
