OT: What do you guys eat in Minnesota?

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OT: What do you guys eat in Minnesota?

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Hello all.

I am an Arizona Cards fan. For each tailgate this year, we are eating food made famous by that part of the country. For the New Orleans game, we had Jumbalaya and shrimp, St Louis we had ribs, Miami we had a Cuban sandwich etc.

What do you guys eat in Minnesota that is famous? I'm drawing a blank.

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I'd love to stick around and talk about this upcoming game.
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lutefisk
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lefsa

link shows you how to make it.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2305530_make-lefsa.html

it's actually pretty good, I moved from arizona to north dakota about 7 years ago. and i found out pretty quick that lutefisk is ####. It's pretty much fermented fish, but lefsa is actually pretty good!
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venison stew
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TeamChaplain wrote:venison stew
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Keep them coming.

This one may be the only tailgate possible food.
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Lefse is easy easy, you make it before hand and bring it with. Matter of fact they sell it in the stores here, just buy a pack, but butter on it, sprinkle sugar on top of that and then roll it up and eat it. Easy easy and very tasty!
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Well you could also use a skillet on a grill and fry up walleye or another type of white fish with plenty of sweet cream butter with sauteed onions and s&p, maybe some basil or lemon pepper. And you better fry up some beer battered onion rings!
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VikingMachine wrote:Lefse is easy easy, you make it before hand and bring it with. Matter of fact they sell it in the stores here, just buy a pack, but butter on it, sprinkle sugar on top of that and then roll it up and eat it. Easy easy and very tasty!
Hilarious story, my father in-law accidently put chili powder on his lefse thinking it was cinnamon. I thought he was going to die. He was so shocked by the initial taste that he inhaled suddenly causing him to choke and cough violently!
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TeamChaplain wrote:Well you could also use a skillet on a grill and fry up walleye or another type of white fish with plenty of sweet cream butter with sauteed onions and s&p, maybe some basil or lemon pepper. And you better fry up some beer battered onion rings!
Sounds good, but I don't even think we can get walleye in AZ.
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dreamcastrocks wrote: Sounds good, but I don't even think we can get walleye in AZ.
Well, then you'll just have to use whatever fish you can get.

And don't forget the hotdish!


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There is another delicacy that we are famous for in this part of the country. The only problem is that there are a lot of bones and very little meat. The taste is amazing though. You might have heard of it, Stuffed Cardinal.
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TeamChaplain wrote:There is another delicacy that we are famous for in this part of the country. The only problem is that there are a lot of bones and very little meat. The taste is amazing though. You might have heard of it, Stuffed Cardinal.
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My old roommate(s) die hard Redskins fans used to do this same thing - thought it was pretty cool.

Anyways, I've lived in CA the last 10 yrs, and I don't eat fish/seafood, so I can't think of any "MN dish", but I will tell you this: MN is famous for cheese curds! I haven't found them anywhere but MN (and WI, but they were not nearly as good in WI). Deep fried oooohy-gooohy goodness!
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Re: OT: What do you guys eat in Minnesota?

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Having lived in CA for 10 years made me awar of some the things more unique to MN.

Jello-- with fruit and whipped cream. Only here it's a 'salad' with the meal, not dessert.

Hotdish-- any kind of potato or pasta with hamburger and Cream of XXXXX (mushroom, chicken, celery, whatever) gets you most of the way to a hot dish. I've never made it and I have no recipe so I can't help with that.

If you have soda-- be sure to call it pop. If we don't come up with any more food ideas for you, you can at least search the web for how to speak minnesotan:

http://www.finehomesofminneapolis.com/M ... acts.shtml
http://www.brownielocks.com/minnesotatalk.html

Here are a couple more ideas from wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of ... #Minnesota
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of ... Saint_Paul
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