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This is "laugh or cry" territory, so I'm putting it here. Some Redditor decided to have AI generate a map of the most popular regional food in each state, and this is what it came up with. It just gets better (for certain values of the term) the more you look. 

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." Ursula K. Le Guin

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34 minutes ago, Maison Rustique said:

That says Pastig for Missouri. I have no idea what they even mean by that!!

Yeah. 

 

...and let's not even start on the bad blood between Minnesota and South Dakota over who makes Chislic the "right" way. :P

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." Ursula K. Le Guin

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I had to laugh when I looked off to the right saw the shrimp pork. I wondered, are they eating little potbellied pigs?

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I had to look up ' Shrimp Pork'

 

did not come up with anything that might fit a State Dish.

 

Sooooo  ......    ???

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." Ursula K. Le Guin

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Received this from my sister this morning ...

 

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Not deliberately funny, but this is the best place I can think of for last night's story.

 

The scene: a Super 8 hotel in Story City, Iowa. I note at check-in that you have to ask for a coffee maker for the room, and ask for one. The clerk notes that there's coffee available 24/7 in the lobby. I ask for the coffee maker anyway, the way I won't have to get dressed for my first morning cuppa.

 

A half-hour or so later, I go back down the hall to ask about the coffee maker. She'd had to send her partner to the storeroom, wherever that is, to find one. She produced it.

 

Me: "What about coffee packets to go into it?" 

She: "You mean there aren't any in the room?"

 

:huh:

 

Why she'd think that, when the coffee maker isn't already kept there, I don't understand. I never did get any packets.

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@Smithy, I have a tea stash for just this purpose. If you're interested, et me know where I should post my response.

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11 hours ago, Smithy said:

I ask for the coffee maker anyway, the way I won't have to get dressed for my first morning cuppa.

As long as you weren’t stark nekkid, I’m sure you’d have been better dressed than anyone else you encountered in the wee hours!
 

 

11 hours ago, Smithy said:

Me: "What about coffee packets to go into it?" 

If they sent up coffee packets, I’m sure there would be no filters…or no cups…or…

 

When I traveled a lot for work, I kept a ziplock that tucked neatly between the handle rails of my carry-on with tea bags, oatmeal, single-serving pucks of peanut butter and jam (hoarded from my work cafeterias) some of those Wasa crackers sure to survive a nuclear attack, prunes - almost as durable (and yes, as effective as the Wasa),  plastic utensils, several folded paper towels, wet wipes, etc. It got me through a LOT of unexpectedly late arrivals when I needed to be at work very early!

 

Those in-room coffee makers always gave me pause though. If I wanted to use them for hot water, I always ran 3 cycles of water through to get rid of the stale coffee smell. I think you were likely saved by the ineptness of this operation!

 


 

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6 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

 

Those in-room coffee makers always gave me pause though. If I wanted to use them for hot water, I always ran 3 cycles of water through to get rid of the stale coffee smell. I think you were likely saved by the ineptness of this operation!

 


 

 

I've seen a few too many social media posts of people doing hideous things with hotel room appliances to use them anymore.

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