This is the briefest dictionary of Minnesotanisms I can come up with for fans of MST3K, Fargo, the Mighty Ducks and other phenomena
Menards- Menards was around much earlier than Home Depot and it is cooler. You could buy foam stone-like rabits and fountains that smelled like manure. The Really big thing about Manards was it's rocking jingle. "Save Big Money at Menards" It was simple and addictive a simple pyramidal harmony that remind us all of a time before commercials needed thirty skeletal teenagers singing about a pop. The guy on the Menards add was so memorable, jolly floppy white hair. big back glasses and enthusiastically connvincing you that 3.99 for an extension cord was a good deal. He never sang about tech vests, or started breaking out into some seventies Beetles hit. He just told you what it was. No chihuahuas, no dying grandmas, just, those friendly white bubble lyrics
Hotdish- Is the dish hot after you are done? Great you've just made hotdish. You'd call everything hotdish. Particularly spaghetti (which was anything in tomato sauce)
It is true, once you cross the Minnesotan border you aren't allowed to eat cream of mushroom soup unless you put it with rice or potatoes or Funyons. For more explanations of hotdish please refer to Bill Moyer, I have lots of homework to do...
Snyders- A really great drug store. The greatest drug store in the world, even better than walgreens. And I mean any walgreens on planet Earth. And Genovese and CVS and 7-11. They say I'm mad with nostalgia, well I am. HAHAHAHAHAAHHA... err I've been shot
more installments later
started October 11,1999
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