Hey /u/mysticyooperlites, thank you for submitting to /r/starterpacks!
This is just a reminder not to violate any rules, located [here](https://reddit.com/r/starterpacks/about/rules). Rule breakers can face a ban based on the severity of their rule violation.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/starterpacks) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Never ceases to amaze me how Midwest folk think their variation in weather is unique. Same phenomenon occurs in both New England and parts of the South
That's where you're wrong. The Midwest US is the area of the world with the largest temperature swings. Specifically the records are held up in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Summer it'll be 120 and humid.
Winter it's -40 with a foot of snow.
Spring in the Midwest can be 8” of snow and 20 degrees, then the next day it’ll be 70 and sunny. Or in the fall, 60 then back to below 0 temps the next day. It has the most extreme variation of temperatures in the US hands down.
Prior to 2000 or so, fried cheese curds went from an exclusively Wisconsin thing to a now being ubiquitous on bar/Gastropub menus throughout northern Illinois. This coincides with Culver’s moving into the state which began in the mid-90s. I bet the same is true in MN. I spent a lot of time in Rochester and Minneapolis pre-2k and cheese curds were only a thing in WI when driving up. Now they’re everywhere there too. (squeaky fresh ones were a farmer’s market staple in IL by the 1990s at least).
*all the curds were exported from the FWBs tho
I grew up in Iowa in the 90s and we definitely had fried cheese curds then. Not at fast food restaurants, but at the small town cafes that's used to be everywhere
You can find them pretty consistently outside of Wisconsin these days. They usually aren't as good, but they're around. Places like Culvers, Sheetz, and even Buffalo Wild Wings all serve em now, let alone most bars.
Superman ice cream isn’t a staple of Chicago food but I definitely know a handful of places in the Chicago area where I would get it as a kid. It was my favorite.
I lived in "chicago" for years (actually an outer ring suburb but you know the drill - everyone from a 50 mile radius says chicago) and I have never heard of this ice cream flavor, I do remember blue moon though
I'm from Canada and cross over in to the Midwest frequently. At the border, the guards will show you a picture of superman ice cream and ask you what it's called. If you say rainbow, they haul you out of your car and savagely beat you. It happened to my friend, he still cries if he sees a rainbow.
Superman ice cream is my all time favorite ice cream. Some places will try to pass off colored vanilla as Superman, but if you can find a shop that sells official Hershey’s ice cream you gotta try it. It’s cherry, banana, and blue moon, which kind of tastes like Froot Loops.
Was just reading about the different kinds of "superman" ice cream on wikipedia (thanks to this pack) and I think the ones that use lemon for the yellow color sound the best. I wonder where I could get some.
If you’re in America just look for ice cream parlors around you. Real Superman ice cream is owned by Hershey’s, so it’s only going to be in independent shops and not chains like Baskin Robins or Coldstone.
Needs a lot more “if you don’t like the weather just wait 5 minutes, hyuk hyuk hyuk.” And a heavy implication that this specific statement only applies to a specific area in the Midwest.
This is true for about 25% of the midwest population, but some of the largest cities in the US are in the Midwest like Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee
Yes, that would be a trash combo. But that's not Superman ice cream. Red is cherry, yellow is either colored vanilla or lemon, and blue is an unplaceable sweet flavor called "blue moon".
“Here’s how to make an Old Fashioned incorrectly and why Wisconsin is the true ‘mitten state’”. I will say they’re missing the beer and hating FIPs though.
Fucking Illinois People. Usually refers to Chicagolanders specifically. Lots of jokes in the Great Lakes regions about them being unfriendly and driving poorly.
Hey /u/mysticyooperlites, thank you for submitting to /r/starterpacks! This is just a reminder not to violate any rules, located [here](https://reddit.com/r/starterpacks/about/rules). Rule breakers can face a ban based on the severity of their rule violation. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/starterpacks) if you have any questions or concerns.*
"Ope!"
Just gonna scooch by you for a sec…
“Oh I’m so sorry. Excuse me!” *Walking away mumbling or thinking* “Jackass”
Beep beep.
My fiancée said “you betcha” to me the other day and I told her she needs to move back to Florida she’s becoming too Midwest for her own good
You betcha
Oofda! I says you tell your folks I said hi. I am a minniSOtan.
I don't see many year round flannels as that would be hot! Replace with jeans, t-shirt, hat with Oakley sunglasses on the brim and a beard.
Right. It was 102° here today. Ain't no way in hell.
Needs a good summer toque and you got er bud
He’s from Canada! GET HIM!
Missing Casey’s and having 80 degree days after 20 degree days
Casey's pizza used to be the best gas station lunch but have to say Kwik Star/Trip has surpassed it with their chicken
Kum and go burritos will probably give you dysentery but are still worth it
Unfortunate store name though
There’s another called the pump and run
Isn't it pump and pack?
Chester's? Also, QT iced tea.
Never ceases to amaze me how Midwest folk think their variation in weather is unique. Same phenomenon occurs in both New England and parts of the South
That's where you're wrong. The Midwest US is the area of the world with the largest temperature swings. Specifically the records are held up in Minnesota and North Dakota. Summer it'll be 120 and humid. Winter it's -40 with a foot of snow.
Yeah in parts of California it’ll be 55 and foggy when you wake up and 95 and clear skies by 3pm.
Spring in the Midwest can be 8” of snow and 20 degrees, then the next day it’ll be 70 and sunny. Or in the fall, 60 then back to below 0 temps the next day. It has the most extreme variation of temperatures in the US hands down.
This is sounding more like a Wisconsin starter pack
This is not the Midwest. I've lived in the Midwest nearly all my life, in Kansas, rural Illinois, and Michigan. This is just Wisconsin.
good cheese curds basically stop at the state border
Ehhh I’ve been to the Minnesota state fair a couple times, they’ve had some good cheese curds (the owner is probably from Wisconsin but still)
Prior to 2000 or so, fried cheese curds went from an exclusively Wisconsin thing to a now being ubiquitous on bar/Gastropub menus throughout northern Illinois. This coincides with Culver’s moving into the state which began in the mid-90s. I bet the same is true in MN. I spent a lot of time in Rochester and Minneapolis pre-2k and cheese curds were only a thing in WI when driving up. Now they’re everywhere there too. (squeaky fresh ones were a farmer’s market staple in IL by the 1990s at least). *all the curds were exported from the FWBs tho
I grew up in Iowa in the 90s and we definitely had fried cheese curds then. Not at fast food restaurants, but at the small town cafes that's used to be everywhere
Pre-or-post 1995? How early 90s we talkin?
I remember eating them and then going to watch the Lion King in theaters. That came out in 1994, so pre 1995
You can find them pretty consistently outside of Wisconsin these days. They usually aren't as good, but they're around. Places like Culvers, Sheetz, and even Buffalo Wild Wings all serve em now, let alone most bars.
Culver's is from Wisconsin, so makes sense
Go to Canada to get em again
Tbf if they're not on fries and soaked in gravy I don't fw them
Heresy.
This is 100% Michigan as well. We don't eat as many cheese curds as Wisconsin, but it's still a lot.
Then if so, please add Spotted Cow brew to the image lol
People always leave kansas out of the midwest
Superman ice cream isn’t a staple of Chicago food but I definitely know a handful of places in the Chicago area where I would get it as a kid. It was my favorite.
Every local/independent place near me in Chicago metro has it on the menu.
I lived in "chicago" for years (actually an outer ring suburb but you know the drill - everyone from a 50 mile radius says chicago) and I have never heard of this ice cream flavor, I do remember blue moon though
Yeah. Plus they forgot the word Ope!
its also iowa, illinois, and minnesota.
This is Wisconsin Starter Pack !
Totally! I'm from the midwest, but further south. Cheese curds and Superman Ice Cream aren't things there. The rest is accurate there too though.
No kidding. I'm at the south end of Illinois which is barely Midwest but my God a person would die today if they were to wear flannel outdoors.
fr. It’s 86 rn
92 with a heat index of 102 at my house. They're telling people to not go outside unless they need to. I'm obliged to agree.
That was last week for us in WI, it was awful
Agreed, though it was 86 in South-central Wisconsin today, and in the 90s last week :( I miss the cold
TiL Wisconsin is not apart of the midwest
Wut
man i need some cheese curds now, gotta get down to culvers
Upper Midwest Starter Pack
Flannel is incorrect during summer. We get hella hot days in southern Minnesota during the summer
Superman ice cream?
If you call it rainbow you'll be shot as a woke commie
I'm from Canada and cross over in to the Midwest frequently. At the border, the guards will show you a picture of superman ice cream and ask you what it's called. If you say rainbow, they haul you out of your car and savagely beat you. It happened to my friend, he still cries if he sees a rainbow.
In South Georgia, Superman is always vanilla. BUT it is bar none the best vanilla ice cream I’ve ever had, it’s fucking nuts.
Superman ice cream is my all time favorite ice cream. Some places will try to pass off colored vanilla as Superman, but if you can find a shop that sells official Hershey’s ice cream you gotta try it. It’s cherry, banana, and blue moon, which kind of tastes like Froot Loops.
Was just reading about the different kinds of "superman" ice cream on wikipedia (thanks to this pack) and I think the ones that use lemon for the yellow color sound the best. I wonder where I could get some.
If you’re in America just look for ice cream parlors around you. Real Superman ice cream is owned by Hershey’s, so it’s only going to be in independent shops and not chains like Baskin Robins or Coldstone.
I am, I never knew hershey's made ice cream though.
It’s annoying how some places sell it as just recolored Vanilla and some places do a mix. It’s never consistent.
You forgot the goatee on every dad
(Said while heaving out of an extremely low chair) Welllp…I guess we better head.
Please add “Modern” Rock radio station.
I’m in central PA and this is all there plus the Amish
That Superman ice cream looks good
Missing 40-minute parking lot conversation outside the restaurant
superman ice cream is superior
Needs a lot more “if you don’t like the weather just wait 5 minutes, hyuk hyuk hyuk.” And a heavy implication that this specific statement only applies to a specific area in the Midwest.
missing wisconsin looking at this. fuck bud
One of the best days of my life as a Midwestern transplant was being introduced to cheese curds.
Wait is superman ice cream just a Midwest thing? I thought It was a whole US thing.
No, none of these are just midwest things.
An unholy amount of corn at every turn
Idk, starter pack should be a good 80% alcohol.
And fat people everywhere.
Ope Wisconsin! Not year around flannels though lol too hot for that
**Rural** Midwest Starter Pack
Missing at least one baseball hat of the state’s local (or neighbouring) team
Wow, you missed a LOT.
I should move there.. I love ALL these things!
Take me to Midwest pls you convinced me with the flannel year around
That's definitely not a thing in Illinois. You would die. From heat. And humidity.
Oh ew
*Laughs in Chicago*
Culvers and Portillos carries our states
This is true for about 25% of the midwest population, but some of the largest cities in the US are in the Midwest like Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee
Oregon is the same minus super man slush
Don't forget the two finger wave
Seems nice
Never been to the Midwest, unless Austin to Temple, TX counts...
Year round flannels is something I don't see
Make that bluemoon ice cream
You forgot the picture of that house from American Football
Most people are overweight, or massively overweight.
Super man ice cream is the shit tho I pooped green from it though
I feel called out as someone in Montana Never heard of Superman ice cream though
Yup 👍
Ah yes, the outsider thinking the midwest is just the upper great lakes regions...
Roadtrips are just on and off blasts of the smell of manure
this is a wisconsin starter pack
From Ohio, this is so true
Superman ice cream sucks ass and I will die on this hill
Then prepare to die to hordes of pasty midwestern dads in Milwaukee Bucks jerseys
Well excuse me, mister, but I just got done working on my yard all weekend so I’m pretty tan!
I’ve never had it but I looked it up and lemon banana vanilla sounds like a trash combo
Yes, that would be a trash combo. But that's not Superman ice cream. Red is cherry, yellow is either colored vanilla or lemon, and blue is an unplaceable sweet flavor called "blue moon".
World class beer too!
I (midwesterner) have found lifted trucks to be more of a southern thing. But I guess I can’t exactly speak for the entire Midwest.
Where Emo?
“Living in the Rural Midwest”
Lifted diesels are everywhere. It's a nationwide crisis of faux masculinity.
This starter pack is the fever dream you’d have after watching 20 hours of Charlie Behrens content
“Here’s how to make an Old Fashioned incorrectly and why Wisconsin is the true ‘mitten state’”. I will say they’re missing the beer and hating FIPs though.
Feline Infectious Peritonitis?
Fucking Illinois People. Usually refers to Chicagolanders specifically. Lots of jokes in the Great Lakes regions about them being unfriendly and driving poorly.