I’m 40 and have lived in Wisconsin my entire life (20 years in West Bend, 20 in Milwaukee) though I have been to 38 states & Canada, I imagine the "Majical Land of Cheese, the Drunkest place on Earth"™ will be my home base until I die from alcohol & bratwurst poisoning. I’m just wondering how many other dopers live here, or have lived here for a significant amount of time.
Does a year count? I lived in Madison for a year about 4 years ago when I was completing my internship.
Mmmmm…fried cheese[sub]<—proof that I lived in Wisconsin[/sub]
I lived in LaCrosse for a year. Got to eat fried cheese, do my “warsh” at the laundry, drink some “pop”. Sorry I couldn’t stay…
Yo. My whole life.
Born here, left for a while, came back. Does this thread have portents for a Milwaukee-area dopefest?
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Drink some pop? Nobody I know calls it pop. It’s soda. I think you must have run into some Minnesotans up there in La Crosse.
It’s pop in western and central Wisconsin. I’ve lived here all my life and so have my parents and that is what we call it.
I lived in Madison for four years. During that time, I never once drank from a bubbler.
I lived in Waukesha County, on River Lane, halfway between Waukesha & Pewaukee{sp?}.
I hear that farm country out by the airport’s all built up, now.
I have lived in Wisconsin for the past 12 years, but I am moving to a different state in the near future. By the way, it’s pop, and I have never heard the term “bubbler”.
Well, I’m a native Wisconsinite, and have lived 27 of my 43 years here, continuously since 1983, and It’s always been “soda water” and “bubblers” in southeastern Wisconsin.
I spent a little bit of time in Wisconsin, from age 5 to 6 or 7. I don’t remember much, but I do know it was pop. 
My husband is a native of Wisconsin – central Wisconsin to be specific. In fact, his hometown (a teensy place called Pittsville) claims that it is the very center of the state. He left the state on his 17th birthday and has only been back for visits since then and he is 41 today. I have visited there 5 or 6 times in the 15 years we’ve been married, and lived there for 2 months when our daughter was born. She was premature and so spent 7 weeks in the neonatal unit at St. Joseph’s hospital in Marshfield.
I never learned to like bratwurst (eww!), but I always enjoy seeing ads for ‘brat fries’ in the newspapers there. And I love (love, LOVE!) cheese curds. Either fried or (prefered) the squeaky kind eaten raw.
Oh – in Pittsville they drink ‘pop’ and fish in the ‘crick.’
Another cheesehead here. Born and raised in Green Bay, went to college in Eau Claire, and have lived in the Madison area for the last 10 years.
It’s always been pop (unless you’re one of those high falutin’ Milwaukee types who insist on calling it soda), I always drank out of the bubbler when I was a kid but nobody seems to call it that around here now, and during the summer I live on a steady diet of bratwurst and beer.
I can’t really see myself living anywhere else. I’m just a plain old midwestern boy with midwestern tastes.
I grew up in the SW part of the state, where even though the winters had double-digit sub-zero chill factors, I much more by far remember the agony of the hot, humid summers. Nowhere else on earth have I heard the weather reporters use the phrase “It’ll be a good night fer sleepin’”
Spent a wonderful summer in Madison back in ’98. Met some mighty fine folks out there, and some, well, interesting natives. I was there the summer the ‘Homosexuality is not a Family Value’ billboards went up. :eek: Spent the summer saving for school the next year by working as a waiter at the Holiday Inn and by letting Covance do some medical experiments on me.
I spent muuuuuch of my night hours split between a couple bars- but for the life of me I can’t remember either of their names. One was down State Street a bit, on the right side as you walk away from the Capitol. Pretty simple, lots of pool tables. Largish plate glass window. The other bar was something like ‘Checkers’ though I don’t think that is it. It was a dive around the corner from the bus station. Had a small upstairs area with a pool table. Can you see a pattern here? Any help remembering the names?
Was glad to have been there when I was. I sorely miss Rosini’s pizza (had friends who worked there), the Onion’s Drunk of the Week being a local, the farmer’s market, people’s unnerving obsession with the packers, the smell (stench) of the lakes, the Handbistas, free concerts at the Union Center, the innumerable bike paths, the notion that brauts’ are a food group into themselves (and therefore have their own RDA), the jet-laden Fourth of July fireworks, the co-op markets, and my much beloved friends. Ahhh, Madison.
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I’ve never lived in Wisconsin, but half my family does. My mom was born there.
Her father was a cheese salesman. And I LOVE cheese. My passion for cheese only grows as the years go by. If I was told I could never have cheese again, I would seriously think of killing myself. It’s got to be genetic.
My cousin jokes that Wisconsin’s next license plate is going to say “Eat Cheese or Die” on it. I should probably move there.
UW - Madison, mid 80’s. I still go back once a year (in-laws). In fact, I will be there in a few weeks for the 4th of July. Summers in Wisconsin can be about the greatest anywhere - farmers markets, street fairs, fish boils on bar patios, Summerfest - you guys know how to do it right.
I can’t help but feel that the real reason for all the celebration is that there is the deep seated knowledge of what lies ahead - winter.
Um…I’ve flown OVER Wisconsin once…does that qualify?
My name is Myron, and I have SEEN a HODAG.
Your Cheesehead-in-a-jar,
Myron