I hear it in Flint a lot - I think it’s a corruption of bogus.
Michigan has Petoskey stones
from wiki: “Similar fossil corals occur in a variety of locations, however the name Petoskey stone should only be applied to those from Northern Michigan which exhibit a six-walled coral structure.”
Is that just us? I do that all the time, never thought about it.
Actually, the other states put beans in chili. Which is the way I’m used to, being from Colorado.
Oregon is also a full-service gasoline state.
The DC area has a few “jughandles”, but the standard is just a regular ol’ left turn lane.
In the San Antonio, TX, area, many major highway interchanges have turnaround lanes, so that you don’t have to go thru 2 signals to go the opposite way from a highway exit.
I hope I’ve not missed this one somewhere above, but I also used to live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I recall that Santa Fe is the only state capital without a commercial airport. I believe there’s a small private airport there somewhere, but the general riffraff must fly into Albuquerque and continue the journey overland.
Tennessee has three Grand Divisions :East, West and Middle. Judging from other’s responses when I say I’m from Middle Tennessee, other states don’t have a Middle section.
What’s distinctive about Tennessee’s East, West, and “Midsection” is that the histories of them are the histories of three different states almost, including the population and the side they supported in the war and the geography, etc…
Alabama uses “Central” which I would suspect most states use instead of Middle, but then we divide by North, South, and Central since that’s the geographic division (oversimplified but north=mountains and tall hills/central=hills and pastures/south=flat and Gulf Coast). I would imagine more states divide NS than EW.
Rhode Island is also the only state where you can buy Autocrat Coffee Milk. That stuff is the shit. I stock up on it (as well as Polar Beverages, which is ALSO the shit) every time I’m in the area. I didn’t even realize that Del’s was a Rhode Island thing though.
Texas is the only state which still THINKS it is the biggest land mass.
If you get a generic license plate in RI, they will put your initials on it, followed by the lowest available number, by default.
Rhode Island is also the only state where they serve french fries with vinegar. If you ask for ketchup or mustard, you’ll be outed as an out-of-stater.
Rhode Island’s capitol had the country’s largest dome…at least until Minnesota came along and stole the title away.
Connecticut is the only state where the sandwiches which are made on foot-long rolls are called “grinders”. This is a bit ironic, since New London is the birthplace of the submarine, and much of the county is employed by Electric Boat.
New Hampshire has grinders too.
Nope, grew up eating french fries with vinegar here in Ohio. Local restaurants (not national chains) usually have a usually have a container of vinegar on the table, readily available if you want it on your fries instead of ketchup. And it is the only way to eat fries at the county fair. (Mustard on french fries? WTF? Who puts mustard on fries?)
We’re also home to NORAD.
When I can, I mix ketchup and mustard together for my fry dip.
Alaska is the second largest state[sup]1[/sup] in the world by area.
The largest is the State of Western Australia.
- In the U.S. sense of self-governing subdivision of a nation, called by the term “state”.
Not my state, but Florida is the only state to have it’s own tag on Fark.
My mother (born in TX, bought said cabinet in NC) has a lovely wooden cabinet she has always called a hoosier cabient. My mom’s is a little similar to the one in the link. It is antique, naturally colored wood, it has a panel that rolls down (like a roll top desk), it has two deep drawers on the bottom like the picture that my mom keeps onions and potatoes in. It also has an odd metal thing in the top part of the cabinet that IIRC my mom said was for flour.
Speaking of Texas, it is the state with the biggest pink granite monadnock.
Minnesota: 10,000 lakes. (Actually more like 12,000, and that’s not even counting the little ones.)
That probably gives Minnesota more shoreline than any other state.
Arkansas is the only one-word state that has another state in its name.
California:
The only state without a governor. We have a governator.
We have Hollywood.
We have the two most beautiful glacial valleys in the world: Yosemite, a National Park that looks like God’s answer to Chartres Cathedral, and Hetch Hetchy, which we flooded just to piss off John Muir.
We have the world’s most beautiful Art Deco Suspension bridge crossing the Golden Gate.
George Lucas continues to ruin the Star Wars franchise from none other than Skywalker Ranch in Marin County and the San Francisco Presido.
The worlds tallest trees are in Redwood National Park.
We have San Francisco. On the downside, we also have L.A.
We have a lot of big wind farms.
We grow the best wine in North America, comparable to the best French and Italian wines.
We have had Governor Moonbeam and will have him again.
The University of California is the best land grant university in the country. On the downside, we have USC.
Cannibalism is not a crime in California. I suppose we have the Donner Party to thank for that.
Necrophilia has only recently been made illegal in California, thanks to the Governator.
Celebrities other than Phil Spector can murder people in Los Angeles and get away with it.
The biggest Dick ever produced in the United States came from California and screwed the whole nation. (Nixon).
For many years we had the world’s only Disney theme park.
We also have our very own bed size, the California King.