Texas has a state snack: chips and salsa.
Is that more or less weird?
For California again:
Official Fabric: Denim
Official Folk Dance: Square Dance
Official Gold Rush Town: Bodie
Does any state have an official offal?
Here’s another surprise: It’s the Boykin Spaniel.
The Plott Hound is NORTH Carolina’s State Dog.
N.C.'s State (most favorite, anyway) Dance: Shagging!
We have a
state mammal (small) - armadillo
state mammal (large) - Texas longhorn
and a
state mammal (flying) - Mexican free-tailed bat
Pennsylvania should have has scrapple as it’s State Food. Instead, it’s milk(Drink) and cookies(Food).
It’s because of the Miracle of the gulls.
As a soon-to-become Oregonian, I was delighted to learn that Oregon’s State Micro-organism is brewer’s yeast.
Clearly it’s time for one or more states to name an Official official. California’s, for example, could be the side judge.
South Dakota’s state dessert is kuchen and the state bread is frybread.
I’m surprised our state meat dish isn’t chislic.
And we have a state insect, the Pennsylvania firefly (Photuris pennsylvanica).
Hmm, Washington State takes out the folk and has the Square Dance as the full-on Official State Dance.
On the other hand, we do have an Official Folk Song: “Roll On Columbia, Roll On”, by Woodie Guthrie.
They taste like wet cardboard.
Mass. has a State Bean. You guessed it, the baked bean.
The students at the University of Wisconsin got all excited about campaigning for Antigo Silt Loam. And finally the crowds with handmade signs actually affected public policy. It’s now Wisconsin’s state soil (by a landslide!)…
Well, I like steak and beef and fish and chips and sausage so I see nothing wrong with British cuisine. Except the freakin European love for seltzer water…had a nasty surprise when there was carbonated water coming from a tap :eek::mad:
They’re a lot less crunchy and a lot more legume-y (because that’s what they really are). Think peanut-flavored edamame. My wife went to grad school in Georgia and she likes them.
Glad you feel that way, it leaves more for me. Boiled peanuts are one of those things I’ll eat until I’m sick of, then not have for 6 months or so. Lather. Repeat.
They are, most assuredly, a love 'em or hate 'em thing.
It is weird. But being a subspecies (or maybe just a population) , it’s hard to say whether it is extinct or there just arent any more in the state.
There’s a list of New South Wales state things at https://www.nsw.gov.au/about-new-south-wales/state-emblems/ . Of those, the two that are oddest (and that I hadn’t heard of) are the state fish (blue groper) and the state fossil (Mandageria fairfaxi).
Good Lord,it is true.
Texas also lists the “cast iron Dutch oven” as the official state cooking vessel, although, disappointingly, not as the official state bedroom prank.
Texas has an official gemstone cut: the “Lonestar cut.”
The official state molecule is Buckminsterfullerene, or the “Buckyball”.
The official state cobbler is peach.