Minnesota colloquialisms

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(thing) by mneek (5.6 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Dec 08 2000 at 3:33:15

Don't forget "hot dish," which is a blanket term for any combination of gooey and non-gooey ingredients thrown together in a casserole dish and baked for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Popular ingredients include chow mein noodles, hamburger, cream of mushroom soup, taco sauce, canned tuna, potato chips, pats of margarine, tomatoes, American cheese. Not necessarily all at once.

You bring hot dish (note: no article) to the potluck.

(idea) by qousqous (2 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Feb 02 2001 at 6:44:30

I have a couple more oddities (at least to the rest of the country) to add:

Oh, fer cute! == "How cute!"
Oh, Fer shame! == "What a shame!"

I have actually heard real, live Minnesotans uttering these phrases.

Alas, Minnesotans have only one word for snow.

(thing) by Hypatia (10.6 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Mon May 06 2002 at 21:19:49

Also, the geographical colloquialisms "Up North" (for anything farther up than Mpls/St. Paul and "The Cities" for Minneapolis and St. Paul.

"We went Up North on vacation, but we came back through the Cities to go shopping."

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Minnesotan accent	The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota	Five degrees below zero Fahrenheit	The Everything People Registry : United States : Minnesota
Minnesota	University of Minnesota east bank	Twin Cities	University of Minnesota
DA STMT OF RNDY CRTR (The Statement of Randy Carter)	University of Minnesota west bank	Geez	Cream of Mushroom soup
Cloquet, Minnesota	aboot	hot dish	uff da
Minnesota Timberwolves	Monster truck show	Russet potato	Boston
ish	food is a drug	colloquialism	How to Talk Minnesotan

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