When people are surprised you don't sound like the movie Fargo.

When you start wearing shorts once it gets up to 35F. SO WARM!

If you'll never take the last piece of anything, that would rude.

It's snowing but you go from car to store several times without donning your coat. (Or is that Californian living in Minnesota? )

Not sure, I do have a friend from California who generally refuses to wear coats. He's typically in a wife beater or muscle shirt in the snow. (Stereotypical, I know)

I refused to wear a coat until it actually snowed. It just didn't feel right.

Between the months of October and May, you drive nowhere without an extra coat, blanket, flashlight, food, jumper cables water,cat litter, flares, and a shovel in the back of your car.

Your family has to have a truck because of the boat. The boat didn't get wet last season.

Charitable pancakes are a staple in your diet (I have some tickets to sell BTW )

Your consumption of butter and brown sugar can be measured in pounds after Thanksgiving until the new year.

A Catholic and a Lutheran marrying constitutes a cross-religion marriage.

You have a Halloween blizzard of 1991 story if you were born before 1986.

As a kid you or someone you know were threatened with being sent sent to Red Wing.

You refer to certain schools as "cake eaters" during state tournaments.

You can name at least 3 Olympians and at least 2 companies their families are associted with all from a town of less than 3,000 people closer to Canada than any other American city.

Garrison Keillor hits a little close to home and you wonder who in your circle has been talking.

You've actually been to a casino that doesn't serve alcohol.

You think Canadians make a bit more sense than Southerners.

Watch how you throw around that "cake eater" word now! You've got an EPHS graduate and current Edina resident as a mod! :laugh:

:laugh: I don't give a damn about high school sports, never did. I do think the rivalries are amusing though. I do not doubt that cake eater schools spend way too much on athletics. EPHS was laying off art teachers while the football team stayed strong.

I was never a rich kid either, so I have as much disdain for cake eaters as the next person.

You do anything not to have to use the I35/Highway 62 interchange

If you're talking about 35W and 62, the construction is finally done, but it's still stupid! 62 still goes down to one lane...wtf!

Going up North is really going outside of the Cities
You call the Twin Cities and surrounding area the Cities

You also expect everyone to know what you're talking about when you say "the Cities" even if they're from out of state and giving you funny looks.

hahah try living outside of MN and you still say "going to the Cities"

*You have relatives that LIVE for the lutefisk dinner at the local Lutheran church.

Lutefisk feels like wet diapers in my mouth. Never again. :sick:

You know you're from Minnesota when...

You eat hotdish several times per week for lunch or dinner (or supper!). You bring hotdish to potlucks. You bring hotdish to funerals. You consider hotdish a vegetable.

When you're exasperated you say "uffda".

You think ice fishing is fun.

Your fondest childish memories involve "going to the lake."

You assume everyone is nice and honest. If you're not nice & honest, you must be from some place else.

-You describe distance in time instead of miles-