How To Tell if You’re from Minnesota

You are probably from Minnesota if:

  • You know it is traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the ceremony and the reception.
  • You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.
  • You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
  • You were delighted to get a miniature snow shovel for your 3rd birthday.
  • You can recognize someone from Iowa by their driving.
  • You buy Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.
  • You spent more on beer than you did on food at your wedding.
  • You hear someone use the word “oof-dah” and you do not immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.
  • You think fast food is hitting a deer at 65 mph.
  • You or someone you know was a “Dairy Princess” at a county fair.
  • You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.
  • You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
  • Football, Deer Hunting & Opening Fishing schedules are checked before wedding dates are set.
  • Saturday you go to the local bowling alley.
  • There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning.
  • You have driven your car on a lake.
  • You can make sense out of the word “upnort” and “battree”.
  • You always believed that vacation meant “going up North”.
  • At every wedding you have been to you have had to dance the hokey poky and the chicken dance.
  • Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
  • The local gas station sells live bait.
  • At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.
  • Your mom asks, “Were you born in a barn?” and you know exactly what she means.
  • You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.
  • Pop is not only what you call your dad, but is the ONLY name for soda.
  • You actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your Minnesota friends.
  • Yeseree–yer from Minnesota!

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