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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of Tell You What Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let me ask you what is when you think of
Minnesota food talk back on the iHeartRadio app drop this
on there. What is the signature dish in Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Okay? Is it tater todd hot dish?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I was about to say for me, it's tater tot
hot dish, which I just tried for the first time,
like a week ago. What you haven't tried it at all?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It is?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So then is it the signature dish?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You just had it for the first time, and your
thirty years of existence you've never had it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I have it very infrequently.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, but my family has never adhered to normal traditional things.
They just keep their kids alive off pizza and spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Can they adopt me?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Sounds amazing. It's just had aig.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean we had a big family and those are.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The family when you it was just you and your
parents and they were doing that.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But it was just you two.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, it was three us three. Yeah, for like a
year and a half, two years.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well they picked them out that quick?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
What ye oh kick the kids?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Like had the kids?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Thought you mean like kick the kids out, like kick
the toddlers out. The door.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Are you saying there was even like when you were one,
they started you on pizza, like right then and there,
just to prepare for the next four.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Probably there you go. I don't know. I mean there
are five of us eventually.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Anybody dispute Tato Todd hot dish? Is it a juicy lucy?
What is the signature dish in Minnesota? There's a lot
of people that will go back and go real old
school with this and say ludafisk because name another state
that would do that. Yeah, and there are ludafisk I
don't think they're fish fries like fish boils in some
Norwegian churches still to this day.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, but even that I see as being more of
a Norway thing that that Norwegians and Minnesota have.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It could be a signature dish though still maybe.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
But to me calling something hot dish is so specific
to Minnesota parts of Wisconsin kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
This wiscon there is a line it's mostly casserole.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
See see where else do you consistently call it hot
dish other than Minnesota? Yeah, so I think anything North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
South Dakota. Maybe, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Nobody cares what the Dakota's.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Wow, I just lost to anybody.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And then and then I'm watching them fly off the
iHeart app right now there goes even there.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Oh South Dakota, they're women, They're gone.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I love all thirteen people that live in the Dakota's nice.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Actually that's a compliment. It is to the Dakotas.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It is because I love one of them.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh do you yes? We kept serial killers out of
the Dakota's real? Quick?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Are there a lot of serial killers out of them?
There will be now because they have nothing else to do.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Who can they kill? There's thirteen people. Maybe they just
need a lot of cereal?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
What cereal? They're serial killers? You know? The more I'm
killing the.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Cereal, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
What is the signal trad dish in Minnesota? So you
get the juicy lucy yep? I mean like you go
to you go to Philly, it's the Philly cheese steak.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah right, there's no like that's.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Really I don't even That's not Pennsylvania. That's Philadelphia. That's
not the entire state.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
How has nobody come up with like a Minnesota melt
or some kind of Minnesota or something some kind of Minnesota.
We did the Juicy Lucy No, but I'm saying, you
have the Philly cheese steak.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What do you say like that?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And then you have like, what is it like Chicago
Deep Dish or something.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Why doesn't the Chicago hot dog?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Nobody says Minnesota hot dish. Nobody says Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh that they only do here? Yeah, you're what they don't?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Though, I don't think a lot of people from around
the country really have heard of Minnesota Hot dish so much?
I know, but we do. Yeah, but is it? What
do they think? Like if you're from New Jersey, You're like, oh,
I can't wait to get some because in Wisconsin is sausages, brats,
and cheese. I mean they have They're really known for.
You know, I want to travel those brats. Yeah, we're
(04:00):
not We're not brought land here. We're not cheese Land here.
Are we hot dish Land? But do people make it
a destination?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I don't know. I don't know to.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Come for the food? Is it is a Walleye? Should
Walleye be the signature dish?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Walleye is a good idea?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What about pickle roll?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I haven't had those since until I moved here, and
that's at every Minnesota gathering a disgrace. I've never been
a pickle roll up person, but it is like a
Minnesota thing. Yeah, totally. And I've never totally understood why.
I don't know, I don't understand it. I'm I think
it's cool that everybody loves them so much, But why
did pickle things become so Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh, in the ham or in the whatever. Yeah, but
then the little bloney pickle thing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, any get together has them. Yeah, you can find them.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, and is that really well they want to put
the Minnesota mantle on.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, they do that in Scani too. I think that's
kind of an Upper Midwest thing. What signature Minnesota? Because
now the hot dish thing is just a different name
in Wisconsin. It's a cast role, but it's essentially the
same Tato Todd Castle roll, Tato Todd High.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
They call it Tater tot cast role.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, they have, Yeah, absolutely all for goodness, shakes, don't
forget gulash.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You've got some gulash once in Ohio? In Ohio? Is
that a big deal in Ohio? Good?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
How about this one.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Don't forget about the Minnesota sushi, which is the pickle.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, that's where we're just talking.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think something with wild rice because that's kind of
specific area.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Besides tater tot hottish. The only ones I can think
of for Minnesota dishes would be wild rice soup or
chicken and wild rice soup, or the good old fashioned
roast beef dinner mashed potatoes and gravy carrots. That was
a staple at my house.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, how we're talking through it? Good? Good, good?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
What about honey crisp apples. It's kind of a snack.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
They're invuned here.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You have, but they're invented here and they are so popular.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I'd have to say Minnesota's main dish or signature dish
would be.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Wild rice soup.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Has to be thick, though.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Dude, is that just the best? You put a fork
in it, you can eat it with a fork.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I just had some wild rice soup at a little
restaurant in Oskis yesterday and it was the thickest, nicest, creamiest,
best wild rice soup ever. I don't even remember what
the place was called, but it was so good.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So is that the signature dish?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Do you think how you guys were missing out on
possibly the most Minnesota signature dish spam?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That's true, I know people that's a delicacy man.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, isn't it made in Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah? I think they made that for the for one
of the wars back in the day, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
It was easy to eat, So yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, like Scannie when you think about it, Scannie has
all these things, the old fashions. Yeah, we'll get drinks,
the old fashions and whiskey, old fashions. There's son brandy,
old fashion sweet whiskey, old fashion sweet see.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And there's so many things in Minnesota that people are like, oh,
this is so Minnesota. Like Swedish meatballs, like, no, that's
Swedish or Norwegian the yeah no, Like the ludifisk, I'm like, no,
that's Norwegian. We can't, but it's.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's where it all comes from. Though it's got to
come from overseas, but we can still make it a
signature dish.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
There's a lot of Norskis here.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
There's a lot of I just until it's from Minnesota.
Like things like the juicy Lucy Spam, even Honey Crisp,
Okay Wow, or the Tater tot hot dishes more Minnesota, I.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Don't think Wisconsin. Oh there's another one, beer Wisconsin. Do
they all go to Wisconsin for beer?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah? That's spotty cow man.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Why does Wisconsin get all the cool signature dishes?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
They're also the drunkest state in the country and they
have more drunk counties in Wisconsin than the entire country.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Is that amazing?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Love that, Like the top fifty drunkest counties, forty seven
of them were in Wisconsin. And there's like one done
by Dallas or something. Gotta be known for something. Hey,
thanks for listening to this episode.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Up tell you what and.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You'll find more on the iHeartRadio app anywhere you get
your podcast. Really, please rate, review, subscribe, download, share, and like.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Thank you.
Welcome to another episode of Tell You What Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let me ask you what is when you think of
Minnesota food talk back on the iHeartRadio app drop this
on there. What is the signature dish in Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Okay? Is it tater todd hot dish?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I was about to say for me, it's tater tot
hot dish, which I just tried for the first time,
like a week ago. What you haven't tried it at all?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It is?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So then is it the signature dish?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You just had it for the first time, and your
thirty years of existence you've never had it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I have it very infrequently.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, but my family has never adhered to normal traditional things.
They just keep their kids alive off pizza and spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Can they adopt me?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Sounds amazing. It's just had aig.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean we had a big family and those are.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The family when you it was just you and your
parents and they were doing that.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But it was just you two.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, it was three us three. Yeah, for like a
year and a half, two years.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well they picked them out that quick?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
What ye oh kick the kids?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Like had the kids?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Thought you mean like kick the kids out, like kick
the toddlers out. The door.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Are you saying there was even like when you were one,
they started you on pizza, like right then and there,
just to prepare for the next four.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Probably there you go. I don't know. I mean there
are five of us eventually.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Anybody dispute Tato Todd hot dish? Is it a juicy lucy?
What is the signature dish in Minnesota? There's a lot
of people that will go back and go real old
school with this and say ludafisk because name another state
that would do that. Yeah, and there are ludafisk I
don't think they're fish fries like fish boils in some
Norwegian churches still to this day.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, but even that I see as being more of
a Norway thing that that Norwegians and Minnesota have.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It could be a signature dish though still maybe.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
But to me calling something hot dish is so specific
to Minnesota parts of Wisconsin kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
This wiscon there is a line it's mostly casserole.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
See see where else do you consistently call it hot
dish other than Minnesota? Yeah, so I think anything North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
South Dakota. Maybe, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Nobody cares what the Dakota's.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Wow, I just lost to anybody.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And then and then I'm watching them fly off the
iHeart app right now there goes even there.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Oh South Dakota, they're women, They're gone.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I love all thirteen people that live in the Dakota's nice.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Actually that's a compliment. It is to the Dakotas.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It is because I love one of them.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh do you yes? We kept serial killers out of
the Dakota's real? Quick?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Are there a lot of serial killers out of them?
There will be now because they have nothing else to do.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Who can they kill? There's thirteen people. Maybe they just
need a lot of cereal?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
What cereal? They're serial killers? You know? The more I'm
killing the.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Cereal, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
What is the signal trad dish in Minnesota? So you
get the juicy lucy yep? I mean like you go
to you go to Philly, it's the Philly cheese steak.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yeah right, there's no like that's.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Really I don't even That's not Pennsylvania. That's Philadelphia. That's
not the entire state.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
How has nobody come up with like a Minnesota melt
or some kind of Minnesota or something some kind of Minnesota.
We did the Juicy Lucy No, but I'm saying, you
have the Philly cheese steak.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
What do you say like that?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And then you have like, what is it like Chicago
Deep Dish or something.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Why doesn't the Chicago hot dog?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Nobody says Minnesota hot dish. Nobody says Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh that they only do here? Yeah, you're what they don't?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Though, I don't think a lot of people from around
the country really have heard of Minnesota Hot dish so much?
I know, but we do. Yeah, but is it? What
do they think? Like if you're from New Jersey, You're like, oh,
I can't wait to get some because in Wisconsin is sausages, brats,
and cheese. I mean they have They're really known for.
You know, I want to travel those brats. Yeah, we're
(04:00):
not We're not brought land here. We're not cheese Land here.
Are we hot dish Land? But do people make it
a destination?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I don't know. I don't know to.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Come for the food? Is it is a Walleye? Should
Walleye be the signature dish?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Walleye is a good idea?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What about pickle roll?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I haven't had those since until I moved here, and
that's at every Minnesota gathering a disgrace. I've never been
a pickle roll up person, but it is like a
Minnesota thing. Yeah, totally. And I've never totally understood why.
I don't know, I don't understand it. I'm I think
it's cool that everybody loves them so much, But why
did pickle things become so Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Oh, in the ham or in the whatever. Yeah, but
then the little bloney pickle thing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, any get together has them. Yeah, you can find them.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, and is that really well they want to put
the Minnesota mantle on.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, they do that in Scani too. I think that's
kind of an Upper Midwest thing. What signature Minnesota? Because
now the hot dish thing is just a different name
in Wisconsin. It's a cast role, but it's essentially the
same Tato Todd Castle roll, Tato Todd High.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
They call it Tater tot cast role.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah, they have, Yeah, absolutely all for goodness, shakes, don't
forget gulash.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You've got some gulash once in Ohio? In Ohio? Is
that a big deal in Ohio? Good?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
How about this one.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Don't forget about the Minnesota sushi, which is the pickle.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, that's where we're just talking.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think something with wild rice because that's kind of
specific area.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Besides tater tot hottish. The only ones I can think
of for Minnesota dishes would be wild rice soup or
chicken and wild rice soup, or the good old fashioned
roast beef dinner mashed potatoes and gravy carrots. That was
a staple at my house.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, how we're talking through it? Good? Good, good?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
What about honey crisp apples. It's kind of a snack.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
They're invuned here.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
You have, but they're invented here and they are so popular.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I'd have to say Minnesota's main dish or signature dish
would be.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Wild rice soup.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Has to be thick, though.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Dude, is that just the best? You put a fork
in it, you can eat it with a fork.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I just had some wild rice soup at a little
restaurant in Oskis yesterday and it was the thickest, nicest, creamiest,
best wild rice soup ever. I don't even remember what
the place was called, but it was so good.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
So is that the signature dish?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Do you think how you guys were missing out on
possibly the most Minnesota signature dish spam?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
That's true, I know people that's a delicacy man.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, isn't it made in Minnesota?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah? I think they made that for the for one
of the wars back in the day, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
It was easy to eat, So yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, like Scannie when you think about it, Scannie has
all these things, the old fashions. Yeah, we'll get drinks,
the old fashions and whiskey, old fashions. There's son brandy,
old fashion sweet whiskey, old fashion sweet see.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And there's so many things in Minnesota that people are like, oh,
this is so Minnesota. Like Swedish meatballs, like, no, that's
Swedish or Norwegian the yeah no, Like the ludifisk, I'm like, no,
that's Norwegian. We can't, but it's.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's where it all comes from. Though it's got to
come from overseas, but we can still make it a
signature dish.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
There's a lot of Norskis here.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
There's a lot of I just until it's from Minnesota.
Like things like the juicy Lucy Spam, even Honey Crisp,
Okay Wow, or the Tater tot hot dishes more Minnesota, I.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Don't think Wisconsin. Oh there's another one, beer Wisconsin. Do
they all go to Wisconsin for beer?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah? That's spotty cow man.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Why does Wisconsin get all the cool signature dishes?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
They're also the drunkest state in the country and they
have more drunk counties in Wisconsin than the entire country.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Is that amazing?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Love that, Like the top fifty drunkest counties, forty seven
of them were in Wisconsin. And there's like one done
by Dallas or something. Gotta be known for something. Hey,
thanks for listening to this episode.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Up tell you what and.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You'll find more on the iHeartRadio app anywhere you get
your podcast. Really, please rate, review, subscribe, download, share, and like.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Thank you.
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