100% agree with everything about Winstar and Thackerville (and Gainseville, TX where my female taxi driver seemed to have a very well informed opinion as to which local motels had the softest beds), but I will die to defend the honor of chicken fried steak.
Thereās good beer on the West Coast for sure, but I think the best Midwest breweries can stand toe-to-toe with them.
Yeah, that was a doozy. Thereās been quite a bit of entertainment on 2+2 lately. Right-wingers now saying fascism is bad, except apparently fascism is what left-wingers do. Oh, and redbuck thinks Hitler brought socialism to Germany. Fun times!
I think of Oklahoma as more of a Great Plains state, with Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Montana.
Maybe a way of dividing up the country is whether a major school in that state would feel like a more natural fit for the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, or PAC-12. (Add in the Mountain West as a sixth region, the territory associated with the old Big East to carve out a seventh northeastern region.) Oklahoma is definitely Big 12 country.
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Youāll basically only find lutefisk at churches in rural areas with a lot of scandinavians. Minneapolis and St Paul have tons of great restaurants offering all kinds of food but I wouldnāt say were know for a specific style of food
And Cuse not knowing what chicken fried steak is??? Stuff is awesome
You two are fucking with me, right? It was awful!
Thatās more or less what I figured. That should be expected of any respectable major metro area. This discussion started about āfood cultureā, though, so I donāt think those count for the purposes of this discussion.
And now that heās turning into a vegetarian, he may never truly know.
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Nah, you just had a bad one. It would be like someone serving you an extremely well done steak with no sear and you deciding that steak sucked because of that experience.
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Beer aside, the only real āauthenticā food culture the Ohio has is German and Central European fare thatās okay but generally hard to find.
Iām with Cuse here and I eat haggisā¦ 
I donāt agree with absolutely everything, but this is the best of the āUS regionā maps Iāve seen.
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But whatās the best US region map where no state is divided between regions?
That seems pretty good. Iād probably put Vegas in the Southwest in that one. But if the goal is to get it down to like 5-6 regions, this one is going to have to really adjust.
Knocking it down to 6 would be tough and (imo) inaccurate.
Could cut it down a bit by merging a few (PNW/Norcal, Mountain/Basin/Inland NW, New England/Mid Atlantic/NE highlands, Appalachia/ORV, The South/Ozarks/Gulf). But thatās about as far as Iāll go, gets us down to like 11.
Hmm I meant good other culture food tbh 
Per capita stats are maybe not the most important thing here. Vermont has like 80 or 90 craft breweries, but Colorado has like 700. They rank 1st in economic impact and 3rd in total production (behind CA and PA) and CO is not a large state. CO seems like craft brew winner imo.
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Let us have something, geez.
Also āCO is not a large stateā is strange to hear for someone from a state such as mine. They have 7 (soon to be 8) electoral votes.
Youāve got Bernie and Ben and Jerry.
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Ben and Jerry sold their stake 20 years ago and just collect paychecks now. The current parent company is Unilever, mostly known for soap.
Ben, Jerry and Bernie also arenāt native Vermonters, and that still matters way more than you might expect in much of the state.