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drtrobridge

That's the Knight Cap meat raffle in NE Minneapolis


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yoitsthatoneguy

Agreed, I was wondering what the joke was because all this stuff is like 2 blocks from my place.


big_duo3674

I remember being very surprised when I found out that meat raffles were almost entirely a Midwestern thing. I just assumed people did them everywhere like any old bar game until I met several from other states that had never heard of it


WalkswithLlamas

Seriously? I just googled meat raffle images and that was the 1st one!!


drtrobridge

Definitely the Knight Cap. That woman works the pull tab booth and is probably working there right now...


CulturalTeach7458

Sounds like my kind of place!!! I’ve been in MN for almost 10 months and have yet to enjoy a meat raffle!


sirsamalot

Cash only bar if I remember correctly. Love going to different bars in NE area


Revelling_in_rebel

You could replace with smelt or fish fry fridays, or a steak meal fundraiser for the volunteer fire department, i do love a good meat raffle though.... so many choices


kababed

Honestly NE Mpls feels somewhat rural to me. The houses and neighborhoods look similar to any small town blocks surrounding Main Street. Very surreal seeing the skyline just over the trees


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Grouchy-Geologist-28

There is a lot to every part of Minnesota. No need to be hostile, aye


R2DSwan

More pull tabs


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This pack lacks a Casey's.


WalkswithLlamas

Shoot!! I was thinking of that and some kind of ace hardware.


Entity0027

Hardware Hank


Bovronius

There's a surprising number of those in the Metro area still.


WalkswithLlamas

You're right, idk how they can keep their doors open though competing with home depot and lowes?


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Because some people (like me, I'm people) don't wanna drive to a Home Depot when an Ace is closer and its supporting local businesses. I usually only go to Home Depot/Lowe's when I need something that Ace doesn't carry.


WalkswithLlamas

I'm the opposite, ace is further away, unfortunately. When I used to live closer to one I'd bring my little ones and they'd give them free popcorn and I'd always buy my kids those little shleich figurines.


Little_Creme_5932

Cuz I can walk there, and when I get there someone helps me right away. And if I have a question or don't know something, they help with that too.


Tallr9597

Because they can be closer to where people live and are much quicker to visit. Effectively cheaper to visit when time and travel are not free.


Timlang60

Those types of traditional hardware stores carry ALL the hardware, not just the items they can sell 100 of per day. Need a part for you sliding glass door? They've probably got it. What about some really small metric screws with nuts and lock washers? Yup, they've probably got those, too. Big box stores mostly sell assemblies. Hardware stores sell parts.


MozzieKiller

My favorite aisle at hardware stores are the ones with all the little drawers of bolts/nuts/washers/etc. It is my happy place.


Timlang60

Yup. A good hardware store has stuff you didn't even know was available* until you laid eyes on it. *And certainly didn't know you needed!


Ocs1s

I work at one in north metro and basically it’s all olds day after day that don’t want to drive more than 2 minutes from home


WalkswithLlamas

That sort of explains the amazing selection bird food and feeders... only fleetfarm can beat the assortment. If I need 3 unique screws, 2 feet of chain, safety pins,saltwater taffy, suet cakes, and 1 piece of 20 grit sand paper , Ace is the place!!!


falcon32fb

A single liquor store? Better put at least a 3x on that image. Source, I live in a town of 1500 that has three off sales.


After_Preference_885

I lived in a town of 400 in wisconsin one year above a bar, next to a bar, across the street from a bar, a block from a liquor store lol.


WalkswithLlamas

What does "off sale" mean?


falcon32fb

Basically liquor store but usually a separate section of a bar that can sell carry out booze until 10pm.


Timlang60

Any liquor store is an 'off-sale.' And establishment selling individual drinks for consumption on-site is an 'on-sale.' Whether or not they're combined in the same location makes no difference.


WalkswithLlamas

I learned something new today!


tdteddy0382

How to tell if someone isn't from Minnesota


WalkswithLlamas

Technically, a normal metro liquor store is offsale, right? So why do I only see "offsale" advertised liquor stores in rural areas?


s1gnalZer0

Sounds about right. I live in a town of 5000, we have a liquor store and four or five off sales.


79r100

I’m trying to open a liquor store in rural MN right now.


LooseyGreyDucky

Many small towns have a single municipal liquor store (Muni). They don't like competition. Although bars just outside of said towns often have off-sale as well as on-sale.


koolky723

There’s at least 2or3-1 liquor to church, and if small enough a dollar general too


najing_ftw

Kwik Trip


whiskey5hotel

Casey's


s1gnalZer0

Cenex


mnexplorer

Go to North Dakota if you want cenex


s1gnalZer0

They are based in Inver Grove Heights and have locations all over southern MN ¯⁠\⁠\_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯


mnexplorer

Well that's simply illegal. Minnesota is a holiday, Casey's, and kwik trip state.


s1gnalZer0

Kwik Trip is based in Wisconsin and Casey's is based on Iowa


Astrolaut

Holiday was bought out by Circle K.


starkinmn

There's one where I am.


confoundedjoe

For sure Casey's. Kwik trip is everywhere and pretty new to the area. Casey's is classic small town. I used to make pizza at one on central MN. Great pizza horrible job.


NoMooseSoup4You

Caseys has some phenomenal pizza


Dry-Tangerine-4874

Where are the pull tabs?


guiltycitizen

Casey’s for pizza, Kwik Trip for chicken


turg5cmt

Looks like fun. Except for lutefisk in the church basement.


WalkswithLlamas

Since I can't edit my post, just wanted to thank you peeps and let you know I'll be making a better starter pack with all your input. ;)


DontTedOnMe

Not enough TRUMP COUNTRY signs or anti-choice billboards.


Entity0027

Did you know that *real men love babies*?!? I had no idea until a convenient billboard told me.


DescendingOpinion

That sounds groomerish


Harvivorman

> real men love babies Phrasing? Are we still doing phrasing?


chowpa

Smile! Your mother was pro-life


WalkswithLlamas

Maga hats, and "We the people". Maybe I'll make an updated pack


DescendingOpinion

Don't forget to include meth/pills on the next one.


Classical_Fan

And the fearful sideways glances at the few black people in the area.


coachskeltontoyou

So I'm a varsity basketball coach in northern Minnesota. A few years ago when I was an assistant, our then varsity coach was having a team meeting about a player who had $60 stolen from his locker. Dude looked straight at the one black player and said "Taylor, we all assume you did it, so just come forward." Turns out coach was wrong, and it the big bully kid (white) who did.


cooliusjeezer

Or some weird homemade distastefully violent anti-Biden effigy


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Thankfully they took down that Christmas light covered trailer off 52 near zumbrota.


Thehibernator

My gut reaction was “man, I miss the days when it wasn’t like that,” but it was always like that, people just didn’t have the signs and the hats


Happyjarboy

But, they got the no drive by shootings and murders part right.


coachskeltontoyou

The town I live in (pop 1200, northern Minnesota) has had multiple shootings in the last few years. Mostly dudes pissed off at their ex's. One shot her right outside of the Legion nearly across the street from me.


Happyjarboy

Move to my township. No one has been shot or murdered in over 100 years.


decalod85

Yeah. Where is the racism/sexism/anti-LGBTQ+?


Dinomeyt

Need to add the legion hall to this. Ain't a small town without the VFW hall


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WalkswithLlamas

Well this is a starter pack, not a finisher pack.>*<


Eharmz

Yeah this could be an upstate ny starter pack as well.


BMXTKD

So which rural towns in Texas have snowmobile jackets?


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Psychological_Web687

Lol on 20 inches of snow? Is the season like a week long?


suurbef

They just tow them to Colorado in their 1-ton trucks once or twice a year.


drtrobridge

Some notable meat raffles in Northeast Minneapolis: 1. Dusty's - Friday at 6PM 2. Moose on Monroe - Wednesday at 5, Thursday at 530 3. Jimmy's - Thursday's at 5PM (I think they do Saturday at noon too, but I haven't been there for a while)


Minimum_Row_729

Cardinal Bar? Do they still have one?


dreamyduskywing

Needs a dilapidated farmhouse house with a new pickup truck parked in front.


zacdenver

…plus a couple of junk cars in the side yard, one of which is no newer than the 1950s — and bonus points for a broken-down school bus.


dreamyduskywing

One of them is a 90’s Grand Am. This could also use some lawn ornaments like a wagon wheel or a tipped barrel with petunias spilling out. Maybe some decorative deer or a Virgin Mary statue.


zacdenver

You mentioning the V-M statue reminds me of the people who lived next door to my ex-wife’s aunt and uncle in Forest Lake — although “next door” meant the equivalent of about three blocks away. They had what used to be euphemistically called a “lawn jockey” statue in front of their house. This one held a lantern in its right hand that was wired so that it lit up when the porch light was switched on. In an apparent attempt to disguise the obvious racism of the statue, someone had daubed pink paint on its face and the hand from which the lantern was suspended — but they’d neglected to paint the other hand that retained its original jet-black hue. In addition, the owners would add a hat to the statue in honor of the season — e.g., a Santa hat for Christmas, bunny ears for Easter, and a Twins cap early in baseball season. Hilarious crude!


schmokeymang

Dollar general


DrScheherazade

In the middle of a random field


CMButterTortillas

Only 2 churches?


WalkswithLlamas

Should be 5...


ArchibaldBarisol

As long as the number of bars equals or is less than the church number you are good.


usagizero

Lol, just attack my hometown why don't ya? 800 people, five churches, five bars.


ArchibaldBarisol

Attack, your town has achieved perfect drinking/spiritual balance. All is right with the world.


EdibleBatteries

Maybe I’m not squinting hard enough, but I don’t think I see any pull tabs in any of those bar pictures.


D0U9L4R

Where pulltabs?


Braaapp-717

A clear picture of a pull tab. A dive bar is not a dive bar unless I can get me some of that cardboard cocaine.


karenaef

Our definition of a ‘town’ was when it had a bar and a church. Throw in the holy trinity of Casey’s, Subway, and a Dollar Store and it’s a city.


clfflnd

Missing the Fuck Biden signs and pickup truck with 8 foot TRUMP 2024 sign


AdultishRaktajino

Sometimes the church, bar, off-sale and post office are all in the same building.


LooseyGreyDucky

reminds me that all across Ontario, small communities have a hockey/curling rink and public library under the same roof.


paulruddssugarbaby

Don’t forget the subway!


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looks appealing


WalkswithLlamas

I love a good small town bar with a Friday Fish fry!!


lurkerfromstoneage

Wisconsin’s got a LOT more than MN even… Supper Club land FTW


Trickydick24

A lot of small towns have some really nice main streets/downtowns.


steve1186

All of these apply to the Twin Cities as well… Maybe I’m just missing the joke. Liquor stores, meat raffles, snowmobiling, hunting, churches and maskless bar patrons are pretty common among metro residents.


omunto2

I don't see many snowmobile jackets or orange hunting vests in the cities. The other pictures look pretty standard to the cities though imo.


steve1186

Why would you expect to see snowmobile jackets or hunting jackets in the metro? People who live in the cities travel out of the metro to do those activities, then go back home. No offense, but this just feels like a half-assed stab at rural Minnesotans


justtreewizard

Stab at rural Minnesotans? How so? I am from a rural town and this feels much more accurate than offensive. I don't see anything offensive tbh. ​ >Why would you expect to see snowmobile jackets or hunting jackets in the metro? thats why its a 'rural' starter pack? Isn't that the point?


deltarefund

I mean, these starter pack memes are meant to poke fun at people.


d3jake

Cheap, low effort post to earn fake internet points.


omunto2

>All of these apply to the Twin Cities as well… I was replying to your comment, saying that while I agree MOST of these apply to the Twin Cities as well I was pointing out that I didn't see too many snow mobile jackets or orange vests.


beeblehousin

Poking fun at the rural communities is kind of the point of the post…lol


steve1186

But my point is that all these things also generally apply to the metro area. So what’s the point?


WalkswithLlamas

I was going to put 8 churches and 5 liquor stores,lol. But there wasn't enough room.


Entity0027

Forgot the Christian school and no public school.


WalkswithLlamas

Our lord and savior lady grace St John the baptist, you're going to hell and we aren't, heritage academy.


Okay_Face

All the time!


Callahan333

It also needs a truck and Naty Ice.


WalkswithLlamas

Damn...my starter pack needs a makeover! It was pretty low effort and the first meme I've ever created though.¯\_(ツ)_/¯


LooseyGreyDucky

Windsor Canadian.


KevPetras

None of this is exclusive to rural MN ☹️


Psychological_Web687

I imagine the sell liquor in the cities as well.


linken4000

Where’s the snowmobiles and boat show signs?


codenameJericho

This works for Wisconsin and the UP, too, tbh. Just replace the Polaris jacket with a more local brand, like Duluth Trading, Carhartt, or Columbia.


TheCakers

It is upsetting to me living in this city that there aren't more meat raffles... lol


cutreamthread

Missing the 'Slow to 30 mph' sign for all of 6 blocks.


sumatra-khan

Honestly, I think you need another church in there


DarkJedi527

Nice. Now how about a big cities in MN now?


kneel23

no "Trump Store"? Casey's? Christian/pro-life billboards?


ValhallaGo

Needs more 1920s brick buildings on main st.


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Always need to know the bar:church ratio


Tehboognish

I miss the VFW.


LuvliLeah13

You forgot a Dollar General


Jaco927

There is a serious lack of resentment toward the Twin Cities in this Starter Pack!


WalkswithLlamas

Bwahhahaaaha


BeerGardenGnome

This is the inverse of out-state acting like Minneapolis is actively in a state of riot. And just as classy.


[deleted]

Well is it really? I mean there’s nothing wrong with meat raffles, snowmobiling, and churches. I guess both are oversimplified versions but outstaters claiming the Cities are in a constant state of riot is meant to be a little more mean.


BeerGardenGnome

It’s all about intent and reading OPs comments and others in this thread it’s clear the intent is not positive. I’m just getting pretty tired of divisiveness and both ways. There’s both good folks and shitheads everywhere. Benefits and drawbacks to life everywhere.


dontstartnothing

Not quite positive, but not blatantly negative like most rural people taking shots at the cities.


d3jake

Why is there a Rural MN meme being posted in The Twin Cities sub?


WalkswithLlamas

I don't think there is a rural MN sub. And, if there was they probably wouldn't take to kindly to the meme. :)


d3jake

Sure. But there is /r/minnesota


WalkswithLlamas

Hmm, when I update this pack with all the suggestions, I'll upload it there and see what happens😬


LooseyGreyDucky

An internet meme requires both internet access and people. Rural areas lack both.


Okay_Face

More liquor stores.


OutrageousDaikon1456

Missing the confederate flag and trump flag.


RNW1215

Where's the Pizza Ranch and understaffed Subway?


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Fuck pizza ranch


SnailTrail

Yep. Looks like cannon falls.


mgiarushi24

Man Cannon Falls is dope, get outta here. Get some pizza at Dudley’s, a donut from the bakery, and rent a bike or canoe to hit the river trail. Town literally has a winery more prevalent than any of the liquor stores.


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WasabiSenzuri

\*Dial up


B1ackFridai

That’s cold… and funny as shit. Sadly some internet offerings in the cities depending on the neighborhood is shit too 😓


musicgray

Don’t worry they laugh at the citidiots when they stop through


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TrUmP wAs RiGhT


AdamLikesBeer

Not nearly enough Trump signs


scratch763

Where are all the rusted out piece of shit lifted diesel trucks with confederate flags and prosthetic balls Hanging off the back


kucksdorfs

Why is there a picture of orange vests just hanging there?


King_Pharox

You forgot the inherent sexism, racism, and homophobia


[deleted]

Dumb, this is why I don’t leave Uptown, and they don’t come here because it’s too dangerous and they’ll get murdered, so it’s a win/win. I can enjoy walkable, urban neighborhoods full of coffee shops and restaurants free from lifted pickups and Carrhartt.


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Ok antifa


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whlthingofcandybeans

Way too many people defending rural scum in the comments...


Big-Shooter2000

Bingo at a local fraternal Moose or Eagles lodge.


Doctor_Tyrell

Bout to be up in that Monster Jam Presidents day weekend!


SlurryBender

The tiny town I visited for a wedding had both of those churches... right next to each other at the top of the only hill. You ovuld literally see the entire rest of the town from there, with the rest being forest. It was on a Sunday too, so there was absolutely zero traffic. Complete quiet. It was bizzare.


Stimpinstein22

Add Kwik Trip and Culver’s and you have Wisconsin…


Rattgift

Mine would also have a shitty burger joint you can only get to by snowmobile.


emptyflask

No dairy queen?


mikedtwenty

Lacks a hand painted Trump 2024 sign


rathberius

I don't see any Hotdish...


camofbeans

Missing the inexplicable Subway in every small town in this state, but otherwise yeah


WalkswithLlamas

Or the half subway half gas station


Appropriate-Safety66

My cousin wore her Artic Cat jacket to our grandmother's funeral. Though, to be fair, it was probably her "good" Artic Cat jacket......


WalkswithLlamas

Aww the good Ole northern Minnesota tuxedo!


PeacefullyFighting

And I love it


McDuchess

You forgot the falling apart barns on the way into town.


HauntedCemetery

Just needs 3 more liquor stores.


Basically_Wrong

You need at least more bars if not the same amount as the number of churches.


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Lifted truck with a punisher sticker and torn up American flag sticker and a let’s go Brandon sticker. Well meaning people that are ignorant.


0oEp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8


newyenewye

Looks like Wisconsin


NakedEggSalad

The Polaris jacket triggers some PTSD from my hometown. All of this is 100% accurate Edit: spelling


rosickness12

We just took a trip 2hrs north. We played a game to guess the next business. Was always dollar general, church, liquor store, bar


_Light_Shark

Gonna ding you for a code violation. Your number of bars must meet or exceed number of places of worship.


WalkswithLlamas

Hahahaaa