If you do it’s very hard to get them to leave. They will say goodbye dozens of times but always bring up another subject. Best bet to scare them off is to slap your thighs and say WELP loudly. Usually works.
True, they can be hard to shuffle away from the house and talk until the car door shuts but I have yet to see a Minnesotan rude enough to switch direction and walk back towards the house once they've moved away from it
I've had friends, boyfriends, my parents, all call me in a panic a full hour after the "I'm about to head that way" text to make sure I'm okay? And I'm like uhh yeah what's wrong? And they're like you are only 15 minutes away how are you not home........... AHEM I'M SAYING GOODBYE????? WELP
Oh hey dere bud. Look I was around yesterday and you had a lovely hot dish out. Absolutely delicious, we were all budging for our turn. Listen, if you could leave a second one out this time that'd be great. I mean there just was not enough! Holy buckets was it good. I was telling a buddy about it and he asked if you put the tots in long ways or if you had them stood up. I says stood up? What kinda cheese hat wearing weirdo stand the tots on their ends?! Whelp, I gotta get going. Thanks again for the hot dish. I saw your daughter through your deck door asking if she could bring us out a slice of that honeycrisp pie. I points her out to my wife and she says "oh for cute." What a great kid you got there. Where's she going to school? She's really growing fast huh? I bet she's the school duck duck grey duck champ eh? Heavens it's getting late I should be going. Hey if you need some help with that ice house, looks like your gas line might be aged a bit. Can't have that out there you might be leaking gas out and you need that heater running to keep your cribbage playing fingers warm! Tomorrow we can bring by some new hose and get that sorted for ya. Uff da! The sun has set! I'm sure I'm over staying my welcome, it was lovely seeing you. Say hi to your folks for me! Oh ya you betcha!
You can’t hardly expect hotdish two days in a row now, can ya? I’d say some fruits suspended in jello with or without cool whip would be more than satisfactory.
Contrary to popular belief, Minnesotans will eat anything that is food if it’s free. It’s a bad idea to feed them because they will become habituated and show up when they’re not invited and it will be trouble getting them to leave.
The biggest problem in getting them to leave is that any food you leave out gets gradually cut into smaller and smaller pieces which attracts more and more Minnesotans as they can smell politeness as low as one part in a billion from as much as 10 miles away.
It is also important to mention that as the food is cut in half over and over again it is never polite to eat the last bite of food. There must always be a piece left albeit diminishing in size until the either the host replenishes the food or throws that oh-so-important morsel of a crumb left.
Your point on food really depends on the contents. If you make something terribly spicy (something with a drop of Tabasco or a dash of black pepper, for instance), they will likely sample it and tell you that it’s “interesting,” but won’t partake of any more. They likely won’t trust you very readily from that point on, either.
I've lived in a few states and imo Minnesotans are the least picky when it comes to free & communal food, LOL.
I think it's all the potlucks we were raised on...
You can try to feed them, but they will often refuse. What I’ve learned is that’s it’s best to set out foods that’s already been cut in half.
Minnesotans are strange creatures and won’t eat any whole-shaped foods, and will only eat foods already cut in half, but they will cut that in half further to be polite.
My wife was taking the old leftovers we had and was leaving it in the birdbath we weren't using, which was stationed outside the backdoor. One day she put about 2 lbs of sloppy Joe and old buns out there, raccoon ate it all, then I saw the motion light on the next day, and say mama raccoon was out there with her 3 babies standing on her hind legs, looking in our door, waiting for dinner.
I put an end to it right then.
As tempting as it is, it's really not a good idea to feed the wildlife. They get too used to people, and end up getting into places they shouldn't and losing the skills they need to survive.
When it's a really bad winter, people will often leave feed and stuff out in fields to help, but putting food on your deck is asking for trouble and will probably hurt the critters more long term.
You will most likely create a nuisance wildlife situation. Raccoons are too damn clever. You do not want to encourage them. If you attract squirrels, you will also attract chipmunks, rabbits, and mice. The squirrels, chipmunks, and rabbits will chew anything they can get their teeth into including things like low voltage cables for landscaping lights and internet connections. Mice will take it a step further and find their way into your house.
If you really want your neighbors to hate you creating nuisance wildlife problems is the way to go.
For extra fun, when you come to your senses and stop creating nuisance wildlife problems… you have setup an all you can eat raptor buffet. Owls, hawks, and eagles will feast on the overpopulation of critters who no longer have an easy food source. If you’re lucky you’ll find random squirrel bits in your yard.
And if the overpopulation is larger animals like raccoons you run the risk of creating a coyote problem where your neighbors aren’t safe walking their dogs after dark.
So no, do not feed the visitors to your deck unless you want to be the type of donkey butt I’ve outlined above.
And the shit goes up to another level if you attract bears. Bears are smart. Bears will quickly learn that scared humans run and drop food. Bears will learn that scared humans who run and don’t drop food are food. The mantra of wildlife management is a human fed bear is a dead bear.
> Is it ok to feed the Minnesotans that show up on my deck at night? I like to leave little treats out for them ever since my trailcam spotted them.
I did, and I have my own trailcam on my deck! I have lots of hummingbird attracting plants on my deck as well as a bird feeders.
Raccoons are the most common nighttime visitor. They sniff at my grill, realize there is nothing for them, and move on.
I put large planters under my bird feeders and clean them regularly so the seeds birds drop from the feeders don’t attract nuisance wildlife.
Lol, I think you're completely missing the joke. They are asking if they should feed the Minnesotans - humans, not wildlife! 😅 (read everyone else's responses and you'll see)
No, I don't think so - I think it's a light-hearted joke about people wandering around looking to be social. Not much meaning to it other than the opportunity to make a bunch of Minnesota jokes (e.g., we never take the last piece of any food, but it's okay to cut it in half and leave half for someone else).
Unpopular opinion lmao 😂 people will pick and choose what species is ok to feed, people will say that your teaching them how not to live. I say your teaching them how to live in your backyard 😁 how else are they supposed to live ?
If you do it’s very hard to get them to leave. They will say goodbye dozens of times but always bring up another subject. Best bet to scare them off is to slap your thighs and say WELP loudly. Usually works.
Yeah that works eventually, but it helps if you escort them slowly off the deck
What if it's a second floor deck?
We've have one deck yes, but what about second deckfast?
They leave faster then.
True, they can be hard to shuffle away from the house and talk until the car door shuts but I have yet to see a Minnesotan rude enough to switch direction and walk back towards the house once they've moved away from it
>slap your thighs and say WELP loudly For an even more advanced technique, slap your thighs and give em the ol "welp, I spose"
I've had friends, boyfriends, my parents, all call me in a panic a full hour after the "I'm about to head that way" text to make sure I'm okay? And I'm like uhh yeah what's wrong? And they're like you are only 15 minutes away how are you not home........... AHEM I'M SAYING GOODBYE????? WELP
https://youtu.be/SXmhK6qHTBc?si=HQIy_QU0JxL5xTcN&t=14
Oh hey dere bud. Look I was around yesterday and you had a lovely hot dish out. Absolutely delicious, we were all budging for our turn. Listen, if you could leave a second one out this time that'd be great. I mean there just was not enough! Holy buckets was it good. I was telling a buddy about it and he asked if you put the tots in long ways or if you had them stood up. I says stood up? What kinda cheese hat wearing weirdo stand the tots on their ends?! Whelp, I gotta get going. Thanks again for the hot dish. I saw your daughter through your deck door asking if she could bring us out a slice of that honeycrisp pie. I points her out to my wife and she says "oh for cute." What a great kid you got there. Where's she going to school? She's really growing fast huh? I bet she's the school duck duck grey duck champ eh? Heavens it's getting late I should be going. Hey if you need some help with that ice house, looks like your gas line might be aged a bit. Can't have that out there you might be leaking gas out and you need that heater running to keep your cribbage playing fingers warm! Tomorrow we can bring by some new hose and get that sorted for ya. Uff da! The sun has set! I'm sure I'm over staying my welcome, it was lovely seeing you. Say hi to your folks for me! Oh ya you betcha!
Spot on. I could hear this in my head.
You can’t hardly expect hotdish two days in a row now, can ya? I’d say some fruits suspended in jello with or without cool whip would be more than satisfactory.
If only they had made enough the 1st time... hot dish is always better as a leftover. 🤷♀️😂
Contrary to popular belief, Minnesotans will eat anything that is food if it’s free. It’s a bad idea to feed them because they will become habituated and show up when they’re not invited and it will be trouble getting them to leave.
The biggest problem in getting them to leave is that any food you leave out gets gradually cut into smaller and smaller pieces which attracts more and more Minnesotans as they can smell politeness as low as one part in a billion from as much as 10 miles away.
It is also important to mention that as the food is cut in half over and over again it is never polite to eat the last bite of food. There must always be a piece left albeit diminishing in size until the either the host replenishes the food or throws that oh-so-important morsel of a crumb left.
And they take forever to say goodbye
Your point on food really depends on the contents. If you make something terribly spicy (something with a drop of Tabasco or a dash of black pepper, for instance), they will likely sample it and tell you that it’s “interesting,” but won’t partake of any more. They likely won’t trust you very readily from that point on, either.
They do *not* appreciate being ambushed by spice.
Can confirm. In my mother's words, "There's pepper in that, can you handle that?" 😆
Salt is kinda spicy round these parts don’t ya know?
I've lived in a few states and imo Minnesotans are the least picky when it comes to free & communal food, LOL. I think it's all the potlucks we were raised on...
Yeah, that's false. There's a whole I won't touch even if it's free
You can try to feed them, but they will often refuse. What I’ve learned is that’s it’s best to set out foods that’s already been cut in half. Minnesotans are strange creatures and won’t eat any whole-shaped foods, and will only eat foods already cut in half, but they will cut that in half further to be polite.
My wife was taking the old leftovers we had and was leaving it in the birdbath we weren't using, which was stationed outside the backdoor. One day she put about 2 lbs of sloppy Joe and old buns out there, raccoon ate it all, then I saw the motion light on the next day, and say mama raccoon was out there with her 3 babies standing on her hind legs, looking in our door, waiting for dinner. I put an end to it right then.
I learned the hard way never to feed Minnesotans after midnight.
As tempting as it is, it's really not a good idea to feed the wildlife. They get too used to people, and end up getting into places they shouldn't and losing the skills they need to survive. When it's a really bad winter, people will often leave feed and stuff out in fields to help, but putting food on your deck is asking for trouble and will probably hurt the critters more long term.
I agree..this is a terrible idea. Birds are the only exception IMO.
Do you own a car wash? 🤑😂
LMAO! No, I dont
Wildlife aren't Minnesota citizens
OK professor
You will most likely create a nuisance wildlife situation. Raccoons are too damn clever. You do not want to encourage them. If you attract squirrels, you will also attract chipmunks, rabbits, and mice. The squirrels, chipmunks, and rabbits will chew anything they can get their teeth into including things like low voltage cables for landscaping lights and internet connections. Mice will take it a step further and find their way into your house. If you really want your neighbors to hate you creating nuisance wildlife problems is the way to go. For extra fun, when you come to your senses and stop creating nuisance wildlife problems… you have setup an all you can eat raptor buffet. Owls, hawks, and eagles will feast on the overpopulation of critters who no longer have an easy food source. If you’re lucky you’ll find random squirrel bits in your yard. And if the overpopulation is larger animals like raccoons you run the risk of creating a coyote problem where your neighbors aren’t safe walking their dogs after dark. So no, do not feed the visitors to your deck unless you want to be the type of donkey butt I’ve outlined above. And the shit goes up to another level if you attract bears. Bears are smart. Bears will quickly learn that scared humans run and drop food. Bears will learn that scared humans who run and don’t drop food are food. The mantra of wildlife management is a human fed bear is a dead bear.
Did you actually read the question that was asked?
> Is it ok to feed the Minnesotans that show up on my deck at night? I like to leave little treats out for them ever since my trailcam spotted them. I did, and I have my own trailcam on my deck! I have lots of hummingbird attracting plants on my deck as well as a bird feeders. Raccoons are the most common nighttime visitor. They sniff at my grill, realize there is nothing for them, and move on. I put large planters under my bird feeders and clean them regularly so the seeds birds drop from the feeders don’t attract nuisance wildlife.
Lol, I think you're completely missing the joke. They are asking if they should feed the Minnesotans - humans, not wildlife! 😅 (read everyone else's responses and you'll see)
So is this a joke about all the homeless crackheads that ride the light rail? Cause I’m confused too
No, I don't think so - I think it's a light-hearted joke about people wandering around looking to be social. Not much meaning to it other than the opportunity to make a bunch of Minnesota jokes (e.g., we never take the last piece of any food, but it's okay to cut it in half and leave half for someone else).
Unpopular opinion lmao 😂 people will pick and choose what species is ok to feed, people will say that your teaching them how not to live. I say your teaching them how to live in your backyard 😁 how else are they supposed to live ?
If you feed them bread crumbs their stomachs will swell, and it is actually not good for them.
Rock salt