Another of those "got it in email" jokes.
- You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping the food will swim by.
- You are proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation
- You have ever refused to buy something because it's too "spendy."
- Your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March.
- You instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year.
- Someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there.
- Your dad's sun tan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead.
- You have ever apologized to a telemarketer.
- You may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Lutefisk.
- You have ever worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
- You have either a pet or a child named "Kirby."
- Your town has an equal number of bars and churches
- You have ever had an entire telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
- You know how to say Wayzata, Mahtomedi, Edina and Shakopee.
- You grew up thinking rice was only for dessert.
- You think that ketchup is a little too spicy.
- Your daily meals are breakfast, dinner, and supper.
- Every January, from age 2 to 13, you let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post.
- You consider Lime Jell-O a highly versatile food: a breakfast dish when it is filled with fruit, a salad when it has shredded carrots and a dab of mayonnaise, and a dessert when topped with Dreamwhip.
- You never had to rewind any part of "Fargo" because you missed some of the dialogue.
- You always believed that vacation meant "going up north."
- Your town has an annual festival honoring a fruit, vegetable, or ethnic food.
- The first time you saw "Grumpy Old Men," you thought it was a documentary.
- You can recite, from memory, more than a half-dozen "Ole and Lena" jokes.
- Every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and sing, gently, "From the land of sky-blue waters...Hamm's- the beer refreshing..."
- Your dog dies, your spouse leaves you, you lose your job, and your car breaks down, all on the same day, and your first thought is, "It could be worse."
- You don't think it odd that there is a heater in the outside Coke machine .
- It's ever 60 degrees warmer in your freezer than it is outdoors.
- You have ever gone cross country skiing at the zoo.
- You have eaten "Hot Dish" and Jell-O salad in the basement of a Lutheran church.
- You go to Starbucks, look at the menu, then say "Umm...I'll just have some coffee, thanks."