How To Spot A Midwesterner

[@buckeyeguy82]

Those are really spot on & I'm guilty of the hat one 😂The "Ope sorry" or "Let me squeeze right past ya" is the best way to spot a Midwesterner!

[@ssazerac]

"Beer and a Spear" may be the single greatest Midwestern Culinary Contribution of all time. I visited Wisconsin and brought the recipe back to Atlanta so I could introduce it to all of my Southern friends. "The only way I figure those Yankees could improve upon Beer, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put a pickle in it."

[@user-neo71665]

Just don't be putting your pickle in my beer. Personally I love hot pickles in beer. This southern arky been doing it since I was a teen. My buddies thought it was weird till they tried it.

[@lisachapman6492]

I have to try the pickle in the beer thing. I love pickles. I am a born and raised 10 th generations Texan but apparently I drink like a Midwestern. I love bloody Mary's that are a full meal also. LOL ❤

[@seththomas9105]

Lived in Iowa my whole life (54) and have never heard of the pickle in beer. A shot of whiskey with a pickle juice back I've done many times.

[@JackSparrow-yb3lq]

I can't wait to try a beer and a spear. Sounds awesome. Pickles may be the best thing in the world. One of my favorite appetizers is fried pickles.

[@seththomas9105]

Edit. Tried a beer and spear. Damn good. Ad V8 juice and you're on your way to a good Saturday noon meal.

[@kh_trendy]

If you're a waiter, and you know something was messed up, but the people at the table don't say anything... They're from the Midwest.

[@lp1119]

If your a waiter and know something’s wrong and still serve it yours douche

[@maryadams9424]

I'm from the Midwest and you betcha I'm speaking up if my foods messed up 😂

[@kh_trendy]

@@maryadams9424 you know you're just going to casually mention it and hope for them to bring up the idea of getting the item replaced so you don't offend them. Be real. 🤣🤣

[@JackSparrow-yb3lq]

My friend Dan and I got the wrong pizza and our bartender was going to replace it and we said don't worry about it we'll keep it. She insisted on not charging us. Believe it or not this actually happened in New York State.

[@grant8490]

That was one of your most spot on videos you've made. As a midwesterner, I literally do ALL of these things.

[@versecontro4898]

The spear in the beer had me worried until he mentioned bloody marys and that should just be called a midwest breakfast

[@Diggin00]

We do all of them except the stocking hat over the ball cap! Been in MN all my life and we don’t do that shit! 😂

[@leafygreen3666]

Weird. I have lived my entire life in the Midwest only to discover I am not a Midwesterner now. I don’t do any of those things. Ok, I have worn a hat, but generally only in the winter. And back in my college days, I did do some morning drinking once or twice (Smurf party anyone?)

[@grant8490]

@@leafygreen3666 We don't claim you. Lol

[@leafygreen3666]

I like to fish and I will talk about the weather when I don’t know what else to talk about with an acquaintance or a stranger. I will also give you directions to anywhere except my house.

[@nickjanssen2275]

If they say ope sorry,you know you around a midwesterner 😂 👋

[@southtoe3607]

I'm a Carolinian but my dad is from Ohio, so I have residual Ope

[@versecontro4898]

Now here from Indiana we say OOpp my bad, movin right past ya

[@P_equals_Plenty]

​@@southtoe3607Yeah my dad's Minnesota "ope" rubbed off on me as well despite growing up in Texas

[@JesseTemple]

I'm from the Midwest and never realized I say it reflexively, until someone pointed out that it's a Midwestern thing to me. I also cannot turn it off, it just happens.

[@missingremote4388]

If the person you say whops too. Echoes it right back at you. He's an asshole

[@kaelanmcalpine2011]

Well I can relate to the travel shirt collection, though I lost my Tennessee Eclipse shirt due to the school custodian thinking it was just a random bag that no one threw away, while I was working on a cabaret for my school's choir. My grandparents are from The Region part of Indiana and back when they were in school, there was a guy named Paul who shared the last name with my grandpa at the time, they were unrelated, but they did like to do Smothers Brothers skits since that was the big thing then. My grandparents did name a son of theirs Paul though, he currently lives in Chicago.

[@CodeDusq1]

Spotting a Midwesterner… Wouldn’t they offer you a casserole, and you’ll hear them talking about the weather at least twice in one conversation?

[@Teacherofall]

Casserole? You mean hotdish.

[@ethan1point0]

@@TeacherofallIt’s both depending on whether you’re from Minnesota or Wisconsin

[@ethan1point0]

They’ll offer you a beer, say ope at least 3 times in a conversation

[@Teacherofall]

@@ethan1point0 of course. I do think the Midwest is more than those two states but you are correct.

[@nickjanssen2275]

We also say oh no yeah and oh yeah no 😂

[@seththomas9105]

Back in 96 me and a bunch of my buddies went out west to Colorado and Wyoming on vacation for about 2 weeks. We lived on V8 Bloody Beers and Taco Bell. We were young, and yes, we are from Iowa.

[@JackSparrow-yb3lq]

Did you guys in Iowa invent the Michelada? I always assumed this was a Mexican invention that recently has become a thing around here but mostly in Mexican restaurants.

[@seththomas9105]

@@JackSparrow-yb3lq IDK? I just know I've been drinking bloody beers since the 80's. As a hangover cure, for fun, for nourishment, to get a hangover, etc.

[@thomasgorre9285]

Proud Iowan here!

[@sugarmuffin319]

Can't drink all day if ya don't start in the morning. ❤ take care now

[@djmidnightwolf]

Just had a tomato juice and beer with a pickle spear for a 4th party last weekend.

[@ohhyoubetcha]

That's a delicacy

[@user-neo71665]

V8 and beer is how my dad drinks it. Turns beer into a health drink.😂

[@thomasferron1493]

A lot of the Midwestern stuff applies to Ireland. Especially the drinking. Think I need a beer now actually 😂

[@jeffreybelko3383]

Spot on brother! Been active duty for 17 years and have been everywhere and literally still do all of those things! Love these vids.

[@bigcatproductions2789]

Thank you for your service Belko 🇺🇸

[@mikealangaloe1774]

The Midwestern smile in the thumbnail. That's the first clue lol😂

[@user-ii3vn8tn3q]

The obligatory Terry Redlin print in the living room. Ya der hey

[@bcj842]

If a man is 19 years old and groans like his poppa when rising from his patio chair to get a beer, he might be from around those parts.

[@julieneff9408]

Oh my gosh I looooove a spicy Bloody Mary with all the pickled veggies. Born and raised in Wisconsin. Wearing a UWSP Pointers t-shirt right now too. 😁

[@JohnB-mo4kq]

Minnesotan here. I was introduced to spear in a beer in North Dakota during college. It's so good, sprinkle a little salt in there too. As for the red beer, I prefer clamato over tomato juice. I used to enjoy the Bud Lite clamato in a can until they went woke. Also, when I was in highschool, we'd go goose hunting before class and just leave our camo on and guns in our truck while parked at school. You'd go to prison for that nowadays.

[@seththomas9105]

Class of 88. I had a shotgun and a .22 in my Camaro all fall and winter durning hunting seasons. North central Iowa.

[@Raesling1]

I don't even drink, but you had me at the full-meal Bloody Mary. Absolutely correct! There are bars in WI that are known for it! Wearing my Fall Ride sweatshirt from last year. Have two in-laws that are named Olson, but unrelated. They even went to the same HS!

[@rollinwithronaldo1330]

Midwest martini 🍸 beer 🍺 with green olives 🫒

[@seththomas9105]

Yep.

[@ReeseNovak-f5x]

As a proud Midwesterner I can say all of this is true

[@kimbersal1]

I lived in Wausau, Wisconsin for only eight years, but it definitely sunk in, dontcha know. Now I’m in South Carolina looking for snow and cheese curds. All I can find is boiled peanuts. Really, really good!

[@joannafoster3423]

Ohioan here, got all the U.P. hoodies from our trips.

[@mikenonya6382]

So glad you are having a Busch Latte. I'll have to try the pickle spear with mine tomorrow.

[@Kylorin235]

Ive once had a bloody mary where the straw was made out of a beef stick. It was amazing.

[@val_smiling]

All of these are so true! -A Midwesterner

[@justnatalie3390]

Facts!! We had like 3 seperate Jackson family trees in my small cluster of small towns. There were the Jackson's that lived between Town A and Town B. They weren't at all related to a kid in my grade that lived outside of Town C. And he wasn't at all related to this other Jackson family that was in the same town as him. And they weren't related to the first Jackson family.

[@Wrangzilla]

East Coaster here. The hat over a hat is by far my favorite while I'm working.

[@wwoolofl8056]

I get a beer chaser with a Bloody Mary in the Midwest. Not anywhere else

[@kylekarwowski5882]

a beer backer is standard issue here in the U.P.

[@madtownangler]

My grandfather had the last name of Herr So he was the original Mister Mister when he moved here from Germany. He picked a different name when he moved to America I used to go to track meets in high school and they would announce the winners of the events .I used to win most sprints. The expected an Asian person but I was a white guy with the last name of Dow

[@user-pd8mi7ng7s]

😂 it's so true. I have about 15 souvenir shirts and I wearing them all the time

[@tomrowe7534]

Miles, you had me until you hit eating at chains. I always go local. My ability to find solid local establishments is a true gift from god

[@drew1693]

You forgot the steering wheel finger wave. Turns out people outside the midwest don't wave at each other while driving.

[@EastSider48215]

Oooooohhhh, that smirk and a nod! Yes!

[@gordygohard]

Bloody Mary's...wait until you have a Caesar my friend. My sis used to bring back Clamato juice from Canada to school in the US for her friends.

[@MottoGrotto-ht1yg]

Clamato is so good. Beer with clam is a godsend on hot days or hungover mornings

[@JohnB-mo4kq]

I just posted this same shit. Clamato is so much better in beer than tomato juice.

[@michaeldalessandro3020]

Another awesome video respect

[@mommalion7028]

0:42 i had a wisconsin dells shirt i wore for years… i’ve never been to the dells but it was comfy 😂

[@justinmcroberts4633]

Double hat? Yes. Souvenir T-Shirts? Yes. Chain restaurants? Absolutely. Blood Mary from H-E-Double Hockey Sticks? Oh heck yeah. -Ski familes? Never seen them anywhere else. Start the beer with a morning? Every gosh darn morning! Bonus: Carhart hoodie with some worn jeans, anytime of the year? Yes.

[@ChadGeidel]

Filmed from the most Midwest house possible. The split foyer.

[@steve2468]

Soary!

[@The--oo5td]

Marshall Eriksen was from MN point in place lol

[@CrazyCajun66]

In st. Paul MN. We used to call beer and tomato juice a poor man's bloody Mary.

[@val_smiling]

My small town of 500 was seemingly filled with people who had the same last name as me. I was related to NONE. 😂

[@beatrice81]

😂plus like to say hi or taken their time at 4way stop

[@luckspell]

If he's being entrapped by confidential informants and police and shit you're lucky you know a midwesterner.

[@dustinduran8079]

That hoodie is sickkkk

[@sahmnancy]

Maiden name - Petersen. Dad was born and raised in Iowa! Represent!

[@versecontro4898]

Thats a little west but its as flat as the hoosier state so welcome to **** aboard

[@rocingersol5060]

Not so fast, Iowa…. I know you desperately want to fit in, but the Midwest doesn’t want you. Idiots. Out. Walking. Around.

[@SanDukey]

I used to live in a house with that exact same floorplan and it trips me out every time lol

[@egbrickle]

These are like documentaries to me 😂

[@edekpomagiel8262]

Beer and clam is called a red eye great breakfast beer. If I'm not mistaken a bloody Mary /Caesar here in Canada usually has vodka, whiskey and or jin and all the fixings. Beer and spear delicious choice.

[@JohnB-mo4kq]

Yup, I prefer a bloody Ceasar. Sadly, not many bars have Clamato. I hate all the chunks of peppercorns and horseraddish in bloody mary mixes.

[@nlevandowski]

Im in PA, and we do all of these things as well.

[@carlypastore]

“As much shit as possible and pile it into a Bloody Mary” omg 😂

[@Daniel-Weaver]

We have two Moore families in our town of 420 people. Not related.

[@jbonaful]

Seems like the midwest and southeast would get along alright.

[@zachseeman5235]

we do. god knows how many snowbirds we both endure.

[@JuanAppleseed-ge6tb]

@@zachseeman5235 your comment immediately caused me to have an exasperated sigh. the snowbirds are legit SHAMELESS. I genuinely can't imagine having as little self-awareness as them.

[@GreatLakesBliss]

Okay, I'm from the Southeast. I was born and raised here in Virginia

[@JohnB-mo4kq]

We don't claim responsibility for the cidiots from Minneapolis/St. Paul though. Sorry you have to deal with those yuppies in FL.

[@rlegato364]

Ya can't drink all day if ya don't have a drink for breakfast! 😉 My personal favorite is the Bloody. 👍

[@LifeWithNicolleMarieAndGary]

😂 hilarious.. but so true 😎

[@alltheotherthings8410]

“And when it comes to my eyes? Good fuckin luck son!” 😂😂😂

[@EricMcLuen]

My dad would have a bloody beer upon occasion. True on the names. Then there was a revolt and one group decided Ripperger is pronounced 'Reebarger.'

[@tonymagona334]

Drinking in the morning is probably the one thing I’d get along with if I encountered a midwesterner based off this list 😂

[@patricktaylor7021]

Can't drink all day if ya don't start in the morning eh?

[@tonymagona334]

@@patricktaylor7021 And once you start you can’t stop, cause that’s when the hangover starts to kick in!

[@patricktaylor7021]

@tonymagona334 That's what the bloody beer is for! 🤣

[@josephthul2938]

I know several Bauers in my town. Not one knows the other.

[@jpecorel1]

I mostly agree... I require a massive coffee from the QT, Sheetz, or the Speedway prior to drinking a morning beer. And out of respect, I remove both my hats whenever I enter a Red Lobster or a Cheddars.

[@gongwee6734]

My parents have a shot of rum with coffee lol

[@azraelhorsefeather]

Hey now, that eyelids are open time to pour a drink is EXACTLY how we’re gonna get to Mars before the guy who made a “vehicle” that can’t be washed in direct sunlight

[@calebevans8437]

I'm a new zealander and I'm currently running 4hats not all at once but 1 work one at work 1work one at home general one around home or going out amd 1 straw hat for summer outside😂😂 also love day drinking in the weekend 10.30 we on🍻

[@russwarner5957]

Grew up in the Midwest but now live in the south but one thing I realized is all Midwestern folks seem to wear clothes one size to big. Seem to always have baggy clothes. I also was the same way when living there so I’m guilty of it to.

[@kevinjones6529]

They also love to rep their local sports teams (pro or not) and nearest big city.

[@nickhausbeck9071]

Someday the Lions will win!

[@jerkyozark]

I've said it once and I'll keep saying it... Pittsburgh pa should be an honorary Midwest city!

[@rfree82]

A southeasterner is about the same. Just turn what you said up to ten and add every bug known to man in the mix!

[@koholos]

Remember, you can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning.

[@ureallyannoyme]

I consider Wisconsin to be the Upper Midwest. Nebraska and those “I” states there in the middle are Midwest.

[@samtruant]

someone get this to the library of congress STAT. This is important regional information here

[@hexoticace8667]

Well the moon was just a pit stop at Mars and I'll tell ya there no candy bars. Send in the mothership we need kwik trip asap!

[@Wisconwiggy]

Ask for a spotted cow knowing full well they don't have it then remind them you have it at your local bar then ask for a Pabst then saw aww geez when they don't have that.

[@mirrorblue100]

Or Strohs or Schlitz.

[@BKetch]

So god damn true.

[@user-neo71665]

Damn in the winter i wear a ball cap under my trapper hat. That way i can take the hot hat off in walmart and just wear my ball cap. The rest of the year its my cowboy hats. Pickles are great with beer. This the first time I've heard anybody but me doing it. Born and raised in Arkansas an hour from the southern border. Never been any further north than ok city and find out im a midweasterner.

[@Devineservent17]

Still more evidence south and Midwest would be on the same team in a civil war. Congrats on your first kid by the way! He's blessed to have you and Anne as parents

[@MattSmith38258]

Those polish names are also popular around buffalo NY, Chicago may have Pulaski day, but we have dingus day… it’s a real thing look it up ya dingus

[@MattSmith38258]

My pops grew up outside Chicago and I even was from there until 3-4 when pops moved us out here for some reason but yep… we were the only family to enjoy Bloody Mary’s and mimosas with brunch regularly while everyone else would ask if my parents were “ok”

[@MattSmith38258]

Not to mention The “ope” my dad handed down to each of us

[@lewisrobinson3380]

Super common last name and all the people in the town with my last name I wasn't related to OR I wasn't related to them via a common male ancestor. One example was my Grandpa's maternal aunt happened to marry a Robinson who was unrelated to the Robinson my Great Grandmother married. I can confirm that level of relationship too thanks to 23andme lmao.

[@ProvoDrive]

Don't cha know!!!!

[@robert2but289]

Back in the day The Dells was the SHIT late70s all the 80s its crazy how much changed

[@David-uy2xl]

Being a Canadian living in the USA had to teach bartender’s how to make a good dirty bloody pickle juice or olive and of course CLAMATO😊

[@madtownangler]

My parents live twenty miles from the Dells. They avoid going there like the plague. Too many tourists dontcha know?

[@michael9016]

And the tourists are from Illinois...uck

[@mikeumm]

I'm watching this outside of Pittsburgh in my Wyoming hat. Lol

[@Astro_Zombie92]

Pbr and a pickle what more do you need?

[@samandpackers]

Big dog.

[@Jipper1984]

I should be a midwesterner. I do all that, minus the chain restaurant, it does make sense. But being a city boy, when i do these thing, everyone thinks im crazy. I hate city life with a passion.

[@nattamused9074]

Is that a, pickle? Inside a, beer? I haven’t lived.

[@wherami]

Red beer is also very east Washington state

[@southtoe3607]

people actually live there? I phucken love WA btw.

[@jaydeejohnson7]

There are a lot of similarities between the Midwest and rural PNW. I moved to Oregon almost 20 years ago. Also why a lot of us midwesterners moved here.

[@Kreberger]

There is a little town in Eastern WA called Pullman. They drink more Busch Light annually than the entirety of Wisconsin.

[@wherami]

@@Kreberger yes I was in Pullman at one time

[@SC-gp7kt]

As a lifelong Michiganian, i can confirm all of this is true! 😂💙🤚

[@nickhausbeck9071]

How is it you can live in Michigan your whole life and not know we're called Michiganders?

[@alichevez2224]

HHahHahahaha hallariois man Midwest great lakes best ppl beautiful region blessed we are a super power the real inland empire

[@kingkustomz33]

Here me out, Miller High Life+a few drops of Tabasco+green olive= Hillbilly Martini

[@JeffRimersmiddlehalf]

Not a “stocking cap,” a toboggan.

[@SuperKillerdreams]

OMG‼️😂 I just posted a facebook status about the chain restaurant bit I posted a pic of a super fancy restaurant and a pic of an Applebees and basically said that is small / hometowners prefer a classic chain restaurant that we’ve been to since we were like 8 lol 😂 over a new fancy expensive restaurant

[@kj7792]

Keg and eggs😂❤

[@carriemainquist757]

Eggs & Kegs. OMG all true.

[@agonyacres]

Approved

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Tomato juice in beer for me gives me less bloating

[@BSPotter]

All of this is pretty foreign to me, but my football team just joined the B1G. So I'm pretty sure I know all about the midwest now.

[@grngeek9835]

Omg yes, my mom's maiden ends in Ski, bbbbuuuhahahahaha and YES we love to drink and out souvenir shirts, I have a closet full of them

[@genxbeyotch]

Bloody Mary is Supper in A Glass, period

[@c_daniels89]

Beer with some tomato juice is a Polish Bloody in the Midwest, not a red beer lol

[@samgould8567]

In eastern SD, I’ve only ever heard it called red beer

[@TreylorTrashFishing]

Is Oklahoma the Midwest or the south?