Posted in Milwaukee
November 01, 2017
10 Things People From Milwaukee Always Have To Explain To Out Of Towners
If you’re a Milwaukeean, it’s likely that you’ve hosted a visitor or two — we’re hospitable people, after all. Besides explaining that it’s pronounced M’waukee and not Mil-wau-kee, that our art museum has wings that move, and that Milwaukeeans are the nicest people you’ll ever meet — there are a few other things that are simply Milwaukee culture. Here are ten of the most common things you’ll have to explain to any out-of-towner visiting The Good Land.
School, work, grocery shopping, you name it. There’s really no amount of snow that will shut down the city, although extremely cold weather (like 40 degrees below zero) might.
That thing you drink water out of is a bubbler. The cheese squeaks. Honestly, we basically have our own language.
Speaking of funny words, our airports' lobby has the best one.
Towns in Wisconsin are known to derive from Native American dialect, and they can be quite the mouthful.
We eat frozen custard here — because it’s just way better.
If you order a bloody in Milwaukee, it comes with a 4-ounce chaser of beer. If you’re lucky, it might even come with a 7-ounce shortie of highlife. In Milwaukee, you might even get a whole can of PBR!
...and we mean everything. Milwaukee is known as the "City of Festivals" and we celebrate each and every culture properly.
The bears still suck. Brewers are everything. Although, we might tailgate with one.
If you watch the weather channel, they might say something about "lake effect." It gets drastically cooler by the lake in the summer — and warmer in winter!
Milwaukee is called Brew City for a reason. We have more bars than grocery stores, and no one drinks alone. We have dozens of craft breweries, and there’s always a corner bar where everyone knows your name. No one does drinking quite like Milwaukeeans.
Have you had to explain any of these things to a non-Milwaukeean? What else have you had to explain? Let us know in the comments!