Since Anthony Edwards told Charles Barkley that it has become the slogan of “Explore Minnesota” MN tourism. https://www.exploreminnesota.com/ Also since the Chuckster asked what restaurants there are here there have been a lot of recommendations for MN restaurants
I like how the original post tries to resolve the "looking for good food" situation with "more food vendors". It's like they know their food sucks and the only solution they have is to increase the quantity. More food vendors does not necessarily equal better food. Minnesota is a beautiful place, but the food there sucks.
You would be surprised. There's few places in the US you're going to get Hmong food. Since some posters love hearing me talk about the Somalis in my neighborhood. And the ultimate Minnesota food, and one of the reasons that Carlos Correa cited for signing with the Twins.
Lat time I was in Minn I had a "loose meat" sandwich, first time I had one and man were they good. I love Minnesota, had to visit a Customer in Austin and we ended up going to the SPAM museum and I thought it would be weird but it's actually fun and very well done
I think the loose meat sandwich is an Iowa thing but that makes sense if you had it in Austin, MN which is close to Iowa.
If you’re not going to MN to see the coolest (and maybe only) Asian man to play in an Irish music band, what are you even doing?
I think this is more of an indictment of Houston and the massive driving distances you live with. I remember moving to Minneapolis and thinking the same thing. But after living in a walkable neighborhood with a 20 minute bus ride to downtown for a decade, I think my attitude on driving changed pretty dramatically. Eventually you just start finding what you need in your local area. Most of the main amenities that I liked were in Minneapolis anyway. So over time, going to St Paul became a chore. Although I will say that they have some pretty good restaurants over in St Paul and they have some good options to entertain kids (the Children's Museum and Science Museum are in St. Paul). My wife and I were just talking about how much we missed the Irish Festival in St. Paul The original post is about Summer at the Fair which is at the state fairgrounds so it literally is a bunch of food vendors selling fried food and some regional staples. Minneapolis's food is fine. Houston is simply world class in terms of dining so that really isn't a fair comparison but I never had an issue finding good food in Minneapolis or St. Paul.
The Houston food scene is much larger and deeper than Mn but don’t discount MN. As I posted there still are some great food options here and food that is hard to find in other parts of the country. Also given how agricultural the state is there are a lot of great farm to table dining options with local sourced products. For example you might be hard pressed to find things like local grown strawberries and bison meat in Houston.
