Cheese is a comfort food. The pre-packaged, snack size, perfectly shaped string cheese will do in a pinch, but what you really want would be real cheese. Some days I’m in the mood for some cheese curds, which we can occasionally get out this way. Some days the saltiness of real Wisconsin string cheese is needed. Some days nothing will do but the rind of some aged brick. It is also hard to find the meaty snacking cheese, like salami or bacon cheese, out here. Good thing I have a supplier back in Wisconsin who sends care packages when possible. You expect to wake up to snow at least some days in March. People expect the Tahoe ski hills to have snow into May at least, but away from the resorts people are taken by surprise by snow in March and take it as an attack from Mother Nature if there is snow in April. For me, March was when we started to see the lawn occasionally between snow storms. Usually by Easter, in early April, the lawn was a muddy mess rather than covered in either a blanket of snow or lush green grass. That doesn’t mean no more snow for the season, just that it has all melted at least once before the Easter Bunny visits. I could not imagine living in Las Vegas where any day it snows becomes a holiday for everyone except traffic officers and tow truck operators. Then again, in the desert of Las Vegas even rainy days are a nightmare for anyone who has to be on the roads. You pronounce the name of our great state the correct way. There is a subtle difference in how a Wisconsinite says their home state and how the rest of the world says it. It took me a long time and a lot of careful listening (something my family would say I’m not always the best at) to figure it out. It is agreed that there are three syllables and the emphasis is on the middle one. The difference is where the first and second syllables are split. Someone who grew up in the state will likely put the first four letters in the first syllable, so it would rhyme with disc, then go on to emphasize the next two letters (on) an end with sin. A non-cheesehead would only put the first three letters in the first syllable, making it wis, emphasize the con and end with sin. We are not as particular about how to pronounce our state as someone from Nevada, where people will correct you if you say it incorrectly in public and may not purchase a product just because of a mispronunciation in an advertisement. I do, however, notice a difference when a character on a TV show claims to be from Wisconsin. Then again, usually they say they are from Milwaukee which we all know is really just a suburb of Chicago and follows the dialect of that state.
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