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Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 1:02 pm
by JordanWasaN
Half serious answer: Blueberry (Indigenous), Lingonberry (Scandinavian), and Coffee (Horn of Africa)?

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 1:12 pm
by MNdible
No matter the ingredients, the rest of the country would still call it Minneanapolitan.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 1:58 pm
by xandrex
...And sooner or later, St. Paul would get really jealous and ask the state for a subsidy to create a new, competing flavor.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 3:03 pm
by Nick
My suggestion for Minneapolitan ice cream: road salt, snow, and dog shit.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 3:41 pm
by Tyler

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 4:09 pm
by Didier
Izzy's has an annual contest where it picks a few customer-suggested flavors. I could see JordanWasaN's suggestion having a shot.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 5:45 pm
by mulad
Mintneapolitan -- just take neapolitan and replace one of the flavors with mint chocolate chip. Or replace the whole thing with mint chocolate chip.

(I like mint.)

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 1st, 2015, 9:47 am
by fehler
Minneapolitan: Mint Chocolate Chip, Peppermint Bon Bon, and Minty Cow Track Ice Cream.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 2nd, 2015, 6:40 am
by trigonalmayhem
My suggestion for Minneapolitan ice cream: road salt, snow, and dog shit.
I like it. It really captures the spirit of both the city and its residents perfectly.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 2nd, 2015, 8:59 am
by David Greene
Minneapolitan: Mint Chocolate Chip, Peppermint Bon Bon, and Minty Cow Track Ice Cream.
With peanut butter!

(really, try it!)

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 2nd, 2015, 5:23 pm
by grant1simons2
Forbes ranked us #2 on the list for best cities for college grads in 2015

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/ ... s-in-2015/

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 2nd, 2015, 6:17 pm
by PhilmerPhil
Nice list here, with some things even I didn't know about and am excited to check out: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015 ... ium=social

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 2nd, 2015, 9:52 pm
by min-chi-cbus
Forbes ranked us #2 on the list for best cities for college grads in 2015

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/ ... s-in-2015/
Forbes.....the NASA rocket scientists of all thing urban!

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 4th, 2015, 12:18 pm
by Didier
This has we are better than Chicago.

http://www.metroplanning.org/news/article/7110

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 4th, 2015, 12:37 pm
by Nick
Northeastern Illinois municipalities have a bad habit of giving away tax revenues to lure businesses to move from one suburb to the next or from a suburb to the City of Chicago, because they believe it will grow their overall tax base and create jobs locally.
There really ought to be some sort of federal legislation against job poaching. If city x or state y wants to have their property taxes or corporate income taxes at such and such a rate, that's fine, but the specific breaks for individual bunches of "jobs" are just dumb and hurt us all collectively.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 4th, 2015, 12:43 pm
by acs
542,000 jobs in the Chicago loop... damn that's a lot.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 4th, 2015, 1:26 pm
by EOst
There really ought to be some sort of federal legislation against job poaching. If city x or state y wants to have their property taxes or corporate income taxes at such and such a rate, that's fine, but the specific breaks for individual bunches of "jobs" are just dumb and hurt us all collectively.
Job poaching is a symptom of the extremely fragmented nature of local government in the US, not the problem itself. The US desperately needs a way to make it easier for metropolitan centers to annex their suburbs.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 4th, 2015, 1:34 pm
by Nick
Well, state and regional poaching is just as bad, though it looks less silly. There's def a case for annexation to a certain extent.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 9th, 2015, 2:04 pm
by Chava
This has we are better than Chicago.

http://www.metroplanning.org/news/article/7110
Ouch, Chicago. Several people sent that to me as I was driving back from Chicago following the election.

Re: Twin Cities' National and Global Image

Posted: April 10th, 2015, 11:54 am
by grant1simons2
#1 most literate city in America I guess.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/book ... /25531751/