Wisconsin as a Hunter: The Vigil setting

[billd91]

I was happy to see Culvers Frozen Custard restaurant mentioned, I worked at one for 6 years.

I like Culvers so much more than most other fast foods. When I moved to Verona, we had a Culvers, a Hardees, a Michael's Frozen Custard (local small chain), and an A&W. No McDonalds.

McDonalds moved into town and now the Hardees and A&W are gone. Apparently, it takes custard-style ice cream and not root beer and enormous burgers to hold your own against McDonalds when you're a burger-oriented joint.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If you set it near Milwaukee, you can always use Haunchyville.

I grew up not too far from the locale, and as all youth are prone to do when they hear of legends in their neighborhood...

Heh, there was an identical legend in Northern Virginia.

 

[Herschel]

What should appear:
Culvers fast food restaurants

With Kopp's and Michael's handy you mention Culvers? You're dead to me.

You also missed a few important ones:

Friday Night Fish Fry at at least one town establishment and usually per 25 population in some areas.

The constant stream of "Flatlanders" heading to the Wisconsin Dells every weekend.

 

[FreeXenon]

I tend to like Culvers better than most too. =)

I live in the Dells and we have people from Minnesota, Chicago, and other areas coming here.

There are also a lot of students from over seas coming here to work for the summer to ear money and experience America and then go home. Many work 2 - 3 full/part-time jobs.

Great call on the Friday Night Fish Fry.

 

[billd91]

With Kopp's and Michael's handy you mention Culvers? You're dead to me.

Handy? I'm not about to drive an hour for frozen custard and that's about how far Kopp's is.

Spot on with the fish fry, though.

Should I also mention some radio stations will have the lutefisk report in the fall when local churches full of Norwegian-Americans host lutefisk dinners?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Cheese factories. Thats the important part of cheese. Small local cheese factories where they make the cheese, you buy fresh cheese curds that squeak when you eat them and have a rediculous number of wax coated cheeses in the shapes of cows, pigs and packer helmets.

Given how many modern Sci-fi/Horror movies are set at least partially in abandoned factories or power plants, wouldn't it be a nice Wisconsonesque spin on that trope to have some kind of confrontation in an old cheese factory?

 

[I'm A Banana]

Double-plus mention for the House on the Rock and the Dells.

Wisconsin (like Minnesota) is also quite wet. Rivers. Lakes. Streams. Brooks. Smaller ones, not just Michigan and Superior. Like other places in the Far North, the summer time results in a huge breeding population of hungry, biting, ravenous insects (and a smaller population of hungry birds there to feed on the bugs). The summers are sticky, oppressive and moist at even 75 and above. It can be like trying to breathe through someone's crotch on a really hot day.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Given how many modern Sci-fi/Horror movies are set at least partially in abandoned factories or power plants, wouldn't it be a nice Wisconsonesque spin on that trope to have some kind of confrontation in an old cheese factory?

Or to wonder what's really in some of those bratwursts owned by the ghoul in charge of body disposal ...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Or to wonder what's really in some of those bratwursts owned by the ghoul in charge of body disposal ...

Why, my dear Whizbang, have you ever seen Motel Hell?

 

[Raven Crowking]

Or to wonder what's really in some of those bratwursts owned by the ghoul in charge of body disposal ...

Why, my dear Whizbang, have you ever seen Motel Hell?

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'Nuff said.