Let’s hear it! Explain brats and Ope and any other thing that Charlie Berens talks about what makes you guys stand out! I’m eager to hear about your culture, cooking, and friendliness!

Oh gee!!!

He's a Wisconsinite, not just a mid westerner.

Ope can mean lots of things, like a little surprise, or a little mistake. Its a minor exclamation.

Brats are a German sausage. Brand loyalty is about like team loyalty in sports. There have been fights.

Couple three is a common term for "a few."

Tree could mean the things growing in a forest or the number three.

Cooking can be considered bland by some. Nothing spicy. Just meat and potatoes. And casseroles. Find an old church cookbook.

The long O sound is more prominent the further north you go. Its getting lost in the younger generations.

Kyle I can always count on you for the best explanation!

“Couple three” ….lol

Ope jeeze and uff-dah ( pronounced oofdah) are interchangeable.

Ope just gonna sneak past ya

Once I won the “find the fox” in the Furtaker magazine and I got to call the vendors and choose a prize. One company was Midwest and the receptionist on the phone was a doll. She said “what kinda lure would’cha like?!?” And I coulda reached through the phone and squeezed her she was so friendly

We are all like that.

I saw this yesterday and thought this is a very Wisconsin Picture
a cop in a bar handing out Brewers cards to kids at the bar and having his picture taken for the local news station.

and Not one comment in the comments about kids in a bar

we just live different
similar to Midwest but we can draw clear differences at the state line

not if your saying Jeeze luieeze thats right there with "for petes sake" you know you dun messed up when that comes out

That's awesome. Pure Wisconsin.

couple tree 4 could mean you lost count or didn't want to start counting or your not limiting your self tonight

don't even get started on bat-trees mostly they come in AA AAA C D but could be a car bat-tree as well

When I was about 10 or so, I was fishing bullheads with grandpa. He says "hand me a couple tree worms"
I'd never heard that, so I handed him 2. That wasn't right, so I tried 3. That wasn't right either.
Little wise rear end I was, I gave him six, that's a couple three, right? Apparently not, I went overboard.

... that should explain it. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

As GCP had said in may posts, WI people are always havin a beer. A couple three while working on the truck or mowing the lawn. A couple when a friend stops by. Couple while skinning coons.

You measure your lawn size by how many beers it takes to get it done…I’ve got a small lawn. It only takes a six pack.

Be careful when you reach for that mustard in the restaurant it might be horseradish learned that the hard way.

you know these stats are generally gathered to make us look bad

from the internet land of BS , "An excessive drinker is someone who engages in binge drinking, heavy drinking, or any drinking if they are pregnant or under 21. Binge drinking is defined as consuming five or more drinks for men or four or more for women in a single occasion, while heavy drinking is consuming 15 or more drinks per week for men or eight or more per week for women."


2 a night and one extra on Sunday hardly makes you a heavy drinker or for women 1 a night and 2 on Sunday

a packer game has 4 quarters this that is basically 4 right there , plus pre-game 1-2 and post -game 1-2 and now you see why they they think we are drunks , they just don't understand our culture. and that isn't drunk.

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