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Sad thing is idk if there is one?? I guess Mackinaw Island fudge? Fudge is a huge deal on the island and in the U.P. in general. There are a lot of shops that sell it around the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, which is the last place I went and got some on a trip up north a couple years ago. I live in the L.P. so I don’t have access to it, which is a shame. I lived in the U.P in high school tho.
Apart from fudge, idk there’s green stuff? It’s like cottage cheese and lime jello and crushed pineapple? Sometimes there’s mini marshmallows in it? And whipped cream? Listen, I know it sounds awful, but it is delicious.
Is jello cake a regional thing? You bake like a sheet cake and then stab in with a fork all along the top and pour jello solution on it. I think you put it in the fridge to set? Idk it’s moist and it tastes like whatever jello flavor you use. I haven’t had jello cake in ages. You put whipped cream on it instead of frosting.
Both jello cake and green stuff (tho sometimes the stuff is orange or red or pink) are both staples of church potlucks.
ok it’s been 2.5 years since i moved to washington state and i still barely can find apple butter why is it so HARD. like it can’t be THAT uncommon, can it???
Petoskey stones ~ fossilized coral that lived 350 million years ago - the rocks rounded in the surf along the shore of Lake Michigan near Petosky, Michigan
I mean, Lake Michigan is big enough to be a sea. All the Great Lakes are, they’re not considered seas because they’re not all at sea level, they’re all freshwater, and they’re not directly connected to the ocean (they’re only connected through rivers and lochs)
Small lakes don’t have noticeable waves but because the Great Lakes are so big there’s enough room for the air to downdraft across it (which is also why in Michigan you get lake effect weather and so it can be a blizzard one day and 70° the next)
My grandmother, who grew up in Puerto Rico, when seeing Lake Michigan for the first time with my grandfather exclaimed, “This is not a lake, it is a sea!”
Lake Superior has tides. They’re not as dramatic as the actual ocean’s of course. But still. For every storm that kicks up 200ft spray and waves that crash over the tops of the lighthouses on the piers, there’s days when you can’t tell where the water meets the sky.
Lake Superior doesn’t have a monster, Lake Superior IS the monster.
lake superior (gichi-gami in ojibwe) has enough water in it cover both america’s in a foot of it. it contains 10% of the worlds fresh surface water! it’s 1333 ft deep!!! she’s Big
They say that she doesn’t give up her dead either.
Man living nearby all the great lakes when I first saw what Most people consider a lake, I thought it was just a super big pond kinda thing
There’s a reason why they’re called “great” lakes.
another thing about the lakes, superior especially, is that it’s anaerobic. There’s no oxygen down there. If you sink in her, you’re staying down there until the end of time. There’s no way to pull you up.
Look at this spider! It was sitting on my grill outside. I’ve never seen one with markings like this. Anyone know what it is?
“Grand Rapids artist Annie “Belle” Eckrich knits while greeting ArtPrize-goers who visit the house she knitted out of more than 400 pounds of wool roving. The entry, titled “Woolhouse,” is on display at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts.“
A Michigan politician is facing backlash for refusing to apologize for a Facebook post that urged people to “kill every last Muslim,” the Traverse City Record-Eaglereported.
Jeff Sieting, village president of Kalkaska, a small Michigan town about 230 miles northwest of Detroit, posted a lengthy anti-Muslim Facebook status in November.
The post said Islam was a “death cult,” and called on non-Muslims to “kill every last Muslim, burn every last copy of their satanic book, burn every last mosque to the ground.” The post also said the only “answer” to terrorism is to nuke the two holiest Islamic cities — Mecca and Medina — and 10 of the largest Muslim-majority cities.
The post was found by Kalkaska native Cindy Anderson. Anderson and other constituents asked Sieting to apologize, but he refused, and now, his constituents are looking to remove him from office. Read more (7/13/17)
