Comments on: Right Here in Nebraska

Right Here in Nebraska

etc. — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:42:19 -0800

We're the makers of Spam. We invented Kool-Aid, and this is where the first Reuben sandwich was made: Right Here in Nebraska. (SLYT)

Full disclosure: I'm from Nebraska.

By: JaredSeth

JaredSeth — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:48:24 -0800

where the first Reuben sandwich was made Arguably. Full disclosure: I'm from New York.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:50:31 -0800

I am from Omaha, but I moved away even before I knew about Spam and Kool-Aid, two of my least favorites.

By: Nothing... and like it

Nothing... and like it — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:53:24 -0800

Love this. Just disappointed by the lack of mention of the Sandhills and Willa Cather.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:54:11 -0800

Reuben's are my favorite way to celebrate St Patrick's Day.

By: kmz

kmz — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:55:06 -0800

I think of Austin, Minnesota first when I think of SPAM manufacturing. Full disclosure: I'm from Austin, TX.

By: Phantomx

Phantomx — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:05:47 -0800

Spam is a sort of backpacking mini-tradition with my friend and I. Flame roasting little cubes of it on sticks over a fire you struck up with a sparker just tastes so great after hiking your gear in. Just dropping by to give my support to the one situation where I will eat Spam.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:08:03 -0800

There is a Spam factory in Nebraska, but it's definitely a Minnesota thing. Hormel is a Minnesota company, and the Spam museum is in Austin. God, what a dull list. Nebraska is far more interesting than the song would lead you to believe, and I say this as Nebraska's most successful playwright. Off the top of my head, and specific to Omaha: Malcolm X was born there Wynonie Harris hails from there The fictional C. W. McCall, who sings "Convoy" is from there Johnny Carson lived there, and Fred Astair was born there As was Marlon Brando As was Henry Fonda, and his son Peter My favorite: Korla Pandit lived there for a while I could go on for hours. There's a lot of profoundly cool stuff that came out of Nebraska.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:08:27 -0800

We're the makers of Spam. Fortunately, God is forgiving.

By: Senor Cardgage

Senor Cardgage — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:14:11 -0800

Grew up in Omaha. We have many better, if less noteworthy, foods that aren't all that good for you too.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:15:04 -0800

There's the Strategic Air and Space Museum (I have an awesome pic of my 95 year old grandma in front of the SR-71 there (and also one of her standing underneath a B-1). The Ashfall Fossil Beds, where you can go see a fossilized watering hole full of skeletons. All kinds of birding around the Platt River. Hell, it's even kind of interesting to just drive through miles and miles of corn fields to get an idea of how all that gets produced and processed. Omaha does kind of suck though, sorry.

By: Pecinpah

Pecinpah — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:16:15 -0800

That song made me want to stab my ear.

By: Opposite George

Opposite George — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:17:15 -0800

I'm from New York too, but Omaha (or possibly Lincoln, Nebraska) are much better candidates for a number of reasons, not least of which is that the sandwich Arnold Reuben took credit for in his 1938 Federal Writers' Project interview was offered on the Reuben's menu well into the 1950's as the Reuben's Special. And a Reuben's Special has little in common with a Reuben. (And yes, this all breaks my heart, but that's how it goes sometimes.)

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:17:34 -0800

Omaha does kind of suck though, sorry. It's not New Orleans, but it has its charms.

By: Senor Cardgage

Senor Cardgage — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:18:11 -0800

This dudes dong is not doing my home state any favors.

By: Senor Cardgage

Senor Cardgage — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:19:03 -0800

His s/b>ong also fails to impress. Damn iPhone.

By: Senor Cardgage

Senor Cardgage — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:19:43 -0800

I'm just gonna give up now.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:20:21 -0800

It's always a pity when a bong fails to impress.

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:25:56 -0800

I don't get it - we know about deleting spam and not drinking the kool-aid, but what terrible thing is the Reuben associated with?

By: hal9k

hal9k — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:38:53 -0800

I don't get it - we know about deleting spam and not drinking the kool-aid, but what terrible thing is the Reuben associated with? Stenchous gas. From the root: Nebraska.

By: Senor Cardgage

Senor Cardgage — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:44:09 -0800

I don't get it - we know about deleting spam and not drinking the kool-aid, but what terrible thing is the Reuben associated with? I first heard the Rubenebraska rumor in the motion picture Quiz Show. And we all know how that turned out.

By: jet_silver

jet_silver — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:46:21 -0800

We are the eaters of Spam. Full disclosure: I am from Hawai'i.

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:48:13 -0800

It's like the only thing Hawai'i and my Nan have in common.

By: Artw

Artw — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:14:24 -0800

Actually I kind of suspect both of them being so keen on spam as part of a dark secret history of cannibalism, but the less said about that the better.

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:26:11 -0800

One of the saddest days of my life was discovering that the family who owned the one good Jewish deli in town sold out to new owners who replaced the Russian dressing on their Reuben sandwich with Thousand Island. And don't get me started on the "lean" pastrami. Christ. I wanted to firebomb the fuckers.

By: infini

infini — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:48:25 -0800

I was sure the Reuben was a Pittsburgh thing, yinz all prolly know about Primanti's french fry sandwiches

By: asfuller

asfuller — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:35:23 -0800

Vice Grips, also from Nebraska. And Mother Abigail in The Stand.

By: stop sign

stop sign — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:46:21 -0800

I lived in Nebraska for a while. I'm always interested in some films depictions of Nebraska.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:26:00 -0800

Don't forget this one.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:37:06 -0800

The Cornhuskers' Memorial Stadium holds more people than any city in Nebraska except Omaha and Lincoln. Arbor Day was founded in Nebraska City.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:08:18 -0800

Nebraska sucks. Nine out of ten people have never seen an ocean. Nine out of ten people have only ever been to one other state besides Nebraska, and nine out of ten times that state is Colorado. Everyone hunts, or is related to someone that hunts. Everyone drives everywhere, which is funny because there are sidewalks everywhere. Wonderful, empty sidewalks. Sushi sucks in Nebraska. Tornadoes suck in Nebraska. Baseball? Baseball doesn't even register on the suck scale for Nebraska, because the overwhelming mass of the Huskers' stadium has collapsed in on itself like a giant black hole of suck for the entire state. Wal-Mart's continued popularity in Nebraska sucks an inexplicably big one. And when you get sick of the suck and want to escape? You still got 8 hours of driving ahead of you before you're in a place that doesn't suck. Like some Suckular Bomb was dropped on Lincoln and there's a 350 mile blast radius of radioactive suck you have to drive through to get out.

By: Jumpin Jack Flash

Jumpin Jack Flash — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:48:54 -0800

The best thing to come out of Nebraska is a road to Iowa. :-)

By: wobh

wobh — Sat, 08 May 2010 09:06:57 -0800

We skipped Nebraska on our great trip Out West, and I've always regretted that I didn't get to see Carhenge.

By: kyrademon

kyrademon — Sat, 08 May 2010 22:07:32 -0800

"Sushi sucks in Nebraska. Tornadoes suck in Nebraska." Putting the one right after the other this way makes it sound like the tornadoes are poorly made, not very fresh, and may contain cream cheese for unknown reasons.