Contentious issue I know, but recently I’ve encountered a number of people who believe that Ohio (and sometimes Indiana and Michigan) is not truly part of the Midwest. Which to me is preposterous since I’ve always considered Ohio the most quintessentially Midwestern state. Midwest to me has always been very nearly synonymous with rust belt, but it seems there are a fair number of people who place the Midwest more in what I’d call the Great Plains, or Greater Minnesota. So I’m wondering where do you all place the Midwest.

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    4 months ago

    "I'll take a coke." "What kind?"

    i know a poor soul who moved from the north atlantic seaboard to rural deep southern appalachia and then once worked a drive thru at mcdonald's and had to parse "errinj coke" into a sensible order for an increasingly impatient customer

    Do you ope?

    as a kind of semi apologetic interjection, right? like "ope! look at the time!"

    • bananon [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      “Ope, let me just squeeze by ya right here”

    • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
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      4 months ago

      as a kind of semi apologetic interjection, right? like "ope! look at the time!"

      That's pretty much it. Although it can also be used like a less aggressive "hey!"

      Nearly bump into someone in the hall? "Ope!"

      Someone examining the spices for 5 minutes when you just need to grab the salt? "Ope, scuse me, just gotta sneak by ya there."

      Etc.

      Having spent some years in the south, clearly "errinj coke" is a fanta orange, or Sunkist if you're lucky.