Things I Think ALL Middle Americans Do
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- AKA Assumptions an Irish Girl has about Middle America having Never been there... unless you count Pennsylvania but that's not really in the middle...?
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Calling it "middle america" is not wrong just.... Weird! Lol. We call it the Midwest :)
Oh.... hmm maybe I'll change the title
The Midwest doesn't include the Plains or the Mountain states.
@@briantevington1608,Nebraska is part of the Midwest..California is a hole in the ground.
I'm Colorado,The Rocky Mountains are there to keep Californian's out of the Midwest..
Honestly, I was thinking the same thing! "Middle America" sounds like the middle class, not geography, so it does sound weird, but I assumed she meant the Midwest/Plains states.
My favorite thing in the world is to argue over what states make up the Midwest.
I think hunting/fishing isn't so much a "middle America" thing as it is a rural America thing. The further you live from a major urban area, the more likely you are to be into hunting and fishing, even if you're on one of the coasts.
Maybe... I lived in Seattle for a while and a lot of people were always fishing there.
I love fishing I'm technically a small city dweller. Ha ha
I live in one of the largest metropolitan cities in America. Hunting and fishing is very common, whether they are downtown or the suburbs. So it’s not a “rural thing”. They are just different types of sport people enjoy. Only hunting and fishing have the added bonus of putting food on the table.
Yes I grew up one county north of New York City & there were people who went hunting& fishing (as well as camping and hiking). We also had a bowling alley with leagues but it has closed down years ago.
@@laurelanderson6782 yeah i used to live in rural ND and now i live around tacoma and more people here fish than in ND
In the US, if you have land around your house, it's your yard. If you plant flowers or vegetables, you have a garden in your yard.
In Ireland & the UK they don’t say yards but gardens.
And if your little yard garden is only three feet wide then it’s a yard yard garden.
If your garden is only a yard wide, you should probably be able to keep your feet out of it.
And large yards aren't inherent for the midwest, it depends on whether you are in a city or not. Standard house lot for Chicago is 125 ft x 25 ft. I have a house, but a pretty small front and back yard.
You know Diane is getting serious about a topic when the cat ears come out. Just imagine poor Chewie’s shock upon being woken up from a lovey nap to be confronted by a glittery cat creature with an Irish accent.
Haha poor floppy nap boy
Although it’s probably not an Irish accent to him. It’s just how people talk.
If you didn’t have a tree house, you might have a “fort” which a bit like a treehouse or clubhouse on or under the ground. I had both. As others have noted, fathers often help with treehouses- less so with forts. Our treehouse was suspended by ropes, so as not to hurt the tree.
Spot on. A legit “treehouse” was made by an adult. As kids we found random materials and made our own forts. Once we did make one two stories between 4 close trees (was like a cube shape) and put a couch on the 2nd floor. So technically that was a treehouse some teens made. Side note, anyone else have a rope swing somewhere in the woods near you?
"Fort" here. It was on the ground but there was an underground tunnel to get into it. A nearby lumber yard let us take their discarded wood pieces to build it.
I had a playhouse my grandpa built when visiting. Our neighbors had a treehouse.
I had a tree house, it wasn't so much a "house" as much as a platform built around the tree...and my dad built it.
You're so lucky!
Mine and the next-door neighbor's was similar. Mostly a platform to get up and away from petty life and to watch the clouds or nature. Just don't fall asleep and roll over the edge. That was a bit of a fall.
ETA: And we made them out of whatever scraps we could fond; hence the violations of health and safety regulations.
I had the same, but built it myself. Wasn't much, but it was mine! I was probably somewhere between 8 and 10 years old when I built it, and it wasn't a particularly tall tree.
@@DianeJennings I just heard Dimitri Martin say treehouses are cruel to trees ... imaging someone killing your friends and making you hold them for all time.
Treehouses are just placed where kids just get out of the house and away from parental control for awhile. It's a place of their own. Most are pretty safe. Lots are built with the parents help, but not all. A lot of stuff that happens in " middle America" happens in small town America. There just us not a lot of stuff for kids to do, do they make their own fun.
I had a tree house in the suburbs north of Boston......yes, my Dad built it for me
Of course, Treehouse Masters (the TV show), details at least one major company building fully engineered structures in trees. Some average treehouses are built by parents or children. It depends. If it’s officially in a homeowner’s yard in an average sized urban or suburban property, it’s usually supervised by the homeowner, but such “official” structures are far from being the only treehouses
And, we prayed for Kevin Bacon to come to town, so that we'd win the right to dance.
😆😆 I remember seeing that 1 a few times! And my friends dancing in the aisles as we walked out of the theatre
Omigod too funny!
Ha I live 3 miles from the town that movie is based on.🤣🤣🤣
@@kiltedbroshar4187 Lol can they dance now?
@@LindaC616 nope still illegal
When you hear newscasters talk about "Middle America" they are referring to the middle class, not a geographic area. The region that you're referring to is often called the midwest. It is also called "America's Heartland".
Spot on about “middle America” referring to class more than place. Frankly, it’s often used dismissively, a huge mistake.
More accurately, the middle-income class.
When I was a kid there were at least a dozen tree houses within a hundred yards of me and none were built by parents. We even had a three story tree house we built in the woods that no parents knew about. Looking back, we were either not very smart or we were fearless. But we had fun.
I think you actually got a lot more right than wrong. Your trips to this side of the pond and feedback from Americans seem to have made you remarkably well informed.
I friend asked me to explain what the word “many “ means. After, he said thanks it means a lot
LOL!
In middle America, we drink, fish, hunt, bowl, have bon fires, go 4 wheeling/ mudding, shootguns , roller skating, simply drive our cars up and down the main streets for hours. We do a lot of stuff for fun
The have direct flights to Chicago O’Hare international. Chicago is the 3rd largest city in America and the largest in the Midwest.
All she has to do is fly into a major city pick a direction and drive for an hour shell end up in a rural area...or the ocean if she's on the coast and picks the wrong direction (please don't do that we like the videos)
The part about being defensive about food I would attribute to Southerners, especially in the case of biscuits and gravy, which is a Southern staple. They are fierce about biscuits, cornbread, 'greens' fried chicken, etc. I grew up in the Upper Midwest and now live in the South, and it is definitely a Southern thing!
and sweet tea. I can't stand going up north and having to ask particularly for sugar in my tea.
You question our love of bowling, which includes colorful team shirts, drinking alcohol and watching tournaments on television. But in Ireland you love darts, which also includes colorful team shirts, drinking alcohol and watching tournaments on television. We're not so different.
Grew up on a small farm and in the summer we would play all over the place. When our mom wanted us back to the house she would beep the car horn.
Lol I grew up on a Lake. Sound would carry, so people would just go out on the back deck and holler for you at dinner time!
sweet!
I remember that anything inside the barbed wire was fair game for playing, including the collapsed barn, the parked equipment, the windmill that sent my dad to the hospital, even the place where the hemp grew wild (pre-legalization).
@@davidweitzenkamp4856 Well so I guess your house was a popular place to hang out when you were a teenager!😄
I actually have a friend who's dad was a big ham radio guy and had a large antennae next to the house.
He put a loudspeaker on the antennae and would actually broadcast things like "Campbell boys, come home for dinner" throughout the whole neighborhood.
I always love when you talk about America.
You don't like Meat Loaf? I'm surprised that someone as young as you has even heard of him! ;-)
She has probably seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
What's for dinner? LOL
That’s funny!
Damn it Janet
Dr Scott!
You are correct on all assumptions 👍🏼Tree houses were never safe, we just didn’t care. We like our towns as they are. We love when people fly over, and keep on going 👋🏽
I am from Georgia and we would sneak out and we built forts , tree houses , log cabins and even an underground house . We had dirt clod battles ,BB gun battles , pine cone battles .
I’m totally gonna post a video of my part of “Middle America” ‘cause almost none of these apply here. Lol
It's always fun to see your perception of the US because you know that it's affected by media and you don't take yourself too seriously. Different areas of the country have jokes about other areas (I think you'd call it "Taking the piss.") but we all give as good as we get. (Like they call us the flyover states and we call them the fly away from states.) I grew up in northern Minnesota and one year we had some pretty stout snow drifts. I built a tree house while standing on top of the drifts and with the spring melt it was 20 feet off the ground.
Regional jokes: Do you know why all the corn in Iowa leans to the north? Minnesota Sucks (I actually like Mn)
We were having a border dispute with Missouri. We decided to give them our southern most tier of counties. It will raise the average IQ of both states by 10 points.
You gotta love when Diane responds to something Editor Diane says... Maybe you two should have a full blown conversation sometime.
Middle America, or as we call it, the mid-west consists of 12 states. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. There is no middle America other than these states happen to be kinda sorta in the middle. Boop.
You wouldn't consider Kentucky midwest? It's right below Ohio...
@@Montweezy I call it the south, but your mileage may vary
Uhh... I've definitely heard Middle America used for the plains states by Americans.
@@MuttFitness yeah I'm in NC and consider anything northwest of West Virginia the Midwest....I love being in the center of the East Coast because I can hit NY or Miami in 12 hours by car...
I see a lot of comments from Midwesterners protesting the term "Middle America." Generally, I think "Middle America" is used to describe a broader area that includes the Mid-South (TX, OK, AK, LA, MS and AL) and the Mountain West (NM, CO, WY, MT, ID, and UT). Basically everything between the Appalachians in the east and the Cascades and Rockies in the West.
I live in the biggest city in Kansas right in the middle of America in a tiny apartment a big apartment complex and we have a good sized downtown with skyscrapers half a million people so very urban not rural at all
The biggest? Wich city?
Yep Wichita
A snack to get through the apocalypse. I love the way you think, Diane. 😄
😁
We have to remember that our Diane here is an actual Doomsday Prepper.
I will say I’ve been known to have a blanket, snack & extra clothes in my car but I live in an area known for its cold. And blizzards.
Clearly, you have just had the wrong kinds of biscuits and gravy.
First off Diane ... TWO ED appearances! Be still my heart! 😂 Her piercing blue eyes ... ok enough. To the video. I built tree houses when I was a kid. I knew my way around a hammer and nails because my dad built several of the houses we lived in. We moved to a neighborhood where there were lots of new houses being built and would steal scrap lumber from those to build my tree houses. People from middle America tend to be a lot more ... down to earth. I have ridden a bicycle across the state of Iowa twice and the people are very genuine and friendly. Just good people. Now the state is mostly corn and soybeans but the people are amazing. Meatloaf, I do like meatloaf. With mashed potatoes and green beans, just good comfort food! I know you don't care for ground beef anyway though. So you don't like a good hamburger then? Good video Diane! And excellent editing ED! 😊
I’m late to the party today so here’s a belated yaaay! I never had a tree house but I did climb trees and we had a swing that went over a creek. Nice video Diane! I’d like to wish everyone a safe and happy Memorial Day today, especially to those who lost a loved one that served in our military protecting our country. 🙏🏼🇺🇸
Have a great week! ❤️U☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸
Grew up in Texas. One of the places where we lived sat on a little over 8 acres. No white picket fences; just half broken ones. Did have a circular piece of wood tied to a rope for a swing, though. Also; love the cat ears and please don't take a lack of subscribers out on Chewie.
Haha! I love this! I grew up in Iowa. When I was a kid we went to Canada to visit my mom's friend. Their kids asked if we lived on a farm and if we had an outhouse and electricity! 😂 We do have big apartment complexes and cities with crime just like the coastal states, but for the most part as I've traveled in the US the Midwest is more easy going. Loved the video!!
As from someone from Ohio, I remember a quote from famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. "The United States is tipped and all the loose things roll to California!"
You’re RIGHT ON about driving everywhere...if my destination is more than about 1/4 mile away, out comes the car!
Bowling is somewhat of a thing (not as much as in the past). Fishing, hunting, 4 wheeling, and kayaking are more of a thing.
In my experience, people who claim New York and California aren't the "real" America usually come from more rural, more conservative areas who resent the political power and the more liberal values that the higher population states tend to hold. But the residents of those states are just as American as people living on farms in the Corn Belt.
Also, outdoorsy activities like camping/hiking/fishing are most definitely NOT specific to the middle states. There's so much natural land to explore here that enjoying the outdoors is a common pastime in every state I've been to.
Being in Upstate New York, I feel left out of this one. Now middle America, but definitely not associated with the big cities of the East. Still, I think your intro was right about the impressions of the media leading to some wrong assumptions.
My husband's people are from Syracuse, NY. He & I currently live in Ohio. The culture is very Midwest in Upstate, NY.
I'm from the greater Rochester area. I feel left out too 😂
@@kathyp1563 We DO love our bowling in Rome.
@@joemercury100 Rome, NY?
@@kathyp1563 Yep
You need to visit some flyover states. We’d love to introduce you to the boring parts of America. Come in the fall and you can watch high school football, get some fresh apple cider(non alcoholic), and enjoy the colorful scenery. We do take the piss out of each other, but like in Ireland, be careful trying it with people you don’t know.
Leaf-peepping would be a unique experience for her too
Great craic, as usual! I het a real kick out of how your brain works, Diane; been watching for years, and you’re still my favorite TH-camr.
Thats so encouraging to hear! Thank you
@@DianeJennings, thank YOU for keeping us all informed and entertained!
Kansas kid here! Born literally at the center of the US. I consider every state and territories all a part of the USA. I live on 1/3 acre with a dark privacy fence and 3 dogs, in the suburbs. I did t really sneak out, but I did 1 time... from a basement window, during a sleepover. We were too broke for a tree house. I just climbed them. Lol I’ve bowled and fished, but they were special events. I did learn to water ski when I was 7, though. Family bonds? Hmm A few things have happened in the past 5 years that have complicated things. Yes driving is ugh. Kansas is big. Lol And Kansas is not a macho state. It’s The Plaines, where folks tend to be a bit friendlier, more humble. Hope I didn’t bore you with a novel. Lol Stay well! 💐
The kids in our town “drag Main” a lot. It’s an American tradition.
Within just 60 years the popularity of drag was overtaken and left in the dust by a fabulous new type of “drag”
Haha!!
We use to 20 years ago. Hung out at a place called super shops... everybody drink. Beer amd show off our high powered hot rods, amd drink beer amd drive them... 🤣
We used to do that, along West Colfax Avenue, in Denver.
It was kinda famous -- so much so, that it started to get outta control, and the local business owners had the cops shut it down.
It happens, some, on Federal Boulevard, these days, but it's nothing like it was, back then.
Such a generalization! I am 54, lived in the Midwest my whole life and only know a handful of people that regularly bowl.
There's that lady who doesn't like biscuits and gravy! Get her! Angry mob descends upon Diane.
Haha... noooooo!!!!
Witch! Witch! Burn the spawn of the Dark One! 😉
Tree house are critical infrastructure for launching expeditions to recover baseballs from mastiffs.
Bowling, at least, used to be inexpensive fun. Haven't bowled for a while so I am not sure.
We do like doing things outdoors. We tend to have to create our own enjoyment.
I don't try to take myself too seriously but I have been around people who take themselves way too seriously.
Have a great week Diane!! 👍
You too!
Bowling is great for something to do in the winter. Don't have to be any good, unless your in a league, then they kinda expect it. t's fun with little kids, too.
It's also something you can do when drunk and you don't need any real degree of fitness. It's athletic pool.
we just love our mother's meatloaf... it's ok to hate other meatloaf... expected even.
Good to know!
Right. Everyone's mother seemed to have her own recipe. My mother was the only one who didn't use too many onions.
I hate all meatloaf. I'm from Michigan.
I think this is so true! I’ve found a few I hated and a few I liked, but none were as good as my mom’s.
I know that I love Bowling because it’s an easy game to play and understand. You can even do homemade Bowling by taking and medium sized ball and ten soda bottles. BTW, I love your kitty ears.
Right now my neighbor is building a treehouse for his son in a tree in his front yard; I believe the vast majority of tree houses are built by dads. I also have never known of anyone who snuck out of their house via the window. Most of my friends just snuck out the back door, and lastly my nephew LOVES to fish, with a pole and noodling, letting the catfish basically swallow your hand and then to pull him up with your arm....yuck!
"You can't fly directly there" right after referring to them as flyover states. Well. Ya.
To be fair, I’m an American and assumed they were called fly over states because no one WANTED to go there. Didn’t know they don’t even have international flights there.
@@mollygrace3068 Canadian/American here. Little of column a, little of column b. If there were demand for those routes, they'd have them.
If you fly delta you'll probably end up in Minneapolis. It's a hub.
@@mollygrace3068 excuse me, but we DO have airports. That "flyover" sh*t talk is something bi-coastal celebrity elitists say. SCREW them.
@@mollygrace3068 They certainly have international flights to many places in the midwest (Chicago being one obvious example).
As someone living in 'middle America" a lot of us have fences but not so much white picket. A lot of my friends from high school would tell their parents they were going to a 'sleepover' which is the teenage code for getting drunk and passing out in a field. :)
maybe wild kids do that, not good kids. sounds like Hollywood stereotypes.
Culture: Ste. Genevieve, Mo is a French settlement from 1730s that still has 6 colonial French homes to visit. One can take an excursion on a steamboat in Hannibal where Mark twain grew up (think Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn). Route 66 runs from Chicago to L.A. via St. Louis with a 100 small towns in Route of glitch, Route 66 small town America.
Never snuck out but my neighbor's daughter growing up had a window in her room that had a window that made it easy to get on the roof. It was before cellphones so she would pull her house phone out there and sit on the roof for hours to talk to people(I assume boyfriend) so that her family couldn't evesdrop on her.
I knew kids who snuck out of the house after hours, through their window. Definitely happens. In the TV shows, it's the "good kids" with strong relationships with their parents who climb in & out of their windows. No. The good kids use the front door.
I'VE ALREADY SUBSCIBED!! PLEASE, BY ALL THAT IS GOOD AND JUST, LEVE POOR CHEWIE OUT OF THESE 'CURSES'!!
In America we call them yards. Gardens are specific areas you plant flowers, shrubs or vegetables. Once again, separated by a common language.
In most of the rest of the world outside North America, the only "yard" people know is Scotland Yard.
@@jwb52z9 Well, its good to know the rest of the world still has a lot to learn.
Wait... is “hyperbole” actually pronounced “hyper-bowl” in Ireland or was that just a joking way of saying it?
...not usually, no. It was cute, though.
I think it was humorous. Like pronouncing _epitome_ as "epitoam."
Still get a shudder at the aftermath of my having pronounced bourgeoisie as bur-goi-sey in 1961. That sort of mistake can haunt a small town boy forever.
Most people I know pronounce it that way, so I correct them
@@chadfalardeau5396
Most people you know mispronounce it?
Do you mean that literally, or is that hyper-bowl?
Gauging America by New York and California is like basing your view of Ireland on a St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Rather than have a tree house many in the US had some kind of a fort made up from anything like paint tarps to a packing box to anything else you could put up out of sight or in someone’s back yard. As a little kid they might seem enormous and then turned out to be very tiny indeed.
Another great video. Keep up the good work and Happy Monday!
I tried being Serious once, lasted about 5 minutes
I've lived in the Southwest most of my life but i spent two years in Bloomington, Indiana and it was kind of like visiting different country. the food was really bland but the people were nice. it was amazingly green, the summers were wet and humid, their "little creeks" had more water in them than our "big rivers," and the drivers were really, really slow.
I think the differences that you're attributing to "Middle America" have more to do with city living versus country living than the geographical region. The major cities in the Midwest are just like the major cities anywhere else in America. The countryside across America is what changes, so country living adapts to compensate, but it's still roughly the same because it's still country living, just in a different environment.
Man, you made me realize that I'm nothing more than a mere stereotype. I did/do all thise things you mentioned. Snuck out of the house, bowled a lot, had a tree house, (dad built it), but I improved on it. Went fishing, camping, hiking all the time.
Talking about food, when you mentioned sweet and sour sauce not being Irish reminded me of teasing my mother. She was proud of being of Irish descent and would start making all these Irish dishes, I would ask her why there wasn't any "gourmet Irish food?" That would always get a rise put of her.
There's no bowling alleys on Inishmore. I have to go all the way to mainland Galway to find one.
Haha that is true!
100 percent correct from this michiganders perspective, love the page
I haven't been this early in a long time. I live in Wisconsin and I will say that New York and California get most of the attention in the US. There are a lot of farms in the middle of the US but that's where a lot of our agriculture comes from. States like Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Kansas are portrayed as farmlands which is relatively true. No I never snuck out of my house through a window, I have come in at midnight only because I came home from a school function. I still came in the front door greeted by barking rat terriers. I had a treehouse once but it wasn't all that glamourous.
I did do some bowling but I wasn't a pro. I also did some fishing but it wasn't a lot despite Wisconsin having great fishing. But bowling is pretty fun even though I barely break 100 in my score. I have had some close bonds but as I have gotten older, the bonds have broken up somewhat. Honestly, since my grandmothers died on both sides of the family, we have been relatively broken up although my mom's side is very close. It's ok that you don't like biscuits and gravy, I'm not the biggest fan either. Yes my mother's meatloaf is very very good. But it's ok that you don't like it.
Yes I have to drive wherever I need to go. Walking where I live is really not an option. I do keep deodorant in my car ironically. I try not to take myself seriously but sometimes I do get offended by some assumptions people make about Midwesterners. But hey you're pretty close in assumptions, not to bad in your guesses.
But there are some great cities to! (Lived in Madison for 10 years)
@@LindaC616 I live in the northwestern part which gets largely ignored. But I admit Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Eau Claire, and LaCrosse are fun cities I have hungout in.
@@paullangland6877 I enjoyed my time there. I considered it almost as much home as Michigan. I went back 2 years ago to visit an old friend in Minneapolis, and we went down for the weekend. It has changed a lot. It was good for me to do that, because I had been missing, living in this small town on the East Coast, certain things about Madison, like the variety of restaurants from different countries and people from all over the world. We are cosmopolitan for a nanosecind every summer, and then it becomes really boring again
In my twenties, I did keep an "overnight" kit in my car all the time - toothbrush, razor, and spare underwear and socks at a minimum. Just in case I ended up spending the evening away from home, so to speak. LOL
There are companies in America that build tree houses. My brother and I once build a tree house.
That sounds fancy!
I'm from a state called Mississippi in America. We did have tree houses, bowling, and I'm not gonna hold it against you for not liking biscuits and gravy. Really most of this is in rural areas. Really heavy farming area as well
I am not quite middle America as I live in Pittsburgh PA however, it's a heck of a lot closer than New York city. So let me just say this. People that live in LA are on another planet. Maybe other parts of CA are different but LA people are just weird.
I live in Arizona, and it's a lot closer to LA than to NYC. So let me just say this. The people I've met from LA don't go out of their to talk crap about people from Pittsburgh. Maybe people who live in Pittsburgh are just weird.
People from Southern California will always tell you where they're from. Then they complain about the food wherever they've moved to even though the food in L.A.is nothing to write home about.
@@rm2kmidi Good Lord, I guess you've never met someone from Chicago going on and on about their pizza. We've got lots of Illinois natives in Arizona who talk all the time about the food where they're from. It's normal to miss home. This is not a California trait.
@@lauriemartin490 relax. I was just trying to be funny. Matter of fact I met an old couple today who moved from LA who were very nice. Sorry if I offended Los Angelions. They do hog the media though. Pittsburgh is a great city I wish it got more love. Usually in movies it’s always somebody’s aunt or uncle who lives in Pittsburgh or something like that.
I have a feeling that teenagers sneaking out of the house was more common before they had the ability to just call their friends when they were upset.
I'm getting real grumbly about this, and I know it's not your fault, but I had to pause the video at the "Bowling/Outdoorsy" part. I was born and raised in California, Southern California to be exact, and not only were there large pieces of land to plonk our ridiculous houses on, you would find many a Californian hiking and fishing on their days off. Good lord, there is SO MUCH nature out here. It drives me a little nuts when people (from the U.S. as well as overseas) insist that Californians (and New Yorkers, as I have lived there, too) don't do the things that Midwesterners do. Of course we do! It just costs more! ;) Also, yes to bowling. I'm not a huge bowler, but my mom was in a league, and I've rented some lanes in my time. :) Back to the video!
Happy Monday! I really love your video. Have a very awesome week.
Thank you! You too!
I dont like biscuits and gravy either, or grits, or ranch. I'm from New Jersey so my food opinions are correct
Yeah.....I don't think Ranch is a "middle America" thing, though. It's very popular in the west, including California. I grew up in Jersey, and never heard of it until I moved out west.
You hate biscuits and gravy 😱 thems fighting words lol 😆😂🤣
Isn't biscuits and gravy a southern thing? I see it now on menus in the midwest, but never when I was younger.
One good way for you to truly see/experience “middle America” is to travel Route 66 - it starts in Chicago (a major airline hub that accommodates plenty of international flights) and ends in Santa Monica (CA) . In fact, I believe you mentioned in a previous video (two years ago now?) that Route 66 was on your bucket list - good way to ‘kill two birds with one stone’.
Until your next video - be good ✌️- stay safe 😷
Accurate! Just keep in mind, a trip along Route 66 is going to take some time. 2 weeks is generally considered the minimum, and if you really want to experience both the major tourist spots and the more "off-beat" stuff (and we know you do!) you should plan for about a month.
I mostly agree, but when I think "middle america" I think of states like indiana, ohio, kentucky. Most of the population is east of the mississippi and route 66 is mostly west of it.
Since Route 66 has been largely replaced by the interstate system many once popular attractions along it have been abandoned.
That is a good thing to try except parts of route 66 no longer exist
I live in the country just a few miles from route 66--the sign says "Lincoln Highway".
Diane, we dads build those tree houses for our kids. Boring people bowl. Most men fish. We love the outdoors. We are all about family. We love family dinners. We love home cooking. As far as meatloaf goes, you haven't tried REAL meatloaf. We do drive everywhere. It's quicker. And we are bold and direct. We don't have a problem making fun of ourselves. We are, for the most part, secure.
I've lived my whole life in the NYC metro area, and I can affirm that urban America is not "real America." Real America™ is what you'd find in the romanticized, idealized Normal Rockwell paintings on the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. Ireland has much the same attitude. Most Irish people I've met will tell me that Dublin is the "least Irish place in Ireland," and most other European countries have a similarly romantic-peasant-view of the "pure" culture (for complex reasons going back to the social movements that fomented and accompanied the revolutions of 1848-52, but before I start waxing long on my doctoral dissertation topic, I'll stop there).
That said, I'd love to see an "Irish Girl Reacts to Normal Rockwell" video!
Hi Diane, lovely video.. so many questions.
I am from New England and went to Cleveland Ohio for many many years of school and training. The very most important piece of information I can give you is that midwesterners seemed to regard their pickup trucks differently than in New England. I asked what the deal was and they told me the truck was equal to my fur baby, ie your Chewie. And the gun rack was a hug.
Cleveland itself is every bit a big city as New York. Top notch universities, museums, rich middle Easteners flying in to pay for world class medical care. And neighborhoods as scary as your Compton with lots of the effects of gang violence in the ERs. The suburbs were more peaceful and had your large houses. Bowling was huge in the suburbs west of Cleveland and not East. They hug more in the Midwest. The favored foods are different, casseroles, biscuits and gravy ( I don’t like this much either, and to be fair I also don’t like blood pudding ). I don’t find them more laid back. I find rigid and laid back in both the East coast and the midwest. Cleveland was very international, very progressive and I am so glad to have gotten to know it. 💜🇺🇸🌏
Almost forgot how big Cleveland was on ribs, massive rib cook off every year.. and the rock and roll hall of fame.
Yep, have to drive everywhere .... "corner" store is 2 miles away, next town is 6 miles. (Minnesota)
Our closest Walmart is 50 miles east, closest K-Mart was 50 miles south, but that one closed. Best place to buy clothes...Tractor Supply. We do have a couple choices for groceries, guns and hardware, and a dozen bars.
Chewie is an absolute legend. I forgive you for not liking biscuits and gravy. Ranch goes on everything, including meatloaf and pizza. I have definitely made a 5 hour drive to eat at my fave restaurant and outdoor recreation is the key to life.
In movies, characters are able to open windows from the outside.
Yes in real life it's generally hard to do if the screen is in place and it also requires that it not be locked too.
Actually, keeping snacks in your car is going to make them a hard target for rodents and causes a BUNCH of electrical issues.
Pronouncing hyperbole as "hyperbowl" and then later talking about bowling... that's funny.
Bowling a game after eating WAY too much sugar = hyperbowl
I'm from San Diego and we love outdoorsy things. The weather is usually beautiful. We have tons of hiking trails and lakes to fish on.
Outdoor stuff is HUGE on the East Coast.
also the west coast.
FYI as well...bowling is a world-wide sport. There are famous professional bowlers from the UK, and the most famous/popular bowler in the world is from Australia.
California is not just the coast. There is a lot of wildlife wilderness, mountains and desert land.
I agree... many do not
I’m the oldest of 5 kids. I built my own hideaway on the back of our property. And I’m a girl. I also had a tree stump that was my thinking spot. Outside of my window was a tv tower. When I was older my boyfriend climbed up and into my window. I never got caught though.
Good times! Even had my own tv. Paid for it myself. After I started working. Bought my own vehicle’s too! It was back in the olden days.
OH! I forgot. My dad had a Ham radio antenna, which was like a ladder. In elementary school, we'd climb the antenna & play on the roof of our 2nd-story house. I don't think my parents know about that to this day.
And middle America, we call it, " the heartland". Or some call it the midwest.
No, the Midwest is a specific region centered around Chicago. Middle America is basically everything in the middle of the country minus the urban areas.
@@rm2kmidi are you even from America? I know what it is. Middle America is the Midwest. Aka the heartland. Don't try to tell me wtf it is.
@@fulldino7388 yes I agree that is what we call ignorance in the midwest
@@fulldino7388 Umm. no, it's not the same thing as the Midwest. The midwest is a specific region of the country. Middle America is referring to the areas of the country that aren't on the coast or in major urban areas. Have you really never heard that term?
Your thoughts and points of view are cool. Pretty much spot on. 😀
“Middle America” is an extremely broad definition of the US outside of most of the major cities and tourist destinations. For example, you can find “Middle America” in the smaller towns and cities in California and New York, just not in NYC or LA
Actually I've always thought of middle America as the centre of the country including the big cities
I consider middle America anything between the Appalachian Mtns and The Rockies...
@@Montweezy same
Middle California is another world. I think it's a state of mind or lifestyle, not geographic.
Much of the American Midwest (middle America refers more to social/economic divides than a geographic location) was settled by immigrant farmers from Norway, Sweden & Germany because the terrain reminded them of their homes. The foods, values & customs of the Midwest reflect these cultures.
New York and California are definitely also parts of “real” America, just like middle America, the south, etc. sometimes people in any of those regions like to pretend that there’s only one kind of American culture (theirs)
About as real as Hollywood.
I found that when you got outside the urban areas, the people in NY state weren't all that different than the people in the midwest. I grew up in Kansas City, but I spent a few years going to the State University of NY @ Stony Brook. Once off-campus, the people of Setauket weren't that different than the people in Kansas City. Of course, to the people on campus, they were surprised that Kansas City had paved roads and there weren't wild Bison wandering around (it's at least a couple of hours drive to see Bison, outside of the KC zoo!) And once you get upstate of NYC, even north of Westchester or Rockland counties, again, it's not really that different from the midwest, with the exception of the college towns. Going to West Point, home of the US Military Academy, is one of the most beautiful areas you'll see, a forested valley next to a river.
Agreed. I don't like the implications that come with the claim that New York and California aren't part of "real" America.
When the truth is there's no one "real America". There's many Americas. I'm from New England, and I often feel like Southerners are so culturally different from me that they might as well be from another country. A country with a lot of shared history and some shared heritage but just not the same.
I grew up in New Jersey, and lots of teenagers climbed out their windows.
Ohhh, surprising us with the cat ears, I like it x
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@@DianeJennings 🐱
Midwest best!! Yayyyy we're talking about my neck of the woods this week :)
Food wise, American will be defensive about their comfort food. Meatloaf, Mac & Cheese, Biscuit and Gravy these are all comfort foods and hold a special place in peoples hearts. I'm sure Irish people have comfort foods that they hold dear.
Tayto crisps....
Neighborhood had large vacant lot with big tree, someone unknown to me built a tree house in it. Played in by many kids for many years. Then the lot got sold and town houses built on the land. Yes, very unsafe. Bunch of boards nailed in tree fork. No rails etc. Ladder was was boards nailed to trunk. Left school books at base overnight. Being near Seattle they were very soggy by the next morning.
Well now you can add to your stereotypes with Arizona, Texas and the US south east (from Richmond, va to Miami to Houston TX.
🙋♀️ middle American here; yup, you nailed it Diane
correct on every point 🇺🇲