Back in the westward expansion days, by the time the settlers got to the Ohio area they had ran out of all the good food. So they started eating cow tongues, brains, sheep and pig nads, livers, intestines, the beans no-one else would eat, as well as the liquid stuff like coffee and tea got re-used so often that it became pretty much just hot water. Ohioans to this day have adopted that as standard fare. The food is still 'odd', and the coffee is still just hot water.
Ohioans don't see any problems, they think it's like that everywhere. Some years ago I was in Ohio and in the restaurant I asked for a sweet tea. They had no-idea what I was talking about. They thought I wanted a hot tea with sugar. They know what sweet tea is now since McDonalds put it on the menu, but not one native Ohioan ever thought to add sweet tea to any menu anywhere until the worlds largest junk food dealer imported it. Don't even go there anyway just get a coke. The water in Ohio is hideous unless you have a penchant for sulphur.
If you must eat any food in Ohio stick to the super basic meat and potato's stuff. Steak/baked potato/green beans. Lotta cows in Ohio and a good steak is fairly easy to find. Do not veer off the meat and taters path.
They call fish feesh and the only feesh you can really find is catfeesh. They always have feesh fry's at the Catholic Church on fridays and those can be pretty good, as long as you understand it's gonna be catfeesh, potato's, and beans. Maybe corn. And a roll. And a coke.
They're very clan-ish. Strangers make them nervous so eye contact is rare. They all plan on getting cancer or diabetes by the age of 52 and will tell you so.
@Hadoken has a legitimate point. The weather in Ohio is constantly miserable which drives alcoholism and crack heads. The state is loaded with them both. They built Wright-Patterson AF base in Dayton because it's always overcast with gray skies making bombing the place difficult. It's so depressing even the Wright brothers moved to North Carolina.
The only thing you hear on the radio stations is Freebird.
Their only claim to fame is the Ohio State Buckeyes football program which has the distinction of being the only sports program in history named after a poisonous nut. They lost the braggadocio of "nobody ever been President without Ohio" which was the only other thing anyone ever remembered and that was once every 4 years.
Surprisingly, there have been 7 presidents from Ohio, but most of them sucked and no-one remembers them. The southern boys actually remember Grant more than the Ohioans do, but for entirely different reasons.
There have been many outstanding athletes born in Ohio, but they all moved away.
@Tim is from Michigan, and anybody from Michigan is the enemy.
They do grow very pretty girls there especially if you like blonde hair blue eyes. That part is great. The girls here in the Blue Ridge Mtns. look like Abraham Lincoln wearing pajamas.
Ohio deer are monsters the size of cows, and since all they ever eat is the farmers corn, soy beans, wheat, and hay the meat is absolutely delicious. Might be the best deer in the entire country.
Neil Armstrong is from Ohio, and after the giant-leap-for-mankind on the moon he moved back to his tiny hometown of Wapakoneta, where he pretty much just wanted to be left alone. He was 100% Ohio. This is what they do.
The most admirable people in Ohio are the Amish. No matter what happens to the rest of us they'll be fine.
I have family there, so I make that trip occasionally. My nephews are great young guys and they're starting young families and it's charming as all get-out.
But I always look forward to coming home. Ohio is not necessarily a bad world, but it is most definitely a different world. And they love it.
