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Originally Posted by CGII
Forgive my anger in the last post. It's just that...Milwaukee doesn't have that much, so when you try and de-legitimize the one thing it does have (German heritage), I get a little hot and bothered.
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No worries. Yeah, I was kind of passively aggressively razzing Milwaukee in a way, while at the same time trying to make some kind of point. I guess that point being that Milwaukee both does and doesnt have a monopoly on German-American culture in the midwest. Like most caucasian St. Louisans, I'm only some kind of fraction German-American and not *that* serious about that part of my heritag, but am aware of it and like a 'lil braunschweiger now and then. I did make a passing comment pertaining to the per capita issue with St. Louis. There were absolutely massive German-American communities here, nonetheless, that built massive swaths of the urban fabric both on the Northside and Southside, which is still evident in the architecture and in particular in the care/methods of construction. For instance, you just don't see that slop that passes for masonry work in Chicago.
For all intensive/important purposes, Milwaukee pretty much sweeps every other contender to the claim of being "Germanic" off the board, that city took that important part of it's heritage and ran with it - and had good claim to.
Fake German village restaurant, coming up.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2732/...160ce8d0ef.jpg
I raise you another dusty inner city German restaurant.
http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/...stbatch112.jpg
and a bloated, overpriced, stuffy suburban German restaurant.
http://www.masoncontractors.org/abou...ry/10105/1.jpg
Unfortunately I'm running out of restaurants. I have a few more in reserve for sudden death overtime. I'm afraid to look to see how many more there are in MKE, much less Wisconsin as a whole. So I'll formally capitulate to MKE in this cold war.
