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An MSN report claims Culver’s is one of America's best burger chains

From a report at the link below:

Culver's started as a family-owned restaurant in Wisconsin with made-to-order cheeseburgers, frozen custard, and cheese curds, and it's since expanded to over 700 restaurants across the US.

Not long after a Culver’s opened up here in Loveland, Colorado we went there for lunch. We each ordered a Butterburger and frozen custard.

The Butterburger’s (I can think of a more appropriate name) had a rancid grease taste. The frozen custard was an afterthought. They were rock hard and we didn’t wait for them to thaw enough to eat.

We left and went somewhere else for lunch

The writer of the MSN report said “going into Culver’s felt cozy and peaceful, like stepping into a Midwestern grandma's home.” He should have been with us when we ate at Culver’s. Grandma never made burgers with a rancid taste.

Cheese curds? Puhleeze! Would they have a rancid taste as well?

We wonder how much Culver’s paid the writer to publish that slobbery article?

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The town of Epiphany, South Dakota to mark 125 years

In the late 1930‘s I lived in a house just east of the old Zens Store in Epiphany. As a pre-schooler I enjoyed the short time we lived there. Dad built a sandbox and mother helped us kids make wigwams out of paper as she taught us about Nokomis and the Big Sea Water from the Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longellow.

In that old run-down house in Epiphany I also learned the poem Kubla Khan:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

I have fond memories of the short time we lived in Epiphany - the town that forgot how to grow up.

The population today is only 99. One would think that a 125-year-old Catholic town would have a few more residents than the number of beads in a rosary.

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How many grandparents can you name? One third of Americans can’t even name four

A recent survey finds that a third of Americans can’t even name all four of their grandparents.

While DNA kits that trace one’s ancestry have surged in popularity over the years, there are still plenty of people who don’t seem to care too much about where they came from. The survey of 2,000 Americans showed that a third of respondents struggled to climb the branches of their family tree beyond their grandparents.

One in five couldn’t even name one of their great-grandparents.

It wasn’t just names of relatives that respondents failed to come up with either. A fifth didn’t know the city that any of their grandparents were born in, and 14 percent had no idea what their grandparents even did for a living.

Full report here.

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A Nebr. trip was once welcoming and fun.

A safe way to unscrew a broken light bulb

Use a potato to unscrew a broken light bulb without cutting out your fingers.

Turn off the power and put on protective gloves. Cut the potato in half, push the soft side into the broken bulb and slowly turn it counterclockwise.

Much ot the country can stop praying for snow

Astonishing news today...

“Astonishing news today, as we bring you the story of a powerful male celebrity who behaved toward women in a courteous respectful manner!”

44.6% in California don’t speak English at home; 35.6% in Texas; 34.5% in NM

From a report at the link below:

In California, the nation’s most populist state, 44.6 percent of the people five years of age and older do not speak English at home, according to data released this week by the Census Bureau.

Nationwide, 21.6 percent speak a language other than English at home. a

Texas ranked second for the percentage of residents five and older who do not speak English at home (35.6 percent). New Mexico ranked third (34.5 percent); New Jersey ranked fourth (31.7 percent) and New York ranked fifth (31.0 percent).

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The spectacular Iron Mountain Road in the Black Hills of South Dakota

Traveling the Iron Mountain Road in the Black Hills of South Dakota, also known as US high-way16A, is an unforgettable experience. It surely is the most unusual and captivating road in America that will leave the traveler spellbound.

The road is only 17 miles long but with the many switchbacks, including what some have said is the only double spiral in the world. It will take 45 minutes to navigate the 314 curves, 14 switchbacks, 3 tunnels and 3 pigtail wooden bridges and turns that loop over their own road, allowing the road to climb rapidly.
A bus shown above is able to drive though the tunnels with almost no room to spare.
When traveling north from Custer State park on a clear day all three tunnels frame Mt. Rushmore National Memorial like a picture frame.

Occasionally traffic is stopped to wait for a buffalo herd slowly crossing the road.

A study finds that we are not as nice as we think we are

You may consider yourself to be a nice person, but according to a new study you’re probably not as nice as you think.

Psychologists from Goldsmiths, University of London have discovered that 98 per cent of British people think they’re part of the nicest 50 per cent of the population.

Psychologists from Goldsmiths, University of London have discovered that 98 per cent of British people think they’re part of the nicest 50 per cent of the population.

Full report here.