Another State Fair icon bites the dust

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | August 16, 2011 - 10:25 PM | RICK NELSON

[DManA]

I saw Fargo in a Twin Cities movie theater. The audience somewhere between twittered and roared every time someone opened their mouth.

It’s like looking at yourself in a fun house mirror. You kind of recognize yourself but it is so distorted and exaggerated it you can’t help laughing.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There is another Czech community like NP down in Cedar Rapids, IA. The CR “Bohemia” bakeries were just outstanding. I used to call on Wilson's Foods (pork packing plant) and if I didn't stop and bring in some bakery goods, I couldn't get anyone’s attention.

[Hunton Peck]

I had lived in the South for years, and thought I'd shed my accent. But one day I was working in North Carolina, calling on a little, rural general store. When it came time to sell the owner on next season's stock, I went into my spiel, talking for several minutes as the owner's brow furrowed, leaving me to wonder what I was saying wrong.

Once I finished, she stared for a few more seconds, and then asked, "Boy, whar'd ye git that brogue?"

[WorkingClassFilth]

John Schumacher reopened the restaurant with an cafe style menu of more trendy dishes. There were a few old standby items, but the old Bohemian/German menu was gone. It ran a couple years and closed down last winter or early spring, I believe. I heard from a waitress that his wife has cancer and they wanted to devout time to beating it. I live in the area and went to the new place once - nothing like the old world place before, but good enough for a night out.

[Hunton Peck]

Thanks for the update. I’m sorry to hear about his wife’s cancer. I sure hope she beats it, if that’s still a possibility.