A local motto in recent years used to promote the city’s eccentricity and diversity. It's featured on innumerable bumper stickers and t-shirts.
"Notsoberfest" takes place the last weekend of September, kicking off La Crosse's famous Oktoberfest celebration. People stand around in beer tents and down pitcher after pitcher of beer. Just about everyone there is "not sober".
In the basement.
This slang for rubber bands in Pittsburgh speak.
Crayfish.
A supermarket shopping cart.
A reference to the Detroit Red Wings hockey team when they lose.
Pimento cheese, a popular local snack-food/condiment, often eaten in a sandwich on white bread with mayo.