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1. Boot : A glass boot filled with beer served at the Essen Haus, Madison's German-themed bar and restaurant in downtown Madison...
2. French Fur Traders : Don't get excited people, the French fur traders were simply the first Europeans to make the trip to the area now...  
3. Mann's Chinese Theatre Footprint : A famous ceremony whereby the cream of the celebrity crop are honored by having their footprints immortalized in wet...  
4. Mill-Wahh-Kee : This is how an outsider will pronounce Milwaukee, a local will say "Muh-Wahh-Kee".  
5. Oktoberfest USA : The name of the German festival that livens up La Crosse every October. The city's first Oktoberfest USA festival took...  
6. Olbrich Gardens : A tropical year-round conservatory shaped like a glass pyramid filled with exotic plants, bright flowers, a rushing...
7. Swampies, The : A popular nickname for the students and faculty of the North Side's Logan High School, which was built on top of the...  
8. Tyme Machine : An ATM or Cash Machine in Milwaukee-speak. If strangers are around and they hear you say, "I need to go to the Tyme...  

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Hamburger meat/ground beef

Notorious nearly right angle turn on Interstate 90 in the southeastern section of downtown.

noun - called the "easement" or "treelawn" in other localities, the "devil-strip" is what we call the grassy strip between the street and the sidewalk.

Trenton has its own 'style' of this lawn game, where one pitches round metal quoits (sort of like metal hoops or rings) at a target.

A common street-vendor food; a big, soft pretzel with coarse salt, often eaten with mustard.