We're talking about food -- again -- but this time it's food history. We all associate delicious dishes with certain countries, but sometimes we're dead wrong. Do you know where YOUR food came from?
We put a call out to listeners and none of the explanations checked out so we took the question to the East Benton County Historical Society Museum. Here’s what they said:
Everyone in this country can get behind a good "U-S-A! U-S-A!" chant. For everything else, we've got our own regional dialects.
A statistician at North Carolina State University analyzed survey data on the different words and pronunciations different parts of this country use to describe the same exact thing. Here are the seven biggest ones we disagree on . . .
I've been nostalgic for my childhood lately and was remembering the way youth soccer used to be in Tri-Cities. My kids are too young to play now, so I can't compare and contrast, but here are my favorite things about the way things used to be:
We love the "Elaine Dance." I'm convinced that Julia Louis-Dreyfus got the idea from one of The Emotions. Check out this collaboration between The Emotions and Earth, Wind & Fire. I picked two spots in the video at about :55 and about 2:20 but the whole thing is worth watching.
Diamond Rio, the Christian country music group, celebrate 20 years since 'Close to the Edge' was released. The album came out on October 27, 1992, via Arista. It was the six-piece group's second album, and it followed the sonic style of their debut.
So I graduated from high school in 1979 (Hanford Falcons YEAH!) I spent the last couple of years in school jumping in my buddy's car and heading to to Artic Circle drive in in Richland, maybe McDonalds. But before we got our driver's licenses and we could leave campus we had to eat school lunch or pack our own lunch...