{"id":88173,"date":"2024-08-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88173"},"modified":"2024-08-18T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T14:46:13","slug":"walz-wheres-the-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88173","title":{"rendered":"Walz:  Where&#8217;s The Beef?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a question for the hive mind of this blog.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Governor Klink made perhaps his most, to coin a term, &#8220;weird&#8221; attack on JD Vance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz\/status\/1824943510153245018\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, what he&#8217;s talking about is theWhich brings up the question &#8211; does the term &#8220;Runza&#8221; occur in Minnesota <em>at all<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s apparently named after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runza.com\/locations\">chain of burger joints in Nebraska<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on that burger joint&#8217;s menu is a meat pie.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-7-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-7-1024x683.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-7-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-7-768x512.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-7-1536x1024.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-7-450x300.png 450w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-7.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In North Dakota, it&#8217;d be called a <em>Fleischkikla <\/em>(German-Russian for the German <em>Fleischk\u00fcchle<\/em>.   In Northeast Minneapolis, it&#8217;s a Pierog.  There are other names in other languages.  They probably have a local term in Ohio that would flummox Klink<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in all my years in Minnesota &#8211; admittedly almost none of it in the First CD &#8211; I&#8217;ve never ever heard the term Runza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Am I missing something?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or is this literally the dumbest attempt at a dunk that Walz has ever tried?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a question for the hive mind of this blog. Yesterday, Governor Klink made perhaps his most, to coin a term, &#8220;weird&#8221; attack on JD Vance: Now, what he&#8217;s talking about is theWhich brings up the question &#8211; does the term &#8220;Runza&#8221; occur in Minnesota at all? It&#8217;s apparently named after a chain of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,37,44],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-88173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-language","category-stupid","tag-walz-for-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88175,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88173\/revisions\/88175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}