Milwaukee is a unique city, and people that are from here have some pretty strange habits. Whether you hear someone using a language you’ve never heard of or making strange comments about their cheese, you’ll know you’re in Milwaukee. Here are seven things only a Milwaukeean will do, and they’re just plain weird.
- Every summer we watch sausages race around a baseball field.
Steve Shupe / Flickr No Brewers game would be complete without the racing sausages. You better believe a Milwaukeean will turn to their neighbor and bet on the race too!
- We use words you’ve never even heard of.
darwin Bell / Flickr It’s like Milwaukeean’s have a whole language of their own. What’s a bubbler? Where’s “up north”? A tyme machine? Huh?
- We make sure our cheese squeaks.
Lynn Friedman / Flickr If it doesn’t squeak, it’s not a real cheese curd.
- We hang out with The Bronze Fonz.
daniel baker / Flickr The Fonz from Happy Days is alive and well on Milwaukee’s RiverWalk… in bronze statue form, that is. You’ll often find a Milwaukeean hanging out with the Fonz, and we still snap selfies with him, even though we probably already have hundreds.
- We’ll drink PBR like other beer doesn’t exist.
Dustin O’Donnell / Flickr Milwaukee is full of great breweries and we can’t love every single one, yet somehow we never turn away from a good ole’ PBR, and you’ll find a special deal on it at just about every bar in town.
- Milwaukeeans laugh in the face of bad weather.
Wade Morgen / Flickr Snow doesn’t scare us. We’re pros at driving in 10 inches of it!
- In fact, they’ll probably be wearing shorts.
Christian Haugen / Flickr You can always spot a Milwaukeean by their confusing winter attire.
Those were just seven weird things Milwaukeeans do, what else is something extremely weird that you might see in MKE? Let us know in the comments!
Steve Shupe / Flickr
No Brewers game would be complete without the racing sausages. You better believe a Milwaukeean will turn to their neighbor and bet on the race too!
darwin Bell / Flickr
It’s like Milwaukeean’s have a whole language of their own. What’s a bubbler? Where’s “up north”? A tyme machine? Huh?
Lynn Friedman / Flickr
If it doesn’t squeak, it’s not a real cheese curd.
daniel baker / Flickr
The Fonz from Happy Days is alive and well on Milwaukee’s RiverWalk… in bronze statue form, that is. You’ll often find a Milwaukeean hanging out with the Fonz, and we still snap selfies with him, even though we probably already have hundreds.
Dustin O’Donnell / Flickr
Milwaukee is full of great breweries and we can’t love every single one, yet somehow we never turn away from a good ole’ PBR, and you’ll find a special deal on it at just about every bar in town.
Wade Morgen / Flickr
Snow doesn’t scare us. We’re pros at driving in 10 inches of it!
Christian Haugen / Flickr
You can always spot a Milwaukeean by their confusing winter attire.
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