Top Results for American Midwest

Sheepshead is an American trick-taking card game descended from the German game Schafkopf and strongly associated with Wisconsin. It is commonly played by five people using a 32-card deck containing the seven through ace of each suit, although versions for other player counts exist. Queens and jacks...

The Wisconsin Film Festival is an annual event in Madison, Wisconsin, organized in connection with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in 1999, it curates and exhibits programs that present world cinema, Wisconsin films, documentaries, independent work, and restored or repertory titles. The...

Culver's Frozen Custard is a dessert product sold by the Midwestern fast-food restaurant chain Culver's, which was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1984. Unlike standard soft-serve ice cream, this frozen custard contains a higher percentage of butterfat and includes egg yolks, resulting in a dens...

Kansas formed in Wichita, Kansas, in 1970 and is recognized for its complex arrangements, soaring vocals, and prominent use of multi-tracked instrumentation, particularly keyboard textures, throughout their extensive catalog.

Smear is a North American trick-taking card game in the Pitch family, played with a standard deck and commonly organized around a trump suit chosen through bidding. Players or partnerships earn points for particular scoring features, which may include high trump, low trump, jack of trumps, and game,...

Andy's Frozen Custard is an American dessert chain founded in Osage Beach, Missouri, in 1986. It specializes in frozen custard served in forms such as cones, sundaes, shakes, and concretes, which blend dense custard with toppings. The business developed from a family-operated shop into a multi-state...

Hasenpfeffer is an American trick-taking game in the Euchre family, associated especially with Midwestern play. The traditional single-deck form uses 24 cards, from ace through nine in each suit, and adds bidding and partnership rules to the basic Euchre structure. Players compete for tricks with a...

Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers is an American fast-casual restaurant chain founded in Wichita, Kansas, in 2002. Its menu centers on cooked-to-order steakburgers, Vienna Beef hot dogs, shoestring fries, and frozen custard served in cups, cones, sundaes, and concrete-style blended desserts. Th...

Minnesota Whist is an American partnership card game for four players using a standard deck. Its defining feature is the choice between two opposing objectives: a partnership may try to win the most tricks, or it may try to lose the most tricks. This creates a changing strategic relationship between...

Mabie Bros. Circus was a 19th-century American traveling circus operated by brothers Edmund Mabie and Jeremiah Mabie. The brothers entered circus management in 1841 and established winter quarters near Delavan, Wisconsin, in 1847, helping make the town a center of the American circus industry. Their...

Wild rice soup is a soup associated particularly with Minnesota and the American Upper Midwest. It uses wild rice, the grain of aquatic grasses in the genus Zizania, rather than ordinary cultivated rice, and recipes may be brothy or creamy. Common versions combine the rice with chicken or turkey, mu...

Smoked cottage ham is a boneless cut taken from the pork shoulder butt that is cured and smoked before cooking. The term is associated with traditional boiled dinners in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the ham was used as a practical source of flavor and meat in a one-pot meal. It is a regional American pre...

Snickers salad is an American dessert salad associated with the Upper Midwest, especially Iowa and Minnesota. Typical versions combine chopped Snickers bars and apples with whipped topping or cream and often vanilla pudding; marshmallows appear in some recipes. It is served cold and appears in Midwe...