I have a serious question about Minnesota, Home Of Our Next Vice President

[jmowreader]

This "hotdish" thing. Isn't that just a casserole?

[hlthe2b]

1. Yeah... Pretty much.

I suppose chili and similar would count if it is combined in a casserole-type dish. It's just a midwestern term for a casserole served at a potluck dinner...

[LakeArenal]

2. Not necessarily. If everyone is supposed to bring something like a desert or chips veggies or a hot dish.

Which certainly could be a casserole or sloppy joes, or meatballs More of a main dish than a side.

[JJ101]

3. Blasphemy

It is basically a casserole but my MN family says it is only authentic when it has cream of mushroom soup and tater tots. Teehee.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

4. My Minnesota church friends used to call cream of mushroom soup

“Lutheran glue”.

[Prendy]

5. Perfect

What a perfect description 😂

[betsuni]

6. Here:

"Hotdish is constructed on a base of canned cream of mushroom soup and canned vegetables. The other ingredients are as varied as the Minnesota landscape. If you sit down to something that doesn't look like anything you've had before, it's probably hotdish. ... Spaghetti-Tuna Hotdish, Garbonzo Bango Hotdish, Velveeta-Hamburger Hotdish, Ketchup Surprise Hotdish, Back of the Refrigerator Hotdish, Doggone Good Hotdish, Turkey Wiener Doodah Hotdish, Organ-Meat-Cashew Hotdish."

From Howard Mohr's "How to Talk Minnesotan, A Visitor's Guide"

[quaint]

7. Those dishes are the humorist's invention, right?

[betsuni]

9. Yes, anyone can invent a name for their hotdish. Walz' is Turkey Trot Tater Tot Hotdish.

[electric_blue68]

8. I learned about Lutefisk through "A Prairie Home Compaion"....

and knew I'd never want to be within ten miles of anyone serving it!!!!!
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