South Dakota vs North Dakota (Sioux Falls, Aberdeen: schools, pierogi, to live)

[MikeyToo]

Originally Posted by Chris19

The German-Russian relatives of mine from the Eureka, SD area (some from Wishek, ND) came from near the Odessa area also. Most were Lutherans. Interesting. My dad's side who came from Freeman area of the similar background, but were Mennonites. From my understanding, my dad's side came from the eastern part of Germany before Russia and mom's side was from the southern part of Germany. Is kuchen and other German specialties popular up in the Rugby, ND area? Freeman and Eureka each have a schmeckfest (Festival with lots of German food, yummm).

Yup! Love that Kuchen( you need to find a dariy farmer that will let you skim some milk of his tank) Farm fresh cream is a key ingredient ingredient. Also, I make the best knipfla soup ever! I managed to maintain a few of the Germans from Russia receipes my mom made. Aslo, if your ever interested in cooking some of them old receipes, check out the Germans from Russia website in Bismark. They have a great Germans from Russia cookbook which includes some of there traditions.
BTW, what is the fastest drink in the world??? Milk!! Its past-ur-ized before you can see it..

[DannyBanany]

My Czech grandma used to make kielbasa and kolaches. AMAZING!
My Native American grandma made wastunkula and wojapi. MMMM!

My French grandpa liked frog legs. He wasn't too popular.

[ElkHunter]

Used to milk the cow. Put the milk in a gallon jar in the fridge. Let it settle. Skim about 3/4 of a quart off the top into a mason jar. Set on the couch and watch tv while I was shaking it. About 30 minutes later, I had a pound of the sweatest butter you could find. Additives? No. Just good butter.

[ColeSD]

Originally Posted by MikeyToo

Of course, being from SoDak, you don't have any bias....

LOL Not at all!

[ColeSD]

Originally Posted by DannyBanany

My Czech grandma used to make kielbasa and kolaches. AMAZING!
My Native American grandma made wastunkula and wojapi. MMMM!

My French grandpa liked frog legs. He wasn't too popular.

You could combine them all in a synthesis... a frogbasajabi.

lol

[BreaOC]

Originally Posted by DannyBanany

Of course I am bias towards South Dakota because I have grown up here and I have never been to North Dakota, but both states have great qualities. I think SD is larger than ND by over 100,000 people. Fargo has less than 100,000 people while Sioux Falls is probably going to double that soon. ND also has no large city in the west while SD has Rapid City with about 80,000 people.

There is a noticeable difference in state populations, with ND at 635,867 and SD at 781,919. That's a difference of over 146,000, a big difference considering the two states already low populations. I was curious after you mentioned Sioux Falls populations and decided to check it out since I remember it's dramatic growth, especially for a city in the region (not including the Minneapolis metro). Sioux Falls as of 2006 has a population of 212,911. As for there not being any cities in western ND, don't forget Bismarck. It may be a little smaller than Rapid City, but at 101,138 Bismarck is a sizable city. 2006 Metropolitan Estimates

P.S.- Sorry if there are two posts, my wireless is acting up and I had to rewrite my post! Grrrrr! LOL

[DannyBanany]

Thanks for that interesting link. I was kinda looking around on it and I noticed as Vegas. In 30 years, it has grown from about 273,000 to 1,778,000!

WOW!

[BreaOC]

Originally Posted by DannyBanany

Thanks for that interesting link. I was kinda looking around on it and I noticed as Vegas. In 30 years, it has grown from about 273,000 to 1,778,000!

WOW!

It is insane the growth there!!! I've been there numerous times, being that it is so close to SoCal. It's amazing, even being from the Los Angeles area Las Vegas' growth is mind blowing. Skyscrapers going up everywhere, new homes as far as you can see. I remember driving through it in 1994 and it seemed so small. It's like permanent rush-hour on the strip!

[Jammie]

I'm surprised at the stats for Sx. Falls. Even the news has stories saying that they've just broken the 150,000 mark. Could they somehow be including metro with that? I know in reality, they don't exactly have a metro area, but Tea and Sx. Falls are pretty close to being that right now.

[BreaOC]

Originally Posted by Jammie

I'm surprised at the stats for Sx. Falls. Even the news has stories saying that they've just broken the 150,000 mark. Could they somehow be including metro with that? I know in reality, they don't exactly have a metro area, but Tea and Sx. Falls are pretty close to being that right now.

That amount is for the metropolitan area for Sioux Falls. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is usually used for official reasons. When you look at most cities you consider their MSA not just their core cities population. Example, when someone says how big is Minneapolis you would usually say "oh it has about 3 1/2 million", not that it has 350,000. City limits are generally nothing but invisible lines, so MSA's give you a better idea exactly how many people reside in an area. Surprisingly the US Census considers an area with over 50,000 people a micro-metropolitan area, so Sioux Falls definitely has a metro