California, my home, does things just a little different than everywhere else

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40. I will tell you about Idaho

You may live to regret it.

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First, no one ever dies here. A lot of people go to live with Jesus, but no one dies. At least that's what people's obits all say.

We have four seasons, most years.

We are in two different time zones.

Many of our restaurants only serve breakfast and lunch.

The signature cuisine of Idaho is exactly like the signature cuisine of Tennessee. While we are located in the Northwest, it's rare to find a seafood restaurant here. A hundred years ago before there were trucks and airplanes this would have been understandable; today it's less so.

We have four professional sports teams. They're all in Boise, the state capital. We have Class A baseball, minor-league hockey, D-league basketball and semi-pro football.

People who live in South Idaho generally follow the Boise State football team. People who live in North Idaho generally follow the Washington State University football team because the University of Idaho team needed three seasons to come up with six wins, and that's not an exaggeration.

Most of the people who were key officers in the Aryan Nations have written books apologizing for being in the Aryan Nations. None of them receive royalties from these books because federal prisoners are not allowed to profit from their crimes. (There's also the fact that no one wants to read a book about how someone became a white supremacist...)

We are not in favor of The Citadel.

Most of our hardest-core Republicans were born in California.

We have two interstate freeways in Idaho. They both run east-to-west.

Idaho's most significant invention is the frozen french fry. This is a multibillion-dollar industry that has impacted the world; please don't laugh.

The Navy maintains a submarine base in Idaho. This sounds funny as hell but isn't: there is a lake in North Idaho that is perfect for doing acoustic research.

The Apollo astronauts trained for their moon exploration missions in Idaho.