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This makes a big difference.

Branch & Bone is easily my favorite Dayton brewery, and I'd put it up there with the best in Ohio. Of course, I love sours, so that's part of it. But they know what they're doing.

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Right. If the teams that play at the stadium (Jets and Giants) can both claim NYC as their city, then I think it's safe to consider the concerts there the NYC shows on the tour.

The bait-and-switch part is in reference to promising BRT in the campaign to get votes. I don't think it's a lack of understanding, although I could be wrong. I expect transit professionals to know what BRT means, and most should probably be familiar with the rating standard @shawk linked to. Edit: Or at least to become familiar with these things while researching best practices, which should be done in the process of conceiving a "BRT" project.

That is mostly true in the United States, but not so true in the rest of the world. There needs to be some standardization of the term, but I don't know how that's achievable.

It's not. Just a few years ago, Cincinnatians were routinely driving to CMH and IND to save some money (and DAY, but that's a shorter drive). And that was often for domestic flights; I expect the tolerance would be greater for international flights. CVG now has much cheaper flights, so it's not done much anymore. (DAY is suffering without that traffic boost.)

Having it used as a performance space of any kind is fantastic. It means it will be preserved as a performance space. That means it may host things you'd want to attend in the future, regardless of your thoughts on children's theater.

Hoping this leads to an aesthetic upgrade for the Fountain Square Christmas tree star.

Keep that commentary in the Big 10 thread or wherever.

Fair enough. I recommended urban ones not just for pro-urbanist reasons. Mecklenburg is almost as old as Arnold's, FWIW. So at least its history goes back much farther than the rise of fascism. I've heard bad rumors about some German places in NJ, which I've also heard was a hotbed for American Nazism. I haven't heard that about Cincinnati/Ohio. Haven't researched it, either, tbh.

That's interesting, because Wikipedia mentions that southern German mettwurst is typically soft and spreadable. I would've expected it to come from the north, where Wikipedia says the mettwurst is more like salami. (Cats can have a little mettwurst, as a treat.)

Did you read my post? ? Mecklenburg Gardens is a good spot. Wunderbar is another. Any German place will definitely have them. They're ubiquitous at Reds/Bengals games. Carillon Brewery has them. Krogers in Dayton often have Queen City Sausage and Blue Grass metts. The Queen City ones don't necessarily say "mett" on the package, as here: https://www.queencitysausage.com/products/premium-hot-smoked-sausage-hot-metts/https://www.queencitysausage.com/products/premium-hot-smoked-sausage-hot-metts/ Edit: There's a list of restaurants with Avril-Bleh sausages on the butcher's website; some of them probably have metts, you could check the menus: https://www.avril-blehmeats.com/fresh-sausage

@ColDayMan, did you ever find/try hot metts? We should do a forum thing at Mecklenburg Gardens sometime and have them. I don't think their menu mentions it anymore, but they used to call them terminators, lol. They're not the spiciest but they're legit. Some of the local butchers make super hot ones.

They're similar, but using steel-cut/pinhead oats instead of cornmeal does make a substantial difference. If you took a scrapple recipe and replaced the cornmeal with steal-cut oats, you'd basically have goetta,

I am curious about the origin of metts (mettwurst) in Cincinnati. People treat it like it's just some regular thing that came from Germany, like bratwurst. But is there actually anywhere in Germany that serves the same style of mettwurst that is common in Cincinnati? (I know the word is used for different things in different regions of Germany.) Even if so, the extra-spicy "hot metts" are probably a local creation. Metts/hot metts don't get proper appreciation for their uniqueness to the area. Chili, goetta, and (hot) metts combine to make a pretty strong regional food scene in Cincinnati. Not many cities can claim so many regional dishes.

^ What on earth is going on with that architecture? And this is at Easton? It's like a pseudo-historic manufacturing building (a la Warped Wing) inside a pseudo-historic warehouse facade (a la Mendelson's) ⁉️

Odd choice. Lots of Elvis fans in Cincy? The tourism folks should jump on this and put out some commercials and billboards in Memphis advertising Cincy.

I feel like the collective knowledge for how to deal with bedbugs is a lot better than 10 years or so ago when they were essentially reintroduced as a threat ex nihilo. Unfortunately, Ohio and especially Cincinnati had a rough go of things in those early years. Bedbugs should have been something that was mentioned in all those 2010s decade-in-review retrospectives, but I don't recall seeing them in any of those. They were a mythical thing to westerners ("sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite") until right around 2010.

Wonder if Crossroads would be interested in helping this happen.

FWIW, I was in Buenos Aires last month and all the empanadas I had were closed. It's possible a different part of the country makes them differently.

That carpet...

^ Convenience fees are definitely alive and well with delivery services.

Without increasing capacity under the Hudson, is a Penn expansion all that useful?

Seelbach has tabled the idea after hearing from constituents.