What it means everywhere else: When you hide in your basement and pray.
What it means in Kansas: When you go outside with a video camera hoping to catch some great footage.
2. Barbecue
What it means everywhere else: Pork drenched in barbecue sauce that you have at summer picnics.
What it means in Kansas: Kansas City-style slow roasted pork, chicken, turkey, mutton or beef (the beef is by far the best!) smothered in a thick molasses and tomato-based sauce that you eat every chance you get.
3. Temperature
What it means everywhere else: How hot or cold it is outside.
What it means in Kansas: Just a random number. The real ‘temperature’ is the ‘what it feels like’ number.
4. Breadbasket
What it means everywhere else: The basket full of bread that shows up on your table at restaurants.
What it means in Kansas: What Kansas is, along with North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri. The ‘Breadbasket of America’ produces most of the cattle, milk, wheat and corn of the world. So, you’re welcome.
5. Ladybugs
What it means everywhere else: Cute little polka-dotted bugs that eat plant insects and are harmless.
What it means in Kansas: Evil, smelly, aggressive, flying, biting, terrible, invasive creatures known as Asian beetles.
6. Cornhole
What it means everywhere else: Well…for one, you should shut it.
What it means in Kansas: The best yard game on the planet.
7. Water Park
What it means everywhere else: A fun place to float and chill in the water, with fun little water slides and such.
What it means in Kansas: A completely insane water park with the tallest waterslide in the world that hits 70 miles per hour. Not chill at all.
8. Puppy Chow
What it means everywhere else: Dog food.
What it means in Kansas: The best snack in the world.
9. Weather
What it means everywhere else: What the temperature is outside on any given day.
What it means in Kansas: Your main topic of conversation, tweets, Facebook posts, gripes and Instagram photos.
10. Storm
What it means everywhere else: Clouds, rain, maybe some thunder and lightning.
What it means in Kansas: Hell hath no fury like a Kansas rainstorm with high winds, hail the size of golf balls, thunder that shakes the ground, and at times, tornadoes.
11. Winter
What it means everywhere else: A short, cold season that usually lasts from December to February.
What it means in Kansas: A long, snowy, freezing season delivering nearly 20 inches of snow per year and lasting from the seven months of October through April—and possibly May, too.
12. Snow Plow
What it means everywhere else: The trucks that drive through and plow the snow during the snowiest winter days.
What it means in Kansas: Your second car.
13. Wizard of Oz
What it means everywhere else: The awesome movie you saw as a kid. There’s no place like home!
What it means in Kansas: The topic of all Kansas jokes. Sigh.
14. Spring
What it means everywhere else: The beautiful time of year when the earth starts coming alive again after a long winter. Flowers bloom, the sun shines and the weather warms.
What it means in Kansas: What? There’s a season in between winter and summer?
15. White Castle
What it means everywhere else: The place you go to to get great little hamburgers sliders.
What it means in Kansas: The restaurant that is nowhere to be found, despite being founded here.
16. Manners
What it means everywhere else: Saying please, thank you and excuse me.
What it means in Kansas: Being incredibly friendly and courteous to everyone. Also, the only reason Kansans are able to tolerate Wizard of Oz jokes.
17. Westboro Baptist Church
What it means everywhere else: A hate-based church that targets gay people and pickets funerals.
What it means in Kansas: We’re sorry. We’re so sorry. While 86% of Kansas is Christian, the hate-mongering types are an extreme minority, like any other state.
18. Missouri
What it means everywhere else: The state over there in the Midwest.
What it means in Kansas: Two words: Border Showdown.
19. Night Sky
What it means everywhere else: When it’s dark outside, but there’s still light pollution.
What it means in Kansas: More shining, twinkling stars than you can comprehend. Yes, they actually twinkle!
20. Fair
What it means everywhere else: Following the rules, just and balanced.
What it means in Kansas: Fun carnival rides and deep fried everything at the Kansas State Fair.
@gobsmacked3 since you want to visit Kansas in your next stateside trip this will be useful for you.
20 Words That Mean Something Entirely Different In Kansas
I went to kansas one.. some kind of air/space museum... i forget now, an amish market and i got to see a baby giraffe being born there... and i got kicked in the ass by a really nasty goat... not planning on going back soon
I love it here of course it's my home so *shrugs* Was the museum in Hutchinson or was it in another town/city? Ah yeah I've seen that to exciting, I've also seen about 6-8 cows being born to.
sorry, wasn't meaning to say anything bad per se, i just dont have good reason to go there now, i used to live in texas and was closer, yes Hutchinson was the town im pretty sure... and there was an amish town not too far from there that i went to the market at... and then stopped at a farm thing where they had a bunch of exotic animals, giraffes, zebra's... and an ass kicking goat
O I know you didn't mean anything bad by it so don't worry ^^.
Ah yeah Hutchinson that's my home town, your probably thinking of the cosmosphere.
Yeah I like that place, minus the goats.
Lol yeah Hutchinson isn't a tourist town there are much better places to go if your from out of state we have a couple tourist towns then Whichita which is one of our biggest cities.
take away getting kicked in the ass and having to replace a messed up jacket, it was a nice trip... i still have a space shuttle medallion i picked up at the museum... and a carved ostrich egg that i got at the farm
if you think that's tough, what if I threw in stump for the trifecta 😱 That game is definitely underrated... then again, how many people actually carry tree stumps around? 😂
Good question probably farmers who have expanded their crops and had to cut down tree's or lumber jacks, or really weird people who people who play stump.
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