{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "\"You know I kind of miss funnel cakes, which was a Pennsylvania thing\"  Uh, hit up *any* county/state/national holiday festival...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/704513266910625792/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>\"You know I kind of miss funnel cakes, which was a Pennsylvania thing\"  Uh, hit up *any* county/state/national holiday festival in the entire goddam country and get you some funnel cake.  But yeah, sure - let's call it a PA thing out of misguided nostalgia.</p></div>\n<p>I mean everywhere I get calls them Pennsylvania Dutch, consider that part of the reason carnival and fair rides often have Alpine theming (and honestly even smaller indie amusement parks have pretty German-ass fairy tale theming, and why even Six Flags parks will have Oktoberfest-ass beer hall band shells) is that a lot of American amusement fair culture is honestly pretty German-tinted, and a lot of it specifically comes out of German-settled Pennsylvania and Ohio</p>"}