{"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/704551500831145984/", "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><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/704513266910625792/\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><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></blockquote><p><p>You ever think about how the Disneyland logo</p><div class=\"npf_row\"><figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"736\" data-orig-width=\"736\"><img src=\"/media/c20d05436670f2577099092dc9640384b88411cb_ba31d062651a.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"736\" data-orig-width=\"736\" srcset=\"/media/196d86a754e032546c7275ad84e1a4b1c8735fa7_79f2fa2d7393.jpg 75w, /media/8b7567dd1624a86d8765a9411dd8ede441e61102_d7e5350f4cdb.jpg 100w, /media/108c95960b3ecbe3d9543ebf9226fbb3391234fa_471021d4a100.jpg 250w, /media/9a6997da631a79c2274809f0de6b67122e53ac8a_2452d5962b5a.jpg 400w, /media/a6390a89b0eb8def2427b8d4b0a95391f120f220_e353c8c6e19e.jpg 500w, /media/f69e345d24f2dff68f1157283f9a260d24db335f_afb5eb085ba1.jpg 540w, /media/c20d05436670f2577099092dc9640384b88411cb_ba31d062651a.jpg 640w, /media/a486ac0278da5bb3454e2cc0ef5a8e7ec147f1c6_bceb418dff58.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\"/></figure></div><p>is in a Blackletter font, underneath a banner-flying castle representing the central feature of the park, modeled on Neuschwanstein Castle in Disney&rsquo;s Brothers Grimm period?</p></p>", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/c20d05436670f2577099092dc9640384b88411cb_ba31d062651a.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 640, "thumbnail_height": 640}