Fried spam with some cheap yellow mustard was a regular Sunday lunch. Usually with some boxed waffle mix topped with watery mapleine homemade “syrup”.

For sure, but good cheese curds are amazing.

Yep, cream of mushroom or cream of celery. A staple for the upper Midwestern hotdish.

“gravy” is a stretch. This picture looks way better than the reality. Cream soup and usually some bread crumbs or noodles to stretch it. If there was flavor, it was the salt from the tots.

Storage (bookshelf?) secured to the floor/wall. Unless you really want the open feeling. Maybe with a mesh back (even something like hog wire), you can have the best of both worlds.

That’s not MIA, that’s AWOL.

Pretty close! Swap the mash for tots and the gravy for cream soup.

The tater tot hotdish I grew up with. … Under the tots at least.

You can use a stick to throw a rock in curling. I’ve played with several old farts who are better with a stick than I am with a typical delivery (which is also somewhat hard on knees).

ECU chip tuner for early CAN bus vehicles.

Reminds me of my first day of intro to programming my first semester of freshman year at a small Christian Reformed college.

It opened with prayer and then a lecture on how technology is inherently evil. Then we started writing a java applet.

I applied to a state school within 2 weeks of starting.