Minnesota Jokes and Stories

We Love to Laugh at Ourselves!

Minnesota jokes and stories are passed from family to family and down through the generations. We really know that the joke is on us as we make fun of our accent, our weather, our habits and more.

Minnesotans have great capacity to laugh at ourselves. Garrison Keillor, of A Prairie Home Companion, makes his living by recognizing the humor in Minnesota's Norwegian Bachelor Farmers, Lutheran Pastors, Scandinavian cooking and those of us who haunt the local café to eat rhubarb pie. A popular book tells the rest of the nation How to Speak Minnesotan.

"You Betcha" you're from Minnesota when.....

1. You own only 3 spices...salt, pepper, and ketchup.
2. You have more miles on your snowblower than on your car.
3. You know Ole and Lena personally.
4. You design your halloween costumes to fit over snowmobile suits.
5. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
6. You know the 4 seasons... winter, still winter, not winter, and almost winter.You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
7. You thought the movie "Grumpy Old Men" was a documentary.
8. You think everyone from a different state has an accent.
9. Your husband thinks sexy lingerie is a flannel nightgown with only 8 buttons.
10. You have 10 favorite recipes for venison.
11. You think wild rice is exotic and white rice is a hotdish.
12. Somewhere in the state is a piece of frozen metal with bits of your tongue stuck to it.

There are thousands of jokes and funny stories about Minnesota and Minnesotans. I've gathered some of the best here:

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