South Bend Mug

A wormhole in the Midwest where cool is defined by your pickup truck and how many Buds you can shotgun in a sitting. Also known as the home of Notre Dame, which tries to pretend it's not a part of South Bend by creating its own city. You know you're from South Bend when... - You have to tell out-of-towners you're from South Bend when you're really from Mishawaka or Granger, and append that statement with "you know, where Notre Dame is" - You make more money selling parking on your front lawn during ND football season than at your minimum wage job at UP Mall - No matter what ND coach you get, you think he's going to return the program to its glory days. Case examples: Bob, Ty and Charlie - You prefer Bud over Amstel because why would you get a twelve-pack when you can get a case for the same price? - You refer to your weekdays by bar names, i.e. Corby Tuesdays, Rum Runner Wednesdays - You are tailgating in autumn Saturdays - You get your booze in Michigan on Sundays - You know what Dyngus Day is and don't see anything eccentric about having a holiday devoted to beer and Polish sausage - Steak N' Shake on a Friday night after the football game is a revered tradition. Letter jackets and warm-ups mandatory. - You've ridden the kiddie bikes up and down the Meijer toy aisle on a random Friday night - You think you're too good for Wal-mart, but you'd still buy clothes at Meijer - Birthday parties as a kid were spent at USA Roller Rink, Chuck E Cheese, Putt Putt and Ritters (yum!) - Euchre is a card game staple, even before Texas Hold 'Em, and you carry a deck with you always - You’ve ever partied in a barn - You know several people who have hit a deer on more than one occasion - You've ever done a donut on a random cul-de-sac in Granger because the snow trucks don't clear the snow there for some three weeks - You've gone to grade school in four feet of snow - The second it hits the 40-degree mark in late February, you’re donning the shorts and flip-flops again - The fanciest restaurant you've eaten at all year was Olive Garden - You know at least three high school classmates who have gotten pregnant - If you're not married by 24, you fear you will be an old maid - If you're not pregnant by 20, you fear you are infertile - You got excited when UP Mall finally added Abercrombie & Fitch, because whoa... high fashion! - You know at least one person whose family moved out of South Bend to get them out of SBCSC and into PHM - You look back and think what a pain it was to have to explain the whole "we don't change the clocks, ever" thing to out-of-towners - Your out-of-state friends laugh at you because they think you grow corn, and you laugh at them because ha, you don’t grow corn. But sadly, you know somebody who does.