Funny tale. When I was a kid, the refrigerators in those days did not auto defrost and there was a large metal plate than ran along the inside and frost would build up on it. It looked, well, icy. It looked tasty. The temptation was too much for a 5 year old who knew nothing of how things worked…
I never did it again.
I remember as a kid getting my fingers stuck to the metal ice box in our fridge at home. Never tried it with my tongue, though.
I don’t know enough about US regional steretypes to understand why the people of Arkansas should be singled out for this behaviour, but it conjours up a wonderful image of driving through the centre of Little Rock, and seeing hundreds of residents stuck to street furniture, lamp posts, stop signs, metal fences and the like.
Arkansas has long been at the butt end of many stereotypical jokes. When a girl from Massachusetts moved into our high school, she was pleasently surprised to discover that we wore regular clothes with shoes. She said she was convinced we would all be in overalls and bare footed. So I thought it ironic that I had to attend church with a friend in Chicago to see someone wear overalls and a red flannel shirt to church. It was also on this trip, while dining out, that a woman in the group began to rant about Arkansas’ ‘terrible’ education system. I conversed with her about it for nearly an hour before letting her know where I was from. I thought it was hilarious. She turned twenty shades of red.
Yes, not only do the people of Idaho grow, eat, and worship potatoes - they also live in them. Of course, not all of them have access to a potato as large as the example shown, which accounts for the short stature and small family size of the people of Idaho.
I left facebook over 10 years ago and have no intention of ever returning but, regardless of politics, this is an interesting shift in the current social media situation.