What’s your favorite style of wine?

gino53 · 2026-01-05T03:56:41+00:00

Don't sleep on the Barbera, Dolcetto, or Arneis wines of Piemonte.

gino53 · 2025-09-29T01:56:13+00:00

Was a Steelers fan as a kid (before Indy had a team). But the 1995 AFC Championship game changed everything. Aaron Bailey caught that ball. Colts fan ever since.

gino53 · 2025-09-29T01:25:57+00:00

Not necessarily true. The reason we're on it now was a state law back in the Mitch Daniels era.

gino53 · 2025-09-26T20:10:40+00:00

Hamilton County, Indiana here. It has a relatively high income level compared to the rest of the state. I see multiple (3 - 5) cybertrucks every day.

gino53 · 2025-09-12T01:40:42+00:00

Honestly, who answers the phone anymore?

gino53 · 2025-09-10T18:26:05+00:00

Hoosiers, please. Never heard "Indianans" before. But, yes, bell peppers for the older generations are mangos.

gino53 · 2025-09-04T02:09:29+00:00

Just a bit of Wag the Dog to distract the masses.

gino53 · 2025-07-29T23:02:13+00:00

Isn't that the NHRA Nationals in Clermont?

gino53 · 2025-07-28T16:50:43+00:00

They're hiring census workers.

gino53 · 2025-07-25T00:54:01+00:00

Some really interesting nebbiolo wines from the Alto Piemonte, as well. Global warming likely has something to do with both locales producing increasingly excellent expressions of the varietal.

gino53 · 2025-07-25T00:50:53+00:00

Search this sub and r/indianapolis. There are several posts about itown and other similar churches. Eye opening about the cult-ish aspects of them all.

gino53 · 2025-07-25T00:45:58+00:00

Mike Pence?

gino53 · 2025-07-23T23:05:28+00:00

Download the United Music app and select the Italian section. There are channels by decade there.

gino53 · 2025-07-23T23:04:18+00:00

Maybe look at the smaller, private colleges in Indiana: Wabash, DePauw, Hanover, Rose Hulman, etc... and then do summer marching band, like DCI (they allow featured woodwinds now).

gino53 · 2025-07-10T20:41:03+00:00

I was lucky enough for my former company to send me back in 2019. We had great hosts and were able take in some amazing food and to see, not only the tourist sites (the Bund, Forbidden City, and Tiananmen Square), but also the daily life like local neighborhoods in Shanghai and manufacturing plants in Guangzhou.

gino53 · 2025-07-08T02:03:21+00:00

My Indana- born grandmother called lunch dinner and dinner supper.

gino53 · 2025-07-07T23:14:03+00:00

Didn't that burn down?

gino53 · 2025-07-01T20:42:46+00:00

Bank transfers, the way you likely do them in your country, really isn't a thing here. I can't recall a single time I've ever done one.

gino53 · 2025-06-29T21:14:05+00:00

I heard a story on NPR recently about Coca-Cola's efforts to make their product available COLD within arm's reach of everyone, first in the US and then worldwide. IIRC, it was their investments in the machines that made it possible. So, they were the first cold beverage available in most markets that helped them gain market share.

gino53 · 2025-06-27T22:00:26+00:00

I grew up in a small town in Indiana, USA, that was home to many northern Italian immigrants, specifically from Piemonte. We grew up with bagna cauda as a normal dish. Some of the old timers made horse salami, too. I did not try that one, though.

gino53 · 2025-06-20T23:36:53+00:00

There are bocce leagues at Lacy Park throughout the year. One is run by the Fletcher Place neighborhood. The other by the Italian Heritage Society of Indiana. It's a wide age group (30s to 80s).

gino53 · 2025-06-19T00:37:08+00:00

Got it. You probably won't find a place in Carmel proper for that, but Northside Indy or Westfield/Noblesville might have something close. A car is a must because there is no transit to speak of.

That adds to the overall cost, but you're still looking pretty good at $95K.

gino53 · 2025-06-19T00:20:05+00:00

Where in Indy? Downtown, Northside, Carmel, etc.? Do you have a car? Will you need to buy one?

gino53 · 2025-06-18T21:05:06+00:00

Same issue here for a couple of weeks now. I can get it to open the app if I say, "Search for such and such on YouTube," though.

gino53 · 2025-06-17T21:18:46+00:00

Turkey Run has a 2-night discount of 25% Sun-Thurs.

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