Rant coming.....so be prepared.
I'm going all over the map on this like a Carrollton road game.
To begin....
Chocolate drizzle on popcorn is not my thing. Neither is hot honey on pizza....too gimmicky.
Youse want tuff popcorn get the Chicago mix of carmel, cheese and regular all in one bag or tin from Taste of Chicago (online orders available along with all the other Chicago classics.)
Someone with a better ability to get a small business loan than me and more time should do a Taste of 330 food business with online ordering. The sky is the limit with that.
Akron sauerkraut balls, Youngstown Brier Hill pizza, hot peppers & oil, Barberton chicken.....and much I'm not mentioning. Kraus's Pizza (Taste of Chicago sends a frozen deep dish pie so why can't we?).
Menches used to sell hamburg patties at Giant Eagle and I loved em.
Gold n Krisp chips. Big corporate Smuckers can get in on it. (Could Smuckers just buy the Cleveland baseball team....how are the books? It's gotta be better than the clown
Dolans?)
Or Smuckers could be the owners of an expansion Cleveland MLS team because pro soccer is legit and Cleveland needs a team to battle their natural rivals the Columbus Crew and FC Cincinnata. And also looking at YINZ with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds.
So much more in the food and sports world.
There's a Taste of Cincinnati which is great and a bit of marketing vision can connect the 330 classics to the people.
Or do a Taste of Ohio. Looking at you Tony Packos and many others. Dayton has a bunch of cool food like Esther Price chocolates. Steubenville pizza... pierogi...and much more. Buckeyes live everywhere.
The problem as I see it is we drop our pride when it isn't football and we allow Ohio to be run by clowns because we don't pay attention.
Too many Ohioans lack vision and pride in living here. We have our small world pride with PACtion™ but little else.
We apologize for being from Ohio (and we should not) and allow for the mediocrity from our own state instead of being proud to be from here.
An educated Buckeye population would run out the clowns running our state into the ground. I read today we're ranked #37 in economics. But Les Wexner makes bank. How is this cool? Much more I can say here....
North Carolina is a beautiful and great state but they shouldn't get all the economic growth.
It's like we just accept the losing with things not called football. Why?
Told ya it was a rant.