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Welcome to #checkin for Sunday, July 6, 2025!


Bonsoir/Bonjour and welcome to today's #checkin. Today was the second and last day of the folkmetal festival here in Janzé in France. A couple of great bands and also very welcoming people. Today there was also a local group who did Brittonic Chansons in the Bretonic language. All the staff people were totally excited when we told them that we had come all the way from Germany to their little village to attend their festival.
A little quirk, the village is known for their quality chicken meat, and they have a statue of a chicken:

Chicken statue in Janze

So what quirky thing is your city/village known for? Can be positive or negative, for example most traffic jams in the region or some (famous) person who lived there or an unusual mascot?
For example, Paderborn is either known as Partyborn or Paderboring among the students and also sometimes known as Ampelborn (traffic light) because of the many red lights you encounter.

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DeanC

The town I grew up in claims to serve the world's largest strawberry shortcake every year. There used to be lots of strawberry farms, now I think they are down to one or zero. Just about everybody my age who grew up in the PNW picked green beans or strawberries or worked in one of the canneries for shitty wages in the summer. Or bucked hay or positioned irrigation pipe, if they were burly.
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Hmmmm --- Santa Cruz is in a war with the pretender city, huntington beaach, over the title "Surf City". Santa Cruz is mentioned in the song Surfin USA, which to me is slam dunk proof. Santa Cruz is also home to "The Lost Boys". And Alfred Hitchcock lived in the county - and the events that lead to "The Birds" actually happened here, and the inspiration for the Psycho house is here as well.

But enough about Santa Cruz...

Did you know that Petaluma, California is (or was) the Chicken Capital of the World, and also the Arm Wrestling Capital of the World?

But Castroville (not far from Santa Cruz) is the "Artichoke Center Of The World" (I don't know why it isn't the Artichoke Heart) and it had as its 1947 Artichoke Queen and unknown actress, named Norma Jean - later Marilyn Monroe (she also went to my high school in LA.)

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This city's official mascot is the Bear, not often in the LGBTQ style but all over the place as Buddy Bears. Friendly, colourful bears in about life size, either upright or on all fours, adorned with a local motif, kid's art, by a paid artists or embassy emblems because often the bears grace their entrance.


Other than that, an icon is the East Berlin TV tower. Not an animal, but it is ev-ery-whe-re in logos, silhouettes, and whatnot.

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@Rod Mesa - There was some sort of soil based garlic blight in the Gilroy area, so much of the garlic growing moved elsewhere. I don't know if it has come back. There used to be a large garlic processing factory in Gilroy - and it smelled really great! A tad further south is King City, which sometimes has a wonderful onion scent from the onions grown there.

And then there is Lindsay, California - which has (or had) as a slogan - "Lindsay, Great Town, Greater Olive" (or something like that).

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If you have an interest in scents related to the food industry, I suggest visiting Lewiston Idaho when the feedlots in Clarkston, across the river, are jam packed with beef cattle. You might then ask yourself "how many nice smelling flowers would it take to noticeably fend off any of that shit?", or perhaps "how many metric tons of nice smelling flowers...". Then simply wander about Lewiston, counting up that number of flowers. Possibly the most enflowered city I've ever wandered through. Actually, just getting there was a story...
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