austin

Unfortunate city in Minnesota, birthplace to Hormel foods and their canned green-meat "sensation" SPAM. A horrible place to raise children, and hopefully one of the first to disappear in the earth's impending demise.

"I work at the plant (Hormel foods or the slaughterhouses), got me six kids, a double-wide, and an education at the Riverland (community) college. I'll probably get promoted in a few years, settle in and retire to the Burr Oak Manor (closed in the late 90's due to abuse of residents and unsanitary conditions)."
"Be good and maybe we'll go to the Oak Park Mall! (a decrepid, run-down shell of a building that not even a JCPenney's could survive in.)"
"Which Hardee's should we go to?" -They've got two in a city of around 20,000. WTF?

The City Pages, a Minneapolis sister-publication of the Village Voice, did a cover story (I believe in 2004 or 05) on the atrocious number of meth labs sprouting up in Austin and surrounding farm communities. So much for wanting to eat my vegetables.

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