We're Midwest if you're looking at it from New York City or from anywhere on [the East] Coast, but then again, that's someone else's definition. I think it's time for us to claim our own.

Eric Dayton

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The New York Times had done an article highlighting different Thanksgiving side dishes, for Minnesota, they named grape salad as our signature side dish. And no one in Minnesota had ever heard of grape salad... it was kind of a harmless example, but if we don't tell the rest of the country who we are, we end up with grape salad.

There is a competition for talent, and it's a national competition, even an international competition.