History Main / CornyNebraska

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[[caption-width-right:350:Well, there's nothing like the [[{{Pun}} a-maize-ing]] taste of fresh corn from Nebraska!]]

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->'''Stewie''': So, anyone seen any good movies lately?
->'''Nebraskans in the diner''': No. Nah. Nope. Nuh-uh.
->'''Stewie''': Read any good books?
->'''Nebraskans in the diner''': No. Nah. Nope. Nuh-uh.
->'''Stewie''': Anything new with corn?
->'''Nebraskans in the diner''': Corn?! Are you kidding me?! Why...corn...corn...and...corn... Corn is always interesting!

But then there's one stereotype that stands out from these other ones: corn. It seems as if Nebraska has cornfields everywhere you look. This is pretty TruthInTelevision, along with the other stereotypes mentioned above, but Hollywood tends to exaggerate this in media because they've never been to the Midwest.

A lot of people think this way about Nebraska if they're completely unfamiliar with the state. Hollywood seems to think of Nebraskans living on farms without electricity or running water and driving tractors to work. Everybody here eats at buffets and listens to country music. Their idea of entertainment is CowTipping. Offers seen in the rest of the country [[OfferVoidInNebraska are void here]]. You will never see any kind of urban flavor such as Nebraska's largest city Omaha, a major metropolis of almost a million people, or state capital Lincoln. Overall, it seems as if the entire state is still stuck in TheWildWest.

A lot of people think this way about Nebraska if they're completely unfamiliar with the state. Hollywood seems to think of Nebraskans living on farms without electricity or running water and driving tractors to work. Everybody here eats at buffets and listens to country music. Their idea of entertainment is CowTipping. You will never see any kind of urban flavor such as Nebraska's largest city Omaha, a major metropolis of almost a million people, or state capital Lincoln. Overall, it seems as if the entire state is still stuck in TheWildWest.

* TruthInTelevision, though not exclusively limited to Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas, most of Illinois and Indiana, and western UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}} and southern UsefulNotes/{{Minnesota}} (collectively referred to as the Corn Belt), are other mass producers of cornography.

* TruthInTelevision, though not exclusively limited to Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas, as well as most of Illinois and Indiana, along with western Ohio and southern Minnesota (collectively referred to as the Corn Belt), are other mass producers of cornography.

* TruthInTelevision, though not exclusively limited to Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas, as well as most of Illinois and Indiana and western Ohio (collectively referred to as the Corn Belt), are other mass producers of cornography.

* TruthInTelevision, though not exclusively limited to Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas, as well as most of Illinois and Indiana, are other mass producers of cornography.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E9BreakingOutIsHardToDo Breaking Out is Hard to do]]"

A lot of people think this way about Nebraska if they're completely unfamiliar with the state. Hollywood seems to think of Nebraskans living on farms without electricity or running water and driving tractors to work. Everybody here eats at buffets and listens to country music. Their idea of entertainment is CowTipping. Overall, it seems as if Nebraska is still stuck in TheWildWest.

* TruthInTelevision, though not exclusively limited to Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas, in particular, are other mass producers of cornography.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson!", Cartman and his mother take the former's friends on a road trip to Nebraska to go visit Cartman's grandma for the holidays. Cartman's relatives are also there, all of whom share his mannerisms. All of Nebraska is notably surrounded by cornfields.

* [[BigGood Mother Abagail]] in King's ''Literature/TheStand'' also lives in Nebraska, in the middle of a large cornfield which is all that remains of a much larger farm her family had owned for the past century. As such, she's associated with the corn as a symbol of fertility and nourishment, but it likewise serves as a source of horror, as characters (including Abagail herself) dream of the Dark Man watching them from somewhere among the cornstalks.

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** In the film adaptation, Zach's father owns the corn fields of their small Nebraskan town, and the corn is set on fire at the end in Makani's confrontation with the killer.

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--> Rita : ''[singing]'' Just to be fair, I wanna ask ya: What's so great about Nebraska?
--> Runt : It's... da... ''[stops singing]'' Corn! Definitely da corn!

* Fans of the University of Lincoln's Cornhuskers (Huskers for short) often wear foam hats shaped like ears of corn, similar to the foam cheese hats worn by Green Bay Packers' fans.

Think about the US state of Nebraska. What's the first thing that comes to mind? Farms? Cornfields? Tractors? Buffets? Cornfields? Well, you're not alone here.

* Averted in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. Penny comes from Nebraska, but her family farm is to do with livestock, not corn.

SubTrope of NationalStereotypes and IndexedStatesOfAmerica. Compare FlyoverCountry and for a similar stereotype regarding the Midwest in general being flat. The cornfields can be considered an EiffelTowerEffect to symbolize Nebraska. May overlap with LostInTheMaize if the cornfields are PlayedForHorror.