Welcome to Indiana. The Hoosier state. "The Crossroads of America."
While it goes by many names, we call it home nonetheless.
Thanks to a group of Ball State University Business Fellows, sugar cream pie is one step closer to becoming Indiana's state pie. Inspired by the group's initiative we have a few suggestions for future state emblems.
Looking through Indiana's history, you will find that it's riddled with people of historical importance. Eugene V. Debs, Johnny Appleseed, Evan Bayh, Eli Lily and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., are just a few of the historically significant people who have passed through our great state and called it home.
We suggest picking one of these people and naming him or her the official Indiana State Historical Figure.
Those historical figures needed something to eat back in the day, and we think if given the chance, they would also want Indiana to declare a state food, not just a state pie or a state cake, but an actual food item.
Corn seems to be the most logical suggestion because of the abundance of fields in the state, but upon further deliberation, popcorn is the best possible option. Popcorn has a history in Indiana as it is home to Orville Redenbacher and popcorn festivals in Valparaiso and Van Buren. It doubles as both a delicious snack and a satisfying meal if enough is eaten.
To alleviate the unavoidable thirst that would follow a meal of popcorn, Indiana would also need to declare a state drink. Oliver Winery in Bloomington has a plethora of flavors from which to choose, and it would be all too fun to taste test each of them to decide the most superb.
After the House declares Indiana new state emblems, it would be time to redesign our state flag to incorporate them.
We're thinking Johnny Appleseed taking a sugar cream pie in the face while standing in a cornfield chowing down on popcorn and drinking some Oliver wine out of a Ball jar would make a charming new state flag.
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