“Whatever,” she responds when I explain that our next stop is the Corn Palace, a building made out of corn.
“Do you remember Hansel and Gretel, who ate their way out of the witch’s gingerbread home to escape? This is the same, except we have to eat our way into the building.”
She doesn’t buy it.
And in reality, while the Mitchell, South Dakota Corn Palace is worth the stop, it isn’t actually made of corn. Put away your visions of the Norwegian Ice Palaces being created each winter by European’s finest ice-sculpture artists. The Corn Palace is the local High School basketball gym, with the inside and outside walls covered with corn cobs in various murals, like a stucco job gone awry.
We did get a 12-gallon bag of popcorn covered in Cheeto cheese for $4.
“Do you remember Hansel and Gretel, who ate their way out of the witch’s gingerbread home to escape? This is the same, except we have to eat our way into the building.”
She doesn’t buy it.
And in reality, while the Mitchell, South Dakota Corn Palace is worth the stop, it isn’t actually made of corn. Put away your visions of the Norwegian Ice Palaces being created each winter by European’s finest ice-sculpture artists. The Corn Palace is the local High School basketball gym, with the inside and outside walls covered with corn cobs in various murals, like a stucco job gone awry.
We did get a 12-gallon bag of popcorn covered in Cheeto cheese for $4.