We're gonna milk this for all it's worth.
It's Dairyland Diaries and look at local stories around Wisconsin.
Dairyland Diaries is our way of leaving you with some
Uplifting fun stories to launch into the weekend.
Things that'll make you smile, hopefully, and feel good like this.
Like, did you know that the longest running Chinese restaurant in a single location in the US of A, the entire country, is right here in Wisconsin?
That's right, Parker.
Don't look so aghast.
The cozy and Chinese restaurant first opened in Janesville's West Milwaukee Street location in 1922.
The restaurant has long been regarded as likely the second oldest Chinese restaurant in the country, only behind Peek & Noodle Parlor in Butte, Montana, but in April!
the noodle parlor closed its doors.
And now all cozy and Chinese restaurant is the longest running cozy owner cozy in owner Tom Fong recently told WPI that it feels surreal to be the caretaker of an eatery with such a storied history.
He said before I say anything, I want to tip my hat to Pekin who managed to keep that business going for 115 years.
Then in a quiet side, no, he went but they closed.
No,
he didn't say that.
He said I congratulate them, but I've never really thought
about our longevity before his first memories of the cozy income from working there as a kid in the 70s after his mother bought the place he said the family went through many struggles at the time with a language barrier sometimes making the work even more difficult fong said he and his brother were the two man front of house operators working with customers and trying to bring in new business they still have some of the traditional dishes that his mom would have on the menu like their Cantonese chow mein sweet and sour pork they because
They prepare their pork differently from other restaurants.
They use wet flour on the breading for their French fries or their fish fries, rather.
They have beautiful egg rolls.
So congratulations to Kozien, the longest running Chinese restaurant in a single location in the country.
That's
incredible.
If you get
to Janesville.
That's incredible.
I think it is incredible.
I also find it very interesting that the two oldest Chinese restaurants in the country were in Butte Montana and Jamesville.
Can you
imagine 115 years ago Butte Montana, some cowboy rolling up and trying to get some
Chow mein or chop suey?
Do they even make chop suey
anymore?
That used to be the
neon sign in every Chinese restaurant window.
Chop suey.
I think that's incredible.
We've got more really great stories from around Wisconsin, including in Eau Claire, because there's two filmmakers there, B.J.
Hollars and Steve Dayton, and they've teamed up to make a feature length documentary about Kube.
Now this is a Swedish lawn game with a major following when Wisconsin, Dairyland Diaries, will also teach you a thing or two people.
Kings of Coob, Spots Lights, four champion players, three from Wisconsin, one from Minnesota, and it specifically follows the journey of Eric Anderson.
Now he is a Coob enthusiast who started the U.S.
National Coob Championship in 2007.
Anderson successfully petitioned city officials to designate Eau Claire as the Coob Capital of North America.
Who would have thought?
The game itself is relatively straightforward.
You got to toss six wooden batons across an eight meter pitch to knock down five wooden blocks called coobs on the opposing team's baseline.
What's a baseline coob is knocked down?
It's thrown back into the pitch to become a fieldcube.
To end the game, a team has to knock down all of the baseline and fieldcubes and then take out the king, a larger wooden block at the center of the pitch.
Now, while the basic game is accessible for all ages and levels, for the champion players like Anderson, Cube has taken on the qualities of an elite sport complete with training and strategy, fully embracing the game's nickname, Viking chess.
I was going to say, this sounds a lot like chess, only you're throwing.
Thanks.
Throughout the film, you're going to get a chance, if you have an opportunity to see it, to get a feel for the texture of the game.
While filming, Date made sure to record plenty of audio of the signature clinking sound when the baton makes contact with the wooden cube, which one player in the film likened to the satisfying crack of a baseball bat.
Wow,
that's a very cool
stuff.
That's like curling.
Yes.
It looks very easy, but then there's a whole...
Culture that I had never I had heard of Kub once before but I still didn't understand it and now there's gonna be a movie So I might as well watch awesome.
All right, let's wrap up Dairyland diaries with a story close to Parker's heart because it includes the Green Bay Packers
20 more Wisconsin high schools have gotten help from the Green Bay Packers in starting flag intermural or club level girls flag football programs.
The $5,000 per school grants are part of a continuing program by the team to help drive interest and participation in the sport as it grows at the grassroots level.
The NFL itself has led the way in pushing expansion in recent years.
In addition to the grants, each school has received a USA football flag equipment starter kit and
protective headbands.
The Packers said that in their announcement that they released.
on Tuesday.
Four high schools in the Milwaukee area are among those receiving grants in 2026.
Four, let's see, Fox Valley recipients are getting some too.
That's Freedom, Green Bay East, Kimberley, Little Shoot, and Nina High Schools, plus nearby Southern Door in Brussels and around Madison.
All four of the city's public high schools are included.
East, La Follette, West, and Vel Phillips Memorial, as is Verona.
Flag football originally conceived by U.S.
soldiers
for recreation during World War II, and upwards of a 100 NAIA and NCAA universities have fielded women's teams in recent years.
There's been a push within the NCAA to take the sport to the level at which it has a national championship.
So good on the Packers, good on the ladies playing philag football,
and
good on us for making it through another year,
another year,
another week, this week has been long,
another
week.
Thank you for listening.
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