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Well, it can't come as a surprise, as the city of Milwaukee is known as "The Nation's Watering Hole," and was, at one time, home to four of the world's largest breweries: Schlitz, Pabst, Blatz, and of course, Miller, which is the only one left in the city currently. Still, the drinking habits of Milwaukeeans are what made it #1 on Forbes' list of the "Drunkest Cities in America."

Forbes took the 35 largest metropolitan areas and ranked them in order of "drunkenness," based on five parameters: state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drinkers, number of binge drinkers and alcoholism. Rounding out the Top 10:

1. Milwaukee, WI
2. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
3. Columbus, OH
4. Boston, MA
5. Austin, TX
6. Chicago, IL
7. Cleveland, OH
8. Pittsburgh, PA
9. Philadelphia, PA
10. Provdence, RI

What? I wonder why no city on the west coast made the top 10?

Normally when I write about a gigantic Guinness-worthy food item I have some confirmation. In this case I don't. As a matter of fact, I don't even have a photo of the freakish food in question. So, imagine the sandwich pictured here much, much larger. Good, now picture it even bigger!

I'm pretty confident that the near 300-pound, four-foot-by-five-foot reuben was that was laid out for St. Pat's partiers at a Milwaukee bar last night is one for the books. One hundred pounds of corned beef, 40 pounds of swiss, 80 pounds of sauerkraut and three gallons of thousand island dressing went into the nearly 300-pound creation. What I want to know is what did they cook it on? And just how many pounds Tums were consumed afterwards?

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