Gopher Bar is one of the manliest restaurants in America, you stupid wuss

What is it that makes a restaurant truly manly? Is it steak the size of a newborn infant? Maybe rich, mahogany wood fixtures and dim lighting? Or a thin patina of peanut shells and dried blood caking the floors? For the editors of Men’s Health, the answer apparently has something to do with Coney Island hot dogs drowning in meat sauce and being told, as a customer, to “wait your fucking turn.”

If those criteria sound familiar to fans of Twin Cities dive bars, that’s probably because they are. Gopher Bar, St. Paul’s infamously politically incorrect hole-in-the-wall bar, was recently nominated as one the men’s magazine’s “Manliest Restaurants In America” in the Midwest region, an honor it most likely earned because of all of the dead animals hanging on its walls and the free-flowing salty language coming from both in front of and behind the bar. Of course, if you go to Gopher, you may have to deal with Confederate flags on display and being called some variety of pussy or homofag for trying to order any type beer that isn’t domestic—but that’s all just part of the good, old-fashioned, manly charm, right? Right!

Men’s Health, which has never met a pair of black and white six-pack abs it didn’t like, also offers a healthier, at-home alternative recipe to the Gopher’s famous skin-on French fries, which if you ask us, the Gopher would probably think is pretty damn sissy. [Men’s Health]