09/22/2026
Week #38 Nebraska - Ground beef and cabbage
The “Cornhusker State”
The nickname “cornhusker state” comes from the fact that in earlier times, the locals used to harvest the corn by hand “husking” before machinery was used. Nebraska is the only state to bear a nickname based on a college football team – the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Nebraska is the only state in the U.S. whose legislature is unicameral and nonpartisan. A unicameral parliament or unicameral legislature is a legislature which consists of one chamber or house.
🌊Nebraska is the only triply land-locked U.S. state, which means that to reach an ocean, gulf, or bay from Nebraska, one must travel through at least three states.
🚂 “The Magnificent Machinery: Exploring North Platte’s Bailey Yard”
The eight-mile Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, is the largest railroad classification in the world. As many as 14000 train cars pass through it every day.
🌲The National Forest in Nebraska is America’s biggest hand planted forest, which covers 141,159 acres (57,125 hectares) of land. J. Sterling Morton introduced a state holiday in 1872, to encourage tree planting in the state. Forty-five other states had followed suit by 1920.
🦴Mammoth fossils are in abundance here
State can also be considered as the burial ground of fossils because it is considered that as many as ten mammoth fossils are buried under an average square mile of land in Nebraska. Note that mammoth bones have been found in all 93 state counties. The University of Nebraska State museum displays the bones of the largest mammoth discovered in the state.
💨 It is also true that Nebraska is in the middle of Tornado Alley. That is because of the climate mix of this area that causes some extreme weather conditions.
🚜 Almost all (91%) of Nebraska is farmland. 1 in 4 jobs in Nebraska are related to agriculture. The state has nearly 80,000 miles of rivers and streams that add to the state’s natural resources.
🌽The amount of land used to produce corn and livestock in Nebraska is greater than in any other state in the U.S.
Since Nebraska is the home of Runza, a regional fast-food chain famous for its signature yeast-dough bread pockets stuffed with seasoned ground beef, cabbage, and onions. That’s how we created this weeks pizza.
Fresh cabbage 🥬 and ground beef & onions.