article_snippet: The New York Times had done an article highlighting different Thanksgiving side dishes," Mr. Dayton told me. "
article_snippet: For Minnesota, The New York Times named grape salad as The New York Times signature side dish.
article_snippet: And no one in Minnesota had ever heard of grape salad...
article_snippet: it was kind of a harmless example, but if The New York Times don't tell the rest of the country who The New York Times are, The New York Times end up with grape salad.
article_snippet: That story got under my skin, especially when I looked up the NYT idea of Ohio's signature side dish: English pea and onion salad.
article_snippet: The New York Times extolled the salad's "deliciousness" by saying The New York Times "calls to mind
article_snippet: The New York Times isn't solely to blame for the Midwest's image problem.