What is a Yooper?
The Upper Peninsula—or "the U.P." as locals call it—was the place we were most excited to visit. We spent twelve days taking it in, but twelve days wasn't nearly enough to see all that it has to offer. Initially, we mistook 'Yooper' for the name of a town we were passing through. Before long, though, it was showing up more frequently—on billboards, on local merch, and it was even built into a few business names. It's got to have a special meaning, but what? Finally, days later, we asked the local grocery store employee what the word meant when we saw it on a candy bar by her check-out register. She said it's a nickname for the residents of the Upper Peninsula—they are "U.P.-ers," or "Yooper" (pronounced you-per) for short. Aha! Now, we know! Speaking of that candy bar, it is a solid chocolate candy bar that's called Sayklly's Yooper Bar, and it comes in milk or dark chocolate....