A deep dive into all that's Kwik Trip. Plus Packers in London, the best cheese curds

Insert Onion-style joke headline here: "Kwik Trip unveils plans to build a store in the parking lot of a Kwik Trip."

If you ask someone from outside of Wisconsin what they think of first when they think of Wisconsin, they'll likely respond, Packers, beer and cheese. Ask someone from Wisconsin, and they'll likely think: Packers, beer, cheese and Kwik Trip.

Maybe that's an exaggeration, but it can't be too far off the mark. I mean, Kwik Trips are everywhere in Wisco.

Caitlin Shuda took a deep dive into the Kwik Trip mystique:

► 'See ya next time': How a neighborhood grocery store grew into today's Kwik Trip phenomenon *subscribers only*

Here are a couple more Kwik Trip stories:

► This Kwik Trip super fan made it her 2021 goal to visit Wisconsin's 457 Kwik Trips. She did it.

► Valentine's Day: Check out these super Wisconsin love stories, from a Kwik Trip wedding photo shoot to brewery ceremonies

And speaking of the Packers

► What we know, and what we don't, about the Packers game in London in 2022. "Event USA in Ashwaubenon, a tour and ticket provider, added 1,000 people to its waiting list in the first 24 hours." No one is surprised.

And speaking of cheese

► The best cheese curds in the world are made by 2 Wisconsin cheesemakers. No one is surprised.

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But we've got a lot more going than Kwik Trips, Packers and cheese

We've got Jezelle Childs-Evans.

► Appleton rapper J25's big year includes attending the Grammys and recording with Hulu ‘Reservation Dogs' star Sten Joddi.

We've got Jodyann Morgan.

► This Black, queer woman in Wisconsin is making body-shaped candles that celebrate all body-types

We've got Christiana Gorchynsky Trapani.

► 'It's incredible.' Door County shop sells thousands of specialty candles to raise money for Ukrainians

Wisconsin helps Ukraine

► Here's how Wisconsin and beyond can help support Ukrainian people in need

Didja know? A Wisconsin fact drop

On the subject of Ukraine, Golda Meir, who was born in Kyiv, spent a large portion of her childhood in Wisconsin. Her family fled the anti-Semitic violence and pogroms of eastern Europe in 1906, settling in Milwaukee with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. She attended school and taught at a Yiddish-speaking school in Milwaukee. She moved to a kibbutz in what is now Israel in 1921, became influential in the Zionist movement and signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. She was 71 years old in when she became prime minister of Isreal in 1969.

Sources: Wisconsin Historical Society and Ukrainian Jewish Encounter

Contact Keith Uhlig at 715-845-0651 or kuhlig@gannett.com. Follow him at @UhligK on Twitter and Instagram or on Facebook.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Kwik Trip, Packers in London, worlds best cheese curds from Wisconsin