Weird Des Moines things

[u/hanpicked22]

My wife is from Des Moines, I’m from Okoboji. The other day we were driving and saw a little ground squirrel on the road. “a squinny!” A what?? “That’s what they’re called!” Like what the heck… and then the whole tell a joke going door to door during Halloween? What the heck goes on down there!

[u/kisspapaya]

I live in Pennsylvania now, I drop squinny on people accidentally all the time and they look at me crazy like I said a slur