I had my fingers crossed when I entered the words "cheese" and "brats" into Google's newest toy, Google Trends, that I wouldn't find the stereotypical results. The hope was that Vermont would land at number one for "cheese" and, I don't know, some German city would clock in at number one for "brats." Nope. Madison sits hefty at number one for people searching for either "cheese" or "brats" (for the record, if I enter "bratwurst" we come in at number four under the three German cities of Erfurt, Nuremberg, and Bielefeld).

I was inspired to check the trends after FOX 9 in the Twin Cities did a Google Trend on searches for "beer" and found Madisonians to be the number one searchers for that word. They explain the way Google Trends" works:

We also rank high in a number of other searches.

Milwaukee narrowly beats us out for the top spot in searches for the word "bubbler."

For "roller derby" we clock in at number three, below Austin and Tucson, but well above Minneapolis who barely make it into the top ten at number eight (take that Minnesota Roller Girls!).

We are second only to Cleveland in searches for the word "progressive."

The phrase "Farmer's Market" lands a healthy number four (Santa Barbara and Portland, Ore. take the top two slots and Madison is sandwiched between Raleigh, N.C. and San Francisco).

Searches for "Bicycle," "Frank Lloyd Wright," "Capitol Square," "Stephanie Miller," "Wisconsin," "Badger," and "Firefly" all put us at number one.

Both "Stephen Colbert" and "John Stewart" put us at number nine.

And, interestingly, for "Ann Coulter" we clock in at number three and for "Bill O'Reilly" we land at number five.