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Luckily, some of the best stuff from the Midwest can be found out here too, like deep dish pizza, Italian beef, Chicago dogs, ranch dres...oh my God. The Midwest is trying to kill us! Offering a healthier, Midwest fave you shan't put in your mouth, NorCal Cornhole.

Launched this week by a South Beach-er who shills for Yelp, NCC offers up hand-built, regulation-sized Cornhole sets (two stations, eight bags for $100-and-up) that're built, sanded, stained, and customized in the dude's backyard for cornhole-starved West Coasters who want to avoid Midwest shipping costs that typically double the price of the set, also the cost increase if you ask Nikolay Davydenko to "make it look close". So far, NCC's churned out a handful of working bags n' boards that range from college-themed (his alma mater Arizona, Washington State, etc) to paint-it-yourself pre-stained, to one for Yelp's new 10th floor employee lounge, which only got 3.5 stars based on 2,559 reviews, because according to Ben B. "The carpeting was uncool. Also, I loooove bahn mi!" Canvas bags for the sets will be hand-stitched until NCC's sewing machine arrives from eBay, and they just procured 100 pounds of feed corn for stuffing, which was "not easy to find in Oakland," too bad you weren't looking for one of those-cars-with-the-whistle-tip exhausts. Woo WOOOOOO!

Expect an NCC logo soon, along with a few NorCal-themed stock designs done in penciled silk screen, including an East Bay number with Bay Bridge/Oakland skyline fixtures and an SF piece with the GG Bridge/Trans America building, which are some of the best stuff the West Coast has to offer -- wait, are you really drinking the Dungeness Crab dipping butter?

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Published: July 26, 2010 at 4:00am EDT

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