People getting off planes in Hawaii get a lei, what would other states give to visitors?

Taylor Ham, egg & cheese on a roll. Salt, pepper, ketchup optional.

Welcome to New Jersey

Florida: herpes

Louisiana: a single crawfish. Suck the head! Suck the head! Or Mardi Gras beads. Show me your tits!

My home state of Kansas: The gays would be personally greeted by Dorothy Gale -- since we're all friends of Dorothy! -- and Almira Gulch would hiss at everyone.

EBT card, housing, job assistance, work permit, skills training, driver’s license, weed card, free admission to 100s of museums and cultural attractions, $25 weekly for fresh veg at Farmer’s Markets, legal/immigration assistance and comprehensive medical and dental.

Bienvenido a Massachusetts

Do they do that anymore? I didn't get a lei when I went to Hawaii. I think you have to book them in advance and pay for it now.

Years ago I think it was a thing - but not anymore. Way too many visitors to Hawaii anyway.

I've flown into Honolulu more than 7 times and never once was there anyone there to put a lei around my neck. That's just TV bullshit.

Get off the plane in Philly, you get the finger and pelted on the side head with a snow ball.

I got one years ago when I got off the QE2 in Honolulu but only because they thought I was with Mrs. Kaiser. Never got one at the airport, usually do at the hotel.

A shotglass of maple syrup and directions of how to leave.

R7 - I went back to see the logistics of giving away lei's to visitors. The math just doesn't work - MAYBE in the early to mid 60's when they had 300-400k visitors per year - which is 1000 a day.

An article said that airlines DID used to give visitors leis, but tourism went up so much (1k a day in early 60's, to 100k/day in mid 70's, to 250k/day in 2020s).

So yeah - airlines did do this - but probably stopped over 50+ years ago.

Wisconsin: A yellow Styrofoam cheesehead

California - Surprise anal

I got a lei when I flew into Honolulu in 2005. Not sure about now.

In NC, you’d get a Bojangles biscuit and a large Cheerwine in a plastic NASCAR cup.

[quote]Get off the plane in Philly, you get the finger and pelted on the side head with a snow ball.

And the snowball would have a D battery in the center.

Green chile is given out at the Albuquerque, NM Sunport.

In Scranton we put a piece of coal in our snowballs. Our international airport is really nice but not too internationalish.

The thought of leis reminds me of an old "ring around the collar" commercial.

The thought of leis reminds me of the old joke about getting a free 'lay' in Hawaii...

You barely get a clue to where baggage claim is these days after a long flight. I do lock eyes and smile at the poor souls in the terminal waiting for their fun traveling hell about to happen.

Born in Hawaii in '69, moved away as a 4 year old and went back for a visit at 18 (1986).

I was lei'ed.

Been back as an adult twice. Not lei'ed.

In realness...the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport California has some Snoopy stuff to take in. They don't give you anything though

It fits for NYC...

Interesting underwear & multiple wives.

r21 here. I was actually 17, but we altered my CA license to 18 so I could get into clubs with my brother (who was 20). Drinking age was 18 there at the time.

I had my first white russian there.

R21 R25 Way too much detail. Please stop and make room for people who want to answer OP's question...

FOAD, r26

Trump threw paper towels at US when he arrived.

R27 You forgot to add "in a grease fire"

R28 Paper towels would be the perfect tourist handout for Puerto Rico!

You don’t get anything when you land in Kentucky, but you leave with a meth habit, an STI and a Mountain Dew.

Texas: an AR-15, Glock 9mm, 12-gauge sawed-off Mossberg, & jacked-up dualie truck.

California: hormone injection

California- a giant dildo attached to a chain

Mass- a can of baked beans attached to a chain

NY- A big apple attached to a chain

I am taking this literally- I feel each state has to involve a necklace that will be put on the arriving parties

Wisconsin, a giant cheese wheel attached to a chain

In Florida a used hubcap.

Maine: a lobster shell necklace

Get bent, r31. Kentucky has it's own soda, Ale-8, but I think you would get a Kentucky bourbon chocolate.

R6, you can still purchase lei greetings with your business class or first class package with Hawaiian Airlines.

I think OP is thinking of Fantasy Island.

R36- Bitch- you are copying me.

Maryland: Crabs.

In Boston a red Sox bat in the balls

Fuck you

a beating by some ratchet hoes when you land in Atlanta, GA.

A jug of Milo’s sweet tea and a pickup truck loaded with the deer we shot just for you. Welcome to Alabama!

A bag of taters and a welcome committee dressed in white sheets and hoods.

Binoculars so you can see Russia - Alaska

you get lei-ed in Hawaii, but you can get laid in Missouri.

In Idaho you get a potato and a coupon for ammo from Wal-Mart.

Big old ham in a burlap sack.

R37 Ale-8 is addictive, I brought back a ton of it (in glass bottles) last time I road tripped to Lexington.

They used to get a lei, but flowers don't grow so much anymore.

r49, did you see my post at r46?

R46 Not R49 but why so sensitive? I love Idaho but it has nothing more to offer this thread than potatoes.

In Ohio we would give you a fascinator made of buckeyes and paw-paw fruit.

In Minneapolis, they give you a beret to throw joyously up into the air when you get off the plane.

Florida: baby alligator and a gun

R5 Do you seriously believe this to be true?

Colorado: a joint

Connecticut- a tax bill.

A bill from the nearest auto repair shop.

Welcome to Pure Michigan. Our roads are pure shit.

I never got any fucking leis.

I know what NJ would like to give it’s visitors.

In Tennessee: Some roadkill, a disability check for “the nerves”, and your choice of an inbred cousin for the night.

In Texas you get an actual newborn human baby because abortion is illegal there.

Arkansas: The "privilege" of being impregnated by your rapey incel registered sex offender uncle. And, the prohibition by state law to abort his malignant hellspawn now festering in your uterus.

Post-birth, fully grown malignant hellspawn exhibit A:

I went to Hawaii 3 years ago and we didn’t get leis. In fact there were no leis anywhere. I was expecting a Brady Bunch style welcome and there was…nothing. We were driving around Lihue and saw a sign and bought the last 2 leis they had. In fact it was the 2nd worst vacation I’ve ever had.

As a kid I got leis arriving in Honolulu. Early 60s so no jet bridge, it was the rolling stairs to get off the plane. At the foot of it were my parents’ friends with armfuls of leis for us. There was a series of little huts as you drove up to the terminal where the women sat and strung them for sale.

South Carolina: birthplace of Miz Lindzey

I've been to Hawaii twice. Both times I got lei'd on arrival.

I've never gotten lei'd in Hawaii. I've been twice.

I just assumed that went away with The Brady Bunch era

R1, you beat me to it. I was going to write something similar.

r5 sounds great! *booking flight to Boston posthaste*

Texas: a bible and a gun

Insulted then ignored.

Massachusetts: Dunkin' Donuts

NYC- I just passed a half a block line for ordinary pizza in Times Square, so I'd say - A slice

2x to Hawaii, got leid both times. IIRC, from the airline. One time was first class on 747 upstairs, the best flight of my life, steak, lobster, champagne and a hot guy I loved at the time.

A few months later we went on a gay cruise and he said, "I want to do this every year" and I replied, "I never want to do this or anything like it again"and that was that.

A good fuck.

Connecticut: A grinder and directions to the nearest package store.

These woke states; they just hand out checks like leis in Hawaii. “Aloha, here’s you cell phone. Aloha, 3 months free rent.” I’m sick of it. I want someone to protect me, whether I like it or not.

Guests deplaning flights to DataLoungeistan receive an immediate kick to the cuntbone, followed by a Cher slap and "SNAP OUT OF IT!"

It's not a package store it's PACKY

It's called both r82. In CT they tend to say package store but in MA it's packy.

^yep. I’ve been out of CT for 20 years, but still say package store. It was never ‘packy’.

R73 Actually immigrants not in process don't get any of this when they arrive in Massachusetts, but it's fun to lie and hate!

Chicago: an inferiority complex and a 'pop'--we'd make it a point to call it that, even though we wouldn't believe it.

Washington, DC - Miss Lindsey's private phone number (hot men only!)

R1- Wrong

When passengers disembark at Newark International Airport they receive a Jersey Mike's Sub-

The Original Italian

Mississippi: Diabetes

R34, in Mississippi, if you are black, you just get the chain. A big, heavy one.

Bless your heart r85

R91 Ever wish you had one?

r92 opportunists who want to suck off the tit of of benefits while bringing their fucked up belief systems to the first world are not your friends. Take your self righteousness and shove it, they have no love for gays or women.

R93 Why do fat racist Midwesterners give a fuck what happens in Massachusetts?

Do you have any idea how fast the economy would crater if Shitlers's immigration policies were put into place?

R93 Like you, I'm trusting the Republicans to protect gays and women because they've done such a great job of that in the past.

Also, I don't like brown people.

Mass deportations and high tariffs would only raise food prices. Duh.

[quote]Why do fat racist Midwesterners give a fuck what happens in Massachusetts?

I'm actually in Gloucester (try to pronounce it) right now and enjoying the view of the water.

We don't need any more backwards third worlders and their Medieval belief systems in our country.

Bless your heart r96. Another product of the American public school system.

r95 I hate Trump as much as you do. I just don't think going in the extreme opposite direction is feasible nor beneficial for any Americans.

Extreme opposite of Trump...

Honest, healthy, intelligent, hardworking, attractive...

Yes, that sounds awful.

Philadelphia- a big, gooey HOT cheesesteak. Wid.

Pittsburgh- RUST. Lots and lots of rust.

Somewhere in the middle- broken dreams, coal and a skosh of meth. OK, a lot of meth.

PA is too close to NYC and Washington. All the ambitious people leave.

California: A homeless person screams gibberish at you.

R97 We don't need any more backwards third worlders and their Medieval belief systems in our country.

And yet you support Donald Trump for president.

No I don't r104. I hate Trump. I hate Muslims' belief systems as well. It's not a black and white world.

R105 Apparently you read what R5 posted and you think it's true.

If it's not a black-and-white world for you, perhaps there some hidden nuance somewhere to ideas about immigrants?

You seem irrationally hateful and completely uninformed, but filled with a love for Jesus.

r106 you're an idiot. Muslim ideology is incompatible with Western values and virtue-signaling shits like you won't learn soon enough.

[quote]You seem irrationally hateful and completely uninformed, but filled with a love for Jesus.

I'm not religious. I have a real-world understanding of the beliefs of Islam. It's a dangerous ideology and the West needs to understand this.

Indiana - fingers, toes, and various bits of mafia hits found in corn fields