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A glass of amber-brown ale beside two cans of Bell’s Best Brown American Brown Ale, their owl artwork facing out, on a dark table

OPE

Bell’s Best Brown

A bottle of Bell’s Robust Porter next to a glass of near-black porter with a tan head on a wooden bar

NOPE

Bell’s Robust Porter

A large Hereford bull statue wearing a patriotic ribbon on a trailer outside the Country Smoke House in Almont, picnic tables behind it

OPE

Country Smoke House Bull

A black-and-white cow statue in the foreground with the Elsie water tower rising behind it against a clear blue sky

NOPE

Elsie Cow

An older bearded man in a tan jacket lighting a wooden tobacco pipe with a match, close up on his hands

OPE

Pipe Smoking

Friends at a sunny outdoor bar table with lit cigarettes, a black ashtray, a pack of smokes and glasses of beer and whiskey

NOPE

Cigarettes

The corner window of a tattoo parlor lit by a hanging lantern, painted with a Cash Only sign and a red Cash Is King sign

OPE

Cash Only

A shop's glass door covered with Visa, Amex, Mastercard, Discover and Apple Pay decals above a bold No Cash Accepted sign

NOPE

Card Only

The Comerica Park ferris wheel in Detroit at dusk, its gondolas shaped and painted like giant baseballs, lit up orange

OPE

Comerica Park Ferris Wheel

Looking up a set of yellow-walled stairs toward the large Navy Pier ferris wheel in Chicago under a gray overcast sky

NOPE

Navy Pier Ferris Wheel

A Miller High Life bottle filled with orange Aperol-spiked beer — a Spaghett — sitting on a bar against glowing red lights

OPE

Spaghetts

A mason jar of hazy golden IPA next to a New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Juicy Haze IPA can on a granite counter

NOPE

Hoppy IPAs

A covered Sylvan pontoon boat moored to a wooden dock on a calm lake at golden hour

OPE

Pontoons

A sporty white tritoon boat planing across a lake on its three aluminum tubes, driver at the wheel, wooded shoreline behind

NOPE

Tritoons

A bag of Cheetos XXTRA Flamin’ Hot Crunchy, its orange-and-black packaging marked Twice As Hot, on a granite counter

OPE

Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

A hand holding a classic orange bag of Cheetos Crunchy in a store aisle

NOPE

Regular Cheetos

The low brick exterior of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor behind its blue sign, framed by lawns and flowering trees

OPE

Ford Presidential Library

The towering gray stone monolith of the Obama Presidential Center rising against a blue sky, still under construction

NOPE

Obama Presidential Library

A painted architectural rendering of the restored Grand River rapids running through downtown Grand Rapids, whitewater breaking over rocks with city buildings behind

OPE

Real Grand Rapids

A low concrete dam throwing up a straight line of froth across the Grand River between two arched stone bridges under a gray sky

NOPE

Fake Grand Rapids

A bag of Better Made Special All Dressed Up flavored potato chips resting on a granite countertop

OPE

Better Made All Dressed Up

A yellow Lay’s Classic party-size bag of potato chips on a store shelf

NOPE

Lays

A hand-painted Starlite Drive Thru mural on a white cinderblock wall, a retro waitress holding a tray with a burger, fries and a coney beside a red arrow

OPE

Starlite Diner

An illuminated Denny’s Diner sign glowing yellow and red against a black night sky

NOPE

Denny’s