Things St Louis are known for:
-Gooey butter
-Toasted ravioli
-Cardinals baseball
-Blues hockey
-The Arch
-The second largest mardi gras in the country
-the last authentically intact little Italy in the country
-the #1 zoo in the country
-the oldest botanical garden in the western hemisphere
-largest city park in the country (forest park)
-oldest city park west of the Mississippi (lafayette square)
-home of T.S. Eliot, Maya Angelou, Tennessee Williams and Kate Chopin
-most breweries per capita of any city in the united states and home to Anheuser-Busch..
-an emerging hotbed hub of biotech and medical research
-St Louis style BBQ
-St Louis style pizza
-frozen custard
-the first American city to host the olympic games (WashU's Francis Field)
-the most opulent world's fair ever put on
-a blues and jazz music hub
-the oldest outdoor performing stage in the country (MUNY)
....And so on.