Olivia Munn talks Maplewood Meats on 'Conan'

It's official: Olivia Munn is one of us.

The Hollywood actress who dates Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers talked about something on "Conan" Tuesday night that much of Northeastern Wisconsin can relate to: Maplewood Meats.

Munn, who appeared on the TBS late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien to promote her new movie with Johnny Depp, "Mortdecai," gave a shout-out to the popular meat market in Howard when she discussed living in Green Bay.

"I love it in Green Bay," she said. "It's really comfortable there and everybody's so great there."

She said she knew she had truly become comfortable living in the city when her representatives asked her if she could do a business call at 4 p.m. and she had to decline because she had "meat on hold" at Maplewood she needed to pick up before closing time. It was a concept she said took some further explanation to the person in Los Angeles on the other end of the phone.

"It's a Midwest thing," she said. "You've got to put some meat on hold."

Nobody was more surprised to hear Munn mention Maplewood than plant manager Brad Van Hemelryk, who is a regular "Conan" watcher and had tuned in Tuesday night.

"That was pretty exciting," said Van Hemelryk, who immediately sent texts to other members of the family-run business. He was aware that Munn stopped in almost weekly during the Packers season to pick up meat, often times fresh-cut steaks.

Maplewood's phone has been ringing plenty today.

"We're getting a lot of nice compliments, just kind of reconfirming the unique shopping experience we offer of you're picking it out and we're wrapping it. That's very unique to Green Bay and to Wisconsin," Van Hemelryk said.

The national TV mention was also a nice plug for how buying local is a trend that is "really, really cool," he said.

During the segment, O'Brien also asked Oklahoma-born Munn about the "incredibly cold" weather in Green Bay.

"A lot of people bring that up to me, but it's mostly men, and I just think that they are such pussies when they bring it up to me," she said. "... Do you not have a jacket? You can push a button in your car. A lot of cars, the seats warm up, so it's pretty doable."

Munn also talked about how she didn't know Rodgers, who O'Brien said he was excited to meet backstage before the show, was a professional football player when she first met him.

"All I saw was that he was like really attractive. I didn't really care what he did," she said. "I was like, 'You are such a big man.'"

— kmeinert@pressgazettemedia.com and follow her on Twitter @KendraMeinert.