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You know you're from

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  • Posts: 4,553 Member

    What's your favorite flavor? :tongue:

    It's for eating? Huh, who would've thunk it. :wink:
  • Posts: 4,383 Member
    Massachusetts:

    1. You know what a Rotary is and more importantly how to use one
    2. You're never too far away from a dunkin
    3. No one parks their car in the harvard yard - stop asking
    4. It's called a "packy"
    5. Please tell me how you loved "The Perfect Storm" and "Grown ups"
    6. Clam Plate
    7. Its a Frappe
    8. Yesterday could be 50 degrees and rainy and tomorrow 80 and sunny, perfectly normal.
    9. Home to Mark Wahlberg wink
    10. We love our dirty water

    yes...all of this

    plus (depending on which part of Mass you're from...i was south shore/cape/ New bedford)

    Coffee Milk is the drink of choice at a breakfast restaurant.
    Linguica Pizza is more popular than pepperoni
    chow mein is crispy brown noodles with a thin brown gravy
    sunday morning is malassadas at the portuguese bakery
    NB vs Durfee is a huge thing on Thanksgiving

    go too far north or west and all of these are unheard of
  • Posts: 33
    You know you are from northeast PA when:

    You refer to distance by time (it's 20 mins away)
    Dippy eggs
    It's PA, not Pennsylvania
    You can drive 60 mph though a foot of snow, in the dark
    Snow days don't exist
    NO school the first day of hunting season
    Deer are a SERIOUS driving hazard
    We can have all four seasons in ONE DAY.
  • Posts: 319 Member

    It's for eating? Huh, who would've thunk it. :wink:

    LMAO!
  • Posts: 17 Member
    You know you're from Pennsylvania when:

    You think the roads in every other state are smooth
    You know a recipe for a real pot pie
    You eat "filling" with your turkey at Thanksgiving
    You live within a few miles of some sort of junk food factory
    You celebrate Deer Day
  • Posts: 2,607 Member
    Philly:
    1. You go "down the shore" instead of to the beach.
    2. "Wooder"... A classy way of saying H20
    3. Grilled cheese steak...the city's favorite "hoagie"
    4. "Wooder ice": a flavored summer treat served to you by Rocco and Gina. Only "eye talian" will do
    5. South Street...where to go buy Docs
    6. "yooz"... Go six hours west and it's the equivalent of "yinz"
    7. Pendy...Archbishop Pendegrast High School: Catholic High School outside of 69th Street. Actually, in Upper Darby
    8. The "el"... Noisy elevated trolley to get you from the burbs to Center City
    my dear.. I'm one of the few who really feel strongly it's 'youns.' it rhymes with doun'-what r youns doun?
  • Posts: 4,553 Member

    LMAO!

    I guess we have to log the calories, but we'll be burning them during the fight, so it might be a wash.
  • Posts: 343 Member
    You know you are from Florida when:

    1) Your standing on one side of the street where it is sunny and you move to the other side and its pouring.
    2) Snow birds drive in the middle lane or slow lane on interstate and cut right in front of you in the fast lane then slow down.
    3) All year is Spring/Summer.
    4) You cant wait for May and September to be over because of Love bug season.
    5) Hurricane's are nothing but a good way to get out of work and cool FL down!


    No offense snow birds :)
  • Posts: 282 Member
    Maine - Mainah / Maniac

    - The letter "R" is wicked overrated. It's lobstah, not lobster.

    - We say wicked. A lot.

    - 4 inches of snow is a dusting.

    - You crave an Italian sandwich weekly.

    - You know what an Italian sandwich is.

    - You crave a whoopie pie with your Italian sandwich.

    - LL Bean isn't just a store, it's a way of life.

    - Maine has 4 seasons. Tourist, Foliage, Ski and Mud.

    - You know what a red hot dog is and you eat one.

    - Just about everyone you know has hit a deer or moose on the highway!
  • Posts: 290 Member
    You know you're from Connecticut when

    1. you get mad if you have to drive more than 30 minutes to get somewhere
    2. you have to tell people from other countries that you live between nyc and boston
    3. you NEED coffee everyday
    4. you cant stand the leaf watchers in the fall clogging up the roads
  • While I live in PA I am an Illinois Country Boy born and raised and...

    You know that there are in fact only two seasons. Winter and Construction

    Family Vacation means Wisconsin Dells

    You know the difference between a soybean field and a cornfield upon sight

    You become irate when people pronounce the S at the end of Illinois

    You can sing the phone number to Empire Carpet from Memory

    Proper Pizza is cut in squares, there are no exceptions

    45 degrees is still t-shirt weather and you have no problems cracking the window at 30.
  • Posts: 3,218 Member
    Your from Wisconsin when:
    1-Your not surprised when it snows in May, the day after it is 80 degrees
    2-You know where every bar and catholic church is in your home town
    3-You know what a bubbler is
    4- You can pronounce Eau Clare, Rhinelander, and Wauwatosa.
    5- You bleed Green and Gold and hate the Bears

    As someone from a border town you can add the Vikings to #5.
  • Posts: 319 Member

    I guess we have to log the calories, but we'll be burning them during the fight, so it might be a wash.

    Ground Rules: Can I fight dirty? You know us Bama fans. :laugh:
  • Posts: 10 Member
    You know you're from Sheboygan:

    When you eat some bakery with your coffee,
    When that bakery includes schneks, cement blocks, and mud pies,
    When you bring beer home from the tavern in a glass gallon jug,
    When you go down by the lake,
    When you reply in the affirmative with," ya hey aina",
    When you get a drink of water from a bubbler,
    When you're still a Cub fan no matter how many teams Milwaukee gets,
    When you're on vacation anywhere else and people know where you're from as soon as you speak.
  • Posts: 3,069 Member
    You know you are from northeast PA when:

    You refer to distance by time (it's 20 mins away)
    Dippy eggs
    It's PA, not Pennsylvania
    You can drive 60 mph though a foot of snow, in the dark
    Snow days don't exist
    NO school the first day of hunting season
    Deer are a SERIOUS driving hazard
    We can have all four seasons in ONE DAY.

    LOL...I live in NE PA and this is so true! We always say dippy eggs especially!
  • Posts: 447 Member

    yes...all of this

    plus (depending on which part of Mass you're from...i was south shore/cape/ New bedford)

    Coffee Milk is the drink of choice at a breakfast restaurant.
    Linguica Pizza is more popular than pepperoni
    chow mein is crispy brown noodles with a thin brown gravy
    sunday morning is malassadas at the portuguese bakery
    NB vs Durfee is a huge thing on Thanksgiving

    go too far north or west and all of these are unheard of

    yes! To these! I didnt know how big some of these were, especially the coffee milk but just down here. And fluff until pretty recent
  • Posts: 5,922 Member
    London

    1. You can't breathe the air some days because it is smog, not air.
    2. Your home borough is conveniently ignored because only the nice bits of London get shown to the world
    3. Everything costs about £1,000,000 more than everywhere else
    4. You can't understand anyone north or south of the M25
    5. You spend an inordinate amount of time not moving when in the car - usually on the M25
  • Posts: 7,436 Member
    (not a from one, because I've been living abroad)

    You know you're living in Bahrain if:

    1. The traffic on the highway has come to a complete halt, and you don't know if it's because of a) civil unrest (possibly including the highway being firebombed), b) the police stopping all the traffic to try and find people that have been causing the civil unrest, c) an accident or d) everyone slowing down to rubberneck an accident or civil unrest going on on the other carriageway.

    2. You know that you can usually smell teargas before it starts burning your eyes, nose and throat, and when you smell it you just roll your eyes say "not again!" and go indoors or if you're driving wind up your windows really quickly.

    3. You've driven through fire on the roads, because civil unrest

    4. You can tell when Saudi Arabia has a national holiday because the roads are suddenly full of people who can't drive and have really crazy ideas about parking, i.e. Saudis over to visit Bahrain

    5. You're pretty sure that the local cinemas would go bankrupt if Saudi Arabia legalised cinemas.... because of the large numbers of Saudis who come to Bahrain to watch movies.

    6. Every time you step outside your front door, it's like a free sauna and steam room. Except that you have to actually go out and do stuff in all that heat and humidity as opposed to just sit and relax

    7. You step out of your car and your glasses instantly steam up, because your glasses are cold from your car's a.c. and it's ridiculously hot and humid outside the car

    8. The entire outside of your car has steamed up before

    9. You realise that the saying/song "only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" lied to you, because Bahrainis go out in the midday sun, and English people just can't because it's too freaking hot and humid

    10. You have been more than an hour late to some places, due to the police stopping traffic to find the people causing civil unrest

    11. You love living in Bahrain anyway, in spite of all of the above things because Bahraini people are great and it's still a better place to live than Saudi Arabia and you understand why so many Saudis come to Bahrain at every opportunity.
  • Posts: 204 Member
    New York City


    1. In any conversation with someone about New York, you delineate between "The City" and the rest of New York State
    2. "The City" (when you live in the city) means Manhattan, even though the five boroughs are "the city"
    3. You know that anyone approaching you smiling, nodding, or extending their hand to shake yours is likely trying to sell you something, get you to sign a petition, or want you to buy a candy bar "Not for no basketball team or club, but to have a few dollars in my pocket."
    4. You have to explain to non-New Yorkers that everyone in New York does not sound like the cast of Saturday Night Fever
    5. You protect your unlimited metrocard as if it holds the secrets to the universe
    6. After spending your life being accosted and hustled, you're ruined for genuine kindness from anywhere else in the world.
    7. You wonder why everyone things New Yorkers are mean. Aloof maybe, desensitized, likely... but not mean :)
  • Posts: 696 Member

    1. I can relate to. Unfortunately. Living in tornado alley can be rough.

    Honestly I have no clue about the rest. Never been on a float trip, my family considered that very low class and I think just 1 of my friends has been on one. I haven't lived in a rural area with cars waiting to pass a tractor and have never heard of that knee-high by the Fourth of July thing. I also can't identify accents within Missouri at all, except maybe "old Italian lady from St Louis proper", and everyone says I sound like I'm from Michigan or New York - I have lived in the southwest corner of Missouri since I was born. LOL

    I'd say you know you're from Missouri when you have eaten a Frito Pie (I guess that's a Texas thing though?), can name all of the rides at Silver Dollar City, and know what city "the Plaza" is in for viewing Christmas lights or taking a carriage ride.

    that's too bad about the float trips, some of the most fun I've ever had ^_^ never had a frito pie, lol
  • Posts: 10,740 Member

    that's too bad about the float trips, some of the most fun I've ever had ^_^ never had a frito pie, lol

    Just to clarify, my family was being snooty but I don't think float trips are "low class" personally.
    I would love to go on one, honestly... but I don't know anyone who goes and when I am hiking near the river I see people who look like they are straight out of Deliverance or severely intoxicated & screaming. They're on float trips. I don't doubt for a moment that perfectly decent, fun people go...I wish some of my friends would start!
  • Posts: 376 Member
    Your from Wisconsin when:
    1-Your not surprised when it snows in May, the day after it is 80 degrees
    2-You know where every bar and catholic church is in your home town
    3-You know what a bubbler is
    4- You can pronounce Eau Clare, Rhinelander, and Wauwatosa.
    5- You bleed Green and Gold and hate the Bears

    6. You can also pronounce "Chequamegon"
    7. You are not surprised by the liquor and cheese drive thru.......
  • Posts: 696 Member

    Just to clarify, my family was being snooty but I don't think float trips are "low class" personally.
    I would love to go on one, honestly... but I don't know anyone who goes and when I am hiking near the river I see people who look like they are straight out of Deliverance or severely intoxicated & screaming. They're on float trips. I don't doubt for a moment that perfectly decent, fun people go...I wish some of my friends would start!


    lol believe me I get it completely ^_^ they are fun but I've never gotten trashed doing them, I think the fear of drowning keeps me grounded ;)
  • Posts: 119 Member
    Santa Cruz Ca:

    When summer doesn't actually come till august/September
    You don't even try to go to the beach on the weekends between May-July because all the stupid tourists crowd EVERYTHING!
    We don't know what real rain looks like, and people don't know how to drive in mist
    We say gnarly
    Surfing isn't an activity it's a way of life
    The 90's never left we still dress, act, speak like it's the 90's just with a mix of current culture
    The best music is from the 70s-90s
  • Posts: 183 Member
    New York City

    1. In any conversation with someone about New York, you delineate between "The City" and the rest of New York State
    2. "The City" (when you live in the city) means Manhattan, even though the five boroughs are "the city"
    3. You know that anyone approaching you smiling, nodding, or extending their hand to shake yours is likely trying to sell you something, get you to sign a petition, or want you to buy a candy bar "Not for no basketball team or club, but to have a few dollars in my pocket."
    4. You have to explain to non-New Yorkers that everyone in New York does not sound like the cast of Saturday Night Fever
    5. You protect your unlimited metrocard as if it holds the secrets to the universe
    6. After spending your life being accosted and hustled, you're ruined for genuine kindness from anywhere else in the world.
    7. You wonder why everyone things New Yorkers are mean. Aloof maybe, desensitized, likely... but not mean :)
    The first time I ever went to NYC (back in the early 2000s) I was kinda scared because I had heard how mean everyone was. My experience that first time was magical! Everyone, even though brusque (hey, they're BIZZY!) was very kind to me and my ignorance. I got endless help for riding the subway, getting around on the bus, and just hanging out in the little neighborhood my hotel was in. I remember the (I think) Russian desk clerk admonishing me and my two daughters when we were asking for a "store" to pick up some snacks late one night. He was all, "Store? Why you want shop theese time night? OOOOH! You want DELI! You go deli." He was the sweetest.

    I kinda love New York and could live there in a heartbeat. There or San Francisco. **sigh**
  • Posts: 183 Member

    6. You can also pronounce "Chequamegon"
    OMgosh, I've camped for millions of years around there! My kids still do. I'm getting all nostalgic.
  • Posts: 303 Member
    London

    1. You can't breathe the air some days because it is smog, not air.
    2. Your home borough is conveniently ignored because only the nice bits of London get shown to the world
    3. Everything costs about £1,000,000 more than everywhere else
    4. You can't understand anyone north or south of the M25
    5. You spend an inordinate amount of time not moving when in the car - usually on the M25

    6. You need a passport to cross the Thames
    7. You can no longer go to your favourite pub because a celeb has decided to make it their local and tourists have flocked there for a peek.
    8. The North starts at Watford
    9. Slow walking people are the bane of your life
    10. But on a positive, you can always get a pint of milk, bread, pizza, beer within 200 yards of your front door in the middle of the night.

  • Born and raised in Tennessee, and not a single thing listed applies, nor do I understand (sans the reckon one).

    Wow! You poor poor guy. Did your parents keep you locked up in the barn your whole life, or are you just so dull and simple minded that you can't be humored by only SLIGHTLY exaggerated satire?
  • Posts: 9,420 Member

    Wow! You poor poor guy. Did your parents keep you locked up in the barn your whole life, or are you just so dull and simple minded that you can't be humored by only SLIGHTLY exaggerated satire?

    Bless his heart!
  • Posts: 2,289 Member

    Bless his heart!

    ^^Took the words right out of my mouth!! ☺️
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