My father passed this on to me and I thought it funny. (It is my blog, so I can do that.)
...say "Philly" for Philadelphia, and "Jersey" for New Jersey, and "PA"
(pronounced Pee-ay) for Pennsylvania.
...address a group of men & women as "You guys", and understand the
question "Djeetyet?" (Didyoueatyet?)
...really pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre, Susquehanna, Schuylkill,
Tamaqua, Tunkannock, Bala Cynwyd, Duquesne & Monongahela.
...understand what a "Mummer" is, think an oxymoron is "drunk comics", and
watch out for "Punxsutawney Phil" and his shadow.
...believe the first day of Buck & Doe seasons are school holidays, and
you know several people who have hit more than one deer.
...have neighbors with electric "candles" in their windows, and you know
what "Hex signs", "Beer Distributors" and "State Stores" are.
...built snow forts and leaf piles taller than you, and you can only think
of 4 condiments: salt, pepper, mustard & ketchup.
...like the sound of a "hoagie", "chipped ham", "sticky buns", "shoo-fly
pie", "pierogies", or cold soft pretzel with mustard.
...eat Scrapple, Summer Sausage, Lebanon Bologna, Hot Bacon Dressing, cold
pizza, OR ask for "dippy eggs" for breakfast.
...can tell a cheesesteak from a pizzasteak sandwich, and know to find a
good one outside PA., go only to Atlantic City Boardwalk.
...identify Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise, Climax, Beaver, Moon,
Bird-in-Hand, Virginville, Mars, Wawa and Slippery Rock as towns.
...understand what a Township, Boro, and Commonwealth is, and can find a
"Beer garden", "Birch Beer", and "Funnel Cake".
...drive smoother when potholes are filled with ice, and identify New
York, Maryland and Jersey drivers by irritating driving habits.
...think a country drive is 10 cars waiting to pass a horse-drawn carriage
and can name someone who lives "down the lane".
...know how to use the jumper cables next to the shovel, kitty litter,
starter fluid, de-icer, and snowbrush in your trunk.
...remember mostly Polish, German & Italian names from High School, and a
"fire hall wedding reception" sounds OK to you.
...expect a "Mummers Strut", "Chicken Dance," at least one polka, a song
sung in Italian and "Hava Nagila" at every wedding.
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2 comments:
like these i am a Pennsylvanian born and raised
It is funny that local foods create such a fuss.
My four-year-old can't get enough scrapple but many of the people I work with are from other places- NY, CT, MD, VA, CA, OH, LA. They won't touch the stuff.
We Philadelphians go ape for our cheesesteaks and hoegies but our fellow Pennsylvanians West of the mountains could take them or leave them. (Marylanders have the audacity to say that our Hoegies are nothing more than a "sub." Heathens.)
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