Re: You know you are from Pennsylvania........(does have food references)

Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

this is for all of you out there who once lived in PA......
can't vouch for total veracity as I have only lived here
since '79, originally from NC .... I haven't seen one of
these for there. AND YES, THERE ARE FOOD REFERENCES!!!!
-ginny (whose inserts are in caps)

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM PENNSYLVANIA WHEN........

You know what a "State Store" is, and your out of state
friends find > > it incredulous that you can't purchase
liquor at the mini-mart.

Well, I'm a native and I find it incredible! But then I
lived in S. Cal. for 13 years.

You don't understand what all the hype is about for
Yeungling or Rolling Rock beer, you've been drinking
it for years even though Iron City is cheaper.

Well the reason I don't understand all the hype about
Rolling Rock is that is just tastes like really bad
tasting water to me. Can't figure out what anyone sees
in that stuff. And never liked Iron City either. Really
bad beer!

You live for summer & fall, when street fairs signal
the beginning of funnel cake season.

Since I grew up in the Pittsburgh area, funnel cakes
were not that common until just recently. I think they
are more a specialty, at least years ago, of the PA
Dutch areas.

You know what REAL potpie is.

Maybe that's also something from the other end of the
state. The only potpies I ever ate growing up were
the ones that said Banquet on the outside of the box. :-(

You ask the waitress for "dippy eggs" for breakfast.

I've heard the phrase but again, probably the other end
of the state.

Your turkey has "filling," not "stuffing," and most
certainly, NOT "dressing."

My turkey, and all my ancestors and relatives turkey have
always had stuffing.

You consider Pittsburgh to be "out west," and you
know the fastest way to Philly is the Turnpike.

No, I consider Pittsburgh to be "out east" and Philly
to be a little further out east. Even thought our
region is called Western Penna. and is considered to
be part of the Midwest (I was shocked to find this out
not too many years ago - I must have been living in a
cave or something not to have known this for the first
50 years of my life. Sheesh!), I have always thought of
Pittsburgh as being and Eastern city. You don't get
into the Midwest until you get a lot further west.
I even considered Ohio to be an eastern state although
I'm willing to let the Midwest have Ohio, just not
Western Penna.

When someone says 1972, you think "Agnes," and
when someone says 1979, you think "TMI".

Huh? I don't get this one. 'Splain, please.

You call sloppy joes, "barbecue". (STILL CAN'T
GET OVER THIS ONE.....BBQ IS FROM REVELL'S IN
LAURINGBURG, NC)

Nope, again, but be those weird Philadelphians.
Although, on the rare occasions that I make Sloppy
Joes, I just throw some barbecue sauce into some
browned ground beef, so you might get away with
referring to them as BBQ, but I still call them
Sloppy Joes.

When it snows, they put cinders on the roads
instead of sand.

I don't know where they still do that, perhaps a
few places out in the country, or something. Around
here all roads are salted. (I thought that sand
was a New England thing? I could be wrong about that.)

Know that Yuengling is pronounced "Ying-ling,"
and believe that it really is a premium beer
(which comes from growing up on Schlitz and Iron City).

The first day of Buck season and the first day of
Doe season are school holidays.

Ha Ha

One of the highlights of your life was a field trip
to Penn's cave and Horseshoe curve.

Must have lead a deprived childhood. I'm almost 60
and *still* have not been to Horseshoe Curve! I keep
meaning to do that one of these days real soon. I did
go to Penn's Cave a couple of years ago, but it wasn't
a school field trip. In Pittsburgh, back in the 50's
and 60's all field trips were to the famous Buhl Planetarium
on Pittsburgh's North Side.

You know exactly what to do when your mother tells you
to "red up" your room. (?)

Sorry to correct you but it's "redd" up - 2 d's.

You know the time and location of every "wing night"
in a 20 mile radius.

Yeah, I used to know this. Now that $.15 and $.25
wings are extinct I'm sort of let me membership in
Wings Illuminati lapse. It seems like the cheapest
you can find wings these days is $.40 and usually
they're $.50 or $.60 per wing. It's a disgrace!

You don't think people from Philly or Pittsburgh
talk funny.

Oh, I most certainly think people from Philly talk
funny. ;-)

All of your childhood vacations were trips to
the Jersey shore.

Been there once when I was 21. That was enough.
Wanted to see what it was like. Accidentally swallowed
some nasty salt walter when I got hit in the mouth by
a wave. Had to drink rum and coke the entire rest of the
3-day weekend because when I tried to drink water it tasted
like dead fish! Not only did that trip put me off
the Jersey Shore but it put me off rum and coke. ;-)

You design your children's Halloween costumes to fit
over a snowsuit.

Maybe nowadays, but then trick-or-treating has become
incredibly wussy these days. 50 years ago, no matter
how cold it was you only wore the costume. Sheesh!

Driving is always better in winter because the
potholes are filled with snow.

Actually, the potholes are usually all fixed just in time
for winter, when new one start being created by the cold
and ice. So all summer you have to drive over potholes
(it would be too much like right to actually fix them early
in the spring so people could have smooth summer driving) and
then all winter you get to drive over ice and snow. That's
the charm of living in Pittsburgh.

You find 20 degrees just a little chilly.

True.

You can recite the four seasons: almost winter, winter,
still winter and construction.

Good one!

Words like "hoagie", "crick", "chipped ham", and "pop"
actually mean something to you.

You can use the phrase "fire hall wedding reception"
and not even bat an eye. (BEEN TO A FEW FIREHOUSE
WEDDINGS TOO)

You think nothing of an Amish buggy on the road.

You learned long ago how to "step carefully" around
the buggy tie-ups in the supermarket parking lot.

You constantly refer to Pennsylvania as "PA"
(pronounced Pee-ay). How many other states do that?

You can go 2 weeks in winter without sunshine and
think this is normal.

You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Climax,
Bird-in-Hand, Virginville, Paradise, Mars, and
Slippery Rock are PA towns.

There is no such thing as a "Philly Cheesesteak".
Its just called a Cheesesteak since everybody knows
where they come from.

Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to
pass a tractor on the highway. (EXCEPT IN THE SUMMER,
TRYING TO GET OVER THE BRIDGE TO JERSERY TO GET TO
THE SHORE OR UP THE NE EXTENSION OF THE TURNPIKE
TRYING TO GET TO THE POCONOS).

"Vacation" means going to Hershey Park for the weekend.

You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
(WITH THE SAME CAR, GUILTY AS CHARGED)

You often switch from "Heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

You use a down comforter in the summer.

Are you kidding? It's hot and muggy in Pee-ay in the summer.
A person would die under a down comforter! Sheesh!

Your grandparents drive at 65mph through 13 feet of snow
during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

Yep.

You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
(and to church)

You install security lights on your house and garage and
then leave both unlocked.

Security lights schmecurity lights.

You think of the major food groups as deer meat, fish,
and berries.

Boy, I wish! (for the deer meat, that is)

You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend
or wife knows how to use them. (LEARNED THIS TRICK IN NC)

There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the
Sheetz mini-mart at any given time. (NOT IN ONE OF THE
BIGGER CITIES, NO WAY)

You can actually eat cold pizza (even for breakfast) and
know others who do the same. Those from NY find this
"barbaric". (CAN'T VERIFY THE NY STATEMENT)

Hm, I always thought this was just a college student thing.
I heat up my leftover breakfast pizza in the toaster oven.

You not only have heard of Birch Beer, but you know that
it comes in several colors: Red, White, Brown, Gold.

At least 5 people on your block (for the city folks)
have electric "candles" in all or most of their windows
all year long.

Okay, I know this is mainly in the Lancaster area. I've seen
them in all the houses there but I've never seen them in other
areas of the state, and definitely not in the Pittsburgh area.

You know several places to purchase or that serve Scrapple,
Summer Sausage (Lebanon Bologna), and Hot Bacon Dressing.

Again, PA Dutch areas.

You can't go to a Pennsylvania Wedding without hearing
the "Chicken Dance" and at least 5 other Polkas.

The Chicken Dance is a polka? I didn't know that. I've only
seen it once - I don't go to a lot of weddings - and it didn't
look like a polka to me. Hmmm? :-)

Kate
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Kate Connally
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Goldfish: ?The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.?
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