You know your from Pennsylvania

[EdKing]

You know you're from Pennsylvania if...

You only own three spices: salt, pepper, & ketchup.
You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
You have more miles on your snowblower than on your car.
You have 10 favorite recipes for venison.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
You owe more money on your snowmobile than on your car.
Your snowblower gets stuck on your roof.
The local paper covers national and international headlines on 1 page but requires six pages for sports.
You think the start of deer hunting is a National Holiday.
You head south to go to your cottage.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You find -20F "a little" chilly.
The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freezer.
You know the four seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.
The municipality buys a Zamboni before a school bus.
You don't understand how anyone could watch a football game without either halupki, halushki, or kielbasa.
You remember fondly the days of your youth known as "Snow Days".
You don't understand why all sports commentators don't sound more like Myron Cope.
Words like: gumband; buggy; hoagie; chipped ham; and pop actually mean something to you.
Half the barns have hex signs on them. The other half have ads for chewing tobacco.
Every acre of open land has a cow standing on it.
There's a posted 800 number you can call to have a pothole fixed, but all the potholes in the road make your eyes too unsteady to read the billboard.
You can use the phrase "Firehall Wedding" and not even bat an eye.
You actually get these jokes.
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[looch]

<font color=blue>You think the start of deer hunting is a National Holiday</font color=blue>

Well, maybe not a national holiday, but in a small town in PA where I used to go hunting the opening day of doe season was a Monday. It was a ghost town - no school, no stores, no work. They used to call it "Mother's Day." The ladies weren't too crazy about that name.

 

[EdKing]

Yeah, the high school I graduated from called the first day of buck "Deer Day", and the first day of doe
"Doe Day", we got them both off from school.

 

[TerryinMD]

Ed,

You gave yourself away as being from Western Pa - Myron Cope, halupki, halushki, and kielbasa. Ahhhh... those were the days. And some of the stuff I do not miss.... ie the roads. Never quite understood why people complained about Pa roads until I moved away. Now - I understand completely!! In the nearly 20 years since I've moved away, I've only had to have the front end aligned less than a handful of times. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Now, it's Hog Maws, steamers, potato candy, and red velvet cake.

Terry

 

[EdKing]

I know what you mean about the roads. I never realised how bad they were until I lived away for about 9 years. When I got back I thought, man these are some rough roads.

 

[kubmech]

Say, add some of these one time.

You wash the dishes in the zinc.....

Pancakes and gravy are not weird dunshuknow......

Shooting at "stuff" from the porch is normal.......

Shoo fly pie is'nt gross......................

You know what scrapple is and still eat it..........................

The local tavern still has that "same" 3 jars of pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs and hot bolognas...............

Apple butter doesn't have butter in it............................

You have nothing but respect for electric fences...................

You never have to explain why you have nothing but respect for electric fences...........................

You know you can't get drunk off of birch beer.......................

Yuengling is something you can get drunk off of....................

The difference between 30-30 and 308 depends on how old you are.....................

A nice spike is not a volleyball term....................................

The "backstrap" is something you never give away..............

You know that "brots" are best when cooked on the grill........

You know stripers like eals................................................

Intercourse? You can go there.............................................

You know Bethlehem is east of Allentown............................

You don't have to ask, the college or the town?..................

You know that skunk cabbage is definitely something you don't want to eat............................................................

Nettles is not an NBA team................................................

You know that mint comes from the bank and goes great with your tea...................................................................

Hey, you started it............................

 

[EdKing]

<font color=blue>Shooting at "stuff" from the porch is normal.......</font color=blue>

My friend got his buck on opening day as we walked out onto the porch.

<font color=blue>The local tavern still has that "same" 3 jars of pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs and hot bolognas...............</font color=blue>

Yes, and I'd never eat them.

<font color=blue>Apple butter doesn't have butter in it............................</font color=blue>

But its good on buttered toast.

<font color=blue>You have nothing but respect for electric fences...................
You never have to explain why you have nothing but respect for electric fences...........................</font color=blue>

You got that right.

<font color=blue>You know that "brots" are best when cooked on the grill........</font color=blue>

Been a while since I had some good brots.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Hoo boy, ya mean my darlin wife has been lieing to me for the last 7 years?
she spent 30 years in Allentown, and swears it never snows there, especially from November thru
February.
Oddly, the first year she was here, she did mention what a fantastic job the snow plow crew did, when it snowed on Saturday they actually plowed on Saturday, instead of Monday morning.
I've learned new words, like 'ruddle' and 'furhoodle' and that there ain't a place in New York that has the slightest idea what a Philly cheese steak is.
My main question is why the hell does PenDot hide all the signs on I81 and I22 behind trees?
It is real nice how you Pa folks let other cars into traffic on I 22 though.

 

[chim]

I recently saw a bumper sticker that said "Welcome to Lancaster County. Now go home". BTW, my handle comes from the way some of the neighbors pronounce my name..............chim

 

[Jeff396]

It's always a mistake to buy food far away from where it was invented. One year after a visit in Rochester, NY I had an 8 hour layover in the Pittsburg airport. When we ate lunch I figured it was a good chance to get my last good taste of Buffalo wings before returning to Tucson. Well, these things didn't have a drop of hot sauce on them but rather some sort of a powdered hot spice.......YECH/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif! You would have thought that Pittsburg was close enough to Buffalo that it wouldn't be a problem. Never do that again.

Jeff