You Know Your From Delaware When...

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KennyDE302

Discussion Starter · May 7, 2007

You know where, what and when the Hummers Parade is held.

"Vacation" means going to Rehoboth or Cape "Cantaloupe" Henlopen.

You know the best subs come from Capriotti's.

You used to play in the wooder in the crick, and caught fraugs.

Your school classes were canceled because of 3 snowflakes.

The whole state panics and uses all of their road salt for those 3 snowflakes.

You love the beach but hate the tourists.

You know about punkin-chunkin and you have your favorite chunker.

You know someone who went to school with one of the Capano's.

You've eaten scrapple sandwiches.

You can identify all the major types of manure by smell (especially chicken!)

If it takes more than an hour to drive to, you're not going.

You know what a "slippery" dumpling is.

You know who YouDee is.

Somebody in your family has worked for the DuPont Company.

You think the "Apple Scrapple Festival" is perfectly normal, except for all those granola types running in the 5K race.

You think, maybe, just maybe, you might get a White Christmas. Then it rains.

The highest point in the state is a rise on the golf course.

The state has one hill. You've been sledding on it.

You remember WAMS and WCAU (BARSKY in the morning!).

You know NewERK is in New Jersey, but NewARK is in Delaware.

You know how to carefully pronounce the name Foulk Road.

You talk of Northern Delaware and the entire Eastern Seaboard as "above the canal."

You know if another Delawarean is from southern, middle or northern Delaware as soon as they open their mouth.

You know the name of every street in Delaware, but have no idea what the route number is.

When you want to go out for a nice dinner, you have to switch states.

You can remember when Maryland Bank (MBNA) swallowed up Ogletown and Putt-Putt.

Everywhere you go, you always run into someone you know or went to school with.

You know what Newark Night and First Night are.

You know exactly which roads to avoid due to the CONSTANT road construction.

You love Dollie's salt water taffy and Grotto's Pizza. You know where all of the late-night 24-hour rest stops and restaurants are.

You can remember when Christiana Hospital was a field with cows.

You remember when Christiana Mall had a Galaxy arcade.

When you go out of state to shop or eat, you are always surprised about the tax

You know the differences in housing in Wilmington, Pike Creek, and Greenville.

haha the one about the roads is so true i know kirkwood highway, lancaster pike, maryland ave, philadelphia pike, new castle ave, dupont highway, and pennsylvania avenue but i don't know the actual route number lol

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xzmattzx

· #2 · May 7, 2007

KennyDE302 said:
Your school classes were canceled because of 3 snowflakes.

You know what a "slippery" dumpling is.

The highest point in the state is a rise on the golf course.

The state has one hill. You've been sledding on it.

You remember WAMS and WCAU (BARSKY in the morning!).

When you want to go out for a nice dinner, you have to switch states.

You love Dollie's salt water taffy and Grotto's Pizza. You know where all of the late-night 24-hour rest stops and restaurants are.

You can remember when Christiana Hospital was a field with cows.

You remember when Christiana Mall had a Galaxy arcade.

These are the only ones I have a problem with.

The slippery dumplings one must be a Slower Lower thing.

The WAMS, Christiana Hospital, and Christiana Mall ones are before my time.

I've never had school cancelled becuase of a threat of snow or anything small like that. What school did this person go to? The part about the road salt is correct though. When we got that half-inch of snow in February, they must've put down an inch of salt. The salt lasted for over a month.

The state has more than one hill. Has this person ever driven in Hockessin or in Chateau Country? The roads are winding and hilly. There are plenty of hills to sled on as well: the hill at Skyline Middle School, where I always went as a kid, the hill at Pike Creek Christian, the hill at St. Mark's, and a few others.

You don't have to switch states for a nice dinner. While very upscale restaurants are in other states, there are "nice" ones in Wilmington. I guess this applies more to Slower Lower people.

The taffy and Grotto's one is proof that this writer doesn't completely understand Delaware. Dolle's is not spelled with an "i". If they had been to Rehoboth, maybe they would know that.

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Billpa

· #3 · May 7, 2007

Re: restaurants.

Delaware has some great spots for food. It seems every area has people who have nothing good to say about their hometown/state. Some of those lines are cute...others are not that delaware-specific, like the road name/route number thing.

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MuddyZehbra32

· #4 · May 8, 2007

KennyDE302 said:
You know where, what and when the Hummers Parade is held.

haha the one about the roads is so true i know kirkwood highway, lancaster pike, maryland ave, philadelphia pike, new castle ave, dupont highway, and pennsylvania avenue but i don't know the actual route number lol

haha thats funny, cuz its the exact oppisite here...

with the exeption of a few routed roads, no one ever refers to a road by its name if it has a number.

(althought; you can figure them out, because usually, a routed road aroudn here is named after the town that it is leading to; and when the the postal code changes, the road changes to the name of town you came from. or they are just combine with a dash and called a pike or boulevard. )

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xzmattzx

· #5 · May 8, 2007

KennyDE302 said:
You know the best subs come from Capriotti's.

You used to play in the wooder in the crick, and caught fraugs.

You love the beach but hate the tourists.

Somebody in your family has worked for the DuPont Company.

You think, maybe, just maybe, you might get a White Christmas. Then it rains.

You know NewERK is in New Jersey, but NewARK is in Delaware.

You know how to carefully pronounce the name Foulk Road.

You talk of Northern Delaware and the entire Eastern Seaboard as "above the canal."

You know if another Delawarean is from southern, middle or northern Delaware as soon as they open their mouth.

You know the name of every street in Delaware, but have no idea what the route number is.

Everywhere you go, you always run into someone you know or went to school with.

When you go out of state to shop or eat, you are always surprised about the tax.

So true.

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KennyDE302

Discussion Starter · #6 · May 9, 2007

xzmattzx said:
These are the only ones I have a problem with.

The slippery dumplings one must be a Slower Lower thing.

The WAMS, Christiana Hospital, and Christiana Mall ones are before my time.

I've never had school cancelled becuase of a threat of snow or anything small like that. What school did this person go to? The part about the road salt is correct though. When we got that half-inch of snow in February, they must've put down an inch of salt. The salt lasted for over a month.

The state has more than one hill. Has this person ever driven in Hockessin or in Chateau Country? The roads are winding and hilly. There are plenty of hills to sled on as well: the hill at Skyline Middle School, where I always went as a kid, the hill at Pike Creek Christian, the hill at St. Mark's, and a few others.

You don't have to switch states for a nice dinner. While very upscale restaurants are in other states, there are "nice" ones in Wilmington. I guess this applies more to Slower Lower people.

The taffy and Grotto's one is proof that this writer doesn't completely understand Delaware. Dolle's is not spelled with an "i". If they had been to Rehoboth, maybe they would know that.

lol yea i just found it and thought it was funny. some of them are true but some i dont even know about, pretty much all the ones you never knew neither did i.

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Joe84323

· #7 · May 11, 2007

Lots of those things are slower lower centric, especially the apple scrapple bullshit and the pumpkin thing. Never been to one in my life.

Never used the term "above the canal" in my life.

I gotta agree with the tax thing. I can't get used to it.

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