This is all to true I just e-mailed it to my buddies. Great post!

LOL, that made me laugh. Those stereotypes are dead on.

Don't forget "flip flops" or "thongs". (not the underwear!)

I never understood why PA folks (in my area of PA) have a hard time driving through tunnels. Anyone that has to deal with parkway traffic going through the Squirrel Hill tunnels can relate. You sit in 30-45min of traffic. You enter the tunnels going 10-20mph. Your speed picks up as you progress through the tunnel. By the time you reach the other side you're up to 60mph and it's like a jail break! There's no traffic on the other side of the tunnel!

Maybe in Lancaster....but in Johnstown, it's Pop and Gobs!!!

I still don't understand what is so funny about the original post. Doesn't everybody talk like that/do those things, etc....????



I fit all of those as well but I have never heard of gobs....whoopie pies, yes, but I do not know what they are.

Whoopie pies are basically frosting sandwiched between two small chocolate cakes(at leas I've never seen anything other than chocolate) about the size of your palm that are about 2" tall. Good eats!

It's pop around here and I haven't got a clue as to why they call it soda in the east and pop in the west.

and why doesn't ring bologna get a holler? when i lived in the south, my mom used to have to ship it to me

Here are a few more that were on a similar list someone sent me in email awhile back:


You've never referred to Philadelphia as anything but "Philly" and New Jersey has always been "Jersey."

You know who "Punxsutawney Phil" is, and what it means if he sees his shadow.

You know what a "Hex sign" is.


You know the difference between a cheese steak &a pizza steak sandwich, and know that you can't get a really good one outside PA. (Don't forget the cheese steak hoagies!)

You know what a township, borough, and commonwealth is. (At least you vaguely remember.)

You can identify drivers from New York, New Jersey, or other neighboring states by their unique and irritating driving habits.

As a kid you built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you were.


"Youse guys" is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men &women.

You know how to respond to the question "Djeetyet?" (Did you eat yet?)

You know how to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre, Schuylkill, Bala Cynwyd, and Monongahela.


You know what a "Mummer" is, and are disappointed if you can't catch at least highlights of the parade.


If I duplicated any in the first list, sorry...it's hard to toggle back and forth!

Nope, yours were all new. Mummers - they've always annoyed me.

Oh yeah, a lot of Pennsylvanians refer to Jersey as "down the shore".

I'm originally from Jersey. Try to order Pork Roll in Pittsburgh. Nobody even knows what it is. In NJ people refer to $1 dollar bills as "singles" and here in my neck of PA we call them "ones". In NJ it's "yous" and here it's "younz".