YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM PITTSBURGH WHEN......

Cousin Bekah | 12/7/01 | Sum Yunzer

[mountaineer]

I've known transplanted Buffalo natives who, on visits back home, would buy cases of the stuff to take back home. Genny drinkers are a devoted bunch!

[MsGail61]

We moved away in 1972 but I still remember being threatened with:

The Slithereedee crawled out of the sea
He may catch all the others but he won't catch me
No he won't catch me, old Slithereedee
He may catch all the others but he won't.....
{slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp} Ahh.

[martin_fierro]

THE SLITHERDEEDEE!!! I remember listening to that on Jack Bogut's morning radio show on KDKA 1020.

[xsmommy]

and the farkleberry stuff at Christmas on his show? grew up listening to KDKA radio.

[pops88]

What about lemon blend? I never realized, my mom being from "Clintin," it was also x42's name. LOL! I want to know who thought up "84" as a town name. Last time I was back in PGH I made my sister take me to King's for perrogies. Now I'm a little homesick. And the Incline, Eatin Park, Isley's...ahhhhh.

[xsmommy]

oh what the heck, i need to ask if anyone knows what a suckerbite is...? : )

[mountaineer]

Before farkleberries, there was Old Frothingslosh. Anyone remember Rege Cordic on KDKA?

[Wordkraft]

I grew up in "Beer Falls" (Beaver Falls). I moved away in 1965 and I STILL have people ask me, "where are you from?."

As far as "Old Frothingslosh" is concerned:

"Old Frothingslosh, the pale, stale ale for the pale, stale male. The ONLY beer with the foam on the bottom."

[Vinnie]

my wife got off the plane after one of her trips to see the family with an iced down cooler. It contained a Pittsburgh delicacy she wanted me to try.... City Chicken !!

I named it sh## on a stick. Actually it's pretty good.

[Vinnie]

oh what the heck, i need to ask if anyone knows what a suckerbite is...? : )

Asked my wife. It's a hickey.. We called them passion marks

[agrace]

2. You often go down to the "crick"

Yep, one runs past the hunting cabin up in Potter County.

6. You've ever "warched" or "wershed" the laundry.

Dad's been warshin clothes and dishes my whole life.

19. You drink "pop", eat "hogies" "pierogies" and "gyros"(jy-rows).

I lived in Central PA til 9th grade, then moved west to south of Pittsburgh, and the first time I asked for soda, I got "You want an ice cream soda?" And it's spelled HOAGIES. :)

21. You didn't have IHOPS or wafflehouses

But there's always Eat N Park!

23 You cheer for the stillers

Those same Stillers play the Jets tomorrow, as a matter of fact - the only time before the playoffs (and it looks like they WILL be in the playoffs this year!!!) that we can see them here in NJ.

28 You go food shoppin at Jine Iggle

HAHAHAHAHA! Sounds like my mother-in-law. That's GIANT EAGLE for the rest of you folks.

29 You don't have a spring break in high school

I didn't realize that was a local thing, but no we didn't.

36 You love Pensivanya

I'd move back in a second...but I REFUSE to move anywhere near Pittsburgh! The Susquehanna is west enough for me.

40 You are reading this and will forward it to family and friends who used to live in "da-burgh"

Most definitely. I even went to the link to check it out. :) My husband and I both grew up in PA - he is from Oil City, which is north of Pittsburgh, and I went to high school in Canonsburg. We met at Penn State.

[mountaineer]

I have a feeling the original city chicken was made from pigeons captured on Liberty Avenue.

[agrace]

And you get it at the packy! LOL

[mountaineer]

"Old Frothingslosh, the pale, stale ale for the pale, stale male. The ONLY beer with the foam on the bottom."

Thank you!

[agrace]

Excuse me - gulp - why WON'T they???

[agrace]

Never mind, I just read he has hip and groin problems, with some minor internal bleeding. :(

[quietolong]

To show wife later bump

[exmoor]

YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM PITTSBURGH WHEN......I don't know..maybe when you look like the Pitts or have Pitts?

[exmoor]

YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM PITTSBURGH WHEN......I don't know..maybe when you look like the Pitts or have the Pitts ?