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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 08:49 AM
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You Know You're From New Jersey if....
Edited on Wed Mar-30-05 08:50 AM by CO Liberal
You're from New Jersey if....

1. You don't understand why there aren't more 24-hour diners elsewhere in the country.

2. You know what a Wawa is, and know the location of at least 15 of them.

3. You think a mountain is that big freakin' hill in Atlantic Highlands.

4. You know Asbury Park is no longer the mecca of East Coast resort towns.

5. Even though there's a new Walmart in your town, you still go to the Englishtown Auction for cheap stuff.

6. You can name all the flavors of salt water taffy.

7. Your car is covered with yellow-green dust in April and May.

8. You buy Shop-Rite brand food at Shop-Rite.

9. You can smell and know when it's low tide.

10. The Jets/Giants game has started fights at your school and/or local bar.

11. There are no self serve gas stations and you like it that freakin' way..."yous gotta problem wit dat?"

12. You've had sex on the beach, and I'm not talking about the beverage.

13. You know how to successfully handle a traffic circle.

14. You know what skeeball is and you can get three 50's in a row.

15. You think the Olive Garden is crap and should have never opened any restaurants in New Jersey.

16. You've run out of money on the Parkway.

17. You're Italian.

18. You know where to get the best bagel.

19. Donald Trump is mentioned at least daily in your local paper.

20. You say "water" weird.

21. Even your school made good Italian subs.

22. You've lived through hurricanes, nor'easters and fires, but have never seen a tornado, earthquake, tsunami or volcano.

23. You can't believe MTV went to Seaside Heights.

24. You know that ACME is an actual store, not just a Warner Bros. creation.

25. You only go to New York City for day trips.

26. You know what a "jug handle" is.

27. You have mandatory recycling. Enforced by law.

28. You've eaten a pork roll and cheese on a hard roll...and like it.

29. You go to at least one parade at the boardwalk each year.

30. You've pondered, "Maybe basketball would be more popular in New Jersey if the Nets didn't blow……"

31. You can go bowling at 1:30 A.M. (with automatic scoring)!

32. In high school, you worked at a Friendly's.

33. Route 18 doesn't freak you out at night.

34. Because your town was founded before 1776, all the restaurants, taverns, and shops have "ye," "olde," and "colonial" in their names.

35. You don't have to go to Red Lobster to get fresh seafood.

36. You once said, "It smells like New York in here."

37. You've waited for the goddamn drawbridge for more than 20 damn minutes.

38. At least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen.

39. There's a fruit and vegetable stand down the road.

40. "Anyone who makes bad pizza can go to hell" is your attitude.

41. You always use a minimum of 10 variations of the word "damn" while driving.

42. You don't take any shit from anybody. Especially from someone from New York, because you live here for christ's sake and just who the hell do they think they are anyway? Invading our damn beaches and bars, they're just here for the damn summer and they think they own the damn place and....

43. You've gone to the race track with twenty different daily double bets from twenty different people.

44. You've spent St Patrick's Day in Belmar.

45. You know that there are bakeries which are not part of a supermarket, but actual individual stores.

46. You've ordered a "hard roll with butter" for breakfast.

47. One time, a sea gull shit on your head.

48. You've eaten at a Windmill, drunk off your ass, at 3am at least a dozen times.

49. You know what a "benny" is and can pick one out at the beach.

50. You've planned a local trip around ensuring you pass at least one dunkin' donuts.
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 08:52 AM
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1. Got 31 out of 50
even though I haven't lived in NJ for more than 15 years!

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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 08:54 AM
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2. I Saw Another List Once...
...that had a few other items:

Your class trip in grade school was to Morristown.

Half of your high school graduating class went to either Rutgers or County College of Morris.
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 09:05 AM
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4. Our classes went to Ringwood Manor
because it was closer than Morristown. They have a cool giant chain that was forged so it could be stretched across the Hudson River to keep out invading British ships during the Revolutionary War.

About half my graduating class went to Paterson State College, now called William Paterson University.

Does anyone remember what a Blue Bux was?
Or an Awful-Awful?
Or the Pig's Dinner?


All were served at the late and much-lamented Buxtons restaurants in northern NJ in the late 60s-early 70s. A Blue Bux was the perfect hamburger with blue cheese dressing. An Awful-Awful was a huge, extraordinarily thick milkshake, so named because it was "awful big, awful good." I never got past one and a half AAs.

If you managed to drink 3, you got a 4th Awful-Awful for free. Few managed this feat.

A Pig's Dinner was a "trough full" of scoops of different kinds of ice cream and toppings. I think there was some kind of eating challenge with that one too.

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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 10:18 AM
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5. Awful-Awful
I remember those although ~ I never tried for a free one.

When I close my eyes I can still picture the white with red trim building.
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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-30-05 08:56 AM
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3. Oh No - I'm so busted !
Ya got me on all but # 17, 20, 21, 32, 48.

I love to laugh in the morning Thank You !:rofl:
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