These are things that I pulled off a "You know you're from New England when.... " list that have stunned me at various times when I realized it wasn't this way all over. What say you about these things?
And what are your local nuances??
Your
local DQ is closed from Sept to May (mine wasn’t growing up, but it is where I
live now and in Dec. we drove around for 2 hours trying to find an open one to
satisfy a blizzard craving…to no avail)
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You use the word “Wicked” (of course)
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Chocolate Sprinkles are called “Jimmies”
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You know what a Whoopie Pie is (Do people
seriously not know what that is? Anyone?)
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You measure distance in time (Who doesn’t? My CA
friends give me a hard time about this)
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You know what a “bubbler” is (Also something I
get a hard time about saying. This = Water Fountain, btw)
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You’ve gone Candlepin Bowling (I have a trophy related to this. I was
dumbfounded when I realize it didn’t exist in other places