If you go to school outside of the state in which you reside, you know that there are many defining things that make up your home state. Your friends at school also probably love to highlight and make fun of all of these wonderful things that you grew up with. You know you're from New Jersey if you're constantly saying these 20 things:
1. Taylor ham is a real thing.
It’s not Pork Roll, and it's not regular ham, there's a difference, and it makes all the difference when ordering a taylor ham, egg and cheese.
2. The bagels are way fluffier.
3. Not all of us (or any of us) are like the guidos on the Jersey Shore.
4. We can tell you where we’re from based on the exit you get off at on the parkway.
5. New York City, isn’t NYC, we just call it the city.
And no we aren’t always there.
6. The liquor store is not called a packie. Ever.
7. Going to the beach is always “down the shore”
8. Constantly telling people your state isn’t as ugly as Newark International Airport makes it seem.
9. There are so many sports teams that you constantly get into fights about.
Even though a lot of them are really from New Jersey.
10. Getting yelled at by your out-of-state college friends because you’re “too aggressive” of a driver.
11. There’s a diner around every corner.
12. If there’s no diner, there’s probably a mall.
13. Half-apps is a staple.
The waitress at Applebee's knows you’ll be coming in intoxicated after the football game.
14. Most of the high schools are regional schools.
15. The people are overly sarcastic.
16. Acrylic and gel nails and are a staple.
17. Pizza is way better here.
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New York, don't worry, you're a close second.
18. You know don’t go out driving around the holidays because the malls make traffic unbearable.
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19. If you ask where I’m from, I’ll say a county.
It’s not like “oh I’m from Boston?” “Oh, where?” “45 minutes out.”
19. You either live in an overpopulated area or basically the countryside.
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20. No, we don’t know how to pump our own gas, and no we don't care if you hate that about us.
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Shoutout to my friends here for inspiring this through our many rants about how school out of state is much different than being at home.
