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The glass of water is for cleaning all the powdered sugar off your fingers and dipping a napkin in water to clean your face. Not for drinking. Another running joke here (MS Gulf Coast) is that you can always tell who the tourists are because they're the ones that actually get in the water on the beach. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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My daughter was watching a video on youtube in which this family does all kinds of shit we can't afford, and they were vacationing in Hawaii. While they were at one of the stereotypical touristy "luaus", watching some stereotypical "hula" dancing, I wondered, do those locals clock out at the end of the day with disdain for how their cultural things have been turned into a "tourist itinerary stop"? It made me think, are there any regional "food combinations" or orders that they see tourists massively screw up? What have you seen that's exclusive to your "region" done completely wrong by someone from a different area? Here it's things like ordering sweet tea not knowing it's going to be a big glass of iced sweet tea, or putting sugar on grits, drinking from the glass of water they bring you with beignets, etc. I'm guilty of putting chinese entrees on fried rice instead of plain steamed white rice. I don't put cinnamon in chili or any of that yankee stuff. X2 not seeing why I need half a glass of water to eat some fritters with sugar on them. The glass of water is for cleaning all the powdered sugar off your fingers and dipping a napkin in water to clean your face. Not for drinking. Another running joke here (MS Gulf Coast) is that you can always tell who the tourists are because they're the ones that actually get in the water on the beach. MS gulf is for casinos and fishing silly Yankees |
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People come to langCASTER from all over to see the Amish. Couldn't begin to fathom why someone would sit in the car for hours to go look at a smelly guy who treats animals horribly. They all have cell phones and shit. Fuckin phonies. View Quote You know that ain't the way Pennsyltukians say "Lancaster". |
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When I was working in Newark, DE I'd get bored on the weekends and just drive around. One time I saw some of these Amish in the wild...I've never in my life encountered someone who smelled so horrible. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People come to langCASTER from all over to see the Amish. Couldn't begin to fathom why someone would sit in the car for hours to go look at a smelly guy who treats animals horribly. They all have cell phones and shit. Fuckin phonies. When I was working in Newark, DE I'd get bored on the weekends and just drive around. One time I saw some of these Amish in the wild...I've never in my life encountered someone who smelled so horrible. I was taking some Rushsylvania Amish to southern Logan county (DeGraff). He called them "Stinky Amish". He also told me not to be surprised they all looked alike, since they were inbred. |
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Tourists always twirl the spaghetti with their forks while eating at Skyline.
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I was taking some Rushsylvania Amish to southern Logan county (DeGraff). He called them "Stinky Amish". He also told me not to be surprised they all looked alike, since they were inbred. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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People come to langCASTER from all over to see the Amish. Couldn't begin to fathom why someone would sit in the car for hours to go look at a smelly guy who treats animals horribly. They all have cell phones and shit. Fuckin phonies. When I was working in Newark, DE I'd get bored on the weekends and just drive around. One time I saw some of these Amish in the wild...I've never in my life encountered someone who smelled so horrible. I was taking some Rushsylvania Amish to southern Logan county (DeGraff). He called them "Stinky Amish". He also told me not to be surprised they all looked alike, since they were inbred. Ever seen the Amish Mafia at the gun show at Lima? |
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I always like it when the new "hometown" news anchor mispronounces all the street names
e.g. They pronounce Navarre as nav a ree instead of nuh var etc. |
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My daughter was watching a video on youtube in which this family does all kinds of shit we can't afford, and they were vacationing in Hawaii. While they were at one of the stereotypical touristy "luaus", watching some stereotypical "hula" dancing, I wondered, do those locals clock out at the end of the day with disdain for how their cultural things have been turned into a "tourist itinerary stop"? It made me think, are there any regional "food combinations" or orders that they see tourists massively screw up? What have you seen that's exclusive to your "region" done completely wrong by someone from a different area? Here it's things like ordering sweet tea not knowing it's going to be a big glass of iced sweet tea, or putting sugar on grits, drinking from the glass of water they bring you with beignets, etc. I'm guilty of putting chinese entrees on fried rice instead of plain steamed white rice. I don't put cinnamon in chili or any of that yankee stuff. View Quote I had several friends that worked for companies that provided the "touristy" things in Hawaii, like luau's, cultural shows, boat trips, etc. Every single one hated it. |
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The 1st generation mexican I know and her family tear them in pieces and pick up the entree and or roll them to mop up the remaining liquid View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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When you are served tortillas with a meal, typically you put butter on it and eat it like we eat bread with our meal. Not stick everything in it and make a taco Though I do it, because I like it, but I know it's not the "legit" way to do it Well, I'm 5th generation Texan, and I've done the taco thing with tortillas my whole life. When I first started dating my wife, her family laughed at me every time I would eat with them. I finally said "what am I doing wrong?" They just laughed and said "it's funny that you make tacos out of every meal!" I finally started paying attention to how they used the tortillas with their food. That's when I started calling tortillas "Mexican chopsticks". |
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After a week of the local food his daughter wanted something different, so the family told them about this thing called pizza hut that just opened. My buddy thought it was strange that everyone got all dressed up to go out for pizza, but figured small town folks don't get out much and just rolled with it. He damn near shit himself when he walked in and there was a matre de and waiters with towells over their forearms. When their pizza came (a single slice on a China plate) he picked his up and folded it and started to chow down. His family and everyone around looked at him in shock with his mom asking inin hushed tones"Andrezj, do you want people to think we are all farmers?" Yep, they make a big deal out ofof going out to eat American food and eat pizza with a knife and fork. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The white/horribly sunburned people going in the water when the air temp is 72 and the water temp is 62, in March, in California. Yup, tourists. Watching people try to eat New York style pizza that aren't familiar with it. You fold that shit in half. My co worker is from Poland and wanted to take his 18yr old American born daughter to see their relatives back in the motherland. My buddy thought it was strange that everyone got all dressed up to go out for pizza, but figured small town folks don't get out much and just rolled with it. He damn near shit himself when he walked in and there was a matre de and waiters with towells over their forearms. When their pizza came (a single slice on a China plate) he picked his up and folded it and started to chow down. His family and everyone around looked at him in shock with his mom asking inin hushed tones"Andrezj, do you want people to think we are all farmers?" Yep, they make a big deal out ofof going out to eat American food and eat pizza with a knife and fork. When he goes to Europe, he'll see sandwiches and pizza eaten with a knife and fork. As they are Polish, I'm not surprised. |
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Every year it is bad, but every summer leading up to an election it gets terrible.
The Iowa State Fair. As a local, I have a fond resentment of what the Fair brings. National and international attention as out-of-touch politicians try to fit in by eating a corndog, flipping burgers, or looking at a cow sculpted out of butter. Throngs of overweight, sunburnt dolts meandering through rows of overpriced cheap Chinese-made goods. Hot tub salesmen. Mattress salesmen in the trade building asking anyone stupid enough to stop if they'd like to lay down on the mattress - despite the person being coated in sweat and grime from the day. One person after another, trying to lay down on the same mattress some heifer from WI just rolled her putrid BO all over. The people that live around the fair treat the fair like their own personal backyard BBQ. Families show up and all get hammered on $9 Budweisers as if this is some special privilege. They're shamelessly loud in public, and let their kids run around barefoot in nothing more than a shit-filled diaper. |
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People going to Albany, NY and calling a steamed ham a hamburger.
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NO ONE from the state says "Joisey" and the inbreds who insist upon saying it after being corrected deserve to be dropped in Camden at night.
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People going to Albany, NY and calling a steamed ham a hamburger. I grew up in Utica and have never heard this expression Oh not in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression. |
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The "cast iron nachos" thread has forced me to add nachos to the list...
Nachos- fried tortilla pieces with cheese and a jalapeño slice on top, warmed in the oven or broiler until the cheese melts. Not a dip, not a casserole, not cheese sauce dumped over a pile of chips... Add beans/meat/guacamole (to the individual chips, not heaped on top of a pile of chips) and you get "Panchos". Not rocket science. Your concoction may be delicious, but it's not "nachos". |
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Occasionally, some tourists feel the need to hurl themselves over the side of the Royal Gorge Bridge, near here. Been going on a long time and will likely continue as long as the bridge is there.
Sometimes it's after hours, sometimes it's during regular business hours. I understand there are cameras positioned around the area but those video clips never seem to get released. It is approximately 1250 feet from the bridge to the river in the canyon, below. Then, there's the issue of what to do with the poor soul's vehicle that gets left in the parking lot. I'm sure they've established protocols for all of this as I read stories of jumpers several times a year. THEY'RE DOING IT WRONG!!! |
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People come to langCASTER from all over to see the Amish. Couldn't begin to fathom why someone would sit in the car for hours to go look at a smelly guy who treats animals horribly. They all have cell phones and shit. Fuckin phonies. When I was working in Newark, DE I'd get bored on the weekends and just drive around. One time I saw some of these Amish in the wild...I've never in my life encountered someone who smelled so horrible. I was taking some Rushsylvania Amish to southern Logan county (DeGraff). He called them "Stinky Amish". He also told me not to be surprised they all looked alike, since they were inbred. Ever seen the Amish Mafia at the gun show at Lima? Never heard them called that. |
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Quoted: The white/horribly sunburned people going in the water when the air temp is 72 and the water temp is 62, in March, in California. Yup, tourists. Watching people try to eat New York style pizza that aren't familiar with it. You fold that shit in half. Directions: Southern California is a pretty big place, from the northern part of Los Angeles to the Mexican border and out to the 15 is bigger then a lot of states. I have had people stop and ask me where Disneyland is, only to find out they drove down from LA to go there and wound up in San Diego. They are pretty bummed when they find out it is about 2 hours back the way they came. TV and movies have people thinking that all the major cities, tourist attractions and landmarks are like 10 minutes from one another. View Quote I have a friend, who SHOULD have known better, but has never lived out West, decide he was going to drive from Las Vegas to Albuquerque... He got tired of a whole lot of nothing after a few hours... |
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People come to langCASTER from all over to see the Amish. Couldn't begin to fathom why someone would sit in the car for hours to go look at a smelly guy who treats animals horribly. They all have cell phones and shit. Fuckin phonies. View Quote |
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Typical. Hate the very thing that lets you survive. Same as .mil towns View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Hawaiians hate haoles. Typical. Hate the very thing that lets you survive. Same as .mil towns Tourists do act like fucking idiots though. Anyone who has ever lived in a tourist area will tell you that. I don't know what it is about being on vacation that makes people lose about 1/3 of their IQ (though alcohol is often a factor). This contributes to the "please spend your money and GTFO" attitude. |
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Swimming in the ocean (haven't witness a drowning personally, but read about them).
One time I did see a tourist that had rented a jet-ski get washed into a fishing pier. He was hugging onto a barnacle encrusted piling for dear life while rough surf and current was pounding over him. I remember looking down from the pier and seeing the fear on his face in the between the crashing waves. |
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Do those locals clock out at the end of the day with disdain for how their cultural things have been turned into a "tourist itinerary stop"?
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People come out here, buy a cowboy hat and think they're a cowboy.
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Quoted: Trying to pronounce Ohio towns that look like foreign names is always fun. Marseilles = Marsales Versailles = Vursales Russia = Rooshy Bellefontaine = Bell-fountain Lots of examples. At least Wapakoneta is pronounced phonetically. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The pronunciation of Refugio and Mexia. Trying to pronounce Ohio towns that look like foreign names is always fun. Marseilles = Marsales Versailles = Vursales Russia = Rooshy Bellefontaine = Bell-fountain Lots of examples. At least Wapakoneta is pronounced phonetically. Dad grew up in Delphos. |
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Quoted: When I first started dating my wife, her family laughed at me every time I would eat with them. I finally said "what am I doing wrong?" They just laughed and said "it's funny that you make tacos out of every meal!" I finally started paying attention to how they used the tortillas with their food. That's when I started calling tortillas "Mexican chopsticks". View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: When you are served tortillas with a meal, typically you put butter on it and eat it like we eat bread with our meal. Not stick everything in it and make a taco Though I do it, because I like it, but I know it's not the "legit" way to do it Well, I'm 5th generation Texan, and I've done the taco thing with tortillas my whole life. When I first started dating my wife, her family laughed at me every time I would eat with them. I finally said "what am I doing wrong?" They just laughed and said "it's funny that you make tacos out of every meal!" I finally started paying attention to how they used the tortillas with their food. That's when I started calling tortillas "Mexican chopsticks". |
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Quoted: Having spent a lot of my youth in backwoods jungles in the Yucatan Peninsula, I disagree. They'll wrap up anything in a fresh tortilla. They're used for spoons when eating soups and stews as well. But here in Texas I wrap all the things View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: When you are served tortillas with a meal, typically you put butter on it and eat it like we eat bread with our meal. Not stick everything in it and make a taco Though I do it, because I like it, but I know it's not the "legit" way to do it But here in Texas I wrap all the things On the street--everything is a taco |
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Not tourists but the people of the town......there's a Moscow, KS but apparently, it's pronounced "Mos-coe" and not Moscow like it should be.
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Quoted: It's either make tacos or tear it in pieces and use it like an edible scoop. That butter thing is a snack or possibly dessert with coffee. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: When you are served tortillas with a meal, typically you put butter on it and eat it like we eat bread with our meal. Not stick everything in it and make a taco Though I do it, because I like it, but I know it's not the "legit" way to do it Well, I'm 5th generation Texan, and I've done the taco thing with tortillas my whole life. It's either make tacos or tear it in pieces and use it like an edible scoop. That butter thing is a snack or possibly dessert with coffee. They will grab food with a torn piece of tortilla |
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The glass of water is for cleaning all the powdered sugar off your fingers and dipping a napkin in water to clean your face. Not for drinking. Another running joke here (MS Gulf Coast) is that you can always tell who the tourists are because they're the ones that actually get in the water on the beach. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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My daughter was watching a video on youtube in which this family does all kinds of shit we can't afford, and they were vacationing in Hawaii. While they were at one of the stereotypical touristy "luaus", watching some stereotypical "hula" dancing, I wondered, do those locals clock out at the end of the day with disdain for how their cultural things have been turned into a "tourist itinerary stop"? It made me think, are there any regional "food combinations" or orders that they see tourists massively screw up? What have you seen that's exclusive to your "region" done completely wrong by someone from a different area? Here it's things like ordering sweet tea not knowing it's going to be a big glass of iced sweet tea, or putting sugar on grits, drinking from the glass of water they bring you with beignets, etc. I'm guilty of putting chinese entrees on fried rice instead of plain steamed white rice. I don't put cinnamon in chili or any of that yankee stuff. X2 not seeing why I need half a glass of water to eat some fritters with sugar on them. The glass of water is for cleaning all the powdered sugar off your fingers and dipping a napkin in water to clean your face. Not for drinking. Another running joke here (MS Gulf Coast) is that you can always tell who the tourists are because they're the ones that actually get in the water on the beach. and it's pronounced "Balucksee" |
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Quoted: It is true They will grab food with a torn piece of tortilla View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: When you are served tortillas with a meal, typically you put butter on it and eat it like we eat bread with our meal. Not stick everything in it and make a taco Though I do it, because I like it, but I know it's not the "legit" way to do it Well, I'm 5th generation Texan, and I've done the taco thing with tortillas my whole life. It's either make tacos or tear it in pieces and use it like an edible scoop. That butter thing is a snack or possibly dessert with coffee. I've been taking an accelerated Spanish language course this summer and it's made my cravings for any kind of Mexican or Salvadoran food really intense. Trying to squeeze 20 weeks of Spanish into (23) 3 hour classes. So far, so good. 101 passed with a very comfortable margin. Working on 102. Fingers crossed
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Racing to Pat's/Geno's to decide which cheesesteak is best. They both suck.
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One of the beautiful things about this site is we always have someone who knows the exact answer to the question.
Yes, my son (USMC stationed in HI) has a girlfriend who hula dances (she's super hot) for a living because jobs for locals sucks. Yes.....they do hate the vacationer crowd. In fairness and totally related.....I'm from NE PA and we used to be a tourist destination (Poconos). We had the market on the Honeymoon resort trade and nice little ski areas. We had wonderful close knit little mountain towns and weekenders who had homes for years. That all changed when the scum came looking for cheap real estate. Look at the census and crime data for that area over the last even 20 years. Every scumbag from NYC and Metro NJ that wore out their welcome there, or most likely on the run from owing somebody money, came and invaded us turing it into a wooded fucking ghetto. Crime, rape, murder, trash and graffiti came. My township never had a murder until 1991. Now it's a weekly occurrence. never see a local name mentioned. Now there's lots of Arfcommers here that have moved to the Poconos and tell me how THEY are "different", but fail to realize that we've heard that tired old line from ALL of them over the last few decades and they are all equally worthless sub-human garbage. After 9/11....not 48 hours after, it seemed like every one of those scumbags was popping their trunks and selling memorial hats with embroidered FDNY, and NYPD logos and T shirts. NOT 48 HOURS AFTER! Now that's what I call ruined. I moved 970 miles away and sometimes i think I can still smell the stench of those fucking animals. |
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View Quote seen that a number of times, always fun to stop and watch the retrieve |
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