The Burgh
Interesting things about Pittsburgh:
1) They put french fries in their salads. Outstanding. You can find normal salads here, but it's common practice to order a salad and get french fries in it. Sometimes the cafeteria, in addition to french fries, will add chicken, or even steak. I refer to these days as "the greatest day of my life." It gets more people eating salad than normally would, myself include. It's brilliant.
2) They call soda, " pop." "Yeah, I'm going down to the cafeteria to get some pop. Do you want some?" I thought that term was reserved for 1950's drugstore/diners, along with "malts" and terms like "golly" and "swell".
3) I know it's late to mention this, but the city is a huge football city. Maybe that is obvious, given the alternative of being a Pirates city or a hockey city in the United States. When the Steelers were in the playoffs, I would see people in Steelers jerseys all along the streets, and even in the hospital. They brought out two big TVs into the cafeteria to watch the game, and the gave free lunch to everyone in the hospital, patients included, the day before the game. It was very impressive.
4) I heard that there is a law that says if you play beer pong you have to use water instead of beer. I haven't been to a place that has beer pong yet, and I don't plan on it.
1) They put french fries in their salads. Outstanding. You can find normal salads here, but it's common practice to order a salad and get french fries in it. Sometimes the cafeteria, in addition to french fries, will add chicken, or even steak. I refer to these days as "the greatest day of my life." It gets more people eating salad than normally would, myself include. It's brilliant.
2) They call soda, " pop." "Yeah, I'm going down to the cafeteria to get some pop. Do you want some?" I thought that term was reserved for 1950's drugstore/diners, along with "malts" and terms like "golly" and "swell".
3) I know it's late to mention this, but the city is a huge football city. Maybe that is obvious, given the alternative of being a Pirates city or a hockey city in the United States. When the Steelers were in the playoffs, I would see people in Steelers jerseys all along the streets, and even in the hospital. They brought out two big TVs into the cafeteria to watch the game, and the gave free lunch to everyone in the hospital, patients included, the day before the game. It was very impressive.
4) I heard that there is a law that says if you play beer pong you have to use water instead of beer. I haven't been to a place that has beer pong yet, and I don't plan on it.
posted by Chris at 1:31 PM
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