Why is the DMV so unaware of the traditions of the DelMarVa region? If you are from the DMV, how familiar are you?

[Anonymous]

Interesting work discussion about the orange crush drink led to a deeper discussion on how DMV residents in my office know so little about the DelMarVa Peninsula : https://www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com/crushing-on-the-chesapeake/amp/.

I am a DC native, I had never heard of it. We had Boardwalk fries at Pentagon City mall decades ago, never called them Thrashers. Ate them with vinegar and old bay.

There’s more to the DelMarVa area that I and many of my colleagues are completely unaware of.

If you are from the DMV, how much do you know about the DelMarVa area?

[Anonymous]

I am not from this area but was introduced to the orange crush years ago by friends during a long weekend in Solomons Island. I don't really drink anymore but if I see an orange crush on the menu I'll ask if the orange is fresh squeezed and if do I'm getting one.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know much about the traditions in the western panhandle either. They’re different areas.

[Anonymous]

Grapefruit crushes > orange crushes. The drink originated in Ocean City, not in Delaware or Virginia. No one out there calls it DelMarVa (unless they’re talking about the power company).

[Anonymous]

I’m not originally from here but was introduced to orange crushes by my then boyfriend, now husband. Surprised they were actually only created in 1995. I prefer them with soda water, not Sprite.

[Anonymous]

I had to look up where Delmarva is!

[Anonymous]

chicken and slippery dumplings
sweet potato biscuits
muskrat

[Anonymous]

fried soft shell crabs
oyster dressing
parker house rolls
hot crab dip

[Anonymous]

Md local
Hot shoppe
Blue crabs
Montgomery donuts

Eastern shore stuff…
White marlin tournament
Salt water taffy
Tony’s pizza
Sand crabs
Trimpers
Tacky tshirts
Bottle and cork

So much stuff

[Anonymous]

Lem and Steve Ward
Easton Waterfowl Festival
Salisbury Zoo
Ward Foundation museum
Crisfield Crab Derby
Pony Penning
Smith Island
Tangier Island
School boats (not school buses)
Military recruiters
Smith Island cake

[Anonymous]

Amish General Contractors (only hold Delaware licenses) so they only build in Sussex County but really good quality houses

[Anonymous]

Watermen
Dredging for oysters from Skipjacks
Tonging for oysters
Crab pots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting work discussion about the orange crush drink led to a deeper discussion on how DMV residents in my office know so little about the DelMarVa Peninsula : https://www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com/crushing-on-the-chesapeake/amp/.

I am a DC native, I had never heard of it. We had Boardwalk fries at Pentagon City mall decades ago, never called them Thrashers. Ate them with vinegar and old bay.

There’s more to the DelMarVa area that I and many of my colleagues are completely unaware of.

If you are from the DMV, how much do you know about the DelMarVa area?

I don’t know any DC natives that use the term “DMV”.

Are you a high schooler?

[Anonymous]

Isn’t Thrashers just a different place on the boardwalk for fries?

[Anonymous]

Beaten biscuits!