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

[Anonymous]

Smith Island cake

[Anonymous]

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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?

Agree. It’s cringe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

Agree. It’s cringe.

I wish I was that young. Born and raised in Congress Heights back when D.C. was still Chocolate City. This was back when the only thing coming out of Shaw was body bags. Do you actually know any Black Washingtonians?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

Agree. It’s cringe.

I wish I was that young. Born and raised in Congress Heights back when D.C. was still Chocolate City. This was back when the only thing coming out of Shaw was body bags. Do you actually know any Black Washingtonians?

DP, also a native and I cringe when anyone who's not Black uses DMV, because they tend to be younger transplants.

But OP, yes, those things are familiar. And I very much hear "Delmarva" used over that way.

[Anonymous]

Scrapple

[Anonymous]

DH and I (late 50s) are Fairfax County natives and our parents (and my way back to my great grandparents) all grew up in Washington, DC proper.

I call my parents’ hometown Dee Cee or maybe Washington. The DMV is dept of motor vehicles.

DH and I rarely visit DC. Maybe once a year for an event or if we have guests who’d like a tour.

I’ve given zero thought to “Delmarva” although I’ve spent every summer on and around Delaware beaches.

DH and I aren’t alone in our shared hatred of the entire state of Maryland - the drivers, the infrastructure, and with very few exceptions the state’s overall grubby grittiness. We joke that any time we drive into MD we feel vaguely queasy and a bit car sick. I could never live in Maryland because I fear the nausea would be ongoing. I think there’s a reciprocal “rivalry” between VA and MD. My friends and family from equivalent suburban MD expressed surprise/discomfort/unease when visiting VA ‘burbs (“you have the same stores we have!” or “I can’t find my way around here - can you help?”).

Delaware? Sure. Sign me up and would move there in a hot minute. Love the tax free shopping.

[Anonymous]

Wait, do you think DMV is short for DelMarVa?

[Anonymous]

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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?

Agree. It’s cringe.

I wish I was that young. Born and raised in Congress Heights back when D.C. was still Chocolate City. This was back when the only thing coming out of Shaw was body bags. Do you actually know any Black Washingtonians?

DP, also a native and I cringe when anyone who's not Black uses DMV, because they tend to be younger transplants.

But OP, yes, those things are familiar. And I very much hear "Delmarva" used over that way.

I’m white and an older transplant (have lived here about 30 years now)…I resisted the DMV phrase for a long time because I thought it was stupid but I’ve basically given in. I used to just say the Washington area or Washington region. And referred to the District as just the District. But it seems like DMV has really taken over as the preferred term for the greater metropolitan area.

Anyway, I feel like “orange crush” and all these things are not really the “culture” of the peninsula but rather just marketing concepts invented to appeal to UMC folks vacationing from the DC area and Wilmington, no? I really doubt people out there are sitting around reminiscing about grandma’s Orange Crush and Thrashers.

[Anonymous]

The area you're describing isn't homogeneous, and people from here -- I'm one -- don't think of being from Delmarva -- that's how it's written and it refers to the peninsula only and not the entirety of the three states. "The DMV" isn't a term that older people use for the area either. Orange crushes and Thrasher's make me think of the Baltimore area and Ocean City, MD. Someone from Fairfax who goes to beaches in Virginia or NC wouldn't be expected to identify with those things. Marylanders have a state pride and most of them wouldn't ever move to Virginia. They think about Delaware for the beaches. DC Natives have pride and local cultural things too that the other areas wouldn't recognize or identify with. I can't speak for people from VA or DE since I'm not from there nor have I lived in either place.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Agree. It’s cringe.

I wish I was that young. Born and raised in Congress Heights back when D.C. was still Chocolate City. This was back when the only thing coming out of Shaw was body bags. Do you actually know any Black Washingtonians?

DP, also a native and I cringe when anyone who's not Black uses DMV, because they tend to be younger transplants.

But OP, yes, those things are familiar. And I very much hear "Delmarva" used over that way.

I’m white and an older transplant (have lived here about 30 years now)…I resisted the DMV phrase for a long time because I thought it was stupid but I’ve basically given in. I used to just say the Washington area or Washington region. And referred to the District as just the District. But it seems like DMV has really taken over as the preferred term for the greater metropolitan area.

Anyway, I feel like “orange crush” and all these things are not really the “culture” of the peninsula but rather just marketing concepts invented to appeal to UMC folks vacationing from the DC area and Wilmington, no? I really doubt people out there are sitting around reminiscing about grandma’s Orange Crush and Thrashers.

Your grandma made you orange crushes? Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Driving in MD is a circle of hell.
In VA when a car drives erratically sure enough MD plates.
40 year NoVA transplant.
Fried soft shells
Oysters
Crab boils and mallets
Frozen Dairy Bar
Peoples Drug
Hechts
Hechingers
Garfinckles
Peanut soup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Driving in MD is a circle of hell.
In VA when a car drives erratically sure enough MD plates.
40 year NoVA transplant.
Fried soft shells
Oysters
Crab boils and mallets
Frozen Dairy Bar
Peoples Drug
Hechts
Hechingers
Garfinckles
Peanut soup

+ Woodward and Lothrop aka “Woodies”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

+1.

It's mostly ignorant transplants and racist black youth that uses that term.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

Agree. It’s cringe.

I wish I was that young. Born and raised in Congress Heights back when D.C. was still Chocolate City. This was back when the only thing coming out of Shaw was body bags. Do you actually know any Black Washingtonians?

DP, also a native and I cringe when anyone who's not Black uses DMV, because they tend to be younger transplants.

But OP, yes, those things are familiar. And I very much hear "Delmarva" used over that way.

I’m white and an older transplant (have lived here about 30 years now)…I resisted the DMV phrase for a long time because I thought it was stupid but I’ve basically given in. I used to just say the Washington area or Washington region. And referred to the District as just the District. But it seems like DMV has really taken over as the preferred term for the greater metropolitan area.

Anyway, I feel like “orange crush” and all these things are not really the “culture” of the peninsula but rather just marketing concepts invented to appeal to UMC folks vacationing from the DC area and Wilmington, no? I really doubt people out there are sitting around reminiscing about grandma’s Orange Crush and Thrashers.

+1 on DMV. It used to sound wrong to me and mark someone as a transplant but now even I use it sometimes. It's just handy. It is a quick way to describe DC and the close in burbs.

I generally say the District when referring to the city itself.

I had never heard the phrase Delmarva but I knew what OP was talking about as I have friends who are from La Plata and Calvert counties or the Eastern Shore.

[Anonymous]

Frozen custard > ice cream > fro-yo

Dickey's > Kohr's