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

[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: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

[Anonymous]

DMV = DC metro area
Delmarva = Eastern Shore, as in the Delmarva Peninsula.

That being said, I never use the term "DMV" unless referring to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles. I just say DC metro area or whatever.

[Anonymous]

OP, Did you think they were the same?

Come back.

[Anonymous]

Marylander here…Harborside Bar and Grill in West Ocean City is where the orange crush originated.

IYKYK

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scrapple

Isn’t scrapple originally Pennsylvania Dutch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scrapple

Isn’t scrapple originally Pennsylvania Dutch?

No it's from West Virginia and then migrated to PA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DMV = DC metro area
Delmarva = Eastern Shore, as in the Delmarva Peninsula.

That being said, I never use the term "DMV" unless referring to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles. I just say DC metro area or whatever.

Exactly - DMV is not Delmarva.

[Anonymous]

I did not grow up here. Don’t know; don’t care.

[Anonymous]

Smith island cake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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”

+ Raleigh’s store

And it is spelled Garfinckel’s, by the way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, Did you think they were the same?

Come back.

Yeah, this whole thread is embarrassing.
There are lots of people who live in the DMV who never (care to) experience DelMarVa. Why would they?
If you have high powered lawyers/lobbyists they are taking their families to Nantucket each summer and would have no fond memories (or indecent exposure stories) of the local shore.

Plenty of twenty somethings head to north carolina or the Caribbean and never cross the Annapolis bridge.

Plenty of transplants use the time to visit their hometowns other parts of the US.

There is not a natural relationship between these two places except for proximity and maybe DMV folks just ignore it because it's so close.