Philadelphia Culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from north Wilmington and my parents grew up in blue collar Philly neighborhoods (they always called it Philly, not sure why that is a no-no).
As noted above, wooder=water and quooder=quarter. There is also a weird long “o” in home or throne (or just the word Oh) - not sure how to type it, but it’s like “heooome”. We drop words. For instance, “I’m done my soup” is perfectly acceptable, whereas uptight DMV types insist on extra words I.e. “I’m done with my soup.” All of my relatives are far more direct than people typically are in the DMV. I get told a lot that I am “very genuine” - by which I suspect people here mean rude or blunt.

Tastykakes are the best! Wawa is the best!

We used to call it club wawa because if you went there, you saw so many people you knew. Soft pretzels !!
I’m 40 & at our elementary school at the end of the day you could buy one soft pretzel for 25 cents or 5 for $1.
Water ice.
I used to like to run on Kelly Drive and I always loved the lights on boat house row.
We would take people to do the Rocky steps when they visited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Philadelphians are very proud of their city. Do not call it Philly!

Do you know the city well? You might check out the incredible museums there. The historic parts of the city are gorgeous and there are cool little towns adjacent as well.

Why not? I'm from Philly and have no problem calling it that.

Yes - I never heard that either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Philadelphians are very proud of their city. Do not call it Philly!

Do you know the city well? You might check out the incredible museums there. The historic parts of the city are gorgeous and there are cool little towns adjacent as well.

Why not? I'm from Philly and have no problem calling it that.

Agree. People only call it Philly. That’s what everyone calls it. Philly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from north Wilmington and my parents grew up in blue collar Philly neighborhoods (they always called it Philly, not sure why that is a no-no).
As noted above, wooder=water and quooder=quarter. There is also a weird long “o” in home or throne (or just the word Oh) - not sure how to type it, but it’s like “heooome”. We drop words. For instance, “I’m done my soup” is perfectly acceptable, whereas uptight DMV types insist on extra words I.e. “I’m done with my soup.” All of my relatives are far more direct than people typically are in the DMV. I get told a lot that I am “very genuine” - by which I suspect people here mean rude or blunt.

Tastykakes are the best! Wawa is the best!

Food in general is better in Philly.

[Anonymous]

https://youtu.be/MPHdrgWRRNk

This is a better version of philly’s anthem.

All you need to know about philly in 4 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m from north Wilmington and my parents grew up in blue collar Philly neighborhoods (they always called it Philly, not sure why that is a no-no).
As noted above, wooder=water and quooder=quarter. There is also a weird long “o” in home or throne (or just the word Oh) - not sure how to type it, but it’s like “heooome”. We drop words. For instance, “I’m done my soup” is perfectly acceptable, whereas uptight DMV types insist on extra words I.e. “I’m done with my soup.” All of my relatives are far more direct than people typically are in the DMV. I get told a lot that I am “very genuine” - by which I suspect people here mean rude or blunt.

Tastykakes are the best! Wawa is the best!

We used to call it club wawa because if you went there, you saw so many people you knew. Soft pretzels !!
I’m 40 & at our elementary school at the end of the day you could buy one soft pretzel for 25 cents or 5 for $1.
Water ice.
I used to like to run on Kelly Drive and I always loved the lights on boat house row.
We would take people to do the Rocky steps when they visited.

Should have never changed the name. East River and West River were perfect!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it very hard to tell of people are mad at each other or just having a friendly conversation. Philly people pride themselves on being blunt but to me it often sounds like someone is just being super nasty and rude.

This strange Philadelphian way of communication is extra stressful if you are communicating via zoom bc it’s like “what is happening…are they mad at me? Did I insult them somehow?” While the philly person is happy, unperturbed on the inside thinking like “yeah I’m keepin it real up in this jawn, should I wear my eagles jersey to get my hoagie at the fancy Wawa or will that jinx the game this Sunday?”

I can tell you that not every Philly person talks like this, for example I grew up in Chestnut Hill and we could speak properly thank you very much! We all aren't Rocky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://youtu.be/MPHdrgWRRNk

This is a better version of philly’s anthem.

All you need to know about philly in 4 minutes.

We are more than the Eagles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it very hard to tell of people are mad at each other or just having a friendly conversation. Philly people pride themselves on being blunt but to me it often sounds like someone is just being super nasty and rude.

This strange Philadelphian way of communication is extra stressful if you are communicating via zoom bc it’s like “what is happening…are they mad at me? Did I insult them somehow?” While the philly person is happy, unperturbed on the inside thinking like “yeah I’m keepin it real up in this jawn, should I wear my eagles jersey to get my hoagie at the fancy Wawa or will that jinx the game this Sunday?”

I can tell you that not every Philly person talks like this, for example I grew up in Chestnut Hill and we could speak properly thank you very much! We all aren't Rocky.

Even the bougiest philly person loves Wawa and lets their philly flag fly when the Iggles won the Super Bowl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://youtu.be/MPHdrgWRRNk

This is a better version of philly’s anthem.

All you need to know about philly in 4 minutes.

We are more than the Eagles

If you think that video was about iggles then you don’t get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here tell me about Temple and UPenn?

One sucks and one is an Ivy.

Protip: Anyone referring to Penn as "UPenn", isn't from Philadelphia.

- Philadelphian, Central and Temple grad

[Anonymous]

Go Lancers! Now that’s a true Philadelphian right there - dear old Central High for the win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it very hard to tell of people are mad at each other or just having a friendly conversation. Philly people pride themselves on being blunt but to me it often sounds like someone is just being super nasty and rude.

This strange Philadelphian way of communication is extra stressful if you are communicating via zoom bc it’s like “what is happening…are they mad at me? Did I insult them somehow?” While the philly person is happy, unperturbed on the inside thinking like “yeah I’m keepin it real up in this jawn, should I wear my eagles jersey to get my hoagie at the fancy Wawa or will that jinx the game this Sunday?”

I can tell you that not every Philly person talks like this, for example I grew up in Chestnut Hill and we could speak properly thank you very much! We all aren't Rocky.

Even the bougiest philly person loves Wawa and lets their philly flag fly when the Iggles won the Super Bowl.

100%
I grew up in Philadelphia. My mom did not, and no way in the world were her kids going to saw jawn and wooder in normal conversation - she was adament we spoke "correctly"
But oh boy... give me a wawa pretzel any day, and I'm a happy girl. And the first word my kids could spell was E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go Lancers! Now that’s a true Philadelphian right there - dear old Central High for the win.

TYVM.

- 243

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Philadelphians are very proud of their city. Do not call it Philly!

Do you know the city well? You might check out the incredible museums there. The historic parts of the city are gorgeous and there are cool little towns adjacent as well.

Why not? I'm from Philly and have no problem calling it that.

Agree. People only call it Philly. That’s what everyone calls it. Philly.

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