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

[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.

[Anonymous]

Why wouldn’t they? It’s close. The shore is beautiful. Do you really know so many snobs?

[Anonymous]

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

All of that is just east coast southern and not specific to “Delmarva”

[Anonymous]

It's hours away and a totally different, rural culture to our urban/suburban culture.
I used to go to Ocean City, Rehoboth, Bethany as a kid for a week. We weren't immersing ourselves in local culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Interesting to read, thank you. I’m a transplant (although I’ve lived in DC then mostly Montgomery County for over 30 years). My kids were raised in Bethesda. I don’t think either feels “state pride” in Maryland- they connect more with DC than the majority of Maryland - we probably went into DC weekly when they were growing up, versus I don’t think they have ever been anywhere in MD outside of Montgomery County except for Baltimore and Fed Ex Field.

I didn’t realize many people in MD feel any state pride, haha (with the exception of Baltimore, which seems very proud of its gritty self much like Philly and NJ). I always assumed my kids’ lack of connection to the greater of Maryland is because we live in the DC metro area, but it could also be because spouse and I aren’t originally from MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

All of that is just east coast southern and not specific to “Delmarva”

Exactly. I’m from Richmond and I had all those things growing up (except we had White House rolls sold at Ukrops).