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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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? [/quote]

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

Are you a high schooler? [/quote]

Agree.  It’s cringe.[/quote]

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? [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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 [b]grandma’s Orange Crush[/b] and Thrashers.  [/quote]

Your grandma made you orange crushes? Yikes.[/quote]

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