Posted in Pennsylvania May 01, 2015 by

Here Are 15 Ways You Know You Grew Up In Pennsylvania

Childhood memories are bittersweet– it is fun to reminisce about simpler days, yet sad that you can never get them back. Here are 15 unique things that every Pennsylvanian might remember about their childhood.

1. When you woke up in the morning and there was any sign of snow on the ground, you would rush to the TV to see if your school was closed.
Paul Townsend
In fact, your entire family would huddle, rapt, waiting to find out about school closings.
2. At the beginning of the winter, your school would close at the first flake of snow. By mid-February you had run out of snow days, so they would still call you in even when it looked like Siberia outside.
oddharmonic
When I was your age, I used to walk all the way from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia though the snow, every day, uphill both ways, to get to school. Stop complaining and tunnel.
3. You used to spend your weekends picking apples or selecting the best pumpkin at a local pumpkin patch every fall.
4. You know who America's oldest brewery is.
Bob Miller
Yuengling.
5. Likewise, you know where the best chocolate comes from.
Mike Barry
Cadbury! Just kidding. Hershey, dummy.
6. Pretzels were one of your main food groups.
Ana Ulin
These pretzels... Are making me thirsty!
7. You've been to America's second-largest shopping mall, King of Prussia.
rowens27
Who needs a roller coaster in their mall, anyway? That's not what shopping is all about.
8. You know what prepackaged bliss tastes like.
Ezra Wolfe
And you may or may not have been tempted to chase down a Tasykake truck at some point in your life.
9. You've gone swimming in a crick.
Sean-Franc Strang
You've also drank wooder, at a hoagie, and gone down the shore.
10. You know that no sight rivals the beauty of Pennsylvania leaves in autumn.
Nicholas A. Tonelli
Of course you try to play it cool.
11. You had the first day of hunting season off from school.
Jamie MacCaffrey
A welcome treat whether or not you like stalking Bambi.
12. Your father or grandfather may have worked in a steel mill or coal mine.
Peter Pawlowski
13. You either went to PSU, or know a bunch of people who did.
drocpsu
Yet you know better than to bother asking other PSU students that you meet whether they know them.
14. You spent many beautiful childhood afternoons hiking in one of Pennsylvania's many state parks.
Jim Lukach
15. You've visited Lancaster, to experience all that Amish country has to offer a curious kid.
Jim, the Photographer

How else do you know that you grew up in Pennsylvania?