Submitted by Golden_Bee_Moth t3_z1w8ky in Pennsylvania
Have to go to Sheetz because they are the ones who have Zapps voodoo chips, don't lean head against school bus window unless you want a concussion from potholes, went to Lancaster waitress confused when I said sunny side up eggs, can't go to Philadelphia prison museum cause siblings are scared, during a lesson I helped with at preschool where students made their own country and a flag for it one five year old drew gritty
Will make sure to do that heh I bet some people say that it's cold cause of ghosts when really it's just an old building...I bet if my dad went there in winter he'd would continue to wear a t shirt
I can't tell you how many times I was hit in the side of the head by the bus window just from being squished near it while sitting 3 to a seat. The potholes are no joke!
It’s DIPPY eggs, silly.
Seriously lived in pa my whole life only ever heard them called that when I visit Lancaster
I didn't know what Sunny-side eggs were until I was in my 20s... it was always Dippy eggs
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I'm from Monroe County
I’ve heard dippy eggs used to refer to just a fried egg over medium/soft though?
Huh feels kinda weird I mainly grew up in a rural area between dillsburg and Mechanicsburg
>only ever heard them called that when I visit Lancaster
My mother always called them that but she grew up just across the border from Lancaster Co, down in MD
I grew up in the same area, that's all I've ever called them because I can never remember the proper term
While we're at it, what's your opinion on Scrapple? Growing up across the border from Lancaster, I've always had scrapple and love it.
Oh scrapple is great first time I had it was cause a restaurant messed up our delivery order I think it was pepper mill me and my sister are the only ones in our family that enjoy it
Wawa has zapps
There is no Wawa near me
My dad at most would wear a thin sweater, meanwhile I'm over here in a thick cardigan and leather jacket lmao
Anywhere west of Harrisburg calls them dippy eggs.
Yeah my dad in a joking manner has said that none of his kids are truly Pennsylvanians as we all hate the cold
I learned that lesson myself after being on the high school marching band bus and trying to nap, only to get the living daylights smacked outta me
My dad was born in Michigan lmao, we joke that it's his Michigan blood at work keeping him warm
My mom is from Iowa during tornado warnings she'll just go outside tell us the clouds aren't green and then go back to whatever she was doing
I didn’t know this was a Pittsburgh thing until I mentioned it to friends from NY and TX and they looked at me like I was growing a third eye on my forehead haha
She really said "I'm built different" huh
No idea but the rest of my mom's side of the family does stuff like that to make sense though Iowa has a lot of tornadoes
Even her own state says that's a myth. https://iowaweather.com/what-does-a-green-sky-mean/
We must be neighbors. I went to Northern and now my kids go to Northern. I live a mile from the Yellow Breeches.
Didn’t you go to any local diners growing up? At Wolf’s Diner and Bakers they call them Dippy Eggs.
My mom stands by it always says green tinted clouds means tornadoes
You grew up in my neck of the woods! Cumberland County represent! I grew up between Boiling Springs and Mount Holly Springs.
Didn't really have local dinner if we drove a few miles we could go to the pickel nickel
insert same hat meme here
For what? 40° is BBQ weather in PA.
Can confirm. Am from Pittsburgh. My aunt asked for "dippy" eggs at Eat n Park just last month.
Ah ok gotcha
Arguing if its waaater or wooder and correcting myself to ATM and not MAC machine
The Mac machine is new to me
Science has proven her wrong. You can find more websites on it if you like.
Being wrong at this means she could be DEAD wrong.
MACs were all around philly until they were replaced by bank ATMs. Growing up my parents would only refer to that thing as a MAC machine. I didn't realize how local of a thing it was until I moved to NEPA and only like 3 people knew what I was talking about
Kinda makes you wonder how horrible it was to be a prisoner there. I did a summer tour and it was ungodly hot. Can't imagine how cold the winter is.
Hahaha my mom will still say she needs to "tap MAC" when she is getting cash from an ATM.
I'm basically in valley forge and I've always said dippy eggs. I have had people who didn't know what tf I was talking about before, though.
I'm surprised you've never heard of dippy eggs then. I'm basically your neighbor (a little south of the Dillsburg Sheetz) but grew up in Chambersburg and that's what we called it
30ish lol
How long has Baker's been open? It's right across the street basically
This just unlocked a memory I forgot I had lol. Didn’t sink in until I said “Mac machine” aloud
We had MAC machines here in NWPA, too!
Wawa has voodoo chips!
I don't have access to Wawa
I'm sorry . My costco has them too in nepa
well, it had heat. they just don't run it anymore
All right, I typed a whole thing in your defense and then wikipediaed before posting, and apparently a good portion of SEPA calls sunny side up "dippy" and over easy is something different.
I grew up in western suburbs of Philly and my family called over easy/medium "dippy" while sunny side eggs were something fancy that we didn't do at all.
I feel like a stranger.
But now both you and I know. I'm not sure why you were downvoted when someone could have just updated you but whatever, reddit.
Tap the MAC!
As a feller from Kansas originally, I can at least confirm that the green cloud thing is widely believed.
Every tornado I have ever seen was preceded by green sky and hail, so I kinda understand where folks are coming from.
I'm scared to make the five year olds I teach aware of this they will most likely make it but it will somehow be horrifying, have the Grinch getting hit by a car, and have a mess of red and blue that they argue about if it's spiderman or Optimus prime
Never heard that either. I grew up in south jersey and then central jersey, lived in the Lehigh Valley and now Chester county and work in Lancaster. I’m gonna have to ask at work about this.
I'm from Pittsburgh, never heard of a dippy egg until moving to the Wilkes Barre/Scranton area
Also at Rutters. Up here in NEPA they have them at Walmart
There are ghosts there. I saw one.
MAC = Money Access Center. They were really the only way to get money in the 80s - early 90s. If I remember correctly the MAc card didn’t have your bank’s name on it. It was just blue card that said MAC.
Wawa has them jawns too bro
They had MAC machines in the western part of the state in the 80s as well. MAC ... Money Access Center.
MAC was in white and there was a rainbow on the left side of the M.
I still remember the Bill Bergy commercial saying that. "Tap MAC, for a little cash!" Then he hit the screen and it said "Ow"
Over easy is flipped so that the egg white becomes a little case around the yolk. Sunny side up leaves the yolk exposed
Is this true? I came for this comment
At least since I graduated high school. I used to work at the summer camp and we went to Baker's a bunch of times. So it's been 17 years.
ESP is a cool place to visit. They are where the name penitentiary came from, and despite them supposedly trying to reform prisoners it was hell there..
The prisoners had zero communication with each other as they weren't allowed to talk and they were kept in concrete cells with closed double doors. The only window in their cell was a tiny skylight called 'the eye of god'
One of the times my husband and I went there back in the early 2000s and they had an art installation called "ghost cats" and there were life sized white cat statues placed around the prison because there used to be a cat or two back when it was a prison that lived there to catch mice.
It's a NEPA thing, too.
I think the PA state flag should just be a rectangle of orange fur with googly eyes. It would be so cool!
yep, see here - https://www.easternstate.org/sites/easternstate/files/inline-files/ESP-history-overview.pdf
the cells there had heat and running water before the white house did
On the other hand - I’ve found Pittsburgh folks GREATLY exaggerate how cold and snowy Pittsburgh is. It’s not North Dakota. It’s not even Buffalo.
Thanks for the info!
"Dippy eggs? WTF?????????" (Said in my native NY accent) lol.
Oh, to be young.
I keep catching myself say wooder. I need a holiday. 🙃
I had no idea sunny side up was a PA thing? I had one the other day and my partner didn’t understand, he was like, you had a “fried egg” lol
Oh no apparently calling them dippy eggs is the pa thing I didn't really learn that until I first visited Lancaster
Yes. I now realize i had that explanation in the post i wrote but erased, but didn't rewrite it for the text i ended up posting. Thanks for the further clarification.
>my dad went there in winter he'd would
Just fyi - he'd = "he would" so you don't need to add the "would" after...
It used to be a lot more snowy, young 'un (though it's never been Buffalo).
who's Mac? anyway nowadays you can tap your MAC card!!
My Great Grandma called them Mac Machines! She was from Coatesville, maybe that's why.
We used to sit in the back and try to bounce off the seat at the same time to fly up into the air.
I hit my head on the ceiling once.
they ban you? :)
Naw just no Wawas nearby
Dollar tree sometimes carries Zapps Voodoo
Please use punctuation. Please! It's so hard to read this.
It's cold now, so Wawa's self-service hot chocolate machine is going to be broken until March.
Conveniently, the touchscreen, far more expensive barista hot chocolate option is still available.
I’m 38. It’s never been THAT snowy lol
I'm older than you haha / ain't gonna say by how much
I live in NEPA but grew up in the Lehigh Valley back in the day and would've been the 4th you knew, lol.
I was just going to comment that I remembered a rainbow on them.
Mine was blue with the rainbow.
K, cool. But we can just use a chart, too.
https://www.weather.gov/media/pbz/records/hissnow.pdf
Looks pretty patchy, as usual, all the way back to 1880
dude the MAC machine, i do it too. there's a place on Rt. 18 in West Middlesex that has an old MAC machine kiosk sitting out back, clearly visible from the road. it's great to see, still holding a lot of the colors.
For the second time in my life I now realize I would not have had a word in my vocabulary for anything other than a dip egg. The other time was when I was to Trader Joe’s and asked for a buggy and the worker had no idea what I wanted and I had no translation for it haha.
I think they all were like that. And it never had a bank name on it. Just MAC.
Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day.
Grew up outside of Pittsburgh, and they were always called dippy eggs.
Huh. Grew up in Pittsburgh calling them dippy eggs, at home and in restaurants.
I also went to Northern and many of my friends have kids currently at Northern.
If you’re after dippy or sunny side up eggs and don’t know how to order them in a restaurant that won’t understand, I recommend ordering over medium. It’s been working for me. They cook both sides but leave the middle runny. I always find if I try to order anything else they only cook on the one side and the top of the yolk still has raw white on it, and if I ask for fried the yolk cooks a bit too much.
Rutters has the voodoo chips if you’ve got any of them around you
Yeah I was confused for a second. “Have I just imagined that’s what I call them?”
I find all PA’s local shibboleths endlessly fascinating, n’at.
Can confirm. Had grilled chicken last night when the temp was still 35°.
I (grew up in philly)told my husband "it's warmer today, you don't need a jacket" he(originally from the west coast) says "how much warmer?"
Me:40 degrees Him:.........
Can confirm
Source: I am the ghost
Wawa has voodoo chips though?
Sheetz is better anyways 🤷♂️ PA war initiated
Fun fact, one of the first buildings in the country (and possibly the world? Idk how old the technology is) to have radiator heating
Gritty Über Alles
Dead Kennedy's?
I was referencing there German National Anthem
Rutter's has Zapp's too.
It’s not. It’s PA Dutchie thing as well. It’s common all over the state.
I have never heard anyone in SEPA say dippy for sunny side up. I’m an hour outside of Philly, and dippy has always meant over easy/medium in my area too. Where are all the people in SEPA who say dippy for sunny side? Maybe wiki is wrong lmao.
Are your siblings too cold because they're wearing a hoody, gym shorts and saddles? If so, that is understandable.
OKAY GOOD I'm not crazy then, thank you
It did not happen to me, but it did happen in PA https://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-walmart-shopper-charged-hitting-woman-head-chicken-1644694
Dippy Eggs! I’m from South Central and Dippy Eggs are their own food group lmao. Also one i get alot, not sure if it’s like that in other areas, using the word Ignorant as both the usual definition but also to describe a rude person. This one always gets my out of state friends.
I worked one night many years ago at a precursor to the Terror Behind the Walls. It was so bone chillingly cold in those cells. So cold. God bless the people at London who sent over soup.
Ghost cats? My husband worked there when it was first offering tours and we locked up some nights. That place used to be full of 3 spooky things: bats, rats and REAL cats
You should read the article you quoted. Sure green skies don’t always lead to a tornado per the article, but the article doesn’t 100% dismiss the phenomena either:
“However, thunderstorms that are large enough to produce a green sky, often are severe enough where they end up producing large hail and even tornadoes.”
You know you can edit your headline right? It doesn't have to be impossible to read
This is true, but the idea that you HAVE to have a green sky to have a tornado is more what's in question here. The absence of a green sky does NOT mean the absence of a tornado, and to bet on that means you could end dead.
Now I'm really confused.
Yeah, it was a really cool art installation!
I think the spookiest thing is parking around there. Lol
Sounds like the cats aren't doing their jobs with those rats. Laziness.
I have no idea why someone in Lancaster wouldn't understand "sunny side up" eggs. I could be there in less than an hour, and I've never heard anything else my whole life around here.
You don't want to go to the prison museum, anyway. The The Mütter Museum of Medical Oddities is MUCH better. Some special exhibits aside perhaps, even better than the Art Museum.
THIS!!! I honestly only recently figured out that there were levels to over-ness because of a crossword puzzle and I made sure to order my eggs over medium at a diner and they were truly perfect.
RubberV t1_ixd40s0 wrote
Pro Tip: There is no heat inside at Eastern State Penitentiary so if you go for a tour in the winter bundle up.