Setting/Culture

• Regional Brands
  • Herr's potato chips
  • Tastycake snack cakes
  • WaWa, you gottahava wawa!
  • Yuengling beer
• Regional Dialect
  • Jawn: An all purpose noun akin to 'Smurf' or 'Thingamajig'. It can be a person, a place, or a thing.
  • Youse: Akin to the south's 'y'all' or Pitsburgh's 'yinz'.
  • Wooder: What you bathe with, drink from a fountain, and catch fish from. Spelled 'water'.
• Regional Food & Drink
  • Cheesesteak, Wiz Wit
  • Hoagie
  • Pork roll
  • Soft Pretzel, figure 8 shaped with mustard
  • Scrapple
  • Stromboli
  • Water Ice, particularly from Rita's
• Regional Sports Teams
  • Philadelphia Eagles - Football (NFC)
  • Philadelphia Phillies - Baseball (NL)
  • Philadelphia Flyers - Hockey (EC)
  • Philadelphia 76ers - Basketball (AD)
  • Philadelphia Union - Soccer (EC)