A friend of mine shared article, 10 Maryland Stereotypes That Are Completely Accurate, on the book of face recently. As a life long Marylander, I can say that some of these are truer than others but none of them are false.
1) Accents – The Maryland accent is a thing but it’s more Baltimore specific. I don’t sound like this but I have relatives who do.
2) Crabs – We are absolutely crab snobs. If I see a Maryland crab cake on the menu and there’s no Old Bay in sight, I scoff derisively.
3) Old Bay – While most of us don’t carry it on our person, it does go with everything. I’ve used it on fries, chicken, corn on the cob, shrimp alfredo, and mac n’ cheese.
4) Natty Boh – I’m not sure if it’s still brewed locally but it was originally. You can get Natty Boh at any bar in Annapolis or Baltimore and find that mascot on an insane amount of merchandise. I’ve even seen Boh themed t-shirts for all the local sports teams.
5) The Colts – FUCK THE COLTS!!!! They fled the to Indianapolis overnight (literally) and left Baltimore without a team from 1983-1996. My grandfather was a season ticket holder at the time. He never quite landed on a team for too long after that happened.
6) Ravens vs Redskins – I haven’t seen the divide very much first hand. Everyone I know is either one or the other. Most Redskins fans I know are casual whereas Ravens fans bleed purple.
7) The O – A friend of mine from Boston moved out of the area for work. He went to a baseball game and said it was nice to be somewhere they didn’t yell “O” during the national anthem. It’s a thing.
8) Yankees in a Rebel State – If you ask a northerner, we’re the south. If you ask the south, we’re the north. Honestly, central Maryland is much more like the north and the farther east, south, and west parts are a little like the south. The article states it as well as I ever could.
9) State Flag Pride – While we don’t all have crazy flag pride, we all know what it looks like.
10) Lacrosse – I never got into lacrosse. I know it’s a thing but I still maintain our state sport is jousting. I don’t care if they changed it. Jousting is cooler and it was their first so : P
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