You know you're from St Louis when....

[ikojo]

YOU'RE FROM ST. LOUIS IF:

1. You love toasted ravioli with Budweiser beer.
2. "Vacation" is a choice between Silver Dollar City and Lake of the
Ozarks.
3. You can find Pestalozzi Street by aroma alone.
4. You can get anywhere in 20 minutes.
5. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years AFTER they were popular.
6. You can debate for 30 minutes whether Missouri Baking or Marge
Amighetti makes the best Italian bread.
7. You know what "Party Cove" is.
9. You still can't believe the Arena is gone.
10. Your non-St. Louisan friends always ask if you're aware there is no "r" in "wash."
11. You know at least one person who's gotten hurt at Johnson Shut-ins.
12. You know in your heart that Mizzou can beat Nebraska in football.
13. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example:
"Where's my coat at?"
14. You think the four major food groups are beef, pork, Budweiser and Imo's.
15. You've had to switch from heat to AC in the same day.
16. You know there are really only three salad dressings: Imo's, Zia's and Rich and Charlie's.
17. You'll pay for your kid to go to college unless they want to go to KU.
18. You can't think of anything better than sitting on the porch, in the summer, during a thunderstorm.
19. It just doesn't seem like a wedding without mostaciolli.
20. You know, within a three-mile radius, where another St. Louisan grew up as soon as they open their mouth.
21. You know what a pork steak is...and what kind of sauce to put on it!
22. You have to know what high school everyone went to.
23. Everyone in your family has floated the Meramec River at least once.
24. You know that a hoosier is not necessarily from Indiana. Just South of Chouteau.
25. You've ever said, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity."
26. Your favorite summer treat is handed to you upside-down.
27. You bleed Blue between September and May! (The rest of the time it's red!)

[soothsayer]

1. nothing with my favorite little televangelist? joyce meyer--ain't she

from there? do you have to go to one of her big ol' talks if you live there?

[ikojo]

2. Eewwwww I hope not!

I think I would get wretchingly ill if forced to attend one of her "free" meetings.

She will be at the St Charles "Family" Arena beginning Thursday night if you are interested.

Can't stand televangelists!

[soothsayer]

5. but dontcha want to see her strutting around like Patton in wal-mart

evening wear?

[scarlet_owl]

3. So very true! I say "turlet" instead of "toilet" and it

drives my husband crazy! I grew up in Lemay amongst the hoosiers. I took him to St. Louis to visit my family over Christmas and we went for chili and eggs at the Courtesy. The nice one on Hampton. How I miss Ted Drewes, Imo's, and mostaciolli. And you can't get toasted ravioli in central Illinois. I'm so homesick now.

[ikojo]

4. What about OT Hodges?

The OT Hodges in downtown St Louis closed the other day...sadness. I used to eat breakfast there every morning when I worked downtown.

I am not from St Louis but it's preferable to where I grew up (Springfield, IL)

[scarlet_owl]

7. Didn't really go downtown too often, so I don't know the

eateries to well. Except for Dooley's. Best burgers ever, I don't care what Hardee's claims. Oh, and Spaghetti Factory of course. I'm so sorry your place closed. When I went down there a few weeks ago, there were so many places that had closed.

[kath]

9. eeeuuuwwwwwww, Imo's pizza!!

Lived in St. Louis for nearly 11 years, and thought that Imo's pizza was absofuckinlutely disgusting!!

But gawd, I miss O'Connell's hamburgers (at least I did until this mad cow thing :-) )

[soothsayer]

6. how about a St. Paul sammitch?

the one I saw in the PBS documentary "Sandwiches You Will Like"

something about egg foo young on white bread with lettuce and tomato. ever heard of it?

[w13rd0]

8. I've lived in the same Garden apartment complex for nearly 20 years...

...and I only get maybe 1/4 of those (meaning qualify). But they do seem on the mark...

[jpgray]

10. "There's a fark in the road!"

My grandmother all over. Sometimes my mom says it and it drives her nuts as well. :)

[scarlet_owl]

11. Laage arnge soda, anyone?

I say "fark" as well. I was actually put into speech classes when I first moved to Illinois because of my accent. My parents met with the speech teacher to find out why, and she said to them "well, you both do it too." So I had to go once a week to speech because I didn't have a central Illinois accent. I remember thinking that everyone talked out of their noses here, saying things like "peenk" instead of "pink".

[Dees]

12. Cunnetto House of Pasta on the Hill. Just take farty far to

Kingshighway to Southwest Blvd to Magnolia. Nothing better. St. Louis style pizza is just the worst. Racanelli's in Webby G is excellent. I love St. Louis and really miss Missouri.

Go Rams!

[kath]

13. Cunetto's was good, but usually SOOO crowded. We liked Del Pietro's

better for Italian food.

Agree that St Louis style pizza sucks, see my post on Imo's above. Cheddar cheese and burnt tomato paste on a cracker --GACK! The fact that we moved there from Chicago, where the pizza is so wonderful, made it *very* difficult.