You Know You Are From Upstate New York When..

1. You define summer as three months of bad sledding.

  2. You think that people from Pennsylvania have an accent.

  3. Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack of Genny
     and a bucket of Buffalo wings.

  4. You believe that "down south" means Maryland.

  5. You bake with soda and drink pop.

  6. You define candy on a stick as a sucker and a hopeless
iindividual as a moron.

  7. Halloween is snowed out with great regularity.

  8. You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same
     week.

  9. You know that Buffalo not only exists, but that it isn't
     far from Hell.

  10. Your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and
      the opening of deer season.

  11. Your snowmobile, lawn mower and fishing boat all have big
      block heavy engines.

  12. Your year has two seasons: winter and Construction.

  13. Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh.

  14. Half the television channels you get are Canadian, eh.

  15. It's a disgrace to buy Fuji products.

  16. From May to October there is a festival every weekend
     celebrating a different fruit, vegetable, or agricultural product.

  17. Every vehicle you own has a ski rack or a gun rack

  18. You experience spring as three days and a weekend that
      rains

  19. You spend winter mumbling about moving to Florida and
      summer bragging about not being able to find a better place in the
      world.

  20. If your car ever appeared to be salt white

  21. If you spend more money in car washes, than in underwear.

  22. If your car ever froze solid and you couldn't open the
      doors.

  23. If you ever had to say, "No, I am not from the city."

  24. If you have a friend in the Highway Dept. that promises
      to give you tons of deer meat.

  25. You amuse out of state people with winter stories.

  26. You drove through a blizzard at least twice in a winter.

  27. If you can say Lake effect and take it seriously.

  28. If the name for your TV channel meteorologists team
      starts with Storm.

  29. If when you make it home you need a hot cocoa instead of
      a cold beer, since you had to shovel the snow out of your driveway
      for an hour.

  30. Rock salt forms part of you grocery-shopping list.

  31. If you ever compare ice scrapers.

  32. If as soon you leave downtown you can smell manure.

  33. If you talk about the Mall and have to specify which one.

  34. If you think that Buffalo, Rochester or Syracuse are BIG
      cities.

  35. If you still have winter tires in May.

  36. If you describe the size of Lake effect snow using both
      hands.

  37. If you describe the size of Real Buffalo Wings using both
      hands.

  38. If you do most of your holiday shopping at Wegmans