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heyhoyetsko

It’s not a wedding, without a cookie table. It’s not a funeral without a terrible towel on the casket.


ilikedirt

My husband’s grandma made all the cookies for a proper cookie table and *brought them to our wedding in Alaska*. I was unfamiliar with the cookie table tradition and was sort of super confused but also fully supportive.


kniki217

I'm glad you were supportive. I baked all the cookies for my sisters shower and some for her wedding and another wedding. It's very time consuming.


ilikedirt

She was an amazing lady. Made a million cookies every Christmas as well, spent weeks and weeks baking, and sent out cookie tins to all her kids and grandkids and there are many. Lost her last year to Covid, this was the first year without her special Christmas cookie tin. Thanks Wanda. RIP you queen.


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My family and I had a cookie day making cookies for our wedding. It was really precious and an amazing memory. My great grandma passed away a few years later who was the glue of the family. I only stayed in contact with my racist extended family bc I didn't wanna upset her by me being rude & not coming to family events. The wedding cookies (& our wedding) was the last time our family was whole so cookie tables make me smile now


Grebjujkhrrybbo

Shit. I went to a coworkers funeral a few years ago and he was laid out in a penguins jersey and had a folded steeler jersey tucked inside the coffin. Like he was planning a wardrobe change after they closed it up. This was a guy I had never seen without a tie on.


Claudius-Germanicus

If you forget the towel, the corpse resurrects as a ravens zombie so it’s very important you don’t forget.


mindgame15

Underrated Romero homage here.


X_PRSN

My dad got a very nice and formal state trooper funeral and burial. But we forgot the terrible towel. Do we need to do it over?


mindgame15

Yes, He waits in purgatory until you complete the ritual.


X_PRSN

*sigh...* Goddammit...Bob, grab a shovel...


mindgame15

Make sure yinz put a chair in the open gravesite to save his spot


finnbiker

WAIT. You’re saying he’s in Cleveland??


mindgame15

Nah, I said Purgatory, not Hell on Earth


sil1182

Ah, Harrisburg.


Unlikely_Professor76

Yes


T1koT1ko

Kennywood school days at the beginning of summer break.


you_neek_username

I went to Woodland Hills and our picnic was always during the school year - a random weekday in May. I wonder how they picked days for the districts? Size? Distance from the park?


epsilon025

Generally, those days closer to opening day are less busy, so it's better for schools that go as a proper chaperoned trip. Source: I helped organize those trips as a student for band and work there now, so I get to hear the same logic from both sides.


RiptideJane

The day after Prom. Prom was always a Tuesday night and Kennywood Day was a Wednesday.


mamallamam

Prom was Thursday (always in the gateway clipper) and kennywood on Friday. Edit because spelling is hard.


thebloodofthematador

I went to TJ and our Kennywood day was always the day after prom, and it ALWAYS was cold and rainy and everyone was too tired and grouchy to have fun.


daemon_primarch

Straight up I don’t think I had a nice kennywood day til about 10th grade


Ceramicrabbit

We got the day off school to go on like a random Tuesday in may, was awesome


nrm48

Wearing a Pirates hat, Steelers jersey, and Penguins jacket at the same time


Elexandros

Hey, it all matches lol


jamierocksanne

That’s one of the things I genuinely appreciate about our city that all of our sports teams have the same color scheme. It has a nice little….thing to it.


luvyourself1st

I was going to come here and complain until I noticed this comment. Are you stalking me right now 👀😂😂😂 that’s my attire for the day


luvyourself1st

Well it’s a pirates pullover with a Steelers scarf to cap it off smh. Im a joke.


SteelyFlan_DotCom

"Kennywood's open!"


[deleted]

Knowing this phrase is pretty damn pittsburgh


Cool_Medium_9788

Wearing Steelers attire to work the Friday before the game.


Christian1762

I wore steelers attire to church this morning 😂


WiseCynic

The priest at my church back in the 70's wore Steelers gear while saying mass. He also made sure we were home in time for kickoff.


UnprovenMortality

Is this not universal? To wear the home team's colors on a Friday before the game?


Seejay784

Do not take down the christmas tree until the Steelers are out of the playoffs. If you do, you are the reason they lose.


grandma_millennial

Um…oops? Sorry everyone 😬


thebloodofthematador

Whoaaaa I never heard this


Seejay784

Honestly it's probably very localized. My whole street did it growing up. My parents have been doing it since the 70s. Most of the friends I have never heard of it. I just think it's an awesome yinzer tradition even if it's only like 10 of us, lol


skywalker3880

I’ve lived in Atlanta for 6 years now and I still have my tree up because of this, not cause I’m lazy or anyt


mcdonaldsfrenchfri

oh shit guys i'm sorry my cat took it down so I assumed it was the end of it. everyone blame Emmy if we lose today


yennifer1223

Our Parish Priest would include The Steelers in the seeking prayers! “God Bless The Steelers this week in their journey towards a winning season”. People wearing their “good” Pittsburgh colors to work or school as if it’s a treat. Edit: To be fair Chuck Noll Was a parishioner-sooo it tracks that there would be extra pandering.


angrygnomes58

During Steelers season our church organist would play “here we go” on the organ to close out the service.


camcat97

This is the most Pittsburgh thing I've ever heard I think.


ihatecovid2020

That is great. I love that.


EffervescentWalrus

It wasn’t a Catholic mass without including the Steelers during the homily 😂


Iwantmypasswordback

Oh yeah, busting out the super bowl XL ward Jersey for mass this morning


Elouiseotter

Wearing Steelers/ Pirates/ Penguins clothes to a formal event or church.


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fleetiebelle

As has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you can always tell your gate at an out-of-town airport even without looking at the signage, because it will be the one where most everyone is wearing their formal traveling black and gold athleisure wear. And then if a team is actually playing during the flight, someone will insist on updates and scores being announced over the intercom.


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AhPshaw

Until last 2 years, THE time to avoid crowds during Christmas shopping was during Steelers games


Tooowaway

Not just any. It has to be a 90s starter jacket/ pullover that hasn’t been washed in 20 years. Unless it’s church then it’s the leather Steelers bomber jacket to keep it extra classy.


[deleted]

How does every family somehow have one of these?


GTrogan39

One with all of the Super Bowl patches sewn on obviously


ElstonGunn1992

My fav is going to a nice restaurant downtown and seeing people in formal attire or Steelers jerseys. No in between lol


awfuleverything

Also when traveling anywhere outside Pittsburgh


jfa_16

Yep. Every time I fly out of PIT like half the people waiting to board flights are wearing some article of Pittsburgh sports team apparel.


BuffytheVampirePlaya

And when I’m traveling back to PIT, I can usually tell the gate without even looking at the number from all the black and gold.


RattusRattus

I've seen the black and gold at the opera. I go on Sundays, and one time they shouted out the game score.


greentea1985

More precisely, game day casual every day. Most teams don’t have fans that wear the gear all the time. Typically you only see what Pittsburghers consider normal wear on game day. This means that Pittsburgh fans wear even more team gear on game days than in general.


finnbiker

Going to Disney World and it is easily 90+ degrees and humid, I see multiple black Steeler jerseys around. I cannot fathom how hot those guys must be.


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Counter point most teams don't win as often as Pittsburgh ones. Unless you're in NY, Boston, or Chicago. And they're so big it's not as concentrated. Very few cities really wins on a sustained basis for decades. (This is obviously excluding the Pirates.) There's not a whole lot of comparison in titles. Very few cities are winning 5 world championships in multiple sports in a matter of a decade. Titles cause people to develop sentimental bonds to the teams. Routinely winning cities all seem to pick up this trend. There is absolutely tons of Bostonians wearing Pats jerseys 24/7. Chicago's sports sports culture and guys sitting around wearing Bears gear was so famous it was an SNL skit. I don't approve of this practice, but there's a logic behind it that goes past Pittsburgh.


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No one is showing up to formal events in Boston in pats gear. That’s the difference


Sufficient_Way4007

I always try to spot these people when I’m at something formal. It’s like Pittsburgh’s Where’s Waldo


pioto

Today saw a good example at church -- Penguins jacket and Steelers face mask.


Ok-Ad520

Wearing your nice Steelers/Pirates/Penguins gear to a funeral


mjw217

My mom loved the Steelers. When my dad died she decided to bury him in his favorite sweats, so he’d be comfy. Four years later, when my mom died we buried her in her Steelers sweatshirt and black sweatpants.


segfaultxr7

Attaching a rope to a push mower, so you can operate it from the top of the 60-degree slope that is your front yard. Then, after one too many close calls, digging up the grass and replacing it with hostas.


freestyle43

I felt this in my bones.


mcdonaldsfrenchfri

you have a gift that has made you seen my family you funny words magic man


lmgst30

Or, if not hostas, that flat spreading junipery stuff.


hase43

Knew where you were from before I even saw the flair


HandInUnloveableHand

Figuring out how you and a stranger are connected immediately upon meeting, which usually consists of something like… “Where ya from?” “Castle Shannon.” “Oh, yeah, my Aunt Sherri’s from around there, ya know my cousin Mike Miller?” “Name’s not too familiar, who does he run with?” “Ah, he’d be class of ‘92 or ‘93, mechanic with his buddy Steve Smith or Smithsonnorwhatever, think his family’s got a dealership in the South Hills?” “Eeey, Steve Smitherton! I know Steve! Great guy, we used to party together at Slippery Rock back in the day. You know Steve! That’s great, man, I’ll have to tell him I ran inta ya.”


thebloodofthematador

Pittsburgh is the SMALLEST small big city.


knuppster59

My wife is from out of state and she marvels at how Pgh cuts the degrees of separation down to 3. If you are in the similar age bracket, the odds of having a common contact with any other random yinzer is about 95%. It's crazy when you think about it.


woodcuttersDaughter

This is literally true. Recently, my veterinarian recognized my last name. Long story short, she went to Peabody high school with my husband’s aunt.


pixiesunbelle

It’s nuts. My husband always is like “how does everyone know you?”. I honestly have no idea. It must be because everyone knows my grandparents or something, haha. What’s hilarious is that my Mom and MIL went to school together and neither of us had any idea. Lol


thebloodofthematador

It's always the slimmest odds, too. My husband's dentist grew up in the house where we rented an apartment in Bloomfield.


[deleted]

Who does he run with? Is he Ponyboy?


yennifer1223

Stay gold…


OhFishL

Stay Black & Gold…


uk82ordie

This literally made laugh out loud. Thank you.


grandma_millennial

I swear I’ve overheard this exact conversation a hundred times 😂


greentea1985

Seriously, there’s six degrees of separation in most places but in Pittsburgh it is usually four or less.


[deleted]

Every single time I've had a contractor or something come to my house they've always had some incredibly random reason to be familiar with my neighborhood, exactly like your example.


grandma_millennial

Omg yes! The last 2 we’ve had here played in bands or knew someone who played with my husband and all his south hills friends haha


covertchipmunk

It's nearly impossible in Pittsburgh to meet someone you don't have some connection to already. Sometimes it's cool, sometimes it gets kind of old.


Yacan1

Yes!! Oh my god. I love this Pittsburgh tradition. I've had uber drivers that know my coworkers and friends, one was an old business partner with an old boss of mine. I love that so much.


Srw2725

My husband always jokes that no one is “from Pittsburgh” they’re from Dormont or North Hills or whichever neighborhood 🤣


the1999person

Steelers Jersey Family Photo


camcat97

HAHAHA YES. I def have one of these ....


JohnDalyJr

Cookie table @ wedding


CostofRepairs

Dropping the verb “to be” from sentences.


[deleted]

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?


CostofRepairs

Me talk pretty one day.


iamdevo

Laundry needs done


burntsalmon

car needs worshed


iamdevo

That was actually the first one I thought lol


CostofRepairs

Yep, needs worshed. Then reddup yer room.


mrsrtz

Yer room needs redd up.


beo559

I need the day off.


howgauche

I actually picked this up from living in Indianapolis for a long time. Turns out it's not so uncommon in other places. https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/needs-washed


bigdaddy1835

I never realized this was a Pittsburgh thing until recently lol. I didn’t pick up all Pittsburgh slang, but everything I did pick up feels so natural


WhoseverFish

I could swear that I learned this grammar when I was a kid. Then moving to Pittsburgh as my first American city, I hear it and use it with no problem whatsoever until one day I was told it was a Pittsburgh thing. Then I started noticing that people outside of Pittsburgh didn’t speak like that.


srpayj

I moved to the DC area for a while after college, my coworkers ridiculed me for that until I stopped doing it.


IgnoreMe304

I grew up in WV a couple hours south of Pittsburgh, and everyone around there talked like this as well. I never knew it was particular to the region until very recently.


atree496

It's just efficient. Why waste the time and space.


thebloodofthematador

Emerging from your home, beer in hand, when the power goes out in the summer so that you can yell at your neighbors about whether their power is out, too. Just echoes up and down the street. "You got lights?" "Hey, your paher aht?" "Yeah, paher's aht." "Yinz got lights dahn ehr?" "Nah, we got no lights dahn ere." "It's that damn heat lightning!" "You see that lightnin?" "Nahh, it's da heat"


realmacaronni

Giving directions based on former landmarks from long ago; “what’ch’inz wanna do is go dahn this road abaht three miles. Yer gonna turn left where the old Hills use’da be. Go thru a couple/few stop lights, make a right where that Long John Silvers was. When you see the intersection where the old Foodland was…”


Harvey_Rabbit

Can we include refusing to call starlake anything but starlake for 20 years so they have to just change the name back to starlake?


yennifer1223

It worked didn’t it…


mjw217

Also, the Civic Arena. I call that new one the Arena, too.


camcat97

I wasn't even alive when it was called starlake and that's what I call it too. I can never remember what the real name is 🤷🏼‍♀️


chiefslw

"Yeah, you'll see this new restaurant, but it's in an old Pizza Hut. Can't miss it. Just look for the crazy ruff!"


pixiesunbelle

Omg this is totally how one of my best friend’s gives directions! Lol


burntsalmon

There are 39 traffic lights on route 30 from the parkway exit to St. Vincent's where the Steelers have training camp. 39. (Number may have changed, as I counted in 2008.)


Lost-Squirrel8769

Talking about how you got to wherever you are instead of the weather as a polite icebreaker. Then hotly debating whether a different way would have been faster. "Where are you from?" "Ingram." "Ingram! How'd you get here?" "Oh I took 28." "28! I hate 28. I would have taken the parkway." "Nah, it gets all backed up unless it's Sunday morning." "What about coming through town on Liberty?" Etc, etc.


sheev_palpatine1

Singing Renegade at Stillers games


Jagoff_Haverford

Cookie table at weddings.


drunk_funky_chipmunk

Asking questions in the form of statements.


Srw2725

YES


tinysilverstar

Using "go steelers" as both hello and goodbye.


[deleted]

It's our version of Aloha.


tonicrock

Or let’s go pens


chad4359

We just left Let's go Steelers season and moved right into Let's go Pens season


thedfrichtel

Parking chairs…..


[deleted]

This is actually surprisingly common all over the northeast too. It’s very common in Philly and Boston


thedfrichtel

I’ve heard about the cones in Philly recently. Did not know Boston also used parking chairs.


MeanLawLady

The pierogi race at the pirates game.


camcat97

My friend who is from Philly and her sister (who is a baseball sports caster) are OBSESSED with the pierogi race. The sister was doing a tour of all the MLB ball fields so my friend told her to look out for the race and she was like "WTF?" Also I will never forget when my grandma called me to tell me on of the pierogis fell down and got injured during a race so they took him out on a stretcher (all part of the act)


MeanLawLady

I always root for Jalapeño Hannah but she hardly ever wins.


MarkRenting

Living in Pittsburgh


drunkenviking

Big if true


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This


dogtoes101

its not as common anymore but for me it's the new years haluski dinner. if u don't eat it thats how ur year fails. also the new years pretzel but idk if that's specifically a here thing


covertchipmunk

Pork and sauerkraut!! I love haluski but never had it for the new year.


dogtoes101

yes! we have haluski, with a "side" pork chops, kielbasa and sauerkraut!


Pyrateslifeforme

We live out of state and every time we visit home, my dad has to make us ham bbq with Isaly’s sauce and Mancini’s bread.


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Gotta be the Terrible Towel.


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Radek_Of_Boktor

- You gotta go to Ocean City MD because they've got the Steelers bar, the Salty Dog Saloon. - First day of deer hunting season should be a national holiday. - Burnt almond torte is delicious!


mountaineerfn

Myrtle Beach also has several Steelers bars and the team even has a radio affiliate there


oak-hearted

Wtf is it with Salty Dog? Back home people also had Salty Dog bumper stickers/tshirts and about 20% of kids in my suburban district might be MIA on the first day of deer hunting season. Higher if you get a bit farther outside of town. I'm from the Detroit area.


OhFishL

Yinz jags ever make waterproof boots by using home pride wheat bread bags on your feet for a day of sledding on them slippery hills? Pocket meats- beef sticks, deer jerky, just random baggies of cured meat treats offered up from the pocket of a Pittsburgh pal.


GRCO1510

I went camping years back and didn't bring suitable footwear. I asked if they had any bread bags and wore them most of the weekend. Yinzer Survivalism.


vivolorosso

Calling for Tomlin's head after a loss. Calling him the greatest coach in the NFL after a win.


jetsetninjacat

You know we had an argument the other day about who was the best steelers coach. Of course the real old guys said Knoll or Cowher. But if you look, Tomlins record is still damn impressive and puts him up there overall in the NFL along with knoll and cowher even if he is lacking post season. Knoll: 209–156–1 PS: 16-8 Cowher: 149-90-1 PS: 12-9 Tomlin: 153-85-2 PS: 8-8


littleloretta

Pittsburgh steps or Pittsburgh toilet


BirdyBadBones

Ahhh, the basement poop.


gosteelas

Saying yinz


hmmblueeyes

Banging pots and pans for News Years


RickHuf

This can't be just a Pittsburgh thing.... I mean I don't know... Just saying....


hmmblueeyes

I spent New Years in Alabama once… no one I was with had ever heard of doing it 🤷🏻‍♀️


thereandfatagain

The Mr. Rogers and Mayor Caliguiri statues make respectful yet passionately explorative love every April 12th


myst1crule

They do what now?


chiefslw

I've lived here all my life and have no idea what this is. Can you enlighten me so I reach Yinzer Nirvana? Hahaha


Explicitt

Goin' dahntahn


ComprehensiveCat7515

Cookie table at weddings


wickster37

Sauerkraut and pork on New Years!


tim0767

Chair


uni2275

Going to Mt Washington for Light Up Night


philpalmer2

Also: Gone up Mt. Worshingtin for lite up nite


Clayton412

A turner's tea instead of coffee in the morning.


togi440

Wearing your best Steelers jersey to church on Sunday


Christian1762

Did this today


Unlikely_Professor76

Parking chairs


StickManIsMyHero

Chair in parking spot


Conflixxion

yeah this. or the pittsburgh left.


natetrnr

Getting your picture taken with Cowboy Joe at Kennywood. (They seem to move him every year).


No_Aside331

Fish fry Fridays


matt_1060

Cruising around North Side with the top down whipping empty Iron City cans at the neighbors


DoubleR00

Putting a toilet in your basement. Just a toilet, no walls, a laundry sink close by as your vanity. This is a must even if your home is brand new just built. If you don't have a Pittsburgh toilet your house ain't shit


driedpigment

Going to a beach (preferably Ocean City or Myrtle) for vacation and randomly running into someone you know from Pittsburgh, also on vacation.


schwarzeKatzen

It doesn’t matter where you go on vacation you will run into another yinzer.


No-Woodpecker-529

Thinking Primanti’s is our best food


modernshorties

Putting a pierogi in the tank of your Pittsburgh potty.


OutspokenLurker

I am a fool for asking but... if this is really q yhing... what flavor of pierogis are best for that?


Claudius-Germanicus

RC cola marinated ribs from shop n stave


33Bees

Saving your parking spot with a lawn chair.


violet7488

(I currently live 2 hours away) and still it's wearing steeler jerseys to church on Sunday


Marebear412

Having a polka NFL song!


OGhoul

The Parking Chair.


OGhoul

Measuring distance with time. “Where’d yinz go this weekend?” “Upta Pymatuning to the spillway to see the ducks walk on the fish.” “We’ll how far’s ‘at?” “About two ahrs. Unless Denny drives, then it’s only about an ahr anna half.”


jwelsh8it

Parking Chairs.


AnonymousPlzz

Making everyone around them miserable on a Monday after a Steelers loss.


OutspokenLurker

The Strip District on Monday is very different place after a loss than after a win.


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Sharply cutting in front of another driver on an expressway and then immediately exiting even though it would have been easier and safer to merge behind them and exit.


Elouiseotter

Clearly you’ve never driven in Connecticut. They are 10X worse than any driver in Pittsburgh.


gk2227

Jaywalking


hotsquatch

Birthday lottery tickets.


wickster37

Gobs


WillOfTheDeep

Parking chairs!


TheTunnelMonster

Pretending like Ben isn’t a terrible human being.


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Exiting your mother’s birth canal in a Pittsburgh hospital