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Originally Posted by Fbone
Reminds me of my trip to Australia. When people heard I was from NJ they kept trying to get me to say "How you doin" When I did they all laughed. They didn't think people really spoke in that way. Of course, they also thought The Sopranos and Jersey Shore were fiction.
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There's a joke about 18:00 being the New Jersey state mandated time to eat dinner. A friend told me in her neighborhood there was a "sophisticated" family -- who ate at 19:00!
When my parents and I went to Portugal it was difficult to find restaurants that started serving as early as 19:30; they had set that as the absolute latest they could wait.
I'm amazed that Stephanie Plum's antics are so wildly popular all over. I've never seen the Sopranos myself, nor encountered too many folks in New Jersey so stereotypical ... Queens was another story!