A directory called the South Carolina Antique Trail lists close to 100 antique shops, malls, and flea markets across the state. Many people have only ever poked around the shop nearest home. These are the antique shops South Carolinians in the know keep circling back to. AAA Pickers AAA Pickers anchors Camden’s Broad Street stretch,…
Fletcher’s fries something close to 550,000 corny dogs at the State Fair of Texas over one 24-day run, and the same family has run that batter since 1942. That’s three generations at the fryer. These are the Texas State Fair foods locals build their whole day around, regardless of what new dish wins this year’s…
A Tampa family loads the car for a weekend in Fort Lauderdale, dog leash and water bowl tossed in the back, without a single glance at a county website. That’s the normal way to pack. It’s also how a pet owner ends up on the wrong side of a rule that was never a rule…
Buying a bag of birdseed to feed the backyard birds sounds like a friendly gesture to many new Virginia residents. Their neighbors and forty-four Virginia counties disagree. State wildlife code treats it as illegal deer feed the moment deer start eating it. These are the things new Virginia residents often get wrong about how their…
Hundreds of people once lined up for nearly seven hours outside a Brooklyn Wegmans just to be first through the door. That’s how much New Yorkers love Wegmans. It’s also how the grocery chain can turn into blocked aisles and short tempers. These are the rude Wegmans habits that annoy New Yorkers. 1. Camping Out…
Pennsylvanians love being right. But Punxsutawney Phil makes that hard to prove. The famous groundhog has correctly called the weather just 39% of the time since 1887. That’s worse than a coin flip. So, is it rude to correct someone who’s wrong? In our opinion, these are the situations when Pennsylvanians are better off keeping…
Drive across the Roebling Suspension Bridge from Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky appears on the other side. The bridge opened in 1867 as the longest suspension bridge on Earth, a test run for the same engineer’s Brooklyn Bridge. Nothing about the crossing seems extraordinary. But the tax on your receipt, the price at the pump,…
Maine is the most rural state in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with a bigger share of its residents living outside any city or town than anywhere else in America. That kind of space rewrites a few rules newcomers assume hold everywhere. Some of what catches new residents off guard costs money….
Somewhere outside Massachusetts, an office keeps humming along on the third Monday of April like it’s any other Monday. Back home, that same Monday means a marathon runs past Fenway Park and school lets out early. These are the things people from Massachusetts miss the most once they’ve left the state. 1. Space Savers After…
Cook Out ran more than seventy stores before it ever left North Carolina. By the time it went up in another state, North Carolina regulars had already spent twenty years perfecting how to order. These are the Cook Out habits that separate North Carolina regulars from everyone else. 1. Skip the À La Carte Menu…
