1. Number One
What it means to everyone else: It’s what all other states think they are.
What it means in New York: What New Yorkers know they are.
2. Garbage
What it means to everyone else: The stuff you put out on the curb to be collected.
What it means in New York: A Garbage plate from Nick Tahou’s. Accept no substitutes.
3. Buffalo
What it means to everyone else: A huge ox with horns.
What it means in New York: A WNY city known for U-hots, SPoT Coffee, climbing silos, Ani Difranco, beef on weck, and a few other things. Maybe you’ve heard of them. Like…
4. Wings
What it means to everyone else: The food you eat during the Super Bowl.
What it means in New York: The awesome food started right here that you eat all year long.
5. Bills
What it means to everyone else: Cash money.
What it means in New York: The Buffalo Bills. The last true New York state football team with the craziest fans in the nation.
6. Half Moon
What it means to everyone else: When the moon looks like a semi-circle.
What it means in New York: Black and white cookies!
7. New York City
What it means to everyone else: The city that never sleeps.
What it means in New York: To everyone Upsate, it’s the city that makes up one percent of the state but takes 95 percent of the taxes revenue.
8. Spiedies
What it means to everyone else: The senses that keep Spiderman on his web-slinging game.
What it means in New York: Marinated, cubed chicken goodness.
9. Fingers
What it means to everyone else: Those extremities on your hands, useful for doing things like typing.
What it means in New York: The coolest set of lakes on the planet.
10. Thousand Island
What it means to everyone else: Salad dressing which is basically just a fancy way of saying relish and mayonnaise mixed together.
What it means in New York: Hogwarts on vacation.
11. Niagara Falls
What it means to everyone else: A humungous waterfall in Canada.
What it means in New York: A humungous waterfall in New York.
12. Salt Potatoes
What it means to everyone else: Potatoes with salt on them.
What it means in New York: Young white potatoes boiled in, literally, pounds of salt creating potato perfection.
13. Tomato Pie
What it means to everyone else: A pale comparison to tomato pie pizza.
What it means in New York: The one. The only. Tomato pie pizza.
14. Giants
What it means to everyone else: Mythical, oversized creatures. Usually of the jolly green variety.
What it means in New York: Football superstars. Don’t argue about the Jersey side of things, no one is listening. Except for the Bills fans.
15. Stewart’s
What it means to everyone else: A man’s name.
What it means in New York: The best convenience stores ever. The best ice cream ever. The best coffee ever. Also, not the same Stewart’s, but the best root beer ever.
16. Dinosaurs
What it means to everyone else: Extinct creatures that roamed the earth millions of years ago.
What it means in New York: Finger-lickin’, lip-smackin’, high-fivin’ barbecue of the gods.
17. Times Square
What it means to everyone else: The place on everyone’s New Year’s Eve bucket list.
What it means in New York: The place you couldn’t even pay anyone here to go to, especially on New Year’s Eve.
18. Santa’s Workshop
What it means to everyone else: That magical place where Santa lives and elves make toys in the North Pole.
What it means in New York: That magical place where Santa lives and elves make toys in the North Pole—New York!
19. Gotham
What it means to everyone else: A fictional city in the DC comics universe, watched over by Batman.
What it means to New York: Manhattan. Batman not included.
20. Baseball
What it means to everyone else: The all-American sport.
What it means to New York: The Baseball Hall Of Fame.
21. Hot Dogs
What it means to everyone else: Just another boring boiled link of mystery meat.
What it means to New York: Ted’s, white hots, red hots, U-hots, coneys, Hoffman’s, Zwiegles… Pick your wiener.
22. Hockey
What it means to everyone else: The ice sport you occasionally catch on TV during the winter.
What it means in New York: The ice sport you played every day after school from November through March. And maybe even still as an adult.
23. Autumn
What it means to everyone else: The season between summer and winter.
What it means in New York: The only time of year where you can go outside without turning into a block of ice or melting into a puddle of your own sweat.
24. Snow
What it means to everyone else: Three or four inches of white stuff in January.
What it means in New York: Are you kidding me? Try a million inches, give or take a few hundred thousand. And they still get to work.
25. Sponge
What it means to everyone else: What you use to wash your dishes.
What it means in New York: Sponge candy. Try finding it anywhere else. (Hint: You can’t.)
26. The Statue Of Liberty
What it means to everyone else: The place you climbed to the top of when you visited NYC fifteen years ago.
What it means in New York: The place no one has ever been and now can’t go inside even if they wanted to.
27. Canada
What it means to everyone else: A country to the north where everyone is really nice.
What it means in New York: You walked there last weekend.
28. College
What it means to everyone else: The place you will spend a minimum of four years in order to launch your preferred career.
What it means in New York: SUNY. The place you will spend a minimum of four years for your higher education which will solely determine your social status.
29. Heaven
What it means to everyone else: The place where your childhood pet hamster went after it died.
What it means in New York: Lake Placid.
30. New Jersey
What it means to everyone else: The armpit of the nation.
What it means in New York: The armpit of the nat…. Oh, wait. Same thing! See? New Yorkers can agree with others on some things!
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