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My husband and I are from Fairfield county, but moved to wolcott, pronounced Wolkit. We travel up to Litchfield and down to Fairfield frequently. No one does pizza better than pepes, (now with multpile locations), for the best grinders try Nordellis (the orivinal grinder shop in CT dating back to 1914), 7seas or Joey C's for lobster rolls, and no one does ice cream better than Arethusa's. I have heard of steamed burgers but I still have to try one. We have some of the best food for sure, all across the state. We are lucky to live in CT.

Who remembers The Pop Shop ? Many locations 70s- 80s

Born and raised in Westport. Yes all those words I hear and still use. But Apizza is really broken English. Both sets of my grandparents came from Italy . They spoke in dialect Italian. They put an A in front, middle and end of every word. Why ima talka likea whata waya. So if they ask you if you want some pizza they would say you Wana Apizza. But it would sound like this real fast. You wana apeetz. I'm Sure it got lost somewhere in the translation but if you been listening to Italian broken English your whole life you would know where the word Apizza came from. You won Apeetz? Si grazie. Yes thank you.

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I definitely miss living in Connecticut. I always loved New England and New York. Connecticut will always be my home forever.

I grew up in southeast Ct.; it’s a “grinda”. In Eastern Ct., the letter “r”, or “ah”, can be slim to nonexistent to many people!

❤ love Tennessee I've been going there back amd for for the past 24 years ct is just wash out lived in ct my whole life within 3 years i should be thrre!!!!!

W T f no never had a steamed cheeseburger

🙌 U EY!

🙌 A Grinder !

From ledyard native born. It’s A pizza.

i grew up in the hartford area...never once did a steamed cheeseburger sound appealing to me.

As a native, born in Hartford, and raised in the suburbs, this is the most important thing someone from America needs to know before moving to "The People's Republic of Communisticut"! DON'T!

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This is all the true about Southington

New Haven pizza is not pizza. New York style is the only real pizza.

CT is also the best state in the country for working women to get paid equal to men. You should also do your research on taxes because we are not #2…we are #5 or 6.

Yup, in Connecticut we say yup, yello, oh my, just over fast swung speech. Can I have a-pizza, gettin cold. Just small tangible phrases that fit together. And I don't pronounce it OR, for me it's AH. So if I say "I'm going to the bar" I'll say "alright, I'm heading to the bah."

Moved from CT to CA last year for my job, and I never knew that we had our own accent until I moved here 😂

Whatever you do, do not move to New Haven.Connecticut it isn't all that it sucks the whole state sucks

It is way too expensive to live here. The rents are outrageous. The homes are overpriced. It is a very hard place to live. I lived here all my life. And I am 56 years old matter of fact. It's so expensive. Here I'm homeless. That's how crazy the rents are.Please come at please comment back if you ever think of deciding to move to connecticut it sucks

Socal we say, 'hey flip a uey!'

Not a Packi 👀👀👀👀

Uey is also used in Massachusetts.

I’ll be moving out but I’m not saying where. I don’t want other people following me and ruining where I’m going 😊.

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Steamed Hams?!?!?

Never heard of a grinder or hoagie, only a hero. Also never heard of a liquor store being referred to as a package store.

Uey used in southern Ontario

The CT shoreline has a slightly different seasonal profile. Our summers aren't quite as hot, and winters are not as cold and snowy as upstate because our climate is moderated a lot by our proximity to the ocean. And our autumns are long and wonderfully warm. We play golf right into November most years. But, man, we pay for it in spring. It's cold, wet, cloudy, dark, and seemingly unending. It starts in March and lasts until the middle to end of May. Really warm weather doesn't come until really June most years.

I forgot to mention this; In addition to pizzas and grinders there is a place that serves the best hot dogs I have ever eaten. It's in New Britain, Ct and it's called Capitol Lunch. I used to eat a box of 5 of them with meat sauce, onions and mustard. All in one sitting. A lot of heartburn, but m-m-m-m! I wonder if they are still there?

Hi Barbara- I'm originally from Southington Connecticut. I lived on Edgewood Circle, right up the street from Mt. Southington. I moved to Tallahassee Florida in 1992. The first thing I noticed when I moved down here, is that the grammar is more relaxed than in Connecticut. Even well educated people tend to use phrases that would be frowned upon up in Ct. You might be thought of as being uneducated or something. An example of the phrases are, 'might could'. I might could start my car if I find my keys. There is also 'used to could'. I used to could run the quarter mile when I was younger. Also, 'fixin' to'. I'm fixin' to go to the Winn-Dixie store. Down here, you don't take a right at the traffic signal, you take a right at the red light. (Wonder how you know to turn if the traffic signal happens to be green when you come up to it). Then of course, you drink a Coke, no matter what it is, not a soda. I do miss the pizzas and the grinders they had in Connecticut. Around here, it's just chain pizza places. I used to love Queen pizza on Queen street in Southington. Are they still there?

Never went to Pepe's for "abeets" or "tomato pie" until a college buddy from East Haven brought me there. Now I'm just used to saying "Gimme a large moots, extra sauce" with a nice Foxon Park "Kola with a K" or a birch beer. There's a place here in Wicker Park Chicago called "Piece Pizza" which claims they are New Haven style. Looks like it but they use marinara sauce on it. Gross. Secret's in the sauce.... I grew up in Naugatuck or as we said it "Nau'g'duck" real fast. At the NY State Fair in Syracuse I ordered a fried dough with tomato sauce...the guy immediately said "you're from Connecticut aren't you?" Thought everyone got sauce on fried dough. "Bang a U-ey" - all the time. Tag Sale yes, or a rummage sale if it was at a church.

I love my home state

I didn't know that a uey was only us... Edit : or tag sale.... 😅 I thought that was the thing hahaha

Packi or packy, liquor store. And carriage, in Tennessee it's bugy or cart elsewhere. Damn it you just said Packi I was jumping the gun 😅

I'm a CT native, born and raised here and been living here my whole 29 years of life, and somehow, I never tried a steamed burger, and I've rarely ever heard of them either.

Me and my girlfriend have Huskies competition every night...we don't need no stinkin' sports team.

There are toll booths on the jogging trails to collect the exercise tax.

abeetz, not apizza.

I remember when I first moved to Virginia and I tried to order a meatball grinder and the waiter looked at me weird, he said "You mean a Meatball sub?" I said yeah a grinder

I am considering Southington to purchase a home for my family and I. The main reason is because of the extreme diversity of New Jersey. I prefer my culture and being in the middle of all these diverse ares, I have learned to consider forced diversity a disease. Why is me appreciating my own European/American culture so frowned upon and everyone else's to be appreciated. I think that's quite racist against my culture actually.

Thank you for saying New Haven right ❤

Regarding the “package store”, we’d go on a “packy run”

I love this video ❤❤ proud to have been born and raised in Connecticut ❤❤❤

I’m from Oxford and haven’t heard of many of these. Then again I’m only 20.