You know you have lived in Florida if...
 

...you understand what these Florida Code entries mean.

The Florida Code

I have been here in Florida since mid-1996. Nine years in Palm Harbor, FL., and now nine and a third in the Villages. With only about 2 days of that 18.3333 years spent in El Paso, Texas in late 2001. I do not get around very much. All the rest of those many days have been spent right here in Central Florida.

I had spent about 1 year in FL, a week to 2 at a time over about 30 years before moving here, and I loved "The Florida Code", thanks.

I found this one to be especially true and always have a jacket.

"Learn how to dress in layers. It will be 95 degrees outside. But inside any restaurant or business it’s 65 degrees".

Toojay's. :cold:

Food lol
 

Yep. You're not going to get biscuits and gravy for breakfast anymore.:ohdear:

If only one hand has a tan - you play too much golf.

You know you are not a native if the code is funny.
If your Daddy cut swamp cabbage, and your Mother cooked it, you are a native, or close enuf.

That's why they call it "Golf Hand".

I used to get it during my annual one week trip to Myrtle Beach.

Can't wait until next year when I'll have it all the time!

This is my 61st year in Florida, mostly in the Miami to W. Palm Beach area and nothing ever changes. You will always have snowbirds (99% from the Northeast) feel they have to inform you how much better everything is "up north". One of my favorites is "of course we're spoiled because we're from New York".
How would these people feel it I moved up there and bad mouthed everything about their area? I would think they would get tired hearing it and tell be to take I 95 back home.

About 40% of The Villagers are from the northeast states. That's over 40,000 people. If a few hundred complain all the time, that's not so bad. I'll bet they complain up there too. Complaining is not a seasonal sport with spring training down south in the winter.

There is very little good pizza, Italian sauce, Italian bread or Italian sausage.

Oh c'mon, if you had a Hungry Howie's pizza from Florida, you couldn't tell the difference between it and a Hungry Howie's pizza from NY or Chicago

Has anyone ben here?
 

Our Chambersburg Beginning

Alexander "Chick" De Lorenzo was born one of twelve children to Pasquale and Maria De Lorenzo who immigrated from Southern Italy in the early 1900s. In 1936 the De Lorenzo family opened one of the first Tomato Pie restaurants in the Chambersburg section of Trenton. In 1947 Chick had decided it was time for a place of his own and he established Delorenzo's Tomato Pies at 530 Hudson Street. Chick and his wife Sophie worked side-by-side for nearly 40 years. Together they laid the ground work for what helped this "mom and pop" restaurant into a long standing successful business. Chick claimed his recipe for success was using the finest quality ingredients, laboring over the final product and serving customers with a warm and friendly smile.

This place put all the other pizza parlors I ever went to up north to shame. Maybe that's what it takes, "work[ing] side-by-side for nearly 40 years." to make great pizza.

I am from the Boston Ma area and I am not complaining. This is the place to be. Good people, good friends, good weather . Some people there call it God's country, and yes it is. So is this!

Yup I have had it. Pizza may be good but the place was filthy filthy filthy. Never ever going back.

Yeah sure, but I'll bet it's not as good as the swamp cabbage in Brooklyn:shocked:

Seriously, I'd love to try it, can you cook the green part like any other greens? The heart of palm part I think we have all had already.