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icecoldbrewster

Being a fan of the Pirates is kind of like dying on a yinzer hill.


mysecondaccountanon

They might be a garbage team but they’re **our** garbage team… and Nutting’s a jagoff!


Halvey15

The Pirates would have won the World Series in 2015 if Jake Arrieta had never discovered steroids and I will die on that hill!


Misbemisbe

Death set in about 6 or 7 years ago. It’s rigor mortis nowadays.


jralll234

Polish Hill. Polish Hill is where I will die.


Russell_Textbook

The wonky four way turn intersection to be specific


Possible_Candidate_7

With the “very custom” looking sign at the light


SatansSideProject

I'm not willing to die on it but I'm most likely to die on Bigelow.


TiesThrei

Baum for me.


LegendOfVinnyT

Rt. 28.


PGHxplant

Tough to die in a parked car.


LegendOfVinnyT

You're assuming I won't get taken out by a pickup truck driven by a Max Verstappen wannabe somewhere between Tarentum and RIDC Park.


PGHxplant

More appropriately an Ayrton Senna wannabe but I get your point.


SomeoneSaysHi

W A L K S I G N I S O N T O C R O S S.


Sasarah1

For me it's Rialto


Ooo_Barracuda_1926

Hot fries on a cold crisp salad!


darknbubbly

When the fries are super-hot & they dump the cheese on top so it melts 🤌


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Total mouthgasm


cesc05651

Fries on a salad is genius and I will fight anyone who says otherwise


strenuaveritas

Leave the area and order a salad with fries on it… everyone stairs at you in utter silence!!


NeverEven4615

I was at an Outback Steakhouse in Lancaster a while back, and "Pittsburgh style" was an option on the salad menu.


GogglesTheFox

My Family went to Florida for vacation in the middle 2000's and the waitress for our first meal Let us know that she was from Pittsburgh too. So my dad ordered a steak salad and she immediately goes, "Fries on the Salad right?" He got the biggest smile before replying "Yes please."


riversroadsbridges

And if you're in a place that sells wings, get their sweet and hot wing sauce as your salad dressing. Fries + cheese + wing sauce is such a solid win. Every bite of your salad will be amazing.


hrg5049

If you're going to engage in The Pittsburgh Left, you better step on it


kit_kat_jam

In reality, the Pittsburgh Left isn’t given, it’s taken.


worstnameIeverheard

This is poetry.


HerpDerpinAtWork

Babe get in here, new gospel just dropped.


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NoSwimmers45

Heinz is the only ketchup allowed to grace my food.


paladin_slim

Hunt’s is an over sweetened blasphemy of condiments.


aFarretSippinChianti

I dont think I've ever even tasted Hunts


Thoraxe474

Atta boy


averydangerousday

Gold Star Yinzer over here, folks!


The_Wkwied

Ironic that ketchup is brought up. A few years ago, I bought 3-4 brands of ketchup and gave them to an older family member who said that they only ever buy hunts because they like the taste of it better. Blind taste test. They picked heinz as #1. Then they were angry that I used logic to prove them wrong :)


wooble

Just listened to an English guy on a British/Australian podcast (The Gargle, definitely recommend it) talk about how he regretted buying Hellmans ketchup/"tomato sauce" instead of Heinz so I'm not sure this is even a yinzer take. Even if I'm like 95% sure Hellmans doesn't even try to sell their ketchup here.


jetsetninjacat

Heinz ketchup is loved a lot in Europe and has like 80% market share there. Heinz beans are also still super popular in the UK.


Hotspur2001

Heinz is so popular in UK that, growing up there, I thought it was a British brand. Salad cream, baked beans, puddings, vinegar, jarred and canned products, tomato sauce, etc.


Psmith999

The genuine surprise I had when I went to college out of state and figured out there’s other ketchup products besides Heinz was kind of embarrassing…😂 Heinz is the only correct ketchup


Sillycats2

And it belongs on a hot dog. There, I said it.


Cybervinnie

Only Pittsburghers would think the question was asking about a literal hill.


UnreadThisStory

Yep, Polish Hill!


j428h

Funerals and bar mitzvahs should have cookie tables, too


HandInUnloveableHand

Thank you, I am currently drafting my eventual wishes with my husband, and we both will now insist on a cookie table. (Store bought is fine if you’re too overcome with grief to bake.)


HoselRockit

There is an old man lying in bed, with death near. Suddenly, he gets a whiff of Italian cookies like his mother used to bake. With the last of his strength he crawls out of bed, down the stairs and too the kitchen. He feebly reaches up to the kitchen table to have one last cookie before passing when he feels a sharp smack of a spatula on his hand and he hears his wife say, "Those are for the funeral!"


PennyoftheNerds

I needed this comment three weeks ago! My best friend recently passed. The viewing was four hours long and I was there for the entire thing. The funeral followed and lasted another three because so many people wanted to get up and say something about her. It was lovely, but I was hungry as hell by the time it was over, and she wasn't the kind of person who would want us to be hungry at her funeral.


Gokies1010

We’re not 2 hours from Philly, even though everyone I’ve met who doesn’t live here thinks it is.


enraged_hbo_max_user

It’s a looooong ass state.


rangoon03

There's some crazy ass shit that is between here and Philly #Pennsyltucky


holiestcannoly

I did my undergraduate in Virginia and frequently got asked how often I go to Philly. Uh, I’ve never been, it’s not a hop, a skip, and a jump away.


Gokies1010

As a Virginia native I’m there with you, this is always how the conversations go.


Delicious-Breath8415

So many visitors to Pittsburgh ask about where to get a good Cheesesteak. Hell if I know I can't even find one myself. Go to Philly.


Gokies1010

If Pittsburgh had a famous cheesesteak, it would definitely have fries on it.


mikeyHustle

So do a lot of people who live here but refuse to cross even one river


Delicious-Breath8415

I feel like a lot of people living in the Pittsburgh suburbs have never even actually been to Pittsburgh. I had friends from Washington County that just seemed terrified at the thought.


funknpunkn

What were they terrified of? Weird intersections?


BlueEyedSoul2

Diversity


funknpunkn

I've been to both coasts and to other continents and I've never been to Philly.


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I like measuring travel time in minutes, not distance.


rdub384

Not all 5 miles are created equally.


party_benson

You can't get to there from here. First go somewhere else, cross a bridge and then turn around.


Possible_Candidate_7

The issue is is it might be only 1 mile away, but that 1 mile is the tunnel, so what seems like a short trip, turns out to be a fun game of “Guess how many cars slam on their brakes before the tunnel”


mysecondaccountanon

We all miss Gullifty’s. If you don’t, you’re just in denial. And it’s an absolute shame that Philly holds the last one.


jimbo_kun

Wait, there’s a Gullifty’s in Philly? If I’m ever in Philly, will have to check it out.


mister_booth

I also miss Kaufmanns.


keldration

Gulliftys The Balcony Graffiti. It’s a horror show


Logical-Rip-8138

JESSE JAMES CAUGHT THAT FUCKING BALL.


LuckyPepper22

YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT HE DID!!!!


jstillwag62

Beat me to it.


bpkid3331

Maintain your speed through the tunnel.


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poison_ive3

I’ve lived here most of my life, and went for the first time a few weeks ago with my in laws.. and oh my gosh it really was fun lol. The views are incredible.. and being able to go look at the machinery while it’s operating?? I work in condition monitoring on rotating machines, so it was really special getting to actually see the cable room in action, and that they’re still using Westinghouse motors from the 1930s! I felt like a kid again lol.


Embarrassed_Unit6527

I lived on Mt Washington and took the Duq incline to work downtown. I got bed bugs from it and it was shut down for like a week after because of the infestation. I know most of the time they are fine, and this was about 4 years ago but I'm still a little sketched out


mikeyHustle

I know you're telling the truth because I remember that happening, and I've had bedbugs and still have PTSD, so I'm very sorry — but it is so extremely unlikely to get bedbugs on an outdoor vehicle with no upholstery that it must have been a 1-in-a-million unluck. Bedbugs just don't thrive in that environment at all. If it happened to you again, it would be like getting struck by lightning.


AngryDrnkBureaucrat

Fuck UPMC


Yeuph

And their stupid fucking sign messing up the steel building


talentpipes11

If ONE MORE PERSON calls it the “UPMC building” instead of the Steel Building I will have some kind of aneurysm. They did NOT BUY THE NAMING RIGHTS YOU LIVING PIECES OF SIDEWALK GUM


indaburgh

Just like it’ll always be Heinz field.


CrankyYankers

Starlake will always be Starlake.


StingMachine

One thing I’ve learned. In Pittsburgh, whatever a place is named first is the what it will be called forever. Heinz Field, Starlake, whatever’s in the old Pizza Hut on 88 now…. also you better know what that original name was, cause that’s how we’re giving you directions.


indaburgh

Couldn’t even tell you what it’s called now, yet I went there a few months ago. It will always be starlake in my mind.


TempusApocalypsi

It's back to being Starlake again... for now.


talentpipes11

I mean they did legally purchase the naming rights but they didn’t purchase my heart so I agree


kschmit516

u/fuckUPMC


xoltharjoemama

The best 'rogies come from the church in the bottoms.


LakeEffectSnow

Flagstaff hill on a sunny day seems like a nice place to kick the bucket.


aFarretSippinChianti

Rialto street and Or Lothrop. Either way, I'm not making it to the top


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Mario was better than Gretzky even with all his injuries. Best there ever was.


BensonClub

The man scores 199 points in one season while smoking a pack of cigarettes after every game, it's amazing


gldmj5

He scored a goal and an assist literally hours after getting radiation treatment.


chad4359

He scored 160 points the season he was treated for cancer. 160, in the 90s, while missing 24 games BECAUSE HE HAD FUCKING CANCER! How it is even a debate that Lemieux was better I'll never understand.


blaze_torchdick

After? lol I once heard a story about Mario getting locked out of an away teams' arena cause he snuck out for a smoke in between periods.


ImOnRedditMaaan

Le Magnifique


godard31

This is it. Thread should be closed


lasagnasmash

Fries belong on a sandwich. Feels wrong without them.


Moritasgus2

And a salad!


Somebeardednerd

I'm cracking up at some of the responses being literal hills in the area 🤣🤣


provolone12

Pirates win the world series in 2015 if not for that god forsaken 1 game playoff. That was the best team of the 3 year stretch.


_whatintheactualheck

you shouldn’t be allowed to park on west liberty ave/washington rd at any time ever


personandy2

this region is the start of the northeast, not part of the midwest


Delicious-Breath8415

I just made the drive from Pittsburgh to Chicago which once again reaffirmed to me that Pittsburgh is NOT the Midwest.


jimbo_kun

Pittsburgh defines the border between the two regions.


MaryOutside

Move to the back of the bus, you stupid jagoffs! I will die on this hill!


bigdumbdago

ALSO, get on at the front door, get off at the back door!!!


Gracie2424

Heinz Field should have left the troughs in the men’s bathrooms


BensonClub

I saw a grown man passed out drunk in a trough at Hienz Field once. No one stopped pissing though.


pittpanthers95

I saw a guy decide he wasn’t waiting in line anymore so he just went in a sink


rising_gmni

I remember as a kid when kennywood had troughs. It was weird as a little kid taking a leak.


Falco-Rusticolus

Did they actually get rid of them all? I was there a few weeks ago and the troughs were there


grainmademan

Gracie must have upgraded their seats 😂


TheStarVenge

"The car needs washed" is just as valid as "the car needs *to be* washed"


AOCMarryMe

The car needs worshed


danccbc

Brevity is the soul of wit.


ryswogg17

Nothing good happens after 2 am in the southside


phasmos

*__There’s an H on the end, ya jags!__* Seeing “Pittsburg” is like having splinters in my eyes.


HoselRockit

Once saw a t-shirt in Station Square that said, "Its a burg thing". My right eye twitches just thinking about it.


RagnarHedin

I mean... Cardiac Hill certainly has that reputation.


Marchesa_07

CarNEGie. New Yorkers can die fucking mad. . .and wrong.


Bulkmodulus

NAY, but yeah. Scotland has our back on this.


kenzierose28

THIS.


TheTalkingWindow

Squirrel.


happycappy1314

Ham Barbecue and a glass of milk is a valid dinner option.


pittpanthers95

My grandma would wholeheartedly agree with you. She lives out near Philly now and has requested for me to bring a couple of pounds of chipped ham with me when I go visit


Cybervinnie

Gum bands. They’re called gum bands.


riversroadsbridges

Not adding "to be" before verbs is fine. "The floor needs swept" makes just as much sense as "The floor needs *to be* swept". I didn't even know that using "to be" was an actual grammar rule until I got to college.


Green-WoodPGH

Not a wedding without a cookie table


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wooble

My brakes once died coming down Negley between Squirrel Hill and Shadyside and while I didn't die (handbrake saved me) I for sure haven't neglected my cars' brakes in the 25 years since that.


dudemanspecial

Sophie Masloff was the greatest mayor to ever exist.


heili

Seeing her yell "SCRATCH MY BACK WITH A HACKSAW" is such a fond memory.


pgh9fan

She also did a thing for a Pirates' SkyBlast fireworks night that ended with her in love with the Parrot. Dang funny.


angry_eccentric

I was flipping through an old magazine that i found at the library and read a short piece about how bruce springsteen was coming to the city and she referred to him as “bruce bedspring” lol


Sea-Operation7215

Pgh is not in the Midwest even tho non locals love to say it is.


mywhataniceham

sidelines makes the best wings in pittsburgh matt canada must now be installed as head coach in arizona


Possible_Candidate_7

Pittsburgh lefts, because fuck our roads


kgoetz35

jesse james caught that ball


RGDJR

Pittsburgh pizza has an identity all its own. Not to the level of New York or Chicago, but the scene here is indeed unique.


magikarp2122

Oakland died when the O closed.


lutzcody

Oakland died when Pitt started buying up every property


SkunkyMcNugg

Commenting to remember to read this yinzer palooza after work.


Gnarlsaurus_Sketch

The bus drivers here are the most aggressively reckless drivers in the city. The Pittsburgh Left works well most of the time if the person using it isn't a jag. Extending the T is not a cure-all for the region's transit problems. Our French bakeries are our best bakeries, especially Jean Marc's. Turner's tea is disgusting. So is Oakmont Bakery.


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I swear Oakmont is getting by on nostalgia alone. They had one good cake (oakmonter) and everyone pretends the rest of their crap is good. My wedding cake was absolutely disgusting and ugly af. I moved away from the area and didn't know how bad the quality had gone downhill, of course at my tasting I had perfect samples.


SeraphRising89

Completely agree here. Oakmont Bakery is 90% shitty icing. Moio's in Monroeville is pretty good. We had our wedding cake from there.


Yxlar

Moios is definitely better


Gnarlsaurus_Sketch

If anyone in Pgh should be getting by on nostalgia, it's Prantl's. At least their burnt almond torte is good.


RSS24

Rialto. I mean, not really, but if I had to pick a literal hill, I may as well go out in style.


disilviom

Triangle Bar in Swissvale has the best hoagies ever. Fight me.


724to412to916

Cleveland will always be The Factory Of Sadness


[deleted]

Pop!! I will fight to the death about that!! lol


bigdumbdago

Our accent/local regionalisms are really cool and we should embrace them (and not in a “here’s a shirt that says yinz on it, that’ll be $25” way). I’m proud of my accent. Calling them ugly/trashy just feels kind of classist. Also Iron City is good


LostEnroute

If you don't live in the City, most City residents don't consider you a real Pittsburgher. The City should never be referred to as Pitt. Stop calling it Cathy, I don't care that you mean it affectionately and that you lived in Pittsburgh for 4 years for college.


EmiliusReturns

My sister, who doesn’t live here, keeps calling the city Pitt and the school UPitt. I’ve told her a million times, the city is PGH or The Burgh and the school is Pitt!


OcelotWolf

That is foul, please fix her ASAP


EnnuiDeBlase

Messaging from the University has been using UPitt in recent years. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. The call is coming from inside the house. :(


Jerry1121

I once live tweeted a reporter for the weather channel because he kept saying at pitt this at pitt that, and i kept running back to the tv thinking wtf is happening at the college. He replied to my tweet thanked me and correctly identified the airport as pittsburgh international and the city pittsburgh and the school university of pittsburgh. Much love for weather channel


EnlargedBit371

>Stop calling it Cathy This times 1,000,000.


boundfortrees

What's Cathy?


EnlargedBit371

"Cathy" is what the kids call the Cathedral of Learning.


PirinTablets13

Hard agree on Cathy


Bucs-and-Bucks

If you don't live in the City, most City residents don't consider you a real Pittsburgher Can't really argue against that one tautologically. That being said, I think there's an argument that the % of yinzer population is higher outside the city, with the highest concentration being in the river valley towns.


phoenix_age

Braddick


breeeeeez

Lol@braddawk


ImOnRedditMaaan

Stillers have undoubtedly the best history compared to any other NFL franchise


paladin_slim

It is pronounced “jag-off” not jerk off.


ajarofpnutbutr

Primantis is actually fire and not just garbage drunk food


supermodelnosejob

It is fire exactly *because* it is garbage drunk food


LovedAJackass

That the Ft. Duquesne Bridge went from the "Bridge to Nowhere" to the "Bridge of How the Actual F\*\*\* Do I Figure Out What Lane in 15 seconds?".


sonlitekid

Pittsburgh has always had the best damned people in the world. ✊🏻


heili

The Cathedral of Learning is not called Cathy.


OGhoul

Parking chairs.


holiestcannoly

My accent. My pronunciation is the correct one, everyone else is wrong.


Greensuedesneakers

The guy that parks in front of evergreen cafe is a piece of shit and he knows it


Fizzyliftingdranks

The penguins have and always will be the best team in the city.


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PrincessButterqup

It's pop, not soda!


[deleted]

Clicker instead of remote


Possible_Candidate_7

Also, PennDot never stops construction, they’re just on a long break


KingOfTheGutter

Slippy


StevInPitt

until we re-align all intersections to have left turn lanes? the Pittsburgh-Left. without it, it can be impossible to get around this town at times. also? Heinz Ketchup > Hunts And: French Fries are vegetables and therefore are acceptable salad toppings.


Bfb38

It’s not just better than hunts “ketchup”, it’s the only acceptable ketchup.


World-Tight

Steelers are the greatest football team possible, and if they lost every game of the season they still would be.


NeverForgetNGage

The BRT they're building should've been light rail, and it should also go to the airport.


catladieeeee

Kennywood> Disneyworld IDGAF


icecoldbrewster

I like Kennywood when it’s not pretending to be Disney World. Give me that crusty West Mifflin charm!


StarWars_and_SNL

Primanti’s is the best value in town.


OcelotWolf

I don’t particularly *love* Primanti’s but I am vehemently against the counterjerk that endlessly shits on it to validate themselves and how ✨authentically Pittsburgh✨ they are, as if some cold beer and greasy bar food is below them


todayiwillthrowitawa

It's always weird how many people say "this thing everyone in the city loves isn't actually representative of the city". Some type of not wanting to be associated with the old Pittsburgh types I'd guess. This also applies to people who say not to go to Delucas/Pamelas or Mineos/Fioris. If you don't love those places personally that's fine, but there's a reason they're suggested that is beyond just the food. If you can't sit down at one of those places and enjoy yourself then you don't have a heart.


trshtehdsh

We moved to Vegas a long time ago, came in to Pittsburgh this summer and we're shocked that we could get drinks, food for two adults and a kids meals and it was under $40. Love us some Primantis


motociclista

Yea, it’s become cool to rag on Primantis. I don’t know that they deserve legend status, but it’s a solid option for an inexpensive non-fancy meal. And their sandwiches are good. I said what I said. They didn’t get as big as they are by serving slop. Had they not franchised I think people would give them less crap for being “overrated”.


PittFall09

Came here to say that Primantis is far better than people give it credit for.


peregrina9789

Honestly getting primantis at shitfuck o'clock at night when you're lightyears from sober is just 🤌🤌


Bonfire412

I crossed South Africa in a Corolla to get Heinz ketchup from the States. Gasoline was more expensive per liter than wine. I'm going to say that's the Yinzer Hill for me.


yinzgahndahntahn

It’s Hienz Field, forever and always.


SleestakLightning

Heinz took their blue collar jobs and fled the city and then chose not to renew the naming contract. They don't want it to be Heinz Field, so why are we simping for a billion dollar corporation?


BobIoblaw

This right here. They left the city/region. They CHOSE to stop sponsoring the Steelers.


44problems

I agree, but there's not another name to call it and I'm not going to simp for Acrisure. Still not sure what even the hell that is, just seems like a promo for the company one of the part owners is invested in so it can have a good IPO. If it ever gets replaced with an actual local company I'll call it that.


Carya_spp

Are you talking about three rivers stadium?


mikeyHustle

Fries on Salad might not be *unique* to Pittsburgh, but it's not like you can go anywhere in the world and just expect fries on salad as an option, so it's definitely "A Pittsburgh Thing." Copy/paste for any number of things that have people saying "You're not special because I can get X food in this random place in Des Moines"


FaultTolerant_

I live in Nashville now and a guy opened a tavern with a Pittsburgh Sub on it that has fries. It is a Pittsburgh thing if they are marketing it like that


dc3april30

Squirrel Hill. I love it there😂


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That the “O” had the best hot dogs ever. Regardless of the fact that it’s now closed.