"The fried baloney is just BETTER where I'm from, y'know? It's something about the water."

The replies are full of people calling out the dumb & obvious jokes people always make about where they're from. Read and learn, don't be dumb & obvious! At least be more creative with your insults!

@TheThomason Never ever would I do that, and I’m an NYC snob

@zandywithaz Oh I know you wouldn't! People from all over make those jokes, almost reflexively, including people from wealthier parts of my home state 🙃

@TheThomason Abingdon checking in. Can confirm - same jokes. Plus Deliverance references.

@mattbritz I’m from Wise, I love Abingdon

@TheThomason no one knows what or where wisconsin is

@TheThomason @wvville We must understand that numerous West Virginians have migrated away from the hollows & mountains, and live in large metropolitan cities, such as New York as well as states like Florida. Such stories do travel with many of its former citizens and spreads like wild fire.

@TheThomason Greetings from Utah! We really are super nice (mostly), 99.9% of us only have one wife (not sure those folks do it honestly... one wife is already a lot of work), and we don’t have horns. Alcohol laws used to be strange... but they’ve vastly improved from what I’ve been told.

@TheThomason @baseballcrank While I can't relate to the incest questions, I certainly can about the shoes bit. I chose to stay home when we had 4 kids and homeschooled them through HS. :-) People always assume and paint with broad brushes - usually based on a media caricature .

@TheThomason What kind of banjo do you play?

@TheThomason I was shocked to find out it was an attempt at a joke. But then I've never experienced a rude, entitled new Yorker who was convinced of their own comedy ability before

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@TheThomason @BillCorbett Being from Iowa I get asked if I live on a farm and I tell people hell yeah and I ride my pig to work everyday. I don't live on a farm and I have no pig.

@TheThomason Honestly my first thought when I hear "Appalachia" is coal mining

@TheThomason I'm a Floridian, so the idea that people are offended when people mock where they're from just baffles me. If I got mad every time someone made a Florida joke, I'd never get anything done.

@TheThomason @BillCorbett Every state has its quirks and stereotypes. But Southern California truly deserves the jokes.

@TheThomason @BillCorbett Yeah but seriously, did you get shoes yet?