Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
The only Mercer County glossary you’ll ever need
And now, the definitive clip ‘n’ save dictionary/glossary/handbook/whatever for friends/relatives/ coworkers/escaped convicts/whoever who are new to the often confusing landscape that is Mercer County. This is something you should keep handy as a welcome of sorts so the newcomers can hit the ground running. Somebody get some copies to the MIDJersey Chamber of Commerce, stat. Let’s begin … South: The direction you’re going when driving on I-95 South.
South: The direction you’re going when driving on I-95 North.
Quoits: What local men do when they want to drink beer but don’t feel like sitting down while they do it.
Pork roll: What you eat with egg and cheese on a roll.
Roll: Only found at Italian People’s Bakery
Champale: Not beer, not wine, not champagne, not expensive, still in production, not kidding.
Mayor: Job held by people in Mercer County before they go to jail.
Tomato Pie: Same as pizza, but different. Sauce: (see gravy) Gravy: (see sauce) Chambersburg: Where you used to be able to get sauce and gravy.
Hamilton: Where people talk about how they used to get sauce and gravy in Cham- bersburg.
Robbinsville: Where people move when they’ve had it with Hamilton people talking about how they used to get sauce and gravy in Chambersburg.
Belmar: Hamilton east.
West Windsor: Where the Princeton train station is.
East Windsor: Somewhere thatta way.
Windsor: In Robbinsville.
Bordentown: Honorary member of Mercer County.
Trenton: Not pronounced Tren-ton. Or Trent-on.
North Trenton: The north section of Trenton.
South Trenton: The south section of Trenton.
East Trenton: The east section of Trenton.
West Trenton: Ewing.
Ewing: Home of Trenton-Mercer Airport.
Princeton: The word every financial/consulting/tech business in a 30-mile radius has in their name.
Trenton Farmers Market: In Lawrence; apostrophe adverse.
Whitehorse Circle: Much like the island on “Lost,” in the sense nearly impossible to escape from.
Delaware River: Majestic body of water best enjoyed on the Pennsylvania side; we put a highway there instead.
(Got more? Send them to me at the ad-dressess listed below, and I’ll see about adding them to the online version ...)
And now, the definitive clip ‘n’ save dictionary/ glossary/ handbook/ whatever for friends/ relatives/ co-workers/ escaped convicts/ whoever who are new to the often confusing landscape that is Mercer County.