Belleville-Nutley Residents: Tips On Speaking ‘New Jersey-ese’

BELLEVILLE, NJ — The Garden State can have a lingo – and a zeitgeist – all its own. And there are some things only a fellow New Jersey resident will get, it seems.

We recently asked our readers in Belleville and Nutley: “What’s something you say that only someone from New Jersey would understand?” They weren’t shy about offering their own examples. Here are some of the best.

Read more replies at the Patch Belleville-Nutley Facebook page.

• Hey, let's go get a Jimmy Buffs
• Go straight through the jughandle
• I enjoyed my Bada Bean Cawfee
• We go down the shore... not to the beach
• Let’s get a pie
• Large cawfee
• Pot cheese
• What’s your exit on the turnpike?
• dirty water dogs
• Going to diner for Taylor Ham and egg sandwich
• Disco fries
• 20 regular cash

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