Livingston Residents Give Tips On Speaking ‘New Jersey-ese’

LIVINGSTON, 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 Livingston: “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 Livingston Facebook page.

• Down the shore
• Take the jug handle
• Disco fries
• Pork Roll Egg and Cheese on a kaiser roll
• That pie was delicious-and obviously I’m referring to pizza
• Exit #
• How you doing?
• Fill it up, regular
• I’m from Orange
• "The City" = NYC

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