As a Tri-State liver, the “upstate debate” is real. The people from the city and LI call us upstate, we call Albany upstate, and Albany calls Canada upstate
Anything past Yankee Stadium is Canada, NY. There can be a skit all about NY...Buffalo, upstate, a city close to Canada (aside from Buffalo), Long Island (Suffolk and Nassau Counties)... include Queens and Brooklyn bc they're part of Long Island geographically...even though many don't want to admit it), the five boroughs...Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island.
Yes, the infamous “Where’s upstate” argument. “Please fuck off” phases in somewhere in the upper Catskills where it becomes too north for city people and suburbanites to go on a day trip. The Adirondacks and North Country is where the polite people actually are. It’s too bloody cold to be aggressive to each other. They let you cross the street wherever you need to and don’t beep the microsecond the light turns green. I lived up in the North Country for 6 years. Every time I went to my parents in NYC Metro, my vocabulary and driving naturally became more aggressive.
Like... Watertown north country? Or Plattsburgh, Ogdensburg, Massena, Potsdam, Tupper Lake North country? Lol although Massena and O-burg are definitely just wannabe citiots
@@ItalyHastaLaPasta Potsdam and Plattsburgh area. Spent a lot of time in Canton and Massena as well. Certainly visited most major towns. The fun part is I actually learned to drive in snow in the North Country so I got really good at it as certain back roads were never plowed completely (if at all). The surbanites and the city people I drive with now start flinching if snow starts to actually fall out of the sky. It is the most amusingly terrifying thing ever.
@@Grundini91 just start offensive driving anywhere south of Liberty, Kingston, or Poughkeepsie in their respective counties or any counties south. People beep and flip you off if you don’t turn right on red (even when it clearly tells you not to) or the microsecond the light turns green, or if you aren’t going fast enough for their standards. Granted the troopers have a +/- 15mph tolerance on speed as long as you aren’t doing anything else that’s dangerous. I will intentionally sit at red lights where there is a “do not turn on red” or “stop here at red light” sign or just ones with poor visibility because I have seen what happens when people turn when they shouldn’t and I like to live. The only way it works is mutual social agreement.
to be fair the Keys weren’t recognized as a part of America for a while (or maybe it was the Everglades, idk), which led to the creation of the Conch Republic
2:27 I heard the Corning Glass museum mentioned and legitimately cheered. That place is way more fun and interesting than most people would expect. I don’t even live in New York and I’ve been there many times.
@@c0mf0rta61ynum6 Hell Yeah! Hot take: it lives up to the hype way more than the Rock&Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio. Kinda interesting how a museum about Rock&Roll is so underwhelming and yet a museum about Glass is so freaking cool!
I agree! But I'm from Elmira and I heard it and thought, "but the glass museum has been reopened for months!" stupid TH-cam algorithm showing me videos 8 months later.
Grew up in Watertown and now live in Ra-cha-cha. This is 1000% accurate. 1) nobody agrees where upstate is 2) that bridge is a menace 3) New Yorkers are kind, but not nice. We’ll shovel you out of a snowbank while cursing you out. 4) don’t you DARE slander Wegs again 5) I am now gonna go cry because my nearest Stewart’s is in Oswego
I feel like we're plenty nice?? we just treat people pretty familiar, kinda like cousins. Like cursing someone out while digging them out of a snowbank will be like "God fucking damn it, dude, why the fuck don't you have cat litter in your car?? What kind of fucking idiot drives into a pile of snow anyway? How'd you get a fucking license, dude? Alright there ya go, nice seein' ya, have a good one, be sure to get those fuckin' tires changed, ya fuckin' asshole, they're bald as shit, you're gonna get yourself killed driving on those." Like this might be a WNY thing, but I've legit never had a stranger be rude when I tried to talk to them? At most people will brush you off and say something like "Sorry, no/I don't know/I gotta go." then walk off and go about their business.
@@superschmolz Motherfucker, how is that up?! That's middle and south a bit! That's fuckin' Pennsylvania! lmaoooo (Thank you for this comment, it's vee funny)
As someone from the Buffalo area, ty for calling us Western NY and not "Upstate." Also, you forgot one of Buffalo's food creations that's an understated, yet very important part of NY culture: Pizza Logs.
lmao we have a parkway on long island that specifically bans trucks - the clearance is as low as 7 and a half feet at some of them, and yet every month or so regardless there’s a truck wedged under one of the bridges lol
I am was here as soon as possible as soon as I saw New York. I was not disappointed 😂, lots of (speaks new York)! Funny how people cannot decide on boundaries to places. Happens in Wales, when newbies as where Splott ends and Roath begins. 😂😁
Some central and upstate NY love! People often forget we exist with how much attention the city gets. Wegmans, corning glass museum, finger lakes and what even is upstate. Music to my ears.
As a Georgia girl, I have no idea what most of those foods are… 😂 I also feel obligated to root for Florida. He’s like that neighbor you have to be nice to because you may want to use his pool…um, ocean.
In Canada: Can we come over and use your pool? There’s a moose in ours >sends picture of a bull moose happily splashing in pool< Response: Yes. You may use our pool until he leaves
It’s great that we get to see an intro from NY it’s so funny that those two were arguing that they ignore the FL jokes and maybe someday I hope you do fun names with NY 😊🥰
I'm from NYC. I feel like this is awesome. He had some big Bronx energy. I think people from buffalo and Syracuse are some of the nicest people. But if you want a character from NY. They might need to have dissociative identity disorder because every town/ neighborhood of NY is different. For example, I grew up in the hood in upper Manhattan (Harlem, Washington heights) but i would be totally different from someone who's lived in the upper west side or downtown... Oh and I'm Dominican so that's different stories
Syracuse resident. Upstate is the general area north of about I-84. But even then it's broken up into smaller regions: Western (Buffalo, Rochester), Finger Lakes (Auburn, Geneva). Southern Tier (pretty much the entire NY17/I-86 corridor), Central (Syracuse, Oswego, Cortland), Northern (Watertown, Potsdam, and anything on or near US-11 east of Watertown), Mohawk Valley (Utica, Rome east to about Fultonville/Fonda), Capital Region (Schenectady, Albany, and I-87 south to about Kingston), Catskills (I-87 from Kingston, down to I-84) Adirondacks (Lake Placid, Old Forge and north to Plattsburgh). My apologies to any subregion I left out. As for a garbage plate, it's a half-plate of fries, next to a half-plate of macaroni salad, next layer is either hamburger, cheeseburger, or hotdogs (white or red), then covered in a ladle of meat sauce, and sprinkled with chopped raw onion. That one comes from Rochester. Beef on a Weck is a roast beef sandwich on a kimmelweck roll served with horseradish sauce, instead of mayo, and sliced raw onion. This is also a Western NY thing.
I love this video! As someone from Upstate (Utica), there are only two things that kept this video from being perfect. 1. A failure to mention that downstate New Yorkers don’t believe that Upstate New Yorkers actually exist. (They think we’re all just Canada even though much of Upstate has very little Canadians living there.) However, I do love that you try to represent the State as a whole. 2. A failure to mention at least one of the following Utica dishes: Chicken Riggies, Tomato Pie, Half-Moons, or Pusties. Otherwise, this video hit the nail on the head. Love it.
I grew up an hour from Utica also. I was an hour from Utica and an hour from Albany. Half moons are fantastic! I had black and white cookies once... I'll never make that mistake again! Half moons for the win! I am curious about a tomato pie though. I'll have to check that out someday.
I live in the North Country and every one I know has either been to Canada, from Canada, or have family that’s from Canada. I am actually looking at Canada and the river from my bedroom window
I’m from MA, so I can say us & NY only hate each other when it comes to sports. Everything else we’re friends on, and we both treat our mutual neighbors VT and CT with respect as well.
just had my buddy from florida up here last july, he did find out what real bridges look like, what real trees look like, and what a basement looks like.
I’m so very glad the oh so infamous bridge was mentioned, makes a good betting game as well, at the beginning of the year bet how many trucks and other vehicles will hit that bridge throughout the year the loser pays up on New Years eve
@@samanthapurucker5341 Absolutely wrong. I live on the 45th parallel in northeastern NY. That's as upstate as it legally gets. If you're far enough south that you don't naturally know what and where Plattsburgh is, you're officially outside of "upstate" NY. You're either in mid-state or the capitol region (take your pick).
Can confirm. I grew up in Putnam county and moved to Westchester county to be closer to my job. Putnam is gorgeous though. But every time the wind blows, there goes the electricity.
I love the fact that Florida keeps saying he's New York's retirement plan. because everybody were I live says that (I'm a New Yorker) My dad says it, even some kids in school say it. its always 'go down to Florida' It would be hilarious if at one point New York just called Florida 'dad' or something (I just watched the video were Florida says "mom and dad are talking")
I grew up in Plattsburgh and moved to western NY and I now work at a wegmans. This was all very accurate! Also, I got to see Ben perform at Caroline’s in NYC, he was awesome!
There's more than just the corning museum of glass too. There's plenty of hicks and beautiful countryside to see and don't forget about the multiple water falls besides Niagra to visit too down in the southern tier
When I went to school in GA, I met up with an old couple and when I said where I'm from, they had their thoughts about it and would never visit, I believed they were talking about NYC but I explained that NYS is similar to the south in some ways (I'm from LI so anything past the city is upstate to me).
Finally came across the New york join episode. Love you all of your work is great. You nailed New york. Especially upstate. Live in binghamton. Love that you got the spiedies in there, and every elementary within 100 miles goes to corning at some point. Great job.
As someone who lives in northeast pa only about 40 minutes from ny, I understood a lot of this. Speedies are amazing, glass museum is great finger lakes are beautiful and the bridge is nuts
Spiedies are marinated chicken or pork but you could also make lamb or Venison and you cook them on a grill then put them on a roll they are really good if you try them
As a NY downstater, this is mainly only upstate stuff. That is correct though. We cannot really decide what marks an upstate thing clearly. The boarder blurs depending from where you live. What happened to NYC Pizza and bagels, or the best egg sandwich in the boroughs? Wegmans is only an upstate thing. I'm from LINY, as the crow flies, about twenty minutes from the city. You should look up some Long Island things. And not all of us sound like Valley girls lol
I’m not mean, I’m cold. So true, one time it was snowing here in the middle of April. There is also a Jello Museum in WNY. We also got Josh Allen on the Bills.
Native of the Southern Tier. In the area I live in you can go to a genuine Thai restaurant, walk 5 minutes, and you're in a corn field. Also, most people who live in NY outside of NYC have probably never even been to NYC.
The driving part can be summed up by “if you’ve got a New Jersey plate, then we aren’t driving close to you” Also, if y’all haven’t had spiedies or a garbage plate, I’d highly recommend it.
I live legitimately 2 minutes from the Corning glass museum. If I stand in the right spot I can see it from my house. It's crazy that you mentioned it in this video.
NY food description Salt potatoes, small thin skin potatoes boiled in salted water, served in melted butter Beef on Weck, roast beef sandwich with horseradish on a Kaiser roll with pretzel salt and caraway seeds Speedies, marinated meat chunks grilled, skewer optional, roll optional Garbage Plate, macaroni salad, tater tots, hot dogs, hamburger patties topped with meat sauce/ bean less chili
I lived 60 miles north of the Bronx in Orange County. We called everything north of Rockland County "upstate" unless you went Western or the North End, I know this isn't right, but its been ingrained into the fiber of mine and everybody elses being there.
There's a similar bridge I used to live right by that kept taking out Semi's on the highway cause it was like 2 inches too short for them to cross by. I remember that bridge getting raised every time it took out a truck, and it was beautiful. It was on a highway in the Bronx.
Natives of New York, how accurate is this? Also I feel like we should have Louisiana join the table again because a lot has happened there and I feel like we didn't get much the last time, it was really accurate, but I think we should really get to know the place.
Yeah. New York is the only place I’ve been where someone will help you shovel out your car and then in the same breath tell you how you’re an idiot and you’re doing it wrong
I've lived near Albany NY for my entire life. This is a fairly accurate portrayal. We can handle the cold and snow without batting an eye. There was only one food dish mentioned I haven't heard of. NYC and Long Island are a different universe from the rest of NY state. I am proud that his portrayal was of more than just NYC/Long Island. THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING ALL OF US!
As a Tri-State liver, the “upstate debate” is real. The people from the city and LI call us upstate, we call Albany upstate, and Albany calls Canada upstate
Lol I’m also tri state, I was in Albany a couple days ago and was like, wow “upstate” is nice.
Anything past Yankee Stadium is Canada, NY.
There can be a skit all about NY...Buffalo, upstate, a city close to Canada (aside from Buffalo), Long Island (Suffolk and Nassau Counties)... include Queens and Brooklyn bc they're part of Long Island geographically...even though many don't want to admit it), the five boroughs...Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island.
Seems legit.
Anything north of thr Bronx is upstate
New Yorkers are gonna freak out when they realize that Albany and Buffalo are just as far north as each other
As a New Yorker, I can confirm this is our ideas on our stately neighbor:
“You can’t be threatened by New Jersey if it isn’t real!”
Jersey is real, it's just a terrible place
Why does new York hate jersey
@@Enbi_bitch2 As a New Yorker, I personally don't; and honestly at this point, I'm too scared to ask why this is true.
You from Jersey?
@@stevemc01 nope I'm from Indiana
@@Enbi_bitch2 Cheers; I heard it's a fairly ok place.
Yes, the infamous “Where’s upstate” argument.
“Please fuck off” phases in somewhere in the upper Catskills where it becomes too north for city people and suburbanites to go on a day trip. The Adirondacks and North Country is where the polite people actually are. It’s too bloody cold to be aggressive to each other. They let you cross the street wherever you need to and don’t beep the microsecond the light turns green.
I lived up in the North Country for 6 years. Every time I went to my parents in NYC Metro, my vocabulary and driving naturally became more aggressive.
Like... Watertown north country? Or Plattsburgh, Ogdensburg, Massena, Potsdam, Tupper Lake North country? Lol although Massena and O-burg are definitely just wannabe citiots
Also the fact that Buffalo is nice is hysterical cause a majority of us is still just f**koff, not as much “please f**k off”
When I have to go into NYC I throw defensive driving out the window and start practicing offensive driving.
@@ItalyHastaLaPasta Potsdam and Plattsburgh area. Spent a lot of time in Canton and Massena as well. Certainly visited most major towns.
The fun part is I actually learned to drive in snow in the North Country so I got really good at it as certain back roads were never plowed completely (if at all). The surbanites and the city people I drive with now start flinching if snow starts to actually fall out of the sky. It is the most amusingly terrifying thing ever.
@@Grundini91 just start offensive driving anywhere south of Liberty, Kingston, or Poughkeepsie in their respective counties or any counties south.
People beep and flip you off if you don’t turn right on red (even when it clearly tells you not to) or the microsecond the light turns green, or if you aren’t going fast enough for their standards. Granted the troopers have a +/- 15mph tolerance on speed as long as you aren’t doing anything else that’s dangerous.
I will intentionally sit at red lights where there is a “do not turn on red” or “stop here at red light” sign or just ones with poor visibility because I have seen what happens when people turn when they shouldn’t and I like to live.
The only way it works is mutual social agreement.
“Are we just gonna ignore my up joke?” Apparently they are🤣😂 The bloopers are always good😂
Florida: Bridges aren't real!
Also Florida: _has a 7 mile bridge to get down in the Keys_
In our defense the Keys are the Conch Republic.
to be fair the Keys weren’t recognized as a part of America for a while (or maybe it was the Everglades, idk), which led to the creation of the Conch Republic
The Keys aren’t real! Neither is…
The joke was that FL was playing off his line earlier: If you pretend it’s not real, it can’t hurt you.
As someone who lived in both places and just recently moved to FL, I much rather drive in New York than Florida. Everyone's crazy here!
That's because it's full of people from.other states who all drive different ways.
most of the crazy drivers in Florida are from New York...
It's the speed
From someone who is born and raised in Florida it's not us that can't drive it's all the damn snowbirds and retirees
You should try it when we don't have visitors. It's pretty chill. It's when people visit that it becomes a shit show.
"You must not like having two working kneecaps" > me when I clock in Monday.
2:27 I heard the Corning Glass museum mentioned and legitimately cheered. That place is way more fun and interesting than most people would expect. I don’t even live in New York and I’ve been there many times.
I lived in Buffalo for most of my life, and we did make a trip up to the Corning Museum of Glass once. Worth every bit of the hype and then some.
@@c0mf0rta61ynum6 Hell Yeah! Hot take: it lives up to the hype way more than the Rock&Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio. Kinda interesting how a museum about Rock&Roll is so underwhelming and yet a museum about Glass is so freaking cool!
I agree! But I'm from Elmira and I heard it and thought, "but the glass museum has been reopened for months!" stupid TH-cam algorithm showing me videos 8 months later.
One of these days I will get there. I also want to see the kaleidoscope...the one they made out of a silo.
Question: is it _glass_ glass or sea glass?
Grew up in Watertown and now live in Ra-cha-cha. This is 1000% accurate.
1) nobody agrees where upstate is
2) that bridge is a menace
3) New Yorkers are kind, but not nice. We’ll shovel you out of a snowbank while cursing you out.
4) don’t you DARE slander Wegs again
5) I am now gonna go cry because my nearest Stewart’s is in Oswego
I feel like we're plenty nice?? we just treat people pretty familiar, kinda like cousins. Like cursing someone out while digging them out of a snowbank will be like "God fucking damn it, dude, why the fuck don't you have cat litter in your car?? What kind of fucking idiot drives into a pile of snow anyway? How'd you get a fucking license, dude? Alright there ya go, nice seein' ya, have a good one, be sure to get those fuckin' tires changed, ya fuckin' asshole, they're bald as shit, you're gonna get yourself killed driving on those."
Like this might be a WNY thing, but I've legit never had a stranger be rude when I tried to talk to them? At most people will brush you off and say something like "Sorry, no/I don't know/I gotta go." then walk off and go about their business.
needs more cowbell
So when I tell people that I got family in upstate New York and they live in Binghamton, how far off am I?
@@superschmolz Motherfucker, how is that up?! That's middle and south a bit! That's fuckin' Pennsylvania! lmaoooo (Thank you for this comment, it's vee funny)
@@superschmolz Bing's not far up or east enough to be upstate. Go with central NY.
Absolutely nailed it! When the "F off's turn to Please F off's!" Perfection!! Lol
As someone from the Buffalo area, ty for calling us Western NY and not "Upstate." Also, you forgot one of Buffalo's food creations that's an understated, yet very important part of NY culture: Pizza Logs.
And sponge candy.
And Sahlen's. I can't forget that.
And one of the best fast food places in all of the 50 states, Mighty Taco
I fucking LOVE Pizza logs. that shit came from buffalo? makes me proud to be a western NYer
Technically he called you both
I live 30 minutes from that bridge it's true somebody hits it everyday. ALSO NEVER DISRESPECT WEGMANS EVER AGAIN
What’s the issue with the bridge? Low clearance or something?
@@scottk1938 it's 10 feet 9 inches and it's right above a highway so it's impossible to remove without severe traffic problems
lmao we have a parkway on long island that specifically bans trucks - the clearance is as low as 7 and a half feet at some of them, and yet every month or so regardless there’s a truck wedged under one of the bridges lol
@@abomination6393 oh yes the lovely southern state.
Stop and shop, price chopper, shop rite, Hannaford and Aldi's would like a word
This was perfection. Love the Stewart's ice cream shout out. I recommend Crumbs Along the Mohawk.
Peanut Butter Pandemonium!!!
I love chocolate peanut butter cup from Stewarts!!
Just missing out on Kinneys and Jrecks shoutouts
Death by chocolate and mint cookie crumble are my favorites
too bad they got rid of sweet return to normal 😪
The moment he mentioned the bridge I almost yelled in joy. That bridge is STILL -newyork-ing up trucks. Got an amazon one recently.
For anyone asking as a native Speedy’s are a sandwich with either beef or chicken and they are delicious they city of origin is Binghamton
They can also be lamb and you should always get the lamb ones.
Spiedie*. Binghamton native here.
Man, I really should have brought a few bottles of spiedie sauce with me when I moved...
@@FireheartIndustries it's available online now
Ive had them with Pork once or twice when visiting Binghamton. Don't get over that way very often though...
From Cuse, it's always fun hearing about trucks hitting the bridge, and usually we go by central North of us is upstate
Also from Cuse. That bridge is a menace to society
I am was here as soon as possible as soon as I saw New York.
I was not disappointed 😂, lots of (speaks new York)! Funny how people cannot decide on boundaries to places. Happens in Wales, when newbies as where Splott ends and Roath begins. 😂😁
Some central and upstate NY love! People often forget we exist with how much attention the city gets. Wegmans, corning glass museum, finger lakes and what even is upstate. Music to my ears.
As someone from Central NY i appreciate this.
I didn't realize what a stereotypical New Yorker I was until this, wow
There is no such thing as a non-stereotypical New Yorker.
Except the accent. The accent is more rare.
@@starinq i heard the accent is disintegrating
As a Georgia girl, I have no idea what most of those foods are… 😂
I also feel obligated to root for Florida. He’s like that neighbor you have to be nice to because you may want to use his pool…um, ocean.
Trust me. As a New York girl. We don't either.... but then again I'm still mad they didn't mention Disco Fries
In Canada: Can we come over and use your pool? There’s a moose in ours >sends picture of a bull moose happily splashing in pool<
Response: Yes. You may use our pool until he leaves
It’s great that we get to see an intro from NY it’s so funny that those two were arguing that they ignore the FL jokes and maybe someday I hope you do fun names with NY 😊🥰
YES! Considering there's Mexico, NY and Florida,NY and a bunch more that I don't remember.
As someone who lives near corning, I love the call out about the museum
"I said that out of order" ben, You're Out OF ORDER, THIS WHOLE COURT ROOM IS OUT OF ORDER ( greetings from Portugal)
And yet, you have the most NY response in this whole comment section
I'm from NYC. I feel like this is awesome. He had some big Bronx energy. I think people from buffalo and Syracuse are some of the nicest people. But if you want a character from NY. They might need to have dissociative identity disorder because every town/ neighborhood of NY is different. For example, I grew up in the hood in upper Manhattan (Harlem, Washington heights) but i would be totally different from someone who's lived in the upper west side or downtown... Oh and I'm Dominican so that's different stories
So basically North and South Jersey lol. Long Island needs its own character, as does each borough.
@@rooster5man i agree lol imagine the personality of someone representing Queens? Brooklyn? Manhattan? Yonkers? Mount Vernon? Poughkeepsie?
100
that's kinda like Texas and Austin lol
@@redstarnikki basically all of westchester too
Syracuse resident. Upstate is the general area north of about I-84. But even then it's broken up into smaller regions: Western (Buffalo, Rochester), Finger Lakes (Auburn, Geneva). Southern Tier (pretty much the entire NY17/I-86 corridor), Central (Syracuse, Oswego, Cortland), Northern (Watertown, Potsdam, and anything on or near US-11 east of Watertown), Mohawk Valley (Utica, Rome east to about Fultonville/Fonda), Capital Region (Schenectady, Albany, and I-87 south to about Kingston), Catskills (I-87 from Kingston, down to I-84) Adirondacks (Lake Placid, Old Forge and north to Plattsburgh). My apologies to any subregion I left out.
As for a garbage plate, it's a half-plate of fries, next to a half-plate of macaroni salad, next layer is either hamburger, cheeseburger, or hotdogs (white or red), then covered in a ladle of meat sauce, and sprinkled with chopped raw onion. That one comes from Rochester. Beef on a Weck is a roast beef sandwich on a kimmelweck roll served with horseradish sauce, instead of mayo, and sliced raw onion. This is also a Western NY thing.
"You'll know when the 'F*** offs', turn to "Please, F***off." 🤣😂🤣😂
i love this. it's like florida ended up having his own table convo lol
As a western New Yorker (buffalo area)I feel very well represented.
My heart when you named all our amazing foods, even garbage plates!
Do I want to know what a garbage plate is?
@@elisabetrouge it’s a delicious monstrosity that’s all you need to know
@@Panickeddays Fair enough. I'll stay in my lane in GA. Enjoy NY.
Garbage plates 😍
Idk why but it makes me so happy for him to mention Stewart’s
I've been waiting for this one for a while. Great job Ben, like always.
I love this video! As someone from Upstate (Utica), there are only two things that kept this video from being perfect.
1. A failure to mention that downstate New Yorkers don’t believe that Upstate New Yorkers actually exist. (They think we’re all just Canada even though much of Upstate has very little Canadians living there.) However, I do love that you try to represent the State as a whole.
2. A failure to mention at least one of the following Utica dishes: Chicken Riggies, Tomato Pie, Half-Moons, or Pusties.
Otherwise, this video hit the nail on the head. Love it.
I grew up an hour from Utica also. I was an hour from Utica and an hour from Albany. Half moons are fantastic! I had black and white cookies once... I'll never make that mistake again! Half moons for the win! I am curious about a tomato pie though. I'll have to check that out someday.
Ah love a good half moon cookie from Cameron's in Auburn. ❤
I'm early for once, can't wait to see what New York has to offer.
Trivia: going north to find polite people means you end up in Canada.
I live in the North Country and every one I know has either been to Canada, from Canada, or have family that’s from Canada. I am actually looking at Canada and the river from my bedroom window
"You were just in the way"
Freakin' leaf peepers
I love the MA and NY characters, and Florida makes this series. Great video
I’m from MA, so I can say us & NY only hate each other when it comes to sports. Everything else we’re friends on, and we both treat our mutual neighbors VT and CT with respect as well.
As a New Yorker, You left out the part about our amazing New York/Long Island bagels.
just had my buddy from florida up here last july, he did find out what real bridges look like, what real trees look like, and what a basement looks like.
Finally, a New York based episode!
I’m so very glad the oh so infamous bridge was mentioned, makes a good betting game as well, at the beginning of the year bet how many trucks and other vehicles will hit that bridge throughout the year the loser pays up on New Years eve
Kansas City has a bridge like this. 12' clearance yet Google still keeps routing trucks under.
it's taken 13 trucks this year
Love the merge between Upstate NY (North of Westchester. I will die on this hill) and us in the NYC Metro. Somehow makes this even better.
It can’t be upstate NY if there are points of PA more north than you....Upstate is anything north of the Thruway on the I-90 section
@@samanthapurucker5341 Yeah no... That would make the catskills, columbia county and dutchess downstate. They want nothing to do with the city.
@@samanthapurucker5341 Absolutely wrong. I live on the 45th parallel in northeastern NY. That's as upstate as it legally gets. If you're far enough south that you don't naturally know what and where Plattsburgh is, you're officially outside of "upstate" NY. You're either in mid-state or the capitol region (take your pick).
Can confirm. I grew up in Putnam county and moved to Westchester county to be closer to my job. Putnam is gorgeous though. But every time the wind blows, there goes the electricity.
As someone from Syracuse, the bridge one is so true it’s only like 10 feet tall and semis get stuck all the time.
Hello fellow Syracuse person!
I love the fact that Florida keeps saying he's New York's retirement plan. because everybody were I live says that (I'm a New Yorker) My dad says it, even some kids in school say it. its always 'go down to Florida'
It would be hilarious if at one point New York just called Florida 'dad' or something (I just watched the video were Florida says "mom and dad are talking")
Or go to Florida, NY
I grew up in New York and love salt potatoes and beef on weck sandwiches! Don't forget the white hotdogs , so yummy!
The white hot dogs are called Coneys, and Illinois (Chicago in particular) can [Speaks New York]off, what they have are not Coneys.
As a local too Syracuse Onondoga lake Parkway joke made me soo happy
The [speaks New York] gets me every time
The apple picking, finger lake trips, and Corning glass meusam is completely accurate to New York
I grew up in Plattsburgh and moved to western NY and I now work at a wegmans. This was all very accurate! Also, I got to see Ben perform at Caroline’s in NYC, he was awesome!
"You'll know when the fuck offs turn into please fuck offs!" LOL XD
Always great to get a new video from you, the Joins the Table are the best!
OMG SOMEONE NOT FROM BINGHAMTON THAT KNOWS WHAT A SPIEDIE IS I FEEL SO RECOGNIZED
Best video yet, and so true about the parkway bridge, at least once a year gets hit, and still the undefeated champ…..lol
Once a year? Think once every two months
You forgot half-moon cookies, Pusties, and chicken riggies. (I'm from the Mohawk Valley, NY)
Don't forget the tomato pie!
There's more than just the corning museum of glass too. There's plenty of hicks and beautiful countryside to see and don't forget about the multiple water falls besides Niagra to visit too down in the southern tier
When I went to school in GA, I met up with an old couple and when I said where I'm from, they had their thoughts about it and would never visit, I believed they were talking about NYC but I explained that NYS is similar to the south in some ways (I'm from LI so anything past the city is upstate to me).
I am not even American and I still enjoy these videos a lot.
I live in the Onandoga area. Trucks keep getting stuck no matter what we do. It's actually pretty funny.
Finally came across the New york join episode. Love you all of your work is great. You nailed New york. Especially upstate. Live in binghamton. Love that you got the spiedies in there, and every elementary within 100 miles goes to corning at some point. Great job.
As someone who lives in northeast pa only about 40 minutes from ny, I understood a lot of this. Speedies are amazing, glass museum is great finger lakes are beautiful and the bridge is nuts
“Nah. But we do got…the rest of the sentence.” 😂😂
You mentioning garbage plates made my day.
I genuinely love your accents; many of them are subtle, but they should be, so it works!
Meanwhile, Saratoga's the birthplace of potato chips. Ya welcome.
Spiedies are marinated chicken or pork but you could also make lamb or Venison and you cook them on a grill then put them on a roll they are really good if you try them
Hope you're having a good day :] love your stuff helps me smile when dealing with bad over stimulation from loud noises or during a ticcing attack :D
my husband is from.FL im from upstate NY, i dragged his ass up here. But first time i made him salt taters and poutine he was hooked.
As a NY downstater, this is mainly only upstate stuff. That is correct though. We cannot really decide what marks an upstate thing clearly. The boarder blurs depending from where you live. What happened to NYC Pizza and bagels, or the best egg sandwich in the boroughs? Wegmans is only an upstate thing. I'm from LINY, as the crow flies, about twenty minutes from the city. You should look up some Long Island things. And not all of us sound like Valley girls lol
wegmans is now in Harrison so it's heading south. In my opinion, Upstate starts where you start seeing stewarts....
He did mention the pizza which is clearly a thing NYC started. We love NYC's pizza upstate too but downstate gets the credit for creating it.
I have been waiting for this
I lived two miles from “the bridge “. It’s so true heavyweight champion of the world.
"I've eaten a face. I'll eat your hand."
Excuse me...
WHAT
I mean, it’s true.
I’m not mean, I’m cold. So true, one time it was snowing here in the middle of April. There is also a Jello Museum in WNY. We also got Josh Allen on the Bills.
As someone from buffalo,NY, I feel honored our reputation holds up
Same! So many Buffo references he must know someone from here 😆
Whatever the spec is got me.... tried to clean it off my screen like a half dozen times before I realized it wasn't on my screen
"I just have regular speed", lmao
Lake Parkway Bridge sounds like the Olive Rd Bridge here in Augusta, GA
This was so good! But you forgot the delis!
I liked the “you were just in the way”. Speed limits are suggestions and if you’re not going at least 5 mph over you’re going too slow
Yep
If you want good upstate food, we've got Utica greens, half moons and chicken Riggies
I am a Manhattan resident, and I STILL get 90% of the video
Here is the Netherlands speaking, how is our favorite lost son doing?
Still putting the damn! in New Amsterdam.
Native of the Southern Tier. In the area I live in you can go to a genuine Thai restaurant, walk 5 minutes, and you're in a corn field. Also, most people who live in NY outside of NYC have probably never even been to NYC.
Wait, are you talking about Thai Time?! I love that place!
@@Wolfman92986 that's in Binghamton, I'm taking about Horseheads
The driving part can be summed up by “if you’ve got a New Jersey plate, then we aren’t driving close to you”
Also, if y’all haven’t had spiedies or a garbage plate, I’d highly recommend it.
i havent had either but i live in rochester, truly a trajedy
Love the part about our bridge. It got hit a lot this year. You would think all the warning signs and lights would help. Nope
Stewart's Ice cream is where it's at
I live legitimately 2 minutes from the Corning glass museum. If I stand in the right spot I can see it from my house. It's crazy that you mentioned it in this video.
As a New Yorker, I can confirm this is 100% true.
NY food description
Salt potatoes, small thin skin potatoes boiled in salted water, served in melted butter
Beef on Weck, roast beef sandwich with horseradish on a Kaiser roll with pretzel salt and caraway seeds
Speedies, marinated meat chunks grilled, skewer optional, roll optional
Garbage Plate, macaroni salad, tater tots, hot dogs, hamburger patties topped with meat sauce/ bean less chili
Been out of state since August, and I already miss Stewart's ice cream
As a guy from Corning I appreciate the CMOG shout out.
This made my day
I lived 60 miles north of the Bronx in Orange County. We called everything north of Rockland County "upstate" unless you went Western or the North End, I know this isn't right, but its been ingrained into the fiber of mine and everybody elses being there.
TIL New York has a "where does Upstate start" debate similar to Michigan's "where does Up North start" debate (it's the rifle line).
Stewart’s ice cream is the best.
Carvel
Stewart's rocks
2:35 Oh dear god, my city got called out...I mean, at least it's not wrong, that bridge is the undisputed heavyweight...
There's a similar bridge I used to live right by that kept taking out Semi's on the highway cause it was like 2 inches too short for them to cross by. I remember that bridge getting raised every time it took out a truck, and it was beautiful. It was on a highway in the Bronx.
Im from Rochester but live in Texas now. I tell friends about garbage plates and get the weirdest stares XD
Natives of New York, how accurate is this?
Also I feel like we should have Louisiana join the table again because a lot has happened there and I feel like we didn't get much the last time, it was really accurate, but I think we should really get to know the place.
Yeah. New York is the only place I’ve been where someone will help you shovel out your car and then in the same breath tell you how you’re an idiot and you’re doing it wrong
@@annatzipora6857 THis is the underlying difference between New York and California
Cali is Nice, but not Kind. NY is Kind, but not Nice.
@@StumpyDaPaladin Well put!
He had a bronx like energy, but everything else is good , NYC and ny state very different in ways of people
I've lived near Albany NY for my entire life. This is a fairly accurate portrayal. We can handle the cold and snow without batting an eye. There was only one food dish mentioned I haven't heard of.
NYC and Long Island are a different universe from the rest of NY state. I am proud that his portrayal was of more than just NYC/Long Island. THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING ALL OF US!
There're less beep, that I was expecting.
The I-4 eyesore reference makes me happy!
Never before I have I been so offended with something I 100% agree with (by the way you have not lived untill you tried spiedies from lupos.)
im from long island, i think everywhere thats not the island or the city is upstate
Same here, which county?