You Might Be An Ohioan If...

If you’ve ever waited 35 minutes in a Swenson’s parking lot just to say “Galley Boy,”

If you’ve rolled your eyes at yet another “O-H!” chant but still shouted “I-O!” when someone actually did it…

If the phrase “midwest nice” doesn’t quite cover your passive-aggressive rage when someone says Skyline Chili is gross…

Then friend—you are one of us.

This week’s NEO Nugget is all about celebrating the gloriously weird experience of growing up in the Buckeye State.

I kept it zoomed out, so whether you’re from the cornfields of Lima or the neighborhoods of Cleveland, there’s something here that’ll hit you right in the nostalgia. 🕺

✅ You’ve unironically suggested making “funeral potatoes”

✅ You’ve defended Ohio weather while standing in a 40-degree rainstorm in June

✅ You’ve complained about Ohio weather within a week of defending it

✅ You know someone who claims they saw Bigfoot… probably in a Metropark

✅ You measure distance in minutes, not miles (’It’s like... 25 minutes from here’)

✅ You still call it “pop” and feel suspicious of anyone who says “soda”

✅ You’ve been burned by the sun and snow in the same weekend

✅ You once took a school field trip to a lump of dirt that mildly resembles a serpent

✅ You’ve heard “O-H!” yelled in an airport and immediately yelled “I-O!” back

✅ You know what an actual buckeye is, AND that it’s poisonous, yet still love eating the PB kind

✅ You’ve bragged about “how safe Ohio is from natural disasters” at least once

✅ You’ve been to a haunted house in an old school with a name like “Terror Acres”

✅ You’ve waved at strangers on country roads like it’s a legally binding agreement

✅ You’ve attended at least one corn maze and said ‘I love Ohio in the fall’ on the way in

✅ You’ve driven past a roadkill deer and said, “Oh, that’s fresh.”

✅ You’ve been personally victimized by potholes and know which ones have names

✅ You’ve gone to a county fair and seen someone you ghosted while eating a funnel cake

✅ You remember when Cedar Point had the actual tallest coaster in the world

✅ You know at least one guy named Chad who works in roofing

✅ You’ve been asked, “Oh, you’re from Ohio? Do you know Steve?” …and you did

✅ You’ve seen a tractor driving down the highway and didn’t even blink

✅ You’ve called a 3-hour drive “not that bad”

If you’re nodding along like, “Okay yeah, I’ve definitely yelled ‘I-O!’ at a stranger in Orlando,” congratulations: you’re as Ohio as a surprise March blizzard.

Also, same. 😂

But here’s the real question…What kind of Clevelander are you? Are you a brunching, rooftop-hopping Urbanite? A Metroparks-loving, kayak-owning Nature Nomad? Or do you refuse to acknowledge anything has changed since 1997?

👉 Take the Cleveland Personality Quiz to find out—and send it to the one friend who definitely still calls it pop.

The only thing more Ohio than funeral potatoes? Taking a personality quiz about it.
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P.S. Something spooky-good is coming to the Inner Circle—The Clevelandish Secret Blog launches next week. If you’re into Bigfoot, haunted mansions, and forgotten theme parks… you’re gonna love it. 👻📚