When you hail from the Mile High City, there are some habits you pick up that may seem strange to outsiders. While Denverites — like reptiles — try their hardest to blend into their surroundings, there are some things they just can’t change, as demonstrated by these 12 undying habits that prove you can never take the Denver out of a Denverite:
1. Denverites have no shame in ordering Rocky Mountain Oysters...
"I'm sorry... you want deep fried WHAT?"
2. ...honey with their pizza...
Here is your philosophical question of the day: If you don't dip your pizza crust in honey, did you *really* just eat pizza?
3. ...food drenched in a homemade green chile...
(This includes your deep fried WHATs and pizza!)
4. ...and/or craft beer wherever they go.
"Do you have anything on tap from Great Divide Brewing?"
"Sir... this is a Taco Bell."
5. Snow attire = flip flops.
Why spend buku bucks on expensive snow boots when you can get a perfectly good pair of flip flops for $.97?
6. We like to ride our bikes EVERYWHERE...
Yes; even in the snow whilst wearing our $0.97 flip flops...
7. ...abide by our own traffic rules...
Green means go, yellow means gun it, and red means you have about 10 seconds before you need to STOP.
8. ...and gage our directions by the location of the mountains.
West = Toward the mountains
East = Away from the mountains
9. The most important meal of the day? Brunch.
...and if you don't serve it, we don't want anything to do with your establishment.
10. When looking for out-of-town airports, we look for a giant blue horse.
Nothing says "Welcome to the airport" quite like a 32-foot tall, 9,000 pound blue bronco that crushed its sculptor to death during construction!
11. Finally, when Mike Nelson tells us to brace ourselves for severe weather, we watch from the front porch...
How are we supposed to see volleyball-sized hail and funnel clouds from the basement?
12. ...and wish it was snowing instead.
...because you can't ski, sled, and/or snowboard without snow!
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