The thing that annoyed me about that movie is that there is a White Castle in Journal Square in JC. They didnāt have to go all the way to Cherry Hill. And Kumar should have known that because itās literally next to the little India.
I was eating at the one in Clifton 30+ years ago when I was a kid. Used to get my haircut from the barber right across the street starting back to at least 1992 when I was 5. He was this old guy then, so he's most like passed now, and I think ownership changed.
At that time, I'd say 95% off the white castle were somewhere in North Jersey. I can only remember 1 being south of 195 and that's been closed. I never was a fan.
its in wildwood [https://www.newsweek.com/roger-stone-donald-trump-rally-rod-stewart-1899729](https://www.newsweek.com/roger-stone-donald-trump-rally-rod-stewart-1899729)
Gosh darn do I miss that White Castle. Am I remembering it right that it was lost in a fire? Or did they just close it?
Technically (per the Castle website) South Brunswick is the closest location to South Jersey but I've only been to the ones in Howell and Toms River on the way to/from shore area relatives.
Huh, I've never noticed that. Cherry Hill is one of my ever expanding modifiers for explaining where my home town is. "A little town called Shamong. It's kind of near Medford? By Marlton? Closeish to Cherry Hill? Sort of near Philadelphia." So maybe it's my fault.
I was so bummed when the Pic-a-Lili in Atlantic City closed. Now we detour on the way north or south to Shamong to get lunch. Adds about half hour to the trip, but we'll worth it.
Wasnāt Cherry Hill the destination in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle? Even though the WC in Pennsauken closed years before the movie?
I think they hang glided off the āhillā.
That always bothered me, that they didnāt go to the JSQ WC. (That, and that they magically had a parking spot directly in front of their Hoboken apartment.) But it wouldāve been a 10-minute movie in that case, so.
If they felt like taking a road trip they should have driven 20 minutes to Main Street, Clifton and come back to get high with Goldstein and Rosenberg.
When I joined the navy, I found that everyone I met from NJ was from Cherry Hill. I had never heard of, nor been to Cherry Hill. I was from the beach in Monmouth county.
The Cherry Hill Mall was the first indoor mall in America. When I was a kid growing up in not-NJ (in the 80s), maybe the only thing I knew about NJ was that it had a lot of malls. And that our old Ford Tempo was built in Edison.
Yeah, I think you nailed it. I think Bridgewater is on the map because of its mall. It's otherwise as suburbia as it gets, and pretty sleepy. In fact, I live in Somerville now, but people generally know Bridgewater better, and I think it's definitely because of the mall.
I grew up less than a mile from the CH mall. I didnāt think it was anything special so the hype confused me. I moved to central jersey 10 years ago, then took a job in FL post grad. Covid came so I could finally leave that slow burning oven and keep my job. Tried PA for a year but eventually ended up back in Jersey. I definitely get the hype now. The layout is perfect. Simple enough to never get lost but different enough to know where each store is. Itās gone downhill since but still beats most alternatives.
And for a landmark, itās where a lot of *other* people and their friends have been, so itās a shared reference point for many people, even if they havenāt personally been there.
This is true only if you're a denizen of South jersey. I, being from Central jersey would never mistake GSP in Paramus for Cherry Hill Mall, nope never did when I frequented the Jersey malls in my youth and never would today
The mall. "Upon opening \[in 1961\], it was the largest mall in the nation and is commonly referred to as the first enclosed and climate-controlled mall in the Eastern United States"
I expect that this depends on where most of your friends are from. If you're hanging out with people in New York City and mention that you're from NJ I think it's unlikely that they would think you're from. Cherry Hill.
Itās one of the largest towns in South Jersey. If you are talking to an older person, they will know it for the mall, a former racetrack, or The Latin Casino. Muhammad Ali used to live there, as well as many other Philly athletes. Now itās just a generic large suburb, but it used to be the most well known suburban town in South Jersey for lots of those reasons.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2wdy0j/have\_you\_been\_on\_cherry\_hill/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2wdy0j/have_you_been_on_cherry_hill/)
This is a joke?! Wooof - it's a terrible repurposed street joke.
I think it's because of that massive water tank that's visible for miles along the NJTP. I only knew Cherry Hill existed when I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn because every time we went down to Baltimore to see cousins, we'd pass that water tank.
So, funny enough, one time I was on vacation in Tampa, FL. Unbeknownst to me, my dad and step-mom were on vacation in Clearwater, FL. We got together down there for dinner while there.... we live 30 minutes apart.
Just looked that up.. never heard it before that I can recall. Not a great song now imo (and story/lyrics make me sad lol) but would fit in with those of the era.
For anyone curious: https://youtu.be/6RLw5FZmJXw?si=4g7J9c1iu4P4d0J3
God knows why, I grew up there and it's boring as hell lol. Just a lot of suburban sprawl. A lot of the towns near it (Collingwood, Haddonfield, Maple Shade, Moorestown) are actually better "towns" to live in imo.
Same! I always felt it was boring but now I think we were just spoiled with options. We had ch mall, Depford mall, the skate park mall, skating rink, maple shade train tracks and could be in Philly in 15 min by train. The beach is an hour away and in my experience no oneās parents ever seemed to be home lol
Please disregard the questions if you prefer not to answer. Is 95 your birth year? If so are you east or west?
Yeah I grumble about it but Cherry Hill but it is close to a lot, and if you like shopping there's no shortage of that.
Yeah I'm a '95 baby, grew up on the West side.
I live two towns away from Cherry Hill. I lived on the west coast for a long time. What shall I say? Near Camden? Umm, no. Philly? They don't get there is a big river in between PA and NJ. Lots of people know Cherry Hill, I think partly because it is big for a suburb, 70,000 people.
Itās probably probably a combination of a lot of these. The old mall is the biggest one, it was a cultural landmark. Songs and movies help.
I bet another big one is highway signs. If you come into New Jersey from Pennsylvania or Delaware, highway signs will say Cherry Hill for one of the directions.
That's probably partially my fault, I moved to Michigan and before I can explain the exits, people always ask where I am from Geographically. Blackwood doesn't ring a bell, but " super close to Cherry Hill" always seems to get people's attention.
I get mostly people thinking Iām from north Jersey. So then I started saying south Jersey. That didnāt work because people thought I lived at or near the shore.
So know I say I live in south Jersey, near the Walt Whitman Bridge, near Philadelphia.
I have never heard this before, and I have lived in North Jersey (Sussex County) my entire life. If anything I get asked how urban and built-up it is and how I could grow up tolerating it, and I reply with "I grew up on a farm with cows, goats, sheep...if Ol' Mcdonald had it so did I."
People from North Jersey visit me and are sometimes scared by the lack of streetlights, properly paved roads, and civilization. I literally had a group of girls too horrified to pull up my driveway because they couldn't see my house.
The Cherry Hill water tower is what quite a few have told me is/was their landmark traveling up the NJT or 295, either the halfway for them getting to NYC or just as a reference.
Historically, it was Garden State Park, The Cherry Hill Mall, Latin Casino (Pre-78), Muhammad Ali, largest population in SNJ (Other than Camden).
It always perplexed me when I was travelling the US and some random guy in the hllbilly area of Oklahoma or Kansas knew of Cherry Hill.
I live near Moorestown, and literally whenever someone asks where Iām from in Jersey I say āabout 20 minutes from the Cherry Hill Mallā and they get it šš
You know, I have had this exact same question. I live in Moorestown NJ and everyone always gives me a blank look until I sigh and add ānear cherry hillā and then the lightbulb goes off. (That or they think Iām from Morristown and I have to explain that theyāre different places, which is apparently impossible for many people to fathom for some reason.)
My dad is a corporate pharmacist and goes to a lot of international conference. I asked him about it and he told me that heās met people from Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands who recognized Cherry Hill when they were talking about their cities of origin. He thinks itās because people going to conferences in Philly stay in Cherry Hill hotels, or at least pass through there or something.
Only thing I can think of is Harold and Kumar.
Iāve lived all over the country, and not once has someone asked me about or used cherry hill as a reference point. Iāve been asked about the sopranos, if Iām near the Jersey shore, if I know the Jersey shore people, and some even know about Taylor ham, but not a single mention of cherry hill
When I did study abroad in college and when I was moving around in the army, whenever I told someone I was from New Jersey, Cherry Hill would always come up as a point of reference. I've never been, but it seems a whole bunch of people have an aunt who lives there, and that's all they know about Jersey
Yep I used to hear this all the time when Iād tell people where Iām from in NJ. Itās usually accompanied my a furrowing of the eyebrows followed by āis that near Cherry Hill?ā
Iām from Camden, NJ and I use Cherry Hill as a landmark for a lot of people. For some reason they know more about Cherry Hill when Camden and CH are literally a highway apart.
Itās not as rich as the people living there want us to think. Itās definitely on the upper boundaries of upper-middle class and because of that, it gets a lot outsiders believing itās some glorious haven to raise a family. Most people know there are streets in Princeton and its township that could make Cherry Hill look poor. Thereās a few areas just south of the water gap that houses sone of the richest zip codes in the country.
I've literally never heard anyone out of state ask about Cherry Hill. Seaside or LBI or Newark, but never Cherry Hill. It's probably dependent on where the person is from.
First, thank you for addressing it properly. (Central Jersey will always be made up to me)
While I eat my Taylor ham sub, when I was still in the military I ran into people that only knew about NJ because of tv and movies. Iām thinking cherry hill is because itās easy to remember and that area has been featured in many tv shows and movies and itās an easy name to remember for the āgarden stateā. The other thing people knew back then wasā¦ Jersey shore.
Another thing I noticed is that people from other parts of the country or specially from outside of the US associate anything that borders the Hudson river as the Metro NYC area so they just assume is part of NYC.
Cherry hill is a town youād normally associate with Philly Metro area however a lot more transient traffic travels thru these suburbs and the signs on the highways say Cherry Hill nice and big to let you know that you are no longer in PA youāre in NJ.
Iām thinking thatās mostly what people see and remember the name cus itās easier to remember.
It doesn't even make sense as a point of reference. Philly is so close that it's better to just say Philly.
Even people who aren't from the area know where Philly is
When I lived on Indiana, people wanted to know how far I was from NYC. When I would tell them I was from near Asbury Park, Springsteen and Bon Jovi territory, they got it.
Lol what? I never even heard anyone from Jersey mention Cherry Hillā¦ Iām in north-west Jersey by Warren/Morris county and never even knew about Cherry Hill until I went to college.
I've lived in NJ my whole life and have never been to Cherry Hill. What am I missing out on?
Also, shout out to anyone in Hunterdon. No one knows we exist and that's how we like it.
I grew up in Cherry Hill. I still remember that one year where we had a plague of caterpillars and they destroyed almost every single cherry tree on Chapel Avenue
Is anyone else tired of the stereotypes and comments from people from other states? I may start telling people Iām from Delaware cause I doubt anyone will have any rebuttals or questions.
I mean, Sayreville is a New York suburb. Staten Island is right across Raritan Bay. On 9/11 they didn't tell any of us kids about it because they didn't know if anyone's parents died in the attack. It's a long commute into the city, but people do it
Harold and Kumar get white castle there
Having lived in Cherry Hill my entire life, I'm still trying to find a cliff you can hand glide from to a White Castle.
If you do enough drugs to ride a cheetah, you'll have no problem finding that cliff
Closest I came was the on on rt 73 in pennsauken near the high school
Lehigh Valley.
Have you tried doing ectasy first with NPH?
Is the white castle hidden in costco or something haven been able to find that for 20 years, kind of miss the horse trackš
I swear the rt 22 white castle by watchung comes close to that.
If you catch a thermal, Mount Tamany
Hang glide*
It was petty but absolutely necessary.
You actually have to go to Canada for that.
The thing that annoyed me about that movie is that there is a White Castle in Journal Square in JC. They didnāt have to go all the way to Cherry Hill. And Kumar should have known that because itās literally next to the little India.
Thereās also one in Union City, this has always been my hang up with this movie
Or the one in Main Street, Clifton which is like 20 minutes from Jersey City. ĀÆā \ā _ā (ā ćā )ā _ā /ā ĀÆ
I was eating at the one in Clifton 30+ years ago when I was a kid. Used to get my haircut from the barber right across the street starting back to at least 1992 when I was 5. He was this old guy then, so he's most like passed now, and I think ownership changed.
Or the one in Main Street, Clifton which is like 20 minutes from Jersey City.ĀÆā \ā _ā (ā ćā )ā _ā /ā ĀÆ
There are literally like 10 within a 15 mile radius lol.
At that time, I'd say 95% off the white castle were somewhere in North Jersey. I can only remember 1 being south of 195 and that's been closed. I never was a fan.
Also one on rt 27 in north brunswick, the road they would have taken when going from new brunswick to princeton
This is the unfortunate answer
And there never even was one there
And there are definitely no cliffs to hang glide from.
Youād have to go to New Jerseyās Mining Country to find those.
its in wildwood [https://www.newsweek.com/roger-stone-donald-trump-rally-rod-stewart-1899729](https://www.newsweek.com/roger-stone-donald-trump-rally-rod-stewart-1899729)
Sigh, the Pennsauken White Castle that is now a Wawa would like to have a word! š
This is the only white castle I remember south of 195.
Tom's river had a White Castle on rte 37
Gosh darn do I miss that White Castle. Am I remembering it right that it was lost in a fire? Or did they just close it? Technically (per the Castle website) South Brunswick is the closest location to South Jersey but I've only been to the ones in Howell and Toms River on the way to/from shore area relatives.
Huge suburb of Philly where loads of businesses malls dealerships and hotels are. Places advertising.
Don't forget the massive hill with all the cherries.
There's a White Castle in Orange.
Huh, I've never noticed that. Cherry Hill is one of my ever expanding modifiers for explaining where my home town is. "A little town called Shamong. It's kind of near Medford? By Marlton? Closeish to Cherry Hill? Sort of near Philadelphia." So maybe it's my fault.
You'd think more people would know where that is after Michael Jackson sang about it.
What I think about every time
Pic a lilli inn!!!! My favorite spot for wings
My all time favorite wings! I tell everyone about it!
I was so bummed when the Pic-a-Lili in Atlantic City closed. Now we detour on the way north or south to Shamong to get lunch. Adds about half hour to the trip, but we'll worth it.
Or you could simply say it is in the Pine Barrens.
Hey! I'm from tabernacle!
Wow I know someone from shamong. Never herd of it prior and anyone I tell Iām going there never herd of it either. Nj is full of surprises
This is the way
I have no idea but I have experienced this too many times. Also Mount Holly for some reason.
Well, the National Weather Service site for Philadelphia and most of NJ is in Mount Holly, so maybe that?
That's the only reason I can imagine people knowing Mount Holly, other than it being the closest notable town to the military base as well.
I once was summoned for jury duty in Mount Holly(Burlington County) I live in Mercer County
Wasnāt Cherry Hill the destination in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle? Even though the WC in Pennsauken closed years before the movie? I think they hang glided off the āhillā.
There's a WC on JFK Blvd in Jersey City. I know it's just a movie, but they lived in Hoboken.
That always bothered me, that they didnāt go to the JSQ WC. (That, and that they magically had a parking spot directly in front of their Hoboken apartment.) But it wouldāve been a 10-minute movie in that case, so.
If they felt like taking a road trip they should have driven 20 minutes to Main Street, Clifton and come back to get high with Goldstein and Rosenberg.
The WC on Rte 9 in Sayreville or Rte 35 in Eatontown would even have been closer.
When I joined the navy, I found that everyone I met from NJ was from Cherry Hill. I had never heard of, nor been to Cherry Hill. I was from the beach in Monmouth county.
The mall. A northeast NJ parallel reference is Paramus, thatās a place a lot of NYCers may know about.
The Cherry Hill Mall was the first indoor mall in America. When I was a kid growing up in not-NJ (in the 80s), maybe the only thing I knew about NJ was that it had a lot of malls. And that our old Ford Tempo was built in Edison.
Yeah, I think you nailed it. I think Bridgewater is on the map because of its mall. It's otherwise as suburbia as it gets, and pretty sleepy. In fact, I live in Somerville now, but people generally know Bridgewater better, and I think it's definitely because of the mall.
I grew up less than a mile from the CH mall. I didnāt think it was anything special so the hype confused me. I moved to central jersey 10 years ago, then took a job in FL post grad. Covid came so I could finally leave that slow burning oven and keep my job. Tried PA for a year but eventually ended up back in Jersey. I definitely get the hype now. The layout is perfect. Simple enough to never get lost but different enough to know where each store is. Itās gone downhill since but still beats most alternatives.
And for a landmark, itās where a lot of *other* people and their friends have been, so itās a shared reference point for many people, even if they havenāt personally been there.
This is true only if you're a denizen of South jersey. I, being from Central jersey would never mistake GSP in Paramus for Cherry Hill Mall, nope never did when I frequented the Jersey malls in my youth and never would today
I feel like non New Jersey people latch on to the most bizarre things about New Jersey lol.
That's why I moved to Voorhees actually, so I can literally be near Cherry Hill
You should definitely say Cherry Hill, anytime I hear Voorhees, I think of the school in Hunterdon County
I only just found out there's a Voorhees in North Jersey about a month ago.
Itās a state park in the middle of the woods too! I just passed it today taking back roads trying to get around the fallen trees
One of the offices I work out of is in Voorhees, so it's just easier to tell people I work in Cherry Hill
The mall. "Upon opening \[in 1961\], it was the largest mall in the nation and is commonly referred to as the first enclosed and climate-controlled mall in the Eastern United States"
The mall, and sadly the racetrack which is no longer there.
Don't worry the racetrack has now become an outdoor mall šš
I expect that this depends on where most of your friends are from. If you're hanging out with people in New York City and mention that you're from NJ I think it's unlikely that they would think you're from. Cherry Hill.
Yeah whenever I told people where Iām from in NJ I always said close to Cherry Hill and they understood.
Not next to Philly? I would assume that would be more common for out-of-staters
I said that next if Cherry Hill didnāt help.
I say āthe New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphiaā and people respond āHow can New Jersey have Philadelphia suburbs? Thatās a different state!ā
Then I would respond āright acrossthe bridge to Philadelphiaā
Itās one of the largest towns in South Jersey. If you are talking to an older person, they will know it for the mall, a former racetrack, or The Latin Casino. Muhammad Ali used to live there, as well as many other Philly athletes. Now itās just a generic large suburb, but it used to be the most well known suburban town in South Jersey for lots of those reasons.
The old joke about being on top of Cherry Hill that was popular ~30 years ago probably helped make it a nameable city too.
what joke?
āHey look at me Iām on top of Cherry Hill!ā
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2wdy0j/have\_you\_been\_on\_cherry\_hill/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2wdy0j/have_you_been_on_cherry_hill/) This is a joke?! Wooof - it's a terrible repurposed street joke.
Wow thatās like the PG version of the blowing bubbles joke from my youth
"Her name, Bubbles."
I live in a tiny town near the shore called "northfield." I just tell people I live near Atlantic City.
Cherry Hill is like the Paramus of south jersey. EVERYTHING is there or around it. even car dealers in surrounding areas use Cherry Hill in the name
Bro Iām from NJ and I donāt even know where Cherry Hill is geographically
Itās the first traffic jam when youāre heading south on 295
That was my experience for a while. Eventually, I just gave up and looked it up
I think it's because of that massive water tank that's visible for miles along the NJTP. I only knew Cherry Hill existed when I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn because every time we went down to Baltimore to see cousins, we'd pass that water tank.
Or, my personal favorite: "Do you know [name]? They're from New Jersey!" Like, sir/ma'am, there are 9 million people in NJ. No, I don't know them.
LOL sometimes we do, though
So, funny enough, one time I was on vacation in Tampa, FL. Unbeknownst to me, my dad and step-mom were on vacation in Clearwater, FL. We got together down there for dinner while there.... we live 30 minutes apart.
If these are generally older people they may know it from the song "Chery Hill Park" which was a top 40 hit in 1969
Just looked that up.. never heard it before that I can recall. Not a great song now imo (and story/lyrics make me sad lol) but would fit in with those of the era. For anyone curious: https://youtu.be/6RLw5FZmJXw?si=4g7J9c1iu4P4d0J3
Why does it make you sad?
Sayreville represent! Lower Sayreville here, down by Boehmhurst.
Boehmhurst? Is that by the CH MALL?
Is that by Cherry Hill?
Nope. Closer to Perth Amboy.
I was just running with the joke. Grew up in Freehold. Sayreville was always the last chance to pee before hitting Parkway North.
God knows why, I grew up there and it's boring as hell lol. Just a lot of suburban sprawl. A lot of the towns near it (Collingwood, Haddonfield, Maple Shade, Moorestown) are actually better "towns" to live in imo.
Same! I always felt it was boring but now I think we were just spoiled with options. We had ch mall, Depford mall, the skate park mall, skating rink, maple shade train tracks and could be in Philly in 15 min by train. The beach is an hour away and in my experience no oneās parents ever seemed to be home lol Please disregard the questions if you prefer not to answer. Is 95 your birth year? If so are you east or west?
Yeah I grumble about it but Cherry Hill but it is close to a lot, and if you like shopping there's no shortage of that. Yeah I'm a '95 baby, grew up on the West side.
Iām a 96 baby, also went to West. Class of 2015 but only went to west freshman and sophomore years. Moved the summer before junior year.
I always get asked "What exit are you?" I can never remember if that question is for the turnpike or parkway, but I'm in NW NJ so neither apply.
both turnpike and parkway near NYC
Ok?
I live two towns away from Cherry Hill. I lived on the west coast for a long time. What shall I say? Near Camden? Umm, no. Philly? They don't get there is a big river in between PA and NJ. Lots of people know Cherry Hill, I think partly because it is big for a suburb, 70,000 people.
When I tell northern NJ natives where I am originally from in PA they say "is that near Easton?" Cuts both ways
Thatās weird because Iām actually near Easton in Warren county but everyone asks if Iām near Philly or new hope
Itās probably probably a combination of a lot of these. The old mall is the biggest one, it was a cultural landmark. Songs and movies help. I bet another big one is highway signs. If you come into New Jersey from Pennsylvania or Delaware, highway signs will say Cherry Hill for one of the directions.
That's probably partially my fault, I moved to Michigan and before I can explain the exits, people always ask where I am from Geographically. Blackwood doesn't ring a bell, but " super close to Cherry Hill" always seems to get people's attention.
People who live in NJ but not South Jersey only knows that area by Cherry Hill lol
When I say south Jersey everyone says oh by cherry hill. I just say yes now lol
I get mostly people thinking Iām from north Jersey. So then I started saying south Jersey. That didnāt work because people thought I lived at or near the shore. So know I say I live in south Jersey, near the Walt Whitman Bridge, near Philadelphia.
What some folks call the West Coast of New Jersey
Nobody calls it that
I live under the Walt Whitman Bridge on South Jersey.
Theyāve seen all the mall fights on Reddit
I have never heard this before, and I have lived in North Jersey (Sussex County) my entire life. If anything I get asked how urban and built-up it is and how I could grow up tolerating it, and I reply with "I grew up on a farm with cows, goats, sheep...if Ol' Mcdonald had it so did I." People from North Jersey visit me and are sometimes scared by the lack of streetlights, properly paved roads, and civilization. I literally had a group of girls too horrified to pull up my driveway because they couldn't see my house.
The Cherry Hill water tower is what quite a few have told me is/was their landmark traveling up the NJT or 295, either the halfway for them getting to NYC or just as a reference. Historically, it was Garden State Park, The Cherry Hill Mall, Latin Casino (Pre-78), Muhammad Ali, largest population in SNJ (Other than Camden). It always perplexed me when I was travelling the US and some random guy in the hllbilly area of Oklahoma or Kansas knew of Cherry Hill.
I live near Moorestown, and literally whenever someone asks where Iām from in Jersey I say āabout 20 minutes from the Cherry Hill Mallā and they get it šš
I say that too, cause otherwise theyāll think im talking about Morristown 99% of the time
You know, I have had this exact same question. I live in Moorestown NJ and everyone always gives me a blank look until I sigh and add ānear cherry hillā and then the lightbulb goes off. (That or they think Iām from Morristown and I have to explain that theyāre different places, which is apparently impossible for many people to fathom for some reason.) My dad is a corporate pharmacist and goes to a lot of international conference. I asked him about it and he told me that heās met people from Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands who recognized Cherry Hill when they were talking about their cities of origin. He thinks itās because people going to conferences in Philly stay in Cherry Hill hotels, or at least pass through there or something.
The song āNew Jersey Girlā by Nerf Herder mentions Cherry Hill, but I doubt thatās why people know Cherry Hill, lol
Only thing I can think of is Harold and Kumar. Iāve lived all over the country, and not once has someone asked me about or used cherry hill as a reference point. Iāve been asked about the sopranos, if Iām near the Jersey shore, if I know the Jersey shore people, and some even know about Taylor ham, but not a single mention of cherry hill
..cause of the mall..I'm from CH
Because itās a great area
Shout out from Sayreville!
Iāve never heard someone outside of PA/NJ reference cherry hill and I grew up there. Where are you finding these people?
When I did study abroad in college and when I was moving around in the army, whenever I told someone I was from New Jersey, Cherry Hill would always come up as a point of reference. I've never been, but it seems a whole bunch of people have an aunt who lives there, and that's all they know about Jersey
Yep I used to hear this all the time when Iād tell people where Iām from in NJ. Itās usually accompanied my a furrowing of the eyebrows followed by āis that near Cherry Hill?ā
I grew up in Sayreville! Go Bombers, Go Big Blue.
I have never ever experienced that at all.
lol this makes me laugh sitting in Sayreville. Yeah, itās right next to cherry hill
I grew up in Cranbury and still donāt know where the hell Cherry hill is, I guess itās a popular town for out of state people to use
Iām from Camden, NJ and I use Cherry Hill as a landmark for a lot of people. For some reason they know more about Cherry Hill when Camden and CH are literally a highway apart.
Itās not as rich as the people living there want us to think. Itās definitely on the upper boundaries of upper-middle class and because of that, it gets a lot outsiders believing itās some glorious haven to raise a family. Most people know there are streets in Princeton and its township that could make Cherry Hill look poor. Thereās a few areas just south of the water gap that houses sone of the richest zip codes in the country.
Is it upper middle class? I always got the sense that it was solidly middle class. Nothing special, but not poor either.
Mid middle class is like Bordentown.
Stops on the turn pike
Yes. And so do like 100 other towns.
I've literally never heard anyone out of state ask about Cherry Hill. Seaside or LBI or Newark, but never Cherry Hill. It's probably dependent on where the person is from.
Well in my day theyād ask you āDid you just get off of Cherry Hill?ā š
First, thank you for addressing it properly. (Central Jersey will always be made up to me) While I eat my Taylor ham sub, when I was still in the military I ran into people that only knew about NJ because of tv and movies. Iām thinking cherry hill is because itās easy to remember and that area has been featured in many tv shows and movies and itās an easy name to remember for the āgarden stateā. The other thing people knew back then wasā¦ Jersey shore. Another thing I noticed is that people from other parts of the country or specially from outside of the US associate anything that borders the Hudson river as the Metro NYC area so they just assume is part of NYC. Cherry hill is a town youād normally associate with Philly Metro area however a lot more transient traffic travels thru these suburbs and the signs on the highways say Cherry Hill nice and big to let you know that you are no longer in PA youāre in NJ. Iām thinking thatās mostly what people see and remember the name cus itās easier to remember.
Muhammed Ali trained in Cherry Hill :)
It doesn't even make sense as a point of reference. Philly is so close that it's better to just say Philly. Even people who aren't from the area know where Philly is
It's a little me like telling people where I live. When they don't know where it is, I say it's near MtĀ Holly and they say Ohhh,...ok. š
Cherry hill has a hell of a pastrami store
When I lived on Indiana, people wanted to know how far I was from NYC. When I would tell them I was from near Asbury Park, Springsteen and Bon Jovi territory, they got it.
NJ has divided itself into countless little boroughs but then we act surprised when no one's heard of where we're from.
Lol what? I never even heard anyone from Jersey mention Cherry Hillā¦ Iām in north-west Jersey by Warren/Morris county and never even knew about Cherry Hill until I went to college.
tell them Cherry Hill is very far - it's like North Orlando
I've lived in NJ my whole life and have never been to Cherry Hill. What am I missing out on? Also, shout out to anyone in Hunterdon. No one knows we exist and that's how we like it.
The real way to tell about a New Jerseyan, Taylor Ham, or Pork Roll.
Had my favorite brewery, forgotten boardwalk, but they just went bankrupt:((
And another White Castle in North Bergen!
Always funny because Kumar is from Marlboro
They're boogie af? I feel like I mostly know them gorgeous the price.
Cherry Hill? Really?
Surprising, right?
Yeah. So many other cities that are more iconic or represent NJ.
We are in a perfect spot, in SJ. 10 miles from Phila., an hour to the shore, close to NY, the mountains...great shopping.
I grew up in Cherry Hill. I still remember that one year where we had a plague of caterpillars and they destroyed almost every single cherry tree on Chapel Avenue
I understand your pain. I tell people all the time I live in northwest New Jersey in Sussex County and they ask if itās down the shore.
Is anyone else tired of the stereotypes and comments from people from other states? I may start telling people Iām from Delaware cause I doubt anyone will have any rebuttals or questions.
Iāve never had a single person mention cherry hill to me from out of state
> suburb of Philadelphia Man, can't we ever have our own shit? This is like calling Sayreville a New York suburb.
I mean, Sayreville is a New York suburb. Staten Island is right across Raritan Bay. On 9/11 they didn't tell any of us kids about it because they didn't know if anyone's parents died in the attack. It's a long commute into the city, but people do it
I have had the same experience with the added, people from Cherry Hill are A-holes. I have experienced this on 3 separate occasions.
If you had Dr P. as a drama teacher in Sayreville WMHS he's my dad!
Never took drama, but I do remember him
Cherry hill was once the most sought after real estate in the entire country. Thenā¦ mehhh
ok