Top 10 Signs You Grew Up In Fall River

You Definitely Grew Up In Fall River If…

10) Your Mom shopped at Chaves Market on Columbia Street to stock up on ccourico, St. Jorge cheese and morcela (blood pudding).

9) Every wedding was either at Venus DiMilo or Whites and there were at least 500 close family and friends that attended.

8) The only time you would skip out on a home cooked Portugeuse meal (actually, you never did that) but on occasion, China Royal on Pleasant St. for Chinese food. They closed in 2001 after 51 years in business.

7) You knew before the season even started that Durfee was NOT going to win, ever.

6) Cruisin the Ave, Plymouth Ave that is.

5) You could count on at least a dozen Portuguese feasts between May and September and you probably did folklore dancing in half of them.

4) Every sandwich you ate was with a fresh Portuguese pop; you didn’t even know what Wonder bread was.

3) If you were a girl and your parents were old school strict Portuguese, you didn’t see the light of day with a boyfriend until you were a freshman in college. For real.

2) You went to Denny's at 1am after a night on partying, and it was always packed.

1) Lizzie Borden- nobody cared