two. You're hungover more mornings than not.

George Washington once came to Savannah and ordered a Chatham Artillery Punch — a concoction of tea, lemon, brown sugar, wine, rum, brandy, gin, and whiskey. It left him so hungover, he swore never to return.

Not much has inverse. We nevertheless serve the same punch at the Shrimp Manufactory.

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iii. Your taste buds are forever spoiled from Shit Aye! Sauce.

We've got Zunzi's where you tin can lodge an Oliver's Tiffin from the guy backside the food bar. "Shit yeah!" he'll say as he slams your plate full of creamy mashed potatoes, Italian-seasoned chicken, and smoked South African sausage, all drenched in Tzatziki dressings with a gravy known but as "Shit Yeah! Sauce."

Or for a glory meal from Zunzi's, there'south the Conquistador. This hoagie was featured equally ane of the final contestants on Adam Richman'south All-time Sandwich in America on Human vs Food.

We've got the Savannah Bee Company where you can sense of taste a costless slice of greenish dear crisp apple topped with a slab of honeycomb and Gruyere Cheese. We've got creamy bowls of crab bisque laced with sherry. We've got plates of grits whipped with cheese, seasoned shrimp, sauteed sweet red peppers, and slices of andouille sausage moistened in a Cajun butter sauce. We've got rose petal water ice cream from Leopold'due south. We've got greasy pizza from Sweet Melissa'southward that volition sop up the night's debauchery.

We've got all the ingredients needed for one to eat their way through the urban center. And it can be done all while fugitive Paula Deen's eating house — The Lady and Sons. Which brings me to my next point…

4. Paula Deen? Nope, not a fan.

No, y'all've never met her. No, you've never seen her. No, you don't eat at her restaurant. Do you intendance to? Maybe if you're ever craving a burned hole in your wallet from mediocre buffet food doused in melted butter served with a side of fried pig lard and an aura of looming racism.

5. Y'all know that trying to find your way around other cities will forever suck.

Savannah was dubbed America'due south outset planned city. It's not only one of the most walkable places in the country, information technology'south also one of the easiest to acquire. When y'all visit, say, Atlanta, null throws you for a loop harder than trying to find your way around that spaghetti junction of a identify.

Savannah, on the other mitt, is laid out in a perfect, flat serial of grids attached together past 22 historic squares. Within ii days, you'll accept the streets memorized and the layout downward pat. Only remember that, when in incertitude find Abercorn Street, and if you fall into the river, you've gone likewise far.

6. You lot've begun to appreciate the odor of sulphur.

Complain about the river's pungent odor all you want. While away from Savannah, goose egg takes y'all back to River Street faster than getting a whiff of rotten eggs.

vii. You've become immune to paranormal activity.

At that place's only a handful of people hither who claim to have never encountered annihilation supernatural. And they're obviously lying.

But being the second-virtually haunted city in America does have its perks. After you survive a late 19th-century house where doorknobs fall off for no reason, a pissed off shadow bangs around in the kitchen, random puddles of water appear out of nowhere, and an bogeyman cries continuously in your bedroom, information technology takes more than a little paranormal action to rattle your basic.

Mass graves? Psh, no big bargain. Your house is probably on 1 right at present.

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viii. Information technology at present slips your mind that drinking in public isn't absurd everywhere.

Savannah is one of simply six cities in America where you can potable in public, permitting that you're not carrying more than 16 ounces and information technology's concealed in a plastic cup. You volition forever be yelled at for trying to exit with a potable in your manus.

ix. Y'all think you lot're Irish.

We have the biggest St. Patrick'due south Mean solar day Parade in the Usa. Irish flags hang proudly in the windows. Nosotros throw back Jameson shots like it's our daily vitamin.

Yet in the entirety of calling Savannah your home, you've simply encountered one person from Ireland. Then, later on hearing near his life dorsum in Cork and marveling in his slurred Irish gaelic emphasis, he admitted over a bottle of Bailey'south that he, in fact, had been born and raised in Savannah. Turns out, he didn't actually have an accent. He was merely really Catholic.

Possibly it'southward the fact that we dye our fountains green in March, or because the get-go baby born in Savannah was born on St. Patrick's Twenty-four hour period. Mayhap it'due south due to the early on 19th-century settlers from Ireland who helped build the economic system with their long hours for low pay. Or perchance because we have one of the largest Cosmic cathedrals in the Due south.

No thing the reason, when we're all gathered in a cluster of green attire to celebrate a holiday in which we have fiddling amalgamation with, we all feel strangely connected to Irish civilization. And then again, it may simply exist because we're drunk and wearing a pin that says: "I'yard not Irish gaelic, but osculation me anyway."

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10. Yous fucking love this place.

When Full general Sherman carried out his famous March to the Sea during the American Civil State of war, he was and then taken with the dazzler of Savannah that he offered the town to President Lincoln every bit a Christmas present. This ultimately saved Savannah from existence burned to the ground.

And today, she'southward just as cute equally she was back then — but slightly dirtier and a whole lot sultrier.