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See also: Maryland Chicken
MARYLAND TRIVIA & FACTS
Maryland's official State Dessert is the Smith Island Cake. Made by the ladies of Smith Island for years, the cake is 'impossibly thin layers of cake and icing stacked high.'"
Maryland's State Crustacean is the Maryland Blue Crab.
The state drink of Maryland is Milk.
The Striped Bass (Rock Fish) is Maryland's official state fish.
Boordy Vineyards opened in 1945, the first of more than 20 bonded wineries now operating in Maryland.
On May 23, 1774, Chestertown, Maryland residents reacted to news of the Boston Tea Party by staging a similar protest, dumping a shipment of tea into the Chester River.
One of Maryland's nicknames is 'Free State' (Coined during Prohibition by a Baltimore Sun editor who argued against prohibiting the sale of liquor) .
Similar to 'Haggis,' Maryland Stuffed Hog Maw is the lining of a pig's stomach stuffed with sausage, bread crumbs, potatoes and onions, sewn closed, and then simmered and baked.
The city of Crisfield, Maryland is built on a foundation of oyster shells.
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