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Every so often, I post something on the IheartPGH Facebook page that seems to strike a Pittsburgh nerve. The last hyper-popular post that I can remember was about the chipped ham pink nail polish. I know that there are many of you who aren’t Facebook users so I am reposting this little nugget of Pittsburgh love here for all to enjoy.

Photo credit: Breaking Burgh

Each Friday, there is a post in the Pittsburgh Bloggers Facebook group where folks share links to what they have written over the past week. Last Friday, in honor of Valentine’s Day, Breaking Burgh shared a link to a previous Valentine’s Day post – Pittsburgh Woman Claims The Pierogi Is The True Food Of Love. One of my personal duties as a Pittsburgher and blogger of Pittsburgh culture is to read every post about pierogi. So I clicked the link, Breaking Burgh has acurately captured Pittsburgh’s love of potato and cheese dumplings. But I thought the following comment was worth sharing.

This is the most sensual description of eating pierogie I have ever encountered , and I love it! It makes me want to beg for more, for more of the luscious butter flowing from my lips as I savor each morsel of delectable hot brown butter! Until my next experience with the ever loving pierogie, I remain ever faithful to its plump mouthful of goodness.

Turns out everyone else agrees and the Facebook post from Friday has continued to receive many likes, loves and shares.

But wait, it gets better! I was just about to publish this post but I thought I better check on the chipped ham pink nail polish availability. Given how popular this post was I’m sure others will be interested. Sadly, this color of chipped ham is out of stock. But to my surprise, the folks at Gridlock Lacquer now sell a church pierogi shade of pink, I need to use an Oprah voice here – A CHURCH PIEROGI SHADE OF PIIINNNNKKKKK, which thankfully is still in stock and can be yours for just $9.00 + shipping.

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I’ve been working on a blog post about some great Pittsburgh Christmas gifts, but a tweet came across my radar with a Pittsburgh product that is probably worthy of its own blog post. Chipped chopped ham is a distinctly Pittsburgh lunch meat. If you didn’t grow up in Pittsburgh, and you aren’t familiar with the chipped chop ham or ham barbecue – head over to the chipped chopped ham Wikipedia page for a full education. The fact that chipped chopped ham has its own Wikipedia page should be an indication to you that this is something Pittsburghers take seriously.

So what does this have to do with nail polish? Meet Chipped Ham Pink…

…for $7 you can now paint your nails in a color inspired by chipped chopped ham.

Gridlock Lacquer and their line of Pittsburgh nail polishes which come in the following shades…

Chipped Ham
Steel My Heart
Pittsburghese, not Bougeois

Click here to see all three of the Pittsburgh colors.

We can only assume that the most gilded shade of gold will soon be added to the Pittsburgh collection. The company is based in Buffalo, NY – so maybe they haven’t yet discovered our loyalty to the shades of black and gold. I help but wonder if there is a buffalo sauce share of nail polish in the Buffalo collection.

All of these colors and colors for other rust belt cities are available on Gridlock Lacquer website. Follow @GridlockLacquer for more updates.

Update 12/18:

Pittsburgh is spelled correctly on the bottle, the glare in the photo is hiding the H