You know you're from the Bay Area when going to a protest just means it's Wednesday

So mercilynn and mustangcandi both posted "You know you're from [place] when..." lists, and it prompted me to Google "You know you're from California when," which... did not give me very many good results. A lot of them seemed very SoCal-centric. :-) But, anyway, one item that made me laugh was, "You know how to eat an artichoke."

But then mercilynn said she wasn't sure she'd ever eaten an artichoke, and so I was wondering if this one was TRUE. So:

Do you know how to eat an artichoke? Have you ever eaten one? (And have you ever tried scraping out the choke with a fork instead of a spoon? Oy.)

Sorry, I don't have a paid account so I can't do a real poll. I would, otherwise! I am very curious about this, now.

(And I mean... I know artichokes are grown in CA, but I guess I figured... we export them, right? They cannot ALL be eaten in-state.)

This post made me hungry.