Have a good day, Hon!

Every city has its kitschy charms.  I’d say one of Baltimore’s is how it channels its inner “hon.”  Rather than try to escape its blue collar, waitress, dockworker, beehive hairstyle image, it embraces it in a warm hug and calls it “hon.” The culture of the 1950’s to the 1970’s Baltimore is captured in John Water’s movies, especially Pink Flamingos, where native Waters parodies everything Baltimore.

In 2010, a local businesswoman in Baltimore trademarked the word “hon” for promotional purposes.  Such was an outpouring of outrage, that she relinquished the trademark a year later.  No one can lay claim to the spirit or heart of something. And that’s the very essence of “hon.”