Gross.

The Tribune Review Sunday edition had this headline:

"YINZERS vs. SLACKERS" (!!!)

I don't know if I can take this all week. Hometown pride is kicking in. ("Slackers"? Really?)

Here's the scintillating article comparing the two cities. And here's a little sample for ya:

Thirty-three percent of Pittsburgh adults had a beer in the last week, compared to 30 percent of Seattle adults, reports Scarborough Research, a New York consumer survey firm.

So where do the makers of Redhook Ale, brewed in Seattle, get off claiming the Pacific Northwest has "the highest per capita draft-beer consumption in the country?"

Redhook spokesman Dave Mickelson seized on the fact that Pittsburgh's big numbers are built on light beer. In any other category - regular domestics, imports, microbrews - Seattle residents outdrink us.

"We're getting twice the beer, with the craft brews, so you've got to double (our) score," he said.

Good stuff.