Hutzell: Just how Maryland are you? Here are 50 of our state’s essentials.

Go to Ocean City in July or August, despite the traffic and the crowds.

Buy Thrasher’s french fries at the OC Fishing Pier.

Douse them with salt and apple cider vinegar.

Tour the National Aquarium.

Spot a group of dirt bikes on Baltimore streets.

Take a dip in the river in Patapsco Valley State Park.

Float down the Gunpowder River on an inflated tube.

Visit the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Church Creek.

Walk to an O’s game.

See them win.

Figure out where someone is from in Maryland based on how they pronounce the word “house.”

Stand next to the life-size statue of George Washington at the State House in Annapolis.

Witness the statue of Alex Haley, author of “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” flooded at City Dock.

Pose for a silly photo with either statue, although you’re too embarrassed to share it on social media.

Make a meal of steamed crabs on a paper-covered picnic table.

Down half a dozen hard shells with too many cans of shore champagne, aka Natural Light.

Travel with your own crab knife.

Watch a classic movie at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring.

Stay for all three movies Friday or Saturday night at Bengies Drive-in Theatre in Middle River.

Hike to Annapolis Rock near Boonsboro and admire the Cumberland Valley below.

Venture out on the Chesapeake Bay in someone else’s boat.

Buy your own boat.

Burn your socks as a ritual to celebrate boating season.

Sell your boat because you weren’t going out enough to justify the upkeep.

Enjoy scrapple.

Own at least one piece of clothing with the Maryland flag on it.

Hear someone say they are scared of driving across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

Get stuck at the highest point after an accident shuts down the bridge.

Go shopping at an Amish market.

Drive slowly behind a horse-drawn buggy near Mechanicsville.

Listen to members of the Fort McHenry Guard, costumed volunteers and National Park Service rangers, talk about the British siege in September 1814.

Sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” with extra gusto on the “O!” in “O say can you see.”

Describe the distance between two points in minutes and hours, then explain endlessly how much that varies by time of day.

Commute on any highway with an I for interstate in its name more than five times and then wonder why you’d ever do it again.

Daydream about moving to Delaware.

Visit Delaware and change your mind.

Marvel at the diversity of languages you hear University of Maryland students speak while shopping for a bookcase at IKEA in College Park.

Dip freshly shucked oysters in mignonette and realize cocktail sauce is for losers.

Shuck your own oysters.

Travel by Metro in both Baltimore and the D.C. suburbs, light rail, MARC, Amtrak and the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.

Hear your favorite band on the lawn at Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Go with your kids to hear theirs.

Direct someone to the 27-foot-tall, winking Mr. Boh sign in Brewers Hill.

Know the Little Utz Girl lives just across the Pennsylvania line in Hanover.

Remember when they got engaged on a Smyth Jewelers billboard overlooking the Jones Falls Expressway. Feel sad it didn’t work out.

Walk along the Potomac River at Solomons Island. Ask why it’s not an island.

Admire the wild ponies at Assateague Island National Seashore.

Spot a pony eating the lunch you left on a beach blanket while taking a dip in the surf at Assateague State Park.

Say at least one of these three phrases with or without irony: “Hon,” “How ’bout dem O’s” or “downey ocean.”

Have at least two cans of Old Bay in your kitchen.