You know you're from Cincinnati if ...

With thousands of fans flooding into the Cincinnati region for the All-Star Game later this week, The Enquirer staff wanted to welcome to our visitors.

If you run into any of the below, that's when you know you've had the real Cincinnati experience.

You've ordered goetta.

That's a breakfast sausage usually that German immigrants brought to us. It's pronounced "get-uh" and made from ground pork, steel-cut oats and spices. We have not one but two goetta festivals.

You have Graeter's in your freezer or have debated the best flavor.

The ice cream company dates back to 1868 and now has nearly 40 locations across the country. The all-time best selling flavor? Black raspberry chip.

You know how to order a three-way in Cincinnati.

It's a steaming pile of spaghetti topped with chili and mounds of cheese.

You know the radio station in"WKRP in Cincinnati" wasn't real.

The struggling radio station in the 1978-1982 sitcom was fictional. You can still see the building that was the shown as WKRP, though: It's the former Cincinnati Enquirer building at 617 Vine St. in Downtown.

That space reopened this spring as a hotel.

If someone asks you what school you went to…

You answer with your high school, not your college. (And you know that your answer speaks volumes about you and your family to any native Cincinnatian.)

You have strong feelings about the East Side and the West Side.
Enough said.

You can name at least three Fortune 500 companies based here.

We have more Fortune 500 companies per capita than New York or Los Angeles.

The names you're most likely to recognize are Kroger's, Macy's, Fifth Third Bank, Procter & Gamble and Western & Southern Financial Group.

You've used the word 'Porkopolis,' even if you were cringing.

We once had the largest pork processing center in the U.S. so Cincinnati earned the nickname "Porkopolis." That's why we have the annual Flying Pig Marathon and why you see so many pig statues around town, too.

You've made at least one reference to where "Rain Man" was filmed.

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise spent four weeks here in 1988 filming the Academy Award-winning flick. Charlie's childhood home is in East Walnut Hills, the desk clerk Cruise charms was in the lobby of the Dixie Terminal (49 East Fourth St. in Downtown) and their father's funeral was filmed at Evergreen Cemetery just south of Newport.

Hoffman's character counted 246 toothpicks on the barroom floor of Pompilio's restaurant (600 Washington Ave., Newport), and St. Anne Covenant was the scene of the fictional mental institution, Walbrook (1000 St Anne Dr, Melbourne, Ky.).

You know we had the Brooklyn Bridge first — sort of.

John A. Roebling designed an iconic bridge over the Ohio River — the one with the brick towers and the blue-painted span that connects Cincinnati and Covington. Construction began in 1856. More than two decades later, the same architect went on to design the famous Brooklyn Bridge.

You've played cornhole.

Bonus points if you own a cornhole board or have hosted a cornhole tournament.

You love yourself some George Clooney.

The actor went to elementary school in Mason, Ohio. Scenes from his 2011 film "Ides of March" were shot on location in Cincinnati, too.

But here's a lesser-known gem about the Oscar winner: Clooney took part in tryout camps for the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, when he was 16. He wasn't offered a contract, obviously, but found a decent back-up career in acting.

You know Gerald N. Springer was our mayor before he was TV's Jerry Springer.

Some thought his career was over in 1974, when he quit City Council after writing a personal check to a Northern Kentucky prostitute.

Voters sent him back to council in 1975, though, and again in 1977. He was named mayor at age 33.

"The Jerry Springer Show" debuted in 1991.

You can rattle off at least 5 other celebrities who we raised.

Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg was born here. Doris Day, Pete Rose and Charles Manson are from here, too (when was the last time you saw those three names in the same sentence?).

Woody Harrelson went to Lebanon High School and worked at Kings Island, and Sarah Jessica Parker lived in the Queen City long before she starred in "Sex in the City."

Drew and Nick Lachey of '90s boy band 98 Degrees are natives. They opened Lachey's Bar earlier this year at 56 E. 12th St. in Downtown, and it will be the center of a reality TV show this summer.

You recognize anything by Charley Harper.

His work is in galleries. On our iPhone cases and birthday present wrapping paper. On bags of roasted beans at Coffee Emporium. Even on buildings in Downtown.

You know the Cincinnati airport is actually in Kentucky.

When you fly in to visit us, you actually land in Boone County, Kentucky, about 12 miles from the Ohio border.

Bonus fact: The airport is known as CVG, an abbreviation for Covington. When the airport was constructed, that was the closest notable city.

You know Wyoming is more than just a state.

There's California, Wyoming, Coney Island, Delhi and Lebanon — all within an hour's drive of Cincinnati. We like to name our cities after other places, apparently.

You danced to Walk the Moon before everyone else.

The hit single "Shut Up and Dance" was near the top of the Billboard 100 charts this spring — but we've been dancing along to the indie rock band since 2008, when the band started here.

Honorable mention: You know we claim The National, The Afghan Whigs and Wussy as our own, too.

You know Rookwood isn't a tree.

Rookwood Pottery won the gold medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889 — making the world pay attention to ceramics for the first time. You can visit them at 1920 Race St. in Over-the-Rhine.

Enquirer staff Carrie Cochran, Carol Motsinger and Ben Goldschmidt contributed to this report.