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Post by steph08 on Jul 12, 2013 14:08:47 GMT -5
Around here the difference is that you scoop Ice cream out of a container. Frozen Custard (or Soft Serve Ice cream) comes out of a spigot from a machine. There use to be about dozen different mom and pop 'frozen custard' stands in the 'burbs where I live. As a teen - that was something to do - go for 'ice cream' and visit the various 'establishments' and get frozen custard cones, or a malt, or Italian ice, or whatever that particular stand/restaurant (can you call a place to get food but without tables/chairs a restaurant?) was 'famous' for. Now there's only one left it's sad. Here in SW PA, we've got hard ice cream (scoop out of a container), soft ice cream (out of a machine), frozen custard (something completely different, we love the Meadows - it is scooped, not out of a machine), and frozen yogurt. We are solidly in the pop crowd. Not soda. Creek vs crick - we are mostly 'crick' crowd. I almost always say 'sub' instead of hoagie unless we are going to Sheetz, then we are getting MTOs. My dad says "wrastle" instead of wrestle. It's hilarious. He also says "redd up" - as in "go redd up your room." - clean
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Post by violagirl on Jul 12, 2013 15:36:25 GMT -5
We call a corner store a depanneur. Of course I live in a very French-Canadian town. Also skipping school was called "jigging".
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Post by sheilaincali on Jul 12, 2013 15:58:38 GMT -5
I picked up the phrase "fixing to" from DH and I can't break that habit. As in "I'm fixingto make dinner, it should be ready in 30 minutes" I'm fixingto run to the grocery store, do you need anything?
The other day I was on the phone with some customer service person for work and asked me "are you from the south or are you prior military?" I said "I'm prior military and my husband's southern. why do you ask?" Apparently I said "Yes, Ma'am" and "thank you Ma'am" and she said she only hears Southerners and former military people say "Ma'am" when talking to her. I guess I didn't realize I said that. Must just be another habit I didn't realize I had.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jul 12, 2013 16:04:00 GMT -5
I picked up the phrase "fixing to" from DH and I can't break that habit. As in "I'm fixingto make dinner, it should be ready in 30 minutes" I'm fixingto run to the grocery store, do you need anything? The other day I was on the phone with some customer service person for work and asked me "are you from the south or are you prior military?" I said "I'm prior military and my husband's southern. why do you ask?" Apparently I said "Yes, Ma'am" and "thank you Ma'am" and she said she only hears Southerners and former military people say "Ma'am" when talking to her. I guess I didn't realize I said that. Must just be another habit I didn't realize I had. Ma'am and Sir aren't bad habits to have if you have to be stuck with one. I still don't get not teaching the kids that. lol
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Post by sheilaincali on Jul 12, 2013 16:08:02 GMT -5
I didn't think it was a bad habit just hadn't realized it was a habit at all. I guess that's a good thing.
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Post by Jaguar on Jul 12, 2013 16:09:24 GMT -5
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jul 12, 2013 16:14:34 GMT -5
I didn't think it was a bad habit just hadn't realized it was a habit at all. I guess that's a good thing. Better to be too polite than not at all My DH has one I'm trying to break him of and not pick up. It's one from his dad, kind of interchangeable with "fixinto" (which I do use) I'm gonna "take and uh" put that part on the car or do this or that. Drives me batty.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 12, 2013 17:05:41 GMT -5
Oh, they also think that "chicken pot pie" is soup! WTF? Chicken pot pie is in a pie crust. I can't even figure out where they hell they got that soup nonsense from. (although it is tasty, it in no way resembles any sort of pie) where did these people come from? I'm about as northerner as you get, and I agree with you on the pot pie, stuffed cabbage rolls, and pigs in a blanket. Although I think pigs in a blanket would be more appropriately called dogs in a blanket. I was the only non polish kid in my school (I am only exaggerating slightly)...that is a polish food and they call them piggies, short for pigs in a blanket. Any reasonable person knows that cabbage stuffed with hamburger, rice and other stuff is called piggies (( wonders where these uneducated twits grew up)) :-p Chicken lot lie has a crust...I have had chicken pot lie soul but that has large chunks of crust tossed in
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 12, 2013 17:08:21 GMT -5
Never heard the expression.. didn't even know that Converse sneakers had a first name... Who the hell is Charles converse? Only the poor kids wore converse when I was in school. I was poor and I even I wouldn't wear them
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 12, 2013 17:19:33 GMT -5
I was the only non polish kid in my school (I am only exaggerating slightly)...that is a polish food and they call them piggies, short for pigs in a blanket. Any reasonable person knows that cabbage stuffed with hamburger, rice and other stuff is called piggies (( wonders where these uneducated twits grew up)) :-p Chicken lot lie has a crust...I have had chicken pot lie soul but that has large chunks of crust tossed in What...in the hell...are you talking about?!?! Chicken lot lie and chicken pot lie...did you wake up as a Chinese immigrant this morning or something? Holy crap, I had to put your post in the bing translater!! But back on topic. Pigs in a blanket is just hot dogs with like that pastry thing wrapped around them and cooked. I don't think there's any cabbage or rice involved...musta been something you brought over... Lmao! God damn autocorrect! And now I can't stop thinking of every Chinese restaurant I've ever eaten at...there is always someone names Larry and he introduces himself "hi, I'm Rarry".....or is that regional?? Lo
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Post by shanendoah on Jul 12, 2013 17:33:06 GMT -5
Having lived in Reno for a number of years, the "Nevahhda" pronunciation drives me crazy. But now I live in WA, where no one who isn't from around here can pronounce place names like Sequim, Puyallup, Issaquah, etc.
I never understood the adding "r" into words where there is no "r" - I'm going to warsh my clothes.
I am neither southern nor military, but my father was both, so my brother and I both say ma'am and sir.
My dad's sister tried telling my brother and I that ant's were creatures that crawled around on the ground, she was an aunt. Poor woman now gets called "termite" or "cockroach" as her honorarium.
But the biggest differences I've seen are in what you call your grandparents. In my family, it was different based on where my grandparents lived. My southern grandparents were Nana & Papa. My PNW grandparents were Grandma and Granpa
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jul 12, 2013 18:01:49 GMT -5
Never heard the expression.. didn't even know that Converse sneakers had a first name... Who the hell is Charles converse? Only the poor kids wore converse when I was in school. I was poor and I even I wouldn't wear them I hung/hang out with the punks. We wear Chucks. :-)
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Post by Blonde Granny on Jul 12, 2013 18:04:25 GMT -5
Coupon can be coo-pon Or quupon
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Post by swamp on Jul 12, 2013 18:28:18 GMT -5
Lmao! God damn autocorrect! And now I can't stop thinking of every Chinese restaurant I've ever eaten at...there is always someone names Larry and he introduces himself "hi, I'm Rarry".....or is that regional?? Lo No, we have Rirrian as a waitress.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 12, 2013 18:29:38 GMT -5
Lmao! God damn autocorrect! And now I can't stop thinking of every Chinese restaurant I've ever eaten at...there is always someone names Larry and he introduces himself "hi, I'm Rarry".....or is that regional?? Lo No, we have Rirrian as a waitress. Must be Rarry's wife :-p
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Post by busymom on Jul 12, 2013 20:34:42 GMT -5
Chucks are in fashion at DD's college. She wants a pair now! Don't forget hot dish vs. casserole. At our church, when we have a potluck, it's called hot dish!
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 12, 2013 21:41:35 GMT -5
DH and I were just talking. Both of our moms called green peppers "mangos". I didn't know a mango was a fruit until my late teens. My mom and his mom are 15 years apart and not from the same city. I'm assuming this was a regional thing. Of course, I haven't heard them called mangos in years
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Post by spartan7886 on Jul 12, 2013 21:56:52 GMT -5
I've gotten some weird looks for the phrase "a whole passel of...". On the other hand, I had to do a double take the first time somebody asked me when we were going to call calf rope. I'd have said when we were going to holler uncle.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Jul 12, 2013 22:17:53 GMT -5
You guys are missing the biggest one: The epic Duck Duck Goose vs Duck Duck Grey Duck debate. That's the biggest one I hear around here. Minnesotan's are firmly in the Duck Duck Grey Duck category (or at least everyone I know is) and my southern raised DH is firmly in the Duck Duck Goose category. Plus here we call it the Civil War and he always refers to it as "the War of Northern Aggression" My very southern grandmother ( Benson May were her two first names ) and my 8th grade English teacher from somewhere south of Mason-Dixon both called it " the War Between the States." Oh yes, to be sure.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Jul 12, 2013 22:23:58 GMT -5
My Canadian relatives who had become naturalized American citizens during the Depression were always talking about " going down " to Canada when they were planning a trip home. However, since their trip started with them driving across the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit to Windsor, then proceeding northeast for 500 miles before turning directly north at Toronto, and going another 500 miles, we thought that was a pretty funny description of their journey.
I do say " eh " periodically, though.
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Post by Apple on Jul 12, 2013 23:43:36 GMT -5
I've noticed in some places we eat Elephant Ears at the fair, but other people eat fried dough.
I also noticed my SIL say something about the Big Bad Woof once (leaving out the "l").
In the PNW we have several different levels of rain--there are showers, sprinkling, downpour, light rain, drizzle, and some others I'm missing. I had to interpret them for a guy at work once. We also refer to "humid" as "muggy".
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Post by 973beachbum on Jul 13, 2013 10:25:02 GMT -5
DH and I were just talking. Both of our moms called green peppers "mangos". I didn't know a mango was a fruit until my late teens. My mom and his mom are 15 years apart and not from the same city. I'm assuming this was a regional thing. Of course, I haven't heard them called mangos in years DH's family still calls green peppers mangos. They also say "filling" for what you stuff your Thanksgiving turkey with, and oleo for margarine. For years I wanted an English to Pennsylvania dictionary.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 13, 2013 12:17:36 GMT -5
DH and I were just talking. Both of our moms called green peppers "mangos". I didn't know a mango was a fruit until my late teens. My mom and his mom are 15 years apart and not from the same city. I'm assuming this was a regional thing. Of course, I haven't heard them called mangos in years DH's family still calls green peppers mangos. They also say "filling" for what you stuff your Thanksgiving turkey with, and oleo for margarine. For years I wanted an English to Pennsylvania dictionary. Do they correctly called stuff cabbage "pigs in the blanket"?
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Post by Apple on Jul 13, 2013 13:52:34 GMT -5
Lol, some of my gramma's hand written recipes call for oleo! I had to ask my mom what that was. Grampa hated it, so she would break the bubble to turn it yellow, then shape it up and wrap it in a butter wrapper so he wouldn't know it wasn't real butter.
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Post by teen persuasion on Jul 13, 2013 17:02:51 GMT -5
Oooo ima's reminds me of another one. To my friends up in Pennsylvania, pigs in a blanket are cabbage stuffed with a hamburger/rice mixture. To me those are just cabbage rolls and pigs in a blanket are little hot dogs or sausages wrapped in dough. Oh, they also think that "chicken pot pie" is soup! WTF? Chicken pot pie is in a pie crust. I can't even figure out where they hell they got that soup nonsense from. (although it is tasty, it in no way resembles any sort of pie) We always used the term pigs in a blanket for hamburger & rice in cabbage; w/o the cabbage was called porcupines. DH's mom was from PA, and she made the potpie "soup" and gave me the recipe to make for DH when we were first married. He'd always interpreted her name for the dish as Popeye, and he was confused when I called it "your mom's potpie". I had to show him the recipe that she wrote out for me, clearly labelled "Potpie". It didn't have a crust, but it does have rolled strips of noodles cooked in the broth.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jul 13, 2013 19:28:02 GMT -5
Canadians play euchre. Right across the country from what I can tell. Nova Scotians use buddy instead of this guy I don't know, as in "buddy was walking down the street". Eastern Canada says pop, western canada says soda.
Not completely accurate - and I'm speaking as a born & raised Western Canadian.
Nope on the Euchre - never played it and don't know anyone here who does. There may be a 'few' older Western Cdns who play, but it's not all that popular. Hearts or Spades is more likely to be played.
Nope on Western Canada saying "soda" as well. We call it pop.
As for Nova Scotians, wouldn't have a clue.
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Post by Jaguar on Jul 13, 2013 19:38:44 GMT -5
Euchre is played here by just about everyone except me, I'm in Toronto, Ontario.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jul 13, 2013 19:41:57 GMT -5
I've gotten some weird looks for the phrase "a whole passel of...". On the other hand, I had to do a double take the first time somebody asked me when we were going to call calf rope. I'd have said when we were going to holler uncle. I have no idea what any of those mean. And, as far as cabbage rolls/pigs in the blanket are concerned, they are golabki. (This is the plural form of the word, BTW. The singular ends in 'a'.) I speak Polish, but whatever name you want to use that ensures that we're talking about the same thing is fine with me! :-) Don't let my mom hear that you think the meat inside is hamburger, however. She'd be really offended. I can't remember exactly what she used, but I do know she would grind 2 different kinds meat--much higher quality meat than hamburger.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 13, 2013 19:46:21 GMT -5
Oh, they also think that "chicken pot pie" is soup! WTF? Chicken pot pie is in a pie crust. I can't even figure out where they hell they got that soup nonsense from. (although it is tasty, it in no way resembles any sort of pie) We always used the term pigs in a blanket for hamburger & rice in cabbage; w/o the cabbage was called porcupines. DH's mom was from PA, and she made the potpie "soup" and gave me the recipe to make for DH when we were first married. He'd always interpreted her name for the dish as Popeye, and he was confused when I called it "your mom's potpie". I had to show him the recipe that she wrote out for me, clearly labelled "Potpie". It didn't have a crust, but it does have rolled strips of noodles cooked in the broth. Lol on the popeye
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Post by spartan7886 on Jul 13, 2013 21:25:52 GMT -5
I've gotten some weird looks for the phrase "a whole passel of...". On the other hand, I had to do a double take the first time somebody asked me when we were going to call calf rope. I'd have said when we were going to holler uncle. I have no idea what any of those mean. And, as far as cabbage rolls/pigs in the blanket are concerned, they are golabki. (This is the plural form of the word, BTW. The singular ends in 'a'.) I speak Polish, but whatever name you want to use that ensures that we're talking about the same thing is fine with me! :-) Don't let my mom hear that you think the meat inside is hamburger, however. She'd be really offended. I can't remember exactly what she used, but I do know she would grind 2 different kinds meat--much higher quality meat than hamburger. A whole passel of folks would be a lot of people. The second two both mean give up. The first is a Texan phrase, the second more universally American.
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