Triple deckers are also called tenement houses in RI. Obviously people know about the Quahog and Clam interchange. Small clams are little necks of course. The soft shell being steamers and larger hard shelled being the quahog. Also the home town of the fictional RI family on Family Guy.
Cabinet versus milk shake. Coffee milk and coffee milk syrup are staples as well. There’s the great AutoCrat versus Eclipse coffee syrup debate.
Also a regional thing for sure if every person giving directions will make sure it’s notated by the store or factory no longer there.
Go down Main Street to where the Benny’s used to be and then right at the light where the old Cumby’s (Cumberland Farms gas mart) was and once you get on Reservoir Ave look for the building where Burger Chef used to be, that’s the new doctors office.
This one set of directions could include something that closed last year, one that moved across the street five years ago and lastly hasn’t been there for 30 years. Lol.
I don’t know… I think of gibbons as a type of monkey but I doubt that’s what your dad was eating with cheese. Hmm… some sort of sliced vegetable like tomato slices or cucumber slices?
@showmom858 I grew up with calling the freeways in Southern Ca by name. I lived with my Mom off the San Diego freeway. My Mom took the Harbor freeway to work in downtown. I took the Santa Monica freeway to work. I no longer go to LA much so I still call the Santa Monica and Harbor freeways by name as I don’t know the numbers.
I tend to use “the” before the Hwy number sometimes and sometimes not. @dietz199 near Santa Barbara maybe they don’t use “the” 101 since they really only have one Hwy. when I go to the Santa Ynez Valley one might ask are you taking 101 or the Pass. Or down to LA are you taking 101 or the Coast Hwy.
Grew up on Hostess products, drank from a drinking fountain. Ordered a soda. Pushed a shopping cart at the grocery store.
Please? = could you repeat that?
Spicket = outdoor water faucet
Crick = a flow of water located in the country
Creek = a flow of water in a suburban park
This Tuesday = a Tuesday within 7 days
Next Tuesday = Tuesday more than 7 days away
@kiddie, I wait ‘on line’ - always have. Got my start in Brooklyn so I sat on the stoop (and played stoopball), too. In our house we had ‘gravy’ on Sundays over various shapes of ‘macaroni’ which my grandmother often made herself. The gravy was made from meat (meatballs, sausage, bracciole, etc.). At other times, particularly Fridays, we would have a marinara or seafood ‘sauce’ when no meat was involved. Soda means carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soft drinks includes iced teas, juices, and lemonades. Upstate meant above NYC, Downstate only meant the medical center in Brooklyn. We go ‘down the shore’ whenever we go to a New Jersey beach (spend 2 weeks down the shore every July).
Yoopers (residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula) and Trol-s (residents of the Lower Peninsula). Can’t write out the word because CC banned it. You know, the thing that lived under the bridge in Three Billy Goats Gruff (because those of us in the Lower Peninsula live “under” the Mackinac Bridge).
Illinois has a “downstate”—to Chicagoans, it includes every part of Illinois outside the Chicago metro area or “Chicagoland”, even if located west or north of Chicago. But there’s no “upstate.”
Yoopers (from Michigan’s Upper Peninsular or the UP, sometimes pronounced “da Yoop”) say the entire Lower Peninsula of Michigan is “downstate,” but there’s no corresponding “upstate.” People from the southern portions of Michigan where most of the people live say the northern portions of the state are “Up North,” but they sometimes exclude the entire Upper Peninsula from that. Everyone simply calls it “the UP.” Connecting the two peninsulas is “the Bridge,” more formally the Mackinac Bridge (pronounced “MACK-in-naw”). Obviously Michigan has many bridges, but if you simply say “the Bridge” most people will know which one you’re referring to.
People in NYC think Westchester is upstate, but those of us in Westchester know that upstate is somewhere north of us. I think north of Peekskill, which is the end of a one of the Metro North commuter rail branches. I’m not a native though so what do I know.
cshell2- need to know what “dugway” is. Never heard of it in the rest of southern WI.
The Belgians gave NE Wisconsin booyah- basically a chicken soup.
The state has Fish Fry-s, any other state have them? Basically fish (lake perch and others NE WI, ocean perch in south), coleslaw and fries or potato salad plus rye bread- on Fridays. Strong Catholic region meatless day tradition. Do not confuse them with Door County fish boils.
Has anyone mentioned “light a shuck?” My dad said that all the time. “We need to light a shuck!” meant “We need to get going!”
Growing up in Texas, we always called it “tea” or maybe “iced tea” (“iced” was usually implied). It freaks me out when I go home and hear “sweet tea” now. What??
The state has Fish Fry-s, any other state have them? Basically fish (lake perch and others NE WI, ocean perch in south), coleslaw and fries or potato salad plus rye bread- on Fridays. Strong Catholic region meatless day tradition. Do not confuse them with Door County fish boils.
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In my neck of the woods, you will see clambakes (although lobster is the star of the show) and Maine is known for its community bean pole suppers.
Putting sugar in iced tea is just gross ;-). One needs the label (sweet tea) to be able to avoid the stuff. (I guess I can relent and say that this is just my opinion rather than plain fact… LOL).
You know, the thing that lived under the bridge in Three Billy Goats Gruff (because those of us in the Lower Peninsula live “under” the Mackinac Bridge).