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Old 08-10-2020, 07:07 PM
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IN Rochester, we don't call them hamburgers, they're just hamburgs.
And yea we called hot dogs just hots but if they were made from pork and were white, we called 'em white hots or porkers. And go figure out this one. The area down by Lake Ontario is spelled Charlotte, like the city in North Carolina, but the locals pronounce it Shalott.
And don't forget Chili, NY - pronounced CHI-LIE not CHILL-EE