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Fumar That's frappe!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by SwampCreature

The other kind of "mango", explained to me by a person who drank "pop".

How you get mango as the name for a bell pepper is beyond me. I imagine a recipe might come out quite a bit different using the wrong kind of mango. I guess that would be called "fusion cooking" today

But my favorite colloquialisms are the ones for those long sandwiches. I was raised calling it a zep (zeppelin), but later learned the other terms: sub, hoagie, grinder, hero, etc. Little did I know how localized the term zep was (around Norristown, PA).

I really never heard of mango as being a sweet fruit until I was past being a "hosenbruncer" (sp?). (By the way, Dictionary.com gives a second definition of mango as a" sweet pepper" but adds, "The Ohio Valley".)

When I was a kid the only thing we ate on a long bun was a hot dog or a brat or a mett. AND if we said the long name for them we said braht-vurst or mett-vurst.

[JohnN]

"Regarding beverages, there's "pop" in the Midwest, and "soda" in the East. "

In the south, all carbonated beverages are "coke" regardless of flavor.
And in Arkasnas , y'all is still prevalent, count on it

dinner on the ground is called a potluck.
I won't yet try the "squirrel brains 'n eggs"

I do like this saying:
"even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then"

and once when I visited New Jersey on business (I worked for AT&T)
someone started making fun of Arkansas, asking if the people wore shoes yet.

I replied with a few facts:
1) Arkansas has the largest brokerage off of Wall Street (Stephens)
2) Arkansas is home base to Wal-Mart, world's largest retailer
3) Jerry Jones is an Arkie and owns the Dallas Cowboys, one of the top valued sports franchises
4) Bill Clinton was born in Arkansas

then I asked what NJ had done lately, just to be ugly.

[bkcunningham1]

One of my first jobs outside of the region where I was reared was working for a boss from downtown Boston. After a couple of weeks of enthusiastically
working for someone I thought, at the time, was one of the most unappreciative people on God's green earth, we nearly came to blows.

He finally pulled me aside and asked me what I meant when he would need something done, and I'd quickly respond, " I don't care to make that call." " I don't care to write that story." " I don't care to "...do whatever he asked.

Of course, I meant I did not mind doing whatever he had asked. He thought I didn't want to do the chore and was begrudgingly doing whatever he'd asked.

I was young and carefree, eager to learn and do any job. I didn't have a care in the world. I didn't care for him much at the time; but I grew to care for him.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by JohnN

"Regarding beverages, there's "pop" in the Midwest, and "soda" in the East. "

In the south, all carbonated beverages are "coke" regardless of flavor.
And in Arkasnas , y'all is still prevalent, count on it

dinner on the ground is called a potluck.
I won't yet try the "squirrel brains 'n eggs"

I do like this saying:
"even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then"

and once when I visited New Jersey on business (I worked for AT&T)
someone started making fun of Arkansas, asking if the people wore shoes yet.

I replied with a few facts:
1) Arkansas has the largest brokerage off of Wall Street (Stephens)
2) Arkansas is home base to Wal-Mart, world's largest retailer
3) Jerry Jones is an Arkie and owns the Dallas Cowboys, one of the top valued sports franchises
4) Bill Clinton was born in Arkansas

then I asked what NJ had done lately, just to be ugly.

Good for you, John. I am frequently annoyed at people who make fun of other peoples home State and have never visited in that area. You were right to point out their error, because " They can't learn any younger".

[Hawkwind]

Ending every sentence with the word "right". A director at the company I use to work for would use this all the time. It was a local thing to the KC area and soon became popular with all his managers. During one meeting he used the word "right" 68 times in a 50 minute meeting. We had a departmental pool as to how many times he would say it and I was the official counter that day. During the same meeting 3 people hit bingo's playing bsbingo.

For anyone under 25 having the word "Dude" in the sentence.

[ssmith]

We haved lived in several Midwest states. When we moved to St Louis MO, I soon learned that to call someone a "Hoosier" was a put-down....you know... not the brightest lightbulb ...so to speak. Now back home, in Indiana, we like being called Hoosiers.

Also Y'all is alive and well in St Louis; but I decided we had to get my husband "outta there" when he started using "ain't". I had to remind him that he has an Engineering Degree from Purdue University and perhaps that made him sound uneducated. (OOOPs didn't mean to offend if that is a part of your speech... it simply is not used in Indiana).

My sister -who lives in Massachusettes- makes fun of those from Indiana (eventhough she was raised there too) who put r's in words like "warsh the dishes" instead of "wash the dishes". I say to her "we figure those in Boston aren't using the r's so we might as well.

[18togo]

It's amazing how even a few miles makes a difference. When I moved from Central PA to North Central PA, a distance of a whole 50 miles, but up the mountain, I learned many new sayings. Instead of chili dogs they eat Texas hots, to agree that they have done the same thing, they say "So don't I", they call anyone from downstate a flat lander. There are even ones who speak with a hillbilly drawl. You know that twangy kind of voice that sounds like Peter Brady when he sang When it's time to Change.

Whoever said Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh in the West, Philadelphia in the East, and Arkansas in the middle had it right.

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by JohnN

"Regarding beverages, there's "pop" in the Midwest, and "soda" in the East. "

In the south, all carbonated beverages are "coke" regardless of flavor.
And in Arkasnas , y'all is still prevalent, count on it

dinner on the ground is called a potluck.
I won't yet try the "squirrel brains 'n eggs"

I do like this saying:
"even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then"

and once when I visited New Jersey on business (I worked for AT&T)
someone started making fun of Arkansas, asking if the people wore shoes yet.

I replied with a few facts:
1) Arkansas has the largest brokerage off of Wall Street (Stephens)
2) Arkansas is home base to Wal-Mart, world's largest retailer
3) Jerry Jones is an Arkie and owns the Dallas Cowboys, one of the top valued sports franchises
4) Bill Clinton was born in Arkansas

then I asked what NJ had done lately, just to be ugly.

I went to Univesity of Denver my first year in College. When I told people I was from Atlanta, you wouldn't believe how many people asked me if I lived on a plantation! It's funny sometimes what people "know" about places they've never been.

[JohnN]

Pturner,
I thought this was a funny one. I had some Europeans (Dutch) come into town (Atlanta) for a meeting and I was the social guy, took 'em out to dinner and such. I'd gone there on business and knew these guys, so they were "friends" and we enjoyed each others company.

I took them to a pretty nice restuarant (on the expense voucher of course LOL) and there was some kind of "corn" thing as the vegetable of the day.

They kept saying "corn?? what is this corn" and I was trying to explain what corn looks like. Finally, one of them got it, like a light bulb over his head, and he said

"Corn!!! We call it maize. That's what we feed the pigs!"

and we all just busted a gut laughing.

Originally Posted by Pturner

I went to Univesity of Denver my first year in College. When I told people I was from Atlanta, you wouldn't believe how many people asked me if I lived on a plantation! It's funny sometimes what people "know" about places they've never been.

Being from Oklahoma, I have been asked if the indians still live in teepees, and if we still get around on horses. Of course, the answer is that teepees do exist (but only for tourists), and people still ride horses - a lot, but they usually have to get to the horses in their cars (or, more commonly, in their pickups).