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The ranch dressing thing as a dip was started long ago by Hidden Valley Ranch. At least it seems that way to me.Comment
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Wow, has this thread been busy!
Ok, I remember Flavor-Ice, but IIRC, it was longer than Otter Pops. (I thought Otter Pops was a national brand!)
I love hot tea, usually some cool dessert flavor, like vanilla caramel, w/ sugar and canned (evaporated) milk. I love sun tea and usually make a fruit tea flavor for it, like berry or peach, and serve it cold. One of my favorite drinks is raspberry "Peace Tea" (by the Coca Cola Company). I have one almost every day. It has less sugar than soda. If I have plain iced-tea, (w/o some flavor like raspberry), I like it w/ sugar and lemon.
To answer Wee67, I say:
bag
sneakers
pancakes
rubber band
soda
sub (what happened to hero sandwich as a choice?)
yard sale
Italian Icee (not ice, icee!)
And Earth2Chris, and Italian Icee (which is different than a sno-cone), is ice ground so fine, its consistency is almost like creamy snow, w/ flavor in it. There's no milk in it though, It's served w/ an ice-cream scoop in a gathered paper cup. Typically sold at pizza places in NYC and other parts of the east coast."Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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I'm with you on all of that!
-bag
-sneakers
-pancakes
-rubber bands, or in Canada they are often called "elastics"
-pop (calling every kind of soft drink "coke" just seems insane
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-sub ("grinder"? To me, that's a 70's term for a porn film!)
-yard sale (or garage sale)
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Yeah, for me tea means hot. Then iced tea. I do want to try this sweet tea now.
Bag
Sneakers (for casual shoes) sometimes running shoes to specify shoes made more for exercise or track
Pancakes
Rubber band (or as cjeffery says elastics - I've even heard elastic bands)
Soda or pop - mainly soda, I think because I drink mostly soda water (also sometimes called seltzer water) I'm pretty sure I remember being a teenager in a small US diner and asking for a Coke and being asked 'what kind?' - which really confused me.
Sub (grinder?!!! That's a new one! Hoagie is a word I heard for the first time on the Cosby Show)
Garage sale and yard sale both get used - maybe people without garages feel like it's false advertising?
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This might be helpful!
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I LOVE the name Otter Pops, by the way. WAAAAAY funner name than Freezies!Comment
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Okay, how about these (I'll put the one I generally use first):
convenience store, corner store, or corner shop
purse, handbag, or pocketbook (there could be more of these I think...)
washroom, or bathroom (or others?)
"when I was in grade 2" or "when I was in first grade"
I can't think of any more off-hand, but those ones seem to come up a fair amount with my American friends.
Also, pronouncing the word clique "click" always confuses me. In Toronto this is generally pronounced "cleek" which I guess is a UK influence.Comment
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I live on sweet tea. The wife and I drink it by the gallon. It keeps me from drinking a lot of pop. Sure it has sugar and caffeine, but not all that other gunk.
And we call soda pop or cola, "pop".
Clique is "click".
A convenience store is often called that, or honestly just a gas station.
Restrooms are often called bathrooms, even when there is no bath, like a public restroom.
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Up here in Ontario, Canada
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hot tea = tea
cold tea = ice tea (cold tea with sugar and lemon)
bag vs sack = bag
sneakers vs tennis shoes vs runners = running shoes
hot cakes vs pancakes vs griddle cakes = pancakes (occasionally flapjacks and McDonald's around here calls them Hot Cakes on the menu)
rubber band vs gum band = elastic band or elastics ("Hey, you have any elastics lying around?")
soda vs pop vs calling everything "coke" = pop
sub vs grinder vs hoagie = sub (also heard them called a hero sandwich but not around here)
yard sale vs tag sale = yard sale
Italian ice vs water ice = sherbert
And of course you have to add an ", eh?" at the end of everything (So you like those there Mego dolls, eh? Whatta dork.)
- Marty
P.S. If you want to know just how far the English language has fallen around where I live go to YouTube and search for "Go for a rip". That is EXACTLY how my two step sons and my oldest daughter speaks. I had to get one of them to translate the video for me.Last edited by ubermanx; Jan 30, '14, 9:57 AM.Comment
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Ok, apparently NO ONE read my last reply b/c I do explain what Italian Icees are (and no, they're not sherbet, Ubermanx)."Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."Comment
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-convenience store
-purse
-I use both washroom and bathroom pretty much equally
-"grade 2" -pretty sure this is strictly a Canadian thing. We also don't use the terms "Freshman", "Sophomore", etc in high school. It's just Grade 9, Grade 10, etc
I've never heard clique pronounced "cleek" before. But I've seen it spelled "click" many times on various forums, including here.
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