Rallygirl's Dumb Questions About Regional Differences Thread

[Rallygirl]

OK, where do you stand-
bag vs sack
sneakers vs tennis shoes vs runners
hot cakes vs pancakes vs griddle cakes
rubber band vs gum band
soda vs pop vs calling everything "coke"
sub vs grinder vs hoagie
yard sale vs tag sale
Italian ice vs water ice (I don't think anyone outside of Philly says water ice)

Bag
Tennis shoes
Pancakes
Rubber band
Pop
Sub
Garage sale, no matter where it is held
I don't know what either Italian ice or water ice is

[Brazoo]

I LOVE the name Otter Pops, by the way. WAAAAAY funner name than Freezies!

[Brazoo]

This might be helpful!

[Brazoo]

For me-
tea = hot tea (the way, BTW, the drink cam about)
iced tea = hot tea that is made cold
sweet tea = a southern thing were a TON of sugar is added and served cold. Almost syrup-y.

Yeah, for me tea means hot. Then iced tea. I do want to try this sweet tea now.

OK, where do you stand-
bag vs sack
sneakers vs tennis shoes vs runners
hot cakes vs pancakes vs griddle cakes
rubber band vs gum band
soda vs pop vs calling everything "coke"
sub vs grinder vs hoagie
yard sale vs tag sale
Italian ice vs water ice (I don't think anyone outside of Philly says water ice)

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?
SNOW CONE!!!

[cjefferys]

"Timmies" is painful for me to hear for some reason too! Also, that coffee stinks - I have no idea why half the people I know seem to be addicted to it.

"Mickey D's" for McDonald's and "Crappy Tire" for Canadian Tire irritate the hell out of me also. And there was that brief period in the 90s were people called pizza "za" without irony. Ugh!!!

I'm with you on all of that!

OK, where do you stand-
bag vs sack
sneakers vs tennis shoes vs runners
hot cakes vs pancakes vs griddle cakes
rubber band vs gum band
soda vs pop vs calling everything "coke"
sub vs grinder vs hoagie
yard sale vs tag sale
Italian ice vs water ice (I don't think anyone outside of Philly says water ice)

-bag
-sneakers
-pancakes
-rubber bands, or in Canada they are often called "elastics"
-pop (calling every kind of soft drink "coke" just seems insane )
-sub ("grinder"? To me, that's a 70's term for a porn film!)
-yard sale (or garage sale)
-I really don't know what Italian ice or water ice is?

[HardyGirl]

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.

[jwyblejr]

The ranch dressing thing as a dip was started long ago by Hidden Valley Ranch. At least it seems that way to me.

[Evel KMego]

In Canada it's popular to buy milk in bags. You use this to slice a corner off the bag so you can pour it.

4 Liters comes in a family sized 3-pack, like this:

They tried to push the milk in a bag thing in the Midwest in the 90"s and it didn't go over very well, so it disappeared very quickly!

[Red Hulk]

Here in Kentucky, McDonald's has biscuits and gravy on their breakfast menu. When my wife tried to order this in Detroit, the guy at the counter nearly had a brain hemmorage.

They also had McRib on the menu full time, and something called a "Big Mac Jr.".

Chris

Hardee's serves Biscuits and Gravy here at breakfast.I also remember Otter Pops and Flav-Or Ice.

[Monsterama2000]

The grassy area between the street and the sidewalk is called a devilstrip here in Akron, OH.

[piecemaker]

Dinner vs Supper = Supper,its only dinner if its a seven course meal served with Grey Poupon,but of course.

[vintage spideyfan]

Unfortunately, lots of people around here eat scrapple, its close cousin balkenbrij, and head cheese. My mom is a big fan of the stuff. Me? Blech!

Never heard of balkenbrij. I am familiar with scrapple, though only because I have seen it on TV. My father and grandfather both enjoyed head cheese. I will also admit that bagged milk is blowing my little mind...

[ScottA]

This whole sweat tea thing is blowing my mind a bit. Is it the same thing as iced tea?

Pretty much. Here's the deal on tea for me.

My northern father (and my relatives there) drink unsweet tea with ice. They don't really do hot tea where he is from in Michigan.
My southern mother (and said relatives) drink sweet tea with ice. They also like sun tea (which is putting tea bags in a pitcher and letting the sun make it. Usually only done in the summer).
My wife drinks hot tea in the winter. She has a glass now.
There are also varying degrees of "sweetness" people in the south like. Restaurants such as McDs, Burger King and Wendy's have different tasting tea based on how much sugar they use.
If my brother comes home my mom can have 4 different tea pitches in her fridg. One for her, one for my wife who doesn't like as much sugar, one for my brother who loves twice as much as everyone else and one for my dad who has unsweet.

What's ironic is I hate tea, period - sweet or unsweet, lol.

My favorite difference has always been pop vs. soda (or coke). I'll call it pop just to make my Dad feel like he's home. My son got a kick at seeing the isle sign at a store during Mego Meet calling it pop.

[piecemaker]

For me-
tea = hot tea (the way, BTW, the drink cam about)
iced tea = hot tea that is made cold
sweet tea = a southern thing were a TON of sugar is added and served cold. Almost syrup-y.

OK, where do you stand-
bag vs sack
sneakers vs tennis shoes vs runners
hot cakes vs pancakes vs griddle cakes
rubber band vs gum band
soda vs pop vs calling everything "coke"
sub vs grinder vs hoagie
yard sale vs tag sale
Italian ice vs water ice (I don't think anyone outside of Philly says water ice)

bag
tennis shoes
pancakes
rubber band
pop
sub
yard sale
what?

[Wee67]

And they dip everything on Gods green earth in ranch dressing!

I think that is becoming a national thing. When I visit my wife's relatives in northern Idaho, they do the same thing. I'm waiting for them to start mainlining it!