Rallygirl's Dumb Questions About Regional Differences Thread

[scifiguy94]

So scrapple is kinda like souse meat?

[jimsmegos]

I only know that it's ok to marry your cousin down south........too soon?

Actually the practice has been banned in the past few years. It's a better tax situation if you just shack up.

[Rallygirl]

There's no such thing as dumb questions.Just don't ask what Scrapple is made of(you don't wanna know.)

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!

[scifiguy94]

First cousin?

[mego maniac mark]

I only know that it's ok to marry your cousin down south........too soon?

[pmwasson]

Growing up in the upper mid-west (Minnesota) it seems every house had a basement. Here in Oregon it seems that most smaller home don't have any basement but just a crawlspace. I assume it is because the water-main have to be deeper to prevent freezing. I miss having a basement.

[ScottA]

Having a Southern mother and a Northern father I can name a hundred different things between the 2 regions. And having worked/lived out west and worked/lived out east I can do the same there. Some of the differences are pretty interesting.

[Red Hulk]

There's no such thing as dumb questions.Just don't ask what Scrapple is made of(you don't wanna know.)

[Rallygirl]

Reading the recent southern snow thread, I learned about something new - outdoor faucet covers. Then I learned that not everyone has valves on their water lines. The whole thing got me thinking about regional differences. Because we are from so many areas and such vast backgrounds, I am always learning new and interesting things here.

In the last few years, along with southern plumbing, I learned about sweet potato pies, grits, Sunday garage sales, sausage in spaghetti, Tim Horton's, homefries, and much, much more. However, as my curiosity about these new and fascinating things grows, I often hijack threads with my seemingly endless, and usually silly questions. No more!

Here is my "Dumb Questions About Regional Differences" Thread. Not just for me, but for anyone who has read something in another post and then spent a few minutes scratching his or her head because something was different or unfamiliar.