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Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 9:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. the season before winter is SUMMER! (remember this is northern california!)
2.avocado
3. casserole
4. creek (pronounced crick - hangover from my aunt joyce from virginia)
5. icing


Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. fall

2. avacado

3. casserole

4. stream

5. frosting or icing

Llkoolaid
Member

08-01-2001

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. fall
2. avacado
3. casserole
4. brook
5. frosting/icing

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fall
Avacado
Casserole
Creek (too small for a river)
Frostig or icing

Max
Member

08-12-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey, Landi, I grew up in Northern California -- in the mountains -- and we had all four seasons.

Oh, and sometimes we did say "crick" along with "ain't". Small town, country ways, I guess.
:-)



Conejo
Member

08-23-2002

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fall
Avacado
casserole
creek
icing

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Autumn
Avocado
Not quite sure what that is, it looks like some kind of pasta dish to me, so that's what I'd call it. Definitely wouldn't call it a casserole, to me a casserole is a meat and veg dish like a stew.
stream, creek if it's smaller
icing

Do some people call an avocado something else?

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
actually for #1, here in the Napa Valley we call the season before winter - Crush. it's right after summer and when everyone picks the grapes. noone here really calls it fall or autumn. it's Spring/Summer/Crush/Winter

Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fall
um... I'm confused by what else this thing could be called?? Does anyone call it anything BUT an avocado??
casserole -- that's funny, Kitt, cause I equate a casserole with pasta, meat and veg, like tuna casserole with egg noodles...
stream
icing.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
All the same as Karen's, except frosting for the last one (or poison, lol).

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Karen, the answer is, yes. But, obviously, no one from "there" has checked in yet.

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nope, no pasta in our casseroles, ever. But we do call the dish that's made in a 'casserole dish' though!

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Autumn
Alligator Pear
Pasta-role
The one in the picture looked liked a River (my determination of stream, creek, river is based on depth, width, and difficulty in crossing)
Frosting
myicon

Karen
Member

09-07-2004

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Alligator pear? wow. I've heard everything now.

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 3:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I learned it when I went to Britain in HS. Since I also learned on that trip that I am allergic to them,that is the name that sticks with me more often than not...cause it definitely bit and attacked me!

myicon

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 4:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1. Fall.
2. Avocado.
3. Casserole.
4. Creek, stream, river (depending on size).
5. Frosting.

Trivia note: Fallbrook, California (just north of San Diego) is the Avocado Capital of the world. No wonder I eat so many avocados each week!

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fall
Avocado
Casserole
Stream
Frosting


Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 8:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fall
Avocado
Casserole
creek or stream
frosting


Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 8:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Avocados

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 8:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So glad to see all of us learning more about other areas of the country/world. This is my offering for the evening. A bit of poking gentle fun at Texans and the way they talk. (Just trying to take some of the heat off of us Mainers.)

Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 8:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I once heard a funny story about an appliance salesman in the midwest. He was selling applicances in the 60/70's. When explaining the colors of the applicances he pronounced avocado:

a (short a)- voke(long o)- a(short a) -doe

(i thought that was a cute story).

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 10:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think this link has a better definition (more accurate) of how the avocado became known as an alligator pear.

And no matter what they are called, they are darned good for you! Yummy, too!

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 6:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tidying up some loose ends here. I forgot to say that doughnuts are also called
“olicooks,” “sinkers,” and “fried cakes.”

Avocados are called “alligator pears” just as Lk pointed out and also “avocado pears.”

"Crush" is a word for fall that I had never heard (haven’t heard of many of these actually). Thanks, Landi, for telling us; it seems like a very apt description and could hold true here in apple country as well.

The reason that I included fall was because it is now officially an “archaic” term in Britain since it is no longer used to describe autumn. Interesting, eh?

Creeks, etc. are also sometimes called “kills” and “rills.”

Think that’s it, but I’ll catch up later, if not.

Today’s What Do You Call...it?

cottage cheese This product is known most often as cottage cheese, but what do you call it?

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rubber boots What do you call this footgear made for mud or rainy weather?

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Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 6:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
uh..cottage cheese like it says
see saw
skunk
rainboots
produce stand