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Fabnsab

Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 08:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pop here in OH. an ex from FL called it soda. we were always at war.


I heard a very important Coke person(prez or something) call it POP so there ya go!

Kitt

Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 10:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I call coke or pepsi "coke", any other drink I call by name, e.g. "7up" or ermmm, well those are the only soft drinks I like.

If I need to get groceries I say I need to go shopping, and if not paying attention I'd say supermarket, although I have now americanized it to "grocery store". I can't get used to saying "shopping cart", I still say "trolley".

The other words, for me (English), are "fridge", "marge" and "settee".

Amchess

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 05:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I always put the cokes in the ice box too, which is what I grew up hearing my mom say. I have retrained myself to say fridge tho, but any soft drink is still a coke (prob from the years in Texas). And I say Missourah which aggravates my daughter - but it's the way I learned to say it and it just pops out before I can think of saying Missouree!

Hootyhoot

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 06:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Can we compare notes on what we call sandwiches made with a 6 or 12 inch section of French bread, in varities called meatball, sausage, Italian (cold cuts, cheese, etc.), or vegetarian? Here in central Massachusetts, I call them subs or grinders.

I call my Coke Coke and I don't want anything else! When I order a Coke in a restaurant and the waitress says, Will Pepsi be OK? I say NO! (But then I agree to settle ...)

Kitt

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
For me a "sandwich" is made of two slices of square/rectangular bread. I would call a small french bread sandwich a "roll", but the longer ones I now call a sub, because of Subways. In England I think we'd call it a bit of french stick, but it's not that common to make sandwiches out of french bread.

Lkunkel

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 01:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hooty: I call my carmelized carbonated beverages "Pepsi" and hate to settle for the C-Word.

I generally call the items you describe subs, and have since I was a child. A sandwich, to me involves square pieces of bread--either two for a whole sandwich, one for a half-sandwich. Unless we're saying an open-faced sandwich, which only has a bread base.

I purchase the ingredients from the grocery store, pay for them with money from my bag (I am currently using a small backpack; previously, I used a purse) and haul them home in my push-cart where they are placed in the fridge, freezer, or pantry.

I grew up eating breakfast, supper and dinner; when I went to school, I learned about lunch. Now I tend to interchange them and drive DH nutty.

Kitt

Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 03:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
For me, my money is inside a small purse, which is inside a handbag. Wallets are what men carry, not women. I'm exactly the same as you, Lkunkel, with meal names.

It always surprises me how people vary so much in what they call things.

Amchess

Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 04:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If we had sandwiches at noon, it was lunch and dinner was at night. If we had a big meal at noon, it was dinner and we had supper at night. : )

Lobster

Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 04:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've lived in Boston my whole life. Growing up,it was always tonic. My brother lived in the midwest for a year and came back calling it soda and it kind of stuck with me. A lot of people around here, having been transplanted from somewhere else, call it soda and to hear someone say tonic surprises me.

I carry my checkbook, change purse, keys, butts, etc. in my bag. Some of my friends carry pocketbooks, and some carry purses.

We usually had breakfast, lunch and supper. Dinner was what we had on Sundays, sometime after what would be lunchtime and before suppertime.

A sandwich is made with two pieces of bread and anything in a french bread like product is most definitely a sub.

I'm not sure, but I think Oleo is what margarine was before it was called margarine. My mother calls it oleo on occasion still.

And lastly, I go to the laundrymat, drink from a fountain, and carry my groceries home from the store or grocery store or supermarket depending on my mood, in a bag (short a). I then put the perishables in the fridge or refridgerator.

Ophiliasgrandma

Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 04:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
FYI

It is Ore-E-Gun


not Ore-E-Gone (bad,bad,bad)

Halfunit

Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 05:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmm... I say OR-uh-gahn.