What do you call it?

[crazypoohbear]

I was reading the paper today and there is a book coming out with local sayings etc.
So I was wondering what do you call things in your neck of the woods?

For instance, do you drink
soda, pop, tonic, coke etc.

do you eat
a hoagie, sub, grinder,etc?

Do you eat
supper or dinner? and what is the difference?
what do you call a pot luck dinner?
Bingo or beano?
In the Boston area we have a rotary not a roundabout.
IF something is great in boston it is "wicked awesome" Wicked cool etc.
So.... what do you have and what do you eat?

[MickeyMousse]

Hmm, in my spot of New York we....

drink soda
eat subs
at dinner
which is pot luck

[PirateLover]

In Philadelphia....

We drink soda or just call it by name (coke or pepsi)

We eat hoagies

We have dinner. I don't know what the difference is, but I don't ever remember calling it "supper."

Pizza is served by the slice and regular pies are served in pieces.

We eat pasta with "gravy" not spaghetti sauce

And as far as rotary/roundabout thing goes... we have the dreaded NJ circles!!! AHHH. Thankfully they are getting rid of a lot of them though.

[where_else]

Hi, here in small town Michigan we drink pop, eat a sub for dinner if it's in the middle of the day or for supper if it's the evening meal, and we would have pot luck at a pot luck . Thanks for asking!

[RedSoxFan]

Soda
Subs
Dinner/Supper --- use both sayings.

We're from Massachusetts and we still use "wicked" when we speak.

[pink]

I'm from New York.

For soft drinks we usually call them Coke or just soda. When I lived in Colorado everyone would say pop.

We never use the word hoagie unless we're making fun of something, we just call it a sub or a sandwhich.

We never say supper, we say dinner. We call a pot luck, a pot luck dinner.

I've never heard someone say "wicked awesome" we usually just say that's great or that's awesome, that's cool.

[Boojum]

In the South, at least where I am:

All sodas are "Cokes." Period. Here's an example: "Do you want a Coke?"

"Yes."

"What kind?" This is when you answer with the actual brand name.

Sub sandwiches are called sandwiches.

Where I grew up, we ate breakfast, dinner, and supper. Where I am now, we eat breakfast, lunch, and supper.

Potlucks are usually called "covered dish" meals.

Great things are usually called great. We pronounced it "graaaaaaaaayt." It almost has two syllables.

Something you didn't ask about are athletic shoes. Where I am, they're referred to as tennis shoes, but this is pronounced "tenny shoes."

[Tinkermom]

DH and I are from South Jersey but have now lived in Kansas for 12 years:

We say SODA in Kansas they say POP.

We say HOAGIE in Kansas they say SUB. We now have a new sub shop near us called "Jersey Mike's" and they have pizza, cheesesteaks and subs hat taste like home!! It is bad because this shop is in walking distance, YUM! Whenever I go in to order I almost always have to stop myself from ordering the Italian HOAGIE and instead have to call it a SUB as that is how it is on the menu. I guess it is "when in Rome..."

We eat dinner - same in Kansas.

Potluck is a potluck - same in Kansas.

We call them CIRCLES (and I hated them in NJ!) in Kansas they are called Roundabouts and luckily we do not have many of them.

Ok, the only thing that my kids have picked up on here in Kansas is calling the candy ice cream topping SPRINKLES!! UGH! I keep telling them they are called JIMMIES not SPRINKLES!!

[sfunicello]

haha being from south jersey with NY parents we never said jimmies, only sprinkles

soda
hoagie
dinner
and again the lovely NJ circles

and a water fountian...my friend from Mass calls it a bubbler (sp?) and always uses the word wicked

[Georgesgirl1]

In the South, at least where I am:

All sodas are "Cokes." Period. Here's an example: "Do you want a Coke?"

"Yes."

"What kind?" This is when you answer with the actual brand name.

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So true!

[citizensnoopy]

I'm a California native ...

We drink soda.
We eat subs (or sandwiches)
It's dinner, not supper.
And everything is, like, awesome.

[pianobabe]

In my neck of the woods we...
Drink Coke
Eat Subs
Our noon time meal during the week is lunch and the night time meal during the week is dinner. On Sunday the noon time meal is dinner and the night time meal is supper.

We just call the circles, traffic circles and luckily we don't have too many.

Also, we call them pot luck dinners or covered dish. That one is interchangable.

[conwayjohn71]

What kind of Coke would you like? I will have a Dr Pepper................

I would like an italian sub with pickles, now my folks were from Philly so everytime a family member comes down or goes up I get to eat a hoagie when they get back, and there is a difference< I PROMISE

We eat dinner,

Bingo is only for old folks down here

We have lots of space so we do not have roundabouts or rotaries, we just have intersections

We say potluck

and if I said wicked, my friends would beat me to a pulp



I always tell everyone one of the thing that are real differnent is:
when you give directions in the north the tell you the mileage, down in Texas we tell you time, think of this if you were driving from Florida to New Mexico, you would be driving in Texas for over 12 hours before you get out of the state from Louisana to New Mexico

[beksy]

In VA/WV (the country areas, not the cities) we have:
pop and then you say the brand name
subs or hoagies depending on the restaurant
our meals are breakfast, dinner, and supper but that is more of a family, small-town thing. If I'm in a bigger town we use lunch and dinner. If I say this around my grandparents I'm "citified"
We have intersections.
potlucks and covered dish dinners are interchangeable.
We never say wicked!

We have also been known to pronounce "creek" like "crick" and say "tater" for "potato"
We have sprinkles.

[DisneyLandMomma]

I love these type of threads!! My hubby is former military and I loved learning where all the other military wives were from and the different ways they said things.

I'm in Southern California....

We drinks sodas
have sandwiches
eat dinner
have potlucks(LOL)
flip flops are thongs
overalls not bibs
we have our pictures done, not made
we Bar-b-que, not grill or cookout. (This one always makes me giggle)

I've only ever seen one "roundabout" and that's what it was called.

we drive on a freeway

And if something's cool....it's like TOTALLY AWESOME. LOL

hmm...that's all I can think of for now...I may have to come back when I think of more!!

[IloveDisney71]

In the coastal region of Alabama:

We drink Coke - not soda

We eat subs

My older family members call it supper and think I'm uppity because I call it dinner - HA

It's called a pot luck

[drummerboy]

Coastal NC here.

Older generations from the country who were used to eating their biggest meal at noon called it dinner and still do. We generally use breakfast, lunch and supper.

We generally use the term 'drink' or Coke.

Before the influx of transplants, you used to be able to ask for 'tea' in a restaurant, and they'd automatically know you wanted it iced and sweet. Now you have to ask for sweet tea.

We say 'sub'.

Fortunately, we don't have traffic circles, so we don't have worry about what to call them. When I lived in South Jersey ages ago, we just called them circles. (I can't remember who was from Gloucester Township, but I was from Pitman--)

We have covered-dish suppers.

If you talk about getting a 'pie' around here, we'll want to know whether you want pumpkin, cherry or lemon meringue. Pizza would not come to mind.

[Tinkerfreak]

Ok here in Maine we have
-soda
-Italians (not subs or Hoagies)
-We used to have rotaries but now they are calling them roundabouts. We don't even need them so not sure why they are there.
-We eat lunch or dinnah at noontime and suppah at night.
-We have bean suppahs not pot lucks. Always includes beans and whatevah else people bring.
-Things ah wicked good
-we have pizza, if you ask for pie you will also be asked if you want apple, pumpkin or blueberry.
-we wear sneakahs and flip flops, if you mention the word thong around here everyone blushes
-we have yahd sales and cellas not tag sales and basements
Thats all I can think of for now.

[LibertyTreeGal]

I have lived in 8 different states and Canada so I no longer know why I call things what I do.

I call each soda by name, but tend to use soda to lump them all together

Hoagies, definitely

I SCRATCH my skin, I do not ITCH it (that drove me crazy when we moved to California). For goodness sakes, an intch is WHY you scratch, not something you do.

I eat dinner at night -- and I hate trying to figure out which meal people are talking about lol.

Potlucks

Crick instead of Creek

And i still tend to call forested areas "the bush" since I grew up for a while in Canada

And I have a funny story about "thong" (flip flop) confusion. Back 23 years ago, thongs were flip flops generally here in the states, I think, but my fellow camp counselors from overseas were sent packing lists that included "thongs for the shower." It was weeks before they asked why Americans had to wear their UNDERWEAR in the shower.

[DisneyDog]

I'm about 10 miles West of Philly.

We drink soda.

Everyone calls the sandwich a hoagie...however, I went to the Unversity of Delaware and they call them subs down there. I've been known to use both terms.

We eat dinner (I've been led to believe that supper is an earlier meal?)

Potluck and bingo.

Oh, and to the earlier poster...in college, we had a lot of classmates from North Jersey. They had never heard the term "jimmies" before. There were many stupid arguments over meaning of that word. So,we decided that "jimmies" were the chocolate ones and "rainbow sprinkles" were the multi-colored ones. I still refer to them like that.

And we never, EVER say "going to the beach." Nope. It's "down the shore." And you go swimming in the "wooder" although I pronounce it wahdder.