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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 3:33 pm
  

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I'm getting hungry here..

The generica thing seems to me to be both convenient and sad. Sad to see these cultural differences smoothed out. On the other hand, when you're in a strange place for a short time and don't know what's good, bad..maybe dangerous..and don't have a lot of time to look around, it's handy to have stuff that you're familiar with.


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Arnie:

you folks are weird...


<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/yum.gif" width=15 height=15><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Was that an epiphany or are you just a slow learner?? In other words....No Shit Sherlock!!!! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

<center><FONT COLOR="#000080">--- Edited 1 times, lastly by Larry on Sep 17, 2002 ---</FONT></center>


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by pat:
The generica thing seems to me to be both convenient and sad. Sad to see these cultural differences smoothed out. On the other hand, when you're in a strange place for a short time and don't know what's good, bad..maybe dangerous..and don't have a lot of time to look around, it's handy to have stuff that you're familiar with.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

That, and the "little purple pill" before dinner each night. The BEST dinner we had was another "national" restaurant, in Cahokia, IL... Applebee's, home of the new Honey Pepper Chicken! MMMM-good


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They have Waffle House around here. Knishes-- YUM! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>


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Another question:
Do you carry your groceries in a bag or in a sack?

(I enjoyed the comment about suckers--that's what we call them here, too) <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>


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we did have at one time the question of a poke,bag or sack but not it's always plastic unless one request paper.

We even had "sweet milk" but then it became "milk" and is now "homo".

In Canada, chips are fries, or to put it a better way, when one orders chips with that they will get fries.

and let us not overlook the question of flats, suites and/or apartments


of course for the best in confusion, move to Vancouver British Columbia Canada, East Vancouver is in the east end, the west end is next to it but has nothing to do with West Vancouver which is next to North Vancouver which are both located on the other side of the inlet, There is is North side to Vancouver but there is a south side so three out of four isn't to bad.

gee I think I now understand why Arlo is so popular in Vancouver.


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Wyldflower:

mmmmmmmmmmmm
I like Gyros... and I really don't want to know what's in the sauce! (I believe it's sour cream, cucumber & garlic ...)
But if you're from N'Orleans... I think you'd bypass the ero/gyro/hoagie/sub/grinder argument, and go for muffaletta... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Gyros sauce is yogurt and cucumber (and whatever. And I'll join you fur the muffaletta.

Pat--I'll take the above in a bag, please.


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Groceries go in bags here, although I always kind of liked the word "sack" better. And it's lollipops, but if they were really big they could be suckers as in "all day sucker", and of course if they were tootsie, they were pops.


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for groceries it's a bag, but for potatoes or onions it's a sack. for carrots it's back to a bag.


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by pat:

Groceries go in bags here, although I always kind of liked the word "sack" better. And it's lollipops, but if they were really big they could be suckers as in "all day sucker", and of course if they were tootsie, they were pops.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Which reminds me... out west somewhere (I think it was NM), they advertised "log rolls"... are those tootsie rolls?

I recall a cartoon MANY years ago where Ellie sent her son out for a "sack" of milk! Can you imagine carrying a gallon (or is that a litre) of milk in a sack?

Then tonight while making Michael's dinner, I realized he was eating something very regional, pancakes with an egg over-firm. Of course, there's a BIG difference between Phila and Reading, PA in that eggs over-firm are really "hard" but I don't like them so they "bounce" but everyone looks at me funny when I say over-firm.. so I order them "hard, but with the yoke not too hard".

Of course, Michael could have had flapjacks or hotcakes too <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>


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They sell milk in plastic bags here. When I was growing up I remember getting them. It's much cheaper. Now I just stick with the quart cartons of rice milk though.

Also, what's a knish?

And groceries go in bags here, unless you're going to Aldi's and then they go in boxes. You can get bags, but you have to pay for those. 5cents for paper, 25 for plastic.


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I think the log rolls in question are a soft cnady rolled in nuts and then made into sort of a log roll where a person then buys slices, but I could be wrong.

While we are on the subject of regional differences, let us never overlook smoking, ahh yes the evil cigarettes, California bands them in all public building, which is to say any building that is not private such as a house, a private office or factory is public in accordance with the law. I have also been ordered to not smoke in a parking lot at a flea market as this too is a public place. Utah bans smoking but in the truck stops, the truck drivers are members of a special club and as such they can smoke in their club area, the conditions of membership are that one is a truck driver and happens to be in Utah. Tennessee allows smoking in just about any place other then goverment offices.

speaking of cigarettes, have you noticed the many new brands, here we have Tahoe, $10.58 a carton, compare that to $7 a pack in NYC.

anyway, I have noticed that the short cigarettes of my youth are now gone and the King size is now called the shorts and the 100mm are called Longs and I never see the 101mm any longer, I think they were Virginia Slims, a silly little milimeter longer.


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Around here they are bags & the grocery store either gives ya plastic or asks apaper or plastic. Mike is from a hillbilly area of KY where they say poke. One time he asked me for a paper bag & said gimme a poke. LOL! I was like huh you want a poke & then I remembered. Oh yeah...


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 7:24 am
  

in upstate ny it's bags, lollipops, soda and subs. i do remember that my very first sub was called a hero, but i was in nj at the time. mostly i remember being so confused because my uncle had bought me a sandwich with tossed salad on it. at 7 i thought nj was very weird. i did eventually come to understand the sub concept, but i still think nj is weird...


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by deb:

...i still think nj is weird...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Heehee...

That's why I moved from Jersey to Albany... But Albany is weird too! (I grew up in another weird place ... Long Island)

(edited so I wouldn't seem weird)

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