What do you call it?

[tinkwest]

Lived in California all my life.

We drink soda.
Eat sandwiches.
Have a barbecue, sometimes in conjunction with a potluck.
Serve dinner.
Stop at an intersection (never even seen a roundabout/circle).
Drive on a freeway.
Order pizza.
Wear tennis shoes.
Wash clothes.
Know they're jimmies, but call them sprinkles.
Drink from a drinking fountain.
Call an ambulance.

Now . . . for flip flops. I've never called them flip flops in my life although many people I now know do call them that.
When I was a kid In southern California we called them beach walkers. Sometimes we would call them shower shoes (a word picked up by my uncle when he was in the Navy). When I was a teenager in northern California I switched to calling them thongs, which was what most of my friends called them. (Didn't want to be different). When I moved back to southern California and met my future husband, who had just moved to the mainland from Hawaii, I started calling them slippers - the "local" name for them. They are still slippers to me and my immediate family and many friends.

Now . . . do you put things in a bag or a sack?

[DisneyWithoutTheSpin]

- typically use the name of the soft drink, i.e., coke, pepsi, dr pepper, etc.
- hoagie or sub used interchangeably
- always refer to it as dinner, although my parents said supper when i was growing up, not sure when I changed
- pot luck dinner = leftovers
- Bingo
- Way Cool
- Pizza and wings are very popular, Italian restaurants, Sausage & Peppers, Steamed Clams, Pierogi, ethnic church bazaar food
- I personally have become a fan of sushi / sashimi

[DisneyLandMomma]

I'm back...

So I guess it's just my family that still calls them thongs. LOL

we take out the trash
we wear jammies or pjs
we wear panties, undies, chonies and not skivies like my MIL says.
we call it pizza
we go to the store for groceries and use a cart
we go to the movies or show
we say car accident not a wreck
I use a bag

[DMApixie]

I'm back too...

Whenever I slip and call them thongs I get a strange look from my teenaged DD's! I remember as a kid camping at Doheney Beach we used to also call them Zories. (I think that was a brand name - but it was interchangable with thongs)

We wear jammies or pj's too
panties has morphed into chonies
a pie is a dessert, never think of pizza
we wear tennies (ten-eez)
have a scoop of ice cream
I use a bag
Oh, and it's a tow-truck, not a wrecker

[drummerboy]

If somebody gets in a wreck, we'll call rescue first, then the wrecker.

On our feet, we wear tennis shoes, no matter if they're Reebok running shoes or whatever. DW generally puts on her bedroom shoes instead of slippers, although I use them interchangeably.

Since we've only been to WDW, we generally just say we're 'going to Disney'.

[Mousefever]

I can't believe that no one from Pittsburgh has answered.

Pop
gum bands = rubber bands
jagger bushes = pricker bushes
being nebby = being nosey
warsh = wash
red up = clean up
jimmies = sprinkles

Of course, Pittsburgh pronunciation is strange too. I can't think of how to spell the way Pittsburghers say down town. If anyone can think of a way, feel free to help me out.

Amy

[garymacd]

Here in my part of Canada, we eat subs washed down with pop that we got out of the fridge.

French Fries are equally called chips here, although that seems to be fading away.

I once made a mistake in Philadelphia. I was asked if I wanted a Philly Steak sandwich "wit".

So I told him a joke.

Really sad.

[PrettyMinnie]

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.

I'm about the same area as you. So everything is the same. We say "rainbow sprinkles" and "chocolate sprinkles."

We are actually not Jersey Shore people so we say "going to the beach." But I agree, NO ONE says "going to the beach."

And I say water. My mom always made us say it that way.

[princessjojo]

I was at my son's school the other day and a mom was asking her son did he remember to bring home his "crayolas." I have always called them crAy-ons but my mom called them "crou-ons" which also sounds like "crowns."

I get my H2O from the faucet, not the tap.

We were talking about this one the other day...pants, slacks or britches commonly used by older folks in the south, my grandfather specifically.

The funniest thing though...One of the doctors in our hospital is of course like many from overseas. He is actually from Gaza and spent a short amount of time in Ga. with his wife, also from Gaza. But when you talk with him, he says that us contry folks, "y'all are all crazy." One of our patients said it was the first time he had heard anyone from the desert use y'all.

Some keep the spare tire in the boot of the car not the trunk.

[alphamommy]

Until this thread, I'd never heard flip-flops called anything else.

As for me, I would call a wrecker or a tow truck to a wreck or an accident. This wreck could happen on an expressway or freeway (interchangeable, although I use the first one more), or just a regular road.

I also want to point out that there are "subs" and "sandwiches", and these are not the same thing. If it's on a long bun, it's a "sub". If it's on bread or a round bun, it's a "sandwich".

Pizza is pizza, and pie is a dessert. You can have a piece or a slice of either.

I call any type of sneaker a tennis shoe, or tennies.

Someone else mentioned sweet tea. I grew up in a transplanted southern family, and was about 12 before I even knew that people drank tea without sugar. Unsweetened tea tastes like some sort of medicine to me. On the other hand, cornbread NEVER had sugar in it at our house.

[citizensnoopy]

Back for more. Gotta represent CA!

I've actually never heard the term "chonies" --- only panties or undies.
Pie equals dessert, not pizza.
Flip-flops is more commonly said than thongs.
It's a grocery store, not a market, and we use a cart.
Pajamas or jammies or PJs
Car accident, not wreck
Bag, not sack
Freeway
Regarding "sub" versus "sandwich" ... a sub is a type of sandwich. When I go to Subway, I order a sandwich. I would never call it a sub (though I've heard a rare few of my fellow Californians do this).

[pixiesmimi]

Until this thread, I'd never heard flip-flops called anything else.

As for me, I would call a wrecker or a tow truck to a wreck or an accident. This wreck could happen on an expressway or freeway (interchangeable, although I use the first one more), or just a regular road.

I also want to point out that there are "subs" and "sandwiches", and these are not the same thing. If it's on a long bun, it's a "sub". If it's on bread or a round bun, it's a "sandwich".

Pizza is pizza, and pie is a dessert. You can have a piece or a slice of either.

I call any type of sneaker a tennis shoe, or tennies.

Someone else mentioned sweet tea. I grew up in a transplanted southern family, and was about 12 before I even knew that people drank tea without sugar. Unsweetened tea tastes like some sort of medicine to me. On the other hand, cornbread NEVER had sugar in it at our house.

The first time we drove to WI from AL, we stopped at a WI Cracker Barrel and asked for sweet tea. They said they didn't sell sweet tea but she would bring us some sweetener. Yuk! That tastes nasty! My husband told her that they were supposed to be a country restaurant (Southern Country?) and they needed to learn how to make sweet tea. My mother won't drink tea because she says it tastes like a medicine she had to take when she was a girl, so I understand where you are coming from. I don't drink it unless it is made sweet to begin with. We never put sugar in our cornbread either.

[crazypoohbear]

flip flops and thongs were always the same when I was little. til thongs became underwear for the world to see
I just wear sneakers.
my dad use to call the refridgerator the
"ice box"
we call it the fridge

SO is it a
Tee shirt or an undershirt?
are they hospital Johnnies or gowns?
sidewalk or walkway?
water fountain or bubbler?

Nylons, pantyhose or stockings?

[Kennywife]

Down here in T-town (Tulsa, OK), it's:

Pop
Pizza
We eat subs and grinders
flip flops are flip flops. Thongs are well, just that.
It's a fridge
pjs' or jammies
We have underpasses, overpasses, highways, and roads. We call stones "rocks."
People go out south for fun. Although downtown has been growing in the last couple of years
During summer, everyone goes to Riverside Park
It would be considered blasphemy to drink tea without sugar here! LOL!
Pizza is dipped in ranch. Actually, anything that can be dipped in ranch is.
The fair and Oktoberfest are the highlights of the fall. We are a festival community. We go to Mayfest, Oktoberfest, KidsWorld (my mil works on that yearly), and the Scottish Games.

Anna

[crazypoohbear]

You dip PIZZA in Ranch dressing???!!!
WHY?

[PAYROLL PRINCESS]

I grew up calling all soda "Coke" until we settled in MA, then it became soda and then you say which kind.
A sub
Dinner is eaten out unless it's for an occasion such as Easter Dinner.
supper is eaten at home at night.
I remember Zoris too but they are flip flops. Thongs are those little pieces of dental floss which are sometimes worn on the beach, sometimes by people who don't own a full length mirror!
and they are rotaries, not roundabouts (except on the GPS)
And it's the tow truck but if you are Keith, it's the wrecker. Why would you call it a wrecker when it's not the one that did the wrecking? Isn't it there to pick up the wreck?

[DisneyLandMomma]

Pizza with ranch is YUM-MO!!! We do that here too!

[gueli]

This is a fun one-

typical for NY-

we eat subs
drink soda
have breakfast lunch and dinner
Pizza is an amazing thing (its in the water)
Pie is dessert
Bagels do not come come from a grocery store in a bag- you get them at a bagel place (store)[and yes its the water]
thongs are not shoes
a creek is not a crick
we have a couple of traffic circles, but mostly intersections. We also do not understand why jersey drivers can't make a left turn & need a cloverleaf to figure it out
WE Do NOT have an accent (the rest of the world does)
and here on long island- we do not live IN our town, we live ON an island (as in where do you live. - I live on Long island, so where do you live - I live in saratoga)
we have City-its [I am spelling it as you would say it](cidiots = city idiots who don't know how to drive or where they are going, even though they have a house in the hamptons.)
When one crashes their car we call the cops then we call a tow truck, although it is interchangable with a wrecker( for the cidiot who drove the Mercedes into the tree)
Tee shirt - an undershirt could be a tee shirt that is worn underneath another shirt
they are hospital gowns
its a sidewalk (not a driveway for another cidiot)
water fountain
A sub is a type of sandwich- but usually a sandwich is made with bread or a roll
they are crAy-ons (usualy made at the crayola factory, which is a great place to visit when your in easton, pa)
Bag, not a sack (isnt a sack a thing that you race in ? Ok hop in ?)
We drive on the L.I.E. (which is a highway, even though its the long island expressway) the Northern state parkway, and the southern state parkway- any of which are called highways. I guess with the tolls on highways they certainly arent free- or freeways.
You wear boots on your feet, the trunk is in the back of the car
you take the garbage out of your house, but when you bring it to the curb- its trash
Oh yeah, after the cidiot has had a realy bad accident, we call for an ambulance, then the tow truck.
my daughter loves sprinkles on her ice cream

also for tomato its a Toe-mate-toe
and for potato its a Poe-Tate-toe

So do you go to a bar or a pub ?
Do you have a brewski or a beer ?
Do you think Domino's is an acceptable form of Pizza ?

no mater what way you say it its all good.

"I want to go to Disney"

[crazypoohbear]

We go to a pub
A pub serves food
a bar only serve booze!

We have CRAYons - crayola is a brand name not the actual coloring thingy!

Who still calls them albums??
for years a CD was a thing you got at the bank Certificate of deposit!

[TiggerD]

Well, I am from the Northeast as well and we call it Soda, bingo, dinner, Sub, and wicked cool or awesome. We do pawk our caarrrrrs in Haaarvard Yaaaaaard and we do have accents, we love our Sox, Bruins, Patriots, and Celtics, and I think the best colleges.