Couldn't of/couldn't have

It’s big in North Dakota, too. Made many tending bar there years ago. I’m sure it’s because of the Canadian influence. Damnit, now I want one.

The Caeser I mean

Well, North Dakota is one of the nine US states designated as Baja Canada (Idaho does not count because of the brevity of their border relative to the size of the state).

Big in north central Montana, too. But we weren’t sophisticated. We just called them red beers.

Red beers. That’s golden. I assume you know what a Colorado Bulldog is, too? Good luck not getting a blank stare ordering one south of the northern plains from my experience.

Shit, now I want one of those, too.

I don’t know what a Colorado Bulldog is, I’m afraid. My time spent in the great windswept plains of Havre, Montana was both brief and distant in time.

I still remember the damn red beers, though. You could gag down the Budweiser with enough tomato/clamato juice added, and with enough dancing at the Elk’s Lodge, they were pretty good!

[googles Colorado Bulldog]
I detest coke, but that looks really good.

Ooohh. I have everything on hand to make one right now. The question is… should I?

The Bulldog tastes like chocolate milk. You won’t notice the Coke. But only use Coca-Cola. Anything else changes the taste.

And a Caeser is made with vodka. Bloody Mary but with Clamato instead of tomato juice. Never with beer. Nor Budweiser. Though they market a version of that rice beer with Clamato. Try one. Just order a bloody and ask for the Clamato instead of tomato mix. Not an earthshattering difference but enough to notice.

Damn well invite us over if you do. :crazy_face:

LOL, better hurry!! :smiley:

/slapping forehead/

Of course you are right. I am getting old. Bloody Caesar is a Bloody Mary made with Clamato, as you pointed out. (Red beers were still a thing in north central Montana in the early 80s. But nevermind!)

And me a former bartender. :blush:

Also called a Red Eye mostly but Red Beer works too. Often served with a raw egg dropped in. Breakfast of Champions. hic

Urrrgghh. I’d managed to put the raw egg bit out of my mind. Thanks for the reminder. Mmmppfffhhhh.

You’re right about this Colorado Bulldog! Tasty!

I grew up in central Ohio and I made it to my late 20s, with a university degree, before I found out that it’s a regional usage that’s seen as incorrect by many people. I would have assumed until then that it was completely standard American English, at least to the extent that anything can be.

So if it used to just be a Pittsburgh thing, it has spread beyond that region.

I associate it most with Pittsburgh, but the usage does extend into Ohio. But that’s what I know as the geographic center of that usage. Here in Chicago, where we have plenty of our own non standard forms, I never heard it.

Looks like there actually is a map for it.

So concentrated in the general Midwest area, and most particularly associated with Western Pennsylvania, but it has spread.

“intensive purposes”

???

It’s “intents and purposes”.

Hah! Just saw this after my reply.

I grew up in Indiana, and it’s the same for me. I still have to remind myself, when I encounter people objecting to it, that, “Oh, yeah, some people think it’s wrong.”

I will continue to use it. Just try to stop me! :grinning:

‘It needs fixed’ is a fairly widespread construction in Scottish dialects. I suspect this is an American regionalism with a Scottish or northern English origin, and has a long and respectable history. But it might be completely unrelated.

Whenever I hear people say stuff like this I’m all like “hey! let me borrow you a grammar textbook!” Thankfully, I encounter less and less people saying stuff like this; my efforts must be working!

:stuck_out_tongue:

I never encountered borrow as a substitute for loan until I had a girlfriend from Minnesota. I still can’t wrap my head around how this came to be a thing.

And this remains one of my favorite Daniel Tosh jokes: