# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380 "2022-09-28T11:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 248
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4944 "2023-06-17T21:37:42Z")
I like both movies. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4945 "2023-06-17T22:29:12Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > If it’s just the burners and the oven is somewhere else, or non existent, it’s a range. This. I cannot deal with calling a combo a “range”. That just sounds wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4946 "2023-06-17T23:37:41Z")
Oh, I chose stove. Range and oven are parts of a stove. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4947 "2023-06-17T23:39:34Z")
I tend to say sofa, but knew the term davenport from my family. I learned “couch” either from TV or friends. I say stove or sometimes range, when I know the stove is gas or an old-fashioned range like the kind we had at my family’s cabin that had a storage cabinet in it for pots, pans and trays. Or the one my grandmother had with two side by side ovens and a six burner cooktop. That one was deluxe. I never saw The Taking of Pelham… but I read the book. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4948 "2023-06-17T23:49:56Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Oh, I chose stove. Range and oven are parts of a stove. What? No. A range is an oven + a stovetop. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4949 "2023-06-18T00:23:31Z")
I like mayo and hot sauce on a chicken sandwich. Ranch is acceptable, but not as good as mayo and hot sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4950 "2023-06-18T00:58:06Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > A range is an oven + a stovetop. That’s what I thought. My family never called it that, but that’s what it was called whenever somebody won one on _The Price Is Right_. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4951 "2023-06-18T00:59:58Z")
Fried chicken sandwich should always include salsa. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4952 "2023-06-18T02:45:52Z")
The creator of the drumstick ice cream treat lived in Fort Worth and his house recently went up for sale. > **[Inventor of Drumstick ice cream cone's Fort Worth home hits the market](https://www.audacy.com/jackontheweb/latest/inventor-of-drumsticks-fort-worth-home-hits-market)** > > Back in 1937, I.C. Parker, the president and general manager of Pangburn Candy Company and inventor of Drumstick ice cream, built a home at 2920 Simondale Drive in Fort Worth. Now, the cottage style home is back on the market for $3.985 million. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4953 "2023-06-18T03:08:51Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > What? No. A range is an oven + a stovetop. Or, a stove is an oven + plus a rangetop. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4954 "2023-06-18T03:45:40Z")
I had to go back and change my answer to the population poll. I thought the one town I lived in was just over 5,000 people. I checked and it’s just under. That’s spread out over 28 square miles. That’s the most rural place I’ve lived. The most populous was about 60,000. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4955 "2023-06-18T04:28:03Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > For what reason would we need to know that the traffic light is going to turn green at any moment? That sounds like a bad idea. In both Switzerland, it is required to turn the car off at a red traffic light. It’s not usually enforced, but I know many drivers who follow this rule religiously. The advance signal tells the drivers to turn the car back on again. This was more important \> 5 years ago when there were fewer electric cars, and many cars didn’t have an [auto stop/start feature](https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g188045-i336-k11348689-Auto_stop_start_feature_in_rental_cars-Switzerland.html). My stove/cooktop is separate from my oven. I grew up with the same layout, so a range, for me, is weird. I never had a graduation besides high school and college. As I don’t have children, the last option also doesn’t work for me. Happy Birthday Karen. It’s a couch. Could be a called sectional, but I usually don’t use the term. Missing a Dixie Cup (orange sherbert with vanilla ice cream), but I don’t recall if they could be bought at an ice cream truck. The place I grew up in was unicorporated when I lived there, so I didn’t count it. It now has 55,000 people, which would make it the largest city I’ve ever lived in. Most of the time I’ve lived in places with fewer than 10,000 people. I don’t live in the U.S., so none of the included brands are sold here. I prefer pure peanut butter, no salt or other additions. If I can find that, the brand is not as important. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4956 "2023-06-18T04:41:21Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > So what do you call it if you’re not using either part, just describing it to someone else? > > “I really like my oven.” > “I really like my stove.” > > I’d go with oven. That… that’s never come up. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4957 "2023-06-18T05:50:03Z")
For the population poll, how should we count an unincorporated area that wasn’t part of any city/town/village at all? When I was a kid we lived outside the city limits of the nearest town, so we didn’t live “in” any town at all. I picked “don’t know/other” in the smallest population poll for that reason. Or I could count the population of the town on our mailing address, where the post office that delivered our mail was. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4958 "2023-06-18T06:02:11Z")
I lived for a while in Kingston NJ, which Google tells me has a population under 1000! That makes it sound like a little place, maybe rural. But it’s not. It’s solidly suburban, it’s just a small patch of incorporated land. It’s socially part of Princeton, NJ. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4959 "2023-06-18T10:44:10Z")
To those who said “I’m good, thanks” in the ice cream poll - Dad says I can have your three choices. mmm ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4960 "2023-06-18T15:28:59Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > For the population poll, how should we count an unincorporated area that wasn’t part of any city/town/village at all? I voted according to town: which in New York State is not the same thing as a village. Every place in New York State which isn’t in a city is in a town; including unincorporated rural land. And I don’t think anywhere in the modern USA calls something with 1000 or 5000 people a “city”; though an occasional tiny place has “city” as part of its name. – I just checked, however, and apparently in New York State, at least, there’s no legal minimum size set for a “city”. – I haven’t had most of those ice cream truck choices. I picked three that I know I like, but generally they’ve come from a grocery store freezer case, and/or were handed out at camp when I was a child. I’m not sure if I’ve ever lived anywhere where ice cream trucks came around, though I’ve seen them parked at festivals. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4961 "2023-06-18T16:42:48Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > And I don’t think anywhere in the modern USA calls something with 1000 or 5000 people a “city” If I understand correctly, in Wisconsin any place with more than 1000 people is legally considered a “city”. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4962 "2023-06-18T16:53:33Z")
The main distribution center for the major ice cream supplier in the area is only a couple miles from my house, and all of the ice cream trucks in the region go there to buy their wares. My neighborhood is between them and the closest highway ramp, so all of the trucks drive through here and most of them attempt to sell ice cream while they’re passing through, because why not? So from mid-March until the beginning of December you can ice cream trucks driving around my house pretty much all day every day. It was annoying when we first moved here, but I don’t even hear them anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-1/972380/4963 "2023-06-18T17:04:32Z")
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