# Incredibly common products which the store clerk never heard of **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 23, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225 "2021-09-23T21:29:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/643 "2022-07-20T20:09:45Z")
> [@tofor](#): > > You forgot “Sky Hooks” And “blinker fluid” - my kiddo didn’t speak to me for quite some time after sending her into the parts store to get some. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/644 "2022-07-20T21:09:06Z")
> [@dummygladhands71](#): > > Me from Pittsburgh, that’s pop. Bought at the Gian Iggle? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/645 "2022-07-20T21:14:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Couldn’t find canned cat food, but there was horseradish galore. Any chance you can get your kitties to switch to gefilte fish with horseradish? ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/646 "2022-07-20T22:50:09Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > > [@dummygladhands71](#): > > > > Me from Pittsburgh, that’s pop. > > Bought at the Gian Iggle? 😄 Yinz goin’ dahntahn an 'at? ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/647 "2022-07-21T01:42:07Z")
Not if it’s slippy out, nope ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/648 "2022-07-21T16:10:13Z")
Oh, you are good! My wife is the Pittsburgh native, I’m just picking up fragments of dialogue by osmosis. ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/649 "2022-07-21T16:28:52Z")
I’ve been here all my life. Now go redd up your room! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/650 "2022-07-21T16:52:02Z")
Pittsburgh native here. I’m reading these posts and only later realizing they’re part of the patois. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/651 "2022-07-21T18:59:54Z")
I’m no native but ‘yinzer’ was the big clue for me. Writing in dialect is only an approximation of what it sounds like anyway. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/652 "2022-07-21T19:53:19Z")
My wife uses “wee little” a lot; is that a Keystoner phrase or should I stop giving her Rolling Rock? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/653 "2022-07-22T03:35:05Z")
Not a product, but a potluck where I live is called a carry-in in southern Illinois. One of my co-workers didn’t know what a potluck was! ---
**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:** [July 24, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/654 "2022-07-24T17:07:16Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Not a product, but a potluck where I live is called a carry-in in southern Illinois. Whereas, I grew up in central Illinois, and I’m very familiar with potlucks but have never heard it called a “carry-in.” ---
**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:** [July 24, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/655 "2022-07-24T19:35:04Z")
I’ve also never heard of a carry-in (New York State, mostly, though I’ve been elsewhere); but I have run into two contradictory definitions for potluck, though the first is IME much more common: 1. Everybody, or nearly everybody, brings a dish to pass, which will be set out so everyone can choose from the selection. 2. The host provides all the food, but the invitation is spur of the moment, so the guest will be provided a share of whatever the family would have eaten at that meal anyway: the guest takes their chances of whatever’s “in the pot”, which might be anything from prime steak to stale cereal. – there are also subset versions of definition 1: the host may or may not assign either specific dishes or categories of dishes (which takes some of the “luck” out of it, if they do); and the host may or may not specify that they’re providing some portion(s) of the meal, usually the main course if so. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/656 "2022-07-24T19:45:13Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > The 20-year-old store clerk had no idea who Paul McCartney was. “You know, the guy in the Beatles who died, like fifty years ago…” “Ahhh, the bloke that Billy Campbell replaced, yeah, sorry, never knew the first guy’s name.” . > [Some fans thought that the Beatles actively put clues in their albums designed to fuel a conspiracy theory that McCartney had died in 1966 and was replaced by lookalike actor named William Campbell.](https://www.inverse.com/article/23506-the-beatles-paul-is-dead-was-the-original-fan-theory) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/657 "2022-07-24T19:55:49Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > [@Musicat](#): > > > > “I want a hamburger by itself.” > > “Like, minus the bun?” “But you ordered a GoodBurger with _nothing_ on it…” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/umIEp9WZI9E/maxresdefault.jpg "Good Burger (2/9) Movie CLIP - Nothing is Something (1997) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umIEp9WZI9E) ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/658 "2022-07-24T19:55:53Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I use isopropyl alcohol to clean my glass pipes (used for tobacco only). I’ve never used it for “rubbing” though. What are you supposed to rub with isopropyl? It also works to remove the sticky residue from certain types of price stickers, etc. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/659 "2022-07-25T02:36:00Z")
I was in Home Depot and asked where I could find a nail set. She took me down the fastener aisle and showed me…a set of nails. > **[Toolipedia: Nail Set](https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/nail-set/)** > > Toolipedia: Everything you wanted to know about a nail set  ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/660 "2022-07-25T03:43:09Z")
Just as information, I have some spring loaded nail sets. No Hammer needed. Not [this set](https://www.amazon.com/WHLLING-2-Piece-8%E2%80%B3Spring-Striking-Hammerless/dp/B0B1DJZK3F/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=spring+loaded+nail+set&qid=1658720490&sr=8-5), but similar ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/661 "2022-07-25T04:13:13Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > You’ve probably been looking right past it because "rubbing” rubbing alcohol is, usually, green. I have never seen it green in my life, just clear, but usually in an opaque bottle. I’m curious where you are, because I would walk past that a dozen times in scanning mode as brain just checked off “definitely not rubbing alcohol” and moved on without reading. I’m curious where it is usually green. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/662 "2022-07-25T05:28:17Z")
USA, New Jersey. Remember, I’m talking about [isopropyl alcohol _with_ methyl salicylate/wintergreen that’s sold as a liniment](https://www.google.com/search?q=rubbing+alcohol+with+methyl+salicylate&newwindow=1&client=opera&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif6a3nppP5AhXTg4kEHcToCjoQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1278&bih=619&dpr=1) (hence my _“rubbing”_ rubbing alcohol). That’s green, straight isopropyl is clear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225.md?page=34)