Incredibly common products which the store clerk never heard of

And “blinker fluid” - my kiddo didn’t speak to me for quite some time after sending her into the parts store to get some.

Bought at the Gian Iggle? :smile:

Any chance you can get your kitties to switch to gefilte fish with horseradish?

Yinz goin’ dahntahn an 'at?

Not if it’s slippy out, nope

Oh, you are good! My wife is the Pittsburgh native, I’m just picking up fragments of dialogue by osmosis.

I’ve been here all my life. Now go redd up your room! :grin:

Pittsburgh native here. I’m reading these posts and only later realizing they’re part of the patois.

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.

My wife uses “wee little” a lot; is that a Keystoner phrase or should I stop giving her Rolling Rock?

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!

Whereas, I grew up in central Illinois, and I’m very familiar with potlucks but have never heard it called a “carry-in.”

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.

“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.

“But you ordered a GoodBurger with nothing on it…”

It also works to remove the sticky residue from certain types of price stickers, etc.

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.

Just as information, I have some spring loaded nail sets. No Hammer needed.

Not this set, but similar

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.

USA, New Jersey.
Remember, I’m talking about isopropyl alcohol with methyl salicylate/wintergreen that’s sold as a liniment (hence my “rubbing” rubbing alcohol). That’s green, straight isopropyl is clear.