# Regional Food Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597 "2012-11-30T18:46:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597/141 "2012-12-06T21:32:01Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Italians call marinara “gravy”. Well, italian-americans perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597/142 "2012-12-06T21:48:39Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Well, italian-americans perhaps. Yeah, that’s probably correct. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597/143 "2012-12-06T22:09:24Z")
> [@carimwc](#): > > I grew up over the boarder in Franklin, MA and I’ve never heard of a Dynamite. I’ve heard of everything else though. God, I miss Del’s. Frozen lemonade would be a huge hit here in Austin. (Now there’s a thought…) And clam cakes or well anything clam. (Can’t find a fried clam here at all.) At least I can buy Fluff down here, not for sandwiches, but for putting in hot chocolate and making Never Fail Fudge. > > Y’all have forgotten fried dough. Fried chunks of pizza dough topped with tons of powdered sugar. It’s NOT a funnel cake. It’s standard at most festivals back in MA. > > There’s also Hoodie’s- little cups of ice cream served with flat wooden spoon things. Hoodies, or Hoodsies, whatever they’re called, I assume come from the Hood Dairy. Fried dough is another thing subject to regional names. They definitely aren’t funnel cakes. In New York and Philadelphia they’re called Zeppolis. But here in RI a Zeppoli is a type of pastry. I’ve never seen Dynamites on a restaurant menu, but I see them served in bars, at fundraisers and picnics and the like. I don’t say much about it, but they are definitely Sloppy Joes with celery salt. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597/144 "2012-12-06T22:10:40Z")
> [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](#): > > If I recall correctly you are in Cumberland. We’re neighbors as I live in CF (I know I know - I’m working on getting the hell out) You’re in CF? Do you know Angel? Hang in there, eventually you’ll make it up the line to Pawtucket 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597/145 "2012-12-06T22:58:52Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You’re in CF? Do you know Angel? > > Hang in there, eventually you’ll make it up the line to Pawtucket 🙂 Angel? A SDMB poster? Can’t say I do, which one? Just asking effectively says I don’t ☹ And hopefully a little further away than Pawtucket 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597/146 "2012-12-06T23:53:19Z")
pulykamell: > [@](#): > > Nope. A doner is cooked on a rotating spit, just like gyros, and thinly sliced off it in the same manner. Sounds like what I know as “Shwarma.” (New York, most likely is a Middle Eastern/Israeli/Jewish thing) ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597/147 "2012-12-07T00:11:32Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > In New York City, if you ask for your coffee “regular” it means you want it with milk and sugar. I was reminded of this last week in the Miami airport, when the woman in front of me in line at La Carrita asked for a “regular coffee” and was confused when the Latina counterperson handed her a black one. I asked her if she was from New York and when she confirmed it I explained that regular coffee means something different elsewhere. That’s a whole east coast coffee shop thing, decidely not just New York. my counter example is actually from Florida at a Dunkin donuts. I ordered a “coffee just a regular” maning NOT one of the many coffee drinks they now offer–espresso, latte, ect. I got it and handed it back saying I didn’t want them to add the cream and sugar. The girl at the counter scolded me that what she gave me WAS a coffee rgular. “I guess I want a BLACK coffee without the attitude.” In sharing the story with friends, the east coasters (none from new york) all confirmed “coffee regular” is cream and sugar. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regional-food-names/642597.md?page=7)