So I walk into a local restaurant and order a sub, a frappe, and coffee ice cream with jimmies. I think about getting tonic but decide not to.
Can you tell where I live from that? What are your region’s terms for those items? What food/drink items or names are distinctive where you live?
Eastern Mass?
You got it! What would you call those items in Arlington?
By any chance, are you a transplanted Baystater?
Over here you’d be ordering a grinder, a cabinet and you could buy coffee syrup to make coffee milk at home.
Me? I’d order a sub, a milkshake and any ice cream with sprinkles. Tonic? I don’t know, but if I wanted a non-alcholic carbonated drink, I’d order a Coke - when asked what kind, it’d be a diet coke.
But, I’ve also been known to order a po’boy - but where I live now, that would just get me an odd look, so I’ve pretty much banished it from my vocabulary.
I drink water from a bubbler from time to time. Root beer is my favorite soda water. I drink it when I eat brats. I also enjoy loosemeat sandwiches.
Loosemeat sandwiches? Is that the same thing as pulled pork?
Now, why do both of those terms sound vaguely salacious? 
I’d sound about like Lsura. And a barbecue sandwich would be nice, too.
Sub, milkshake and a ice cream with jimmies here in Md.
I’m a hoagie gal, myself.
Sub, milkshake and an icecream with sprinkles here in Detroit. And I’d consider ordering pop, but decide not to.
Oh. Um, separate “icecream” into two words, if you will. I’ve been learning German and I’ve started to compound words in English without realizing it. :o
It’s the same here in Western New York. Must be a Great Lakes thing.
I’d have a wedge (if it was hot) or a sub (if it was cold), a milkshake and ice cream with sprinkles. But my mom and I put jimmies on our Christmas cookies today cuz she’s from Chicago.
Sub: sub
Frappe: milkshake
Jimmies: sprinkles
Tonic: soda
And no, I’m a native of the mid-Atlantic area. The reason I got it was that I took this survey a few years ago. Recently, I viewed the results with accompanying maps, and I just remembered to go back there to double check my suspicion.
What do you call the long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and so on?
What do you call the drink made with milk and ice cream?
What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?
Sub: sub
Frappe: milkshake
Jimmies: sprinkles
Tonic: soda
And no, I’m a native of the mid-Atlantic area. The reason I got it was that I took this survey a few years ago. Recently, I viewed the results with accompanying maps, and I just remembered to go back there to double check my suspicion.
What do you call the long sandwich that contains cold cuts, lettuce, and so on?
What do you call the drink made with milk and ice cream?
What is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?
I’m from the Upper Hudson Valley region of New York State. I’d get a sub, a milkshake, some ice cream with sprinkles, and a soda. This is also the accepted parlance here in East Texas, except they’d ask for ass cream with sprinkles because they tawk funny.
“Soda” and “sprinkles” are making inroads in my area, as furriners keep insisting on moving here. Don’t know why, considering our nasty winters (like the snow - sleet - rain - freezing winds of the last 24 hours), but so it is. But “frappe” is still firmly entrenched, and anyone from another part of the country asking for a milkshake will get one – but be very disappointed.
Have any of you seen the PBS show “American Tongues”? It was first broadcast quite a few years ago, and I don’t know if it’s still shown now and then, or available on video. It was about all the regional varieties of English in the United States, the differences in accent and terms. Very well done and often quite amusing. It’s worth watching just to see the earnest Midwestern family trying to puzzle out the pronunciation and meaning of “schlep”.
Err, Jimmies? Sprinkles? are they like ‘hundreds and thousands’, little coloured sugary bits?
If anyone does ‘subs’ in this neck of the wood I’ve not noticed, it’d probably be called a BLT* Baguette.
A milkshake is a milkshake.
A soda is called by name/brand no generic term.
Qadgop ‘brats’ and ‘loosemeat’ wha?
Distinctive fast food? fish’n’chips I guess.
*bacon lettuce tomato
Jimmies and sprinkles are both ‘hundreds and thousands’, little coloured sugary bits, all right. Jimmies are normally all chocolate, though.
I suspect “brats” would be bratwurst, although Qadgop will have to confirm that. What “loosemeat” is, I’m still waiting to learn. 
Is Spotted Dick a UK delight?