Oh, but it’s a thing of beauty when the two meet: a charcoal-grilled hamburger with a big ol’ slab of real ham (not that processed deli crap) on top.
Yum.
I keep my tin foil on top of my hot water heater.
Does Hampshire have ham in it?
I always call it tinfoil because Aluminum foil is longer to say. Yes, I’m a lazy talker sometimes.
I keep MY tinfoil on top of my…
wait for it …
head.
“My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.”
I spent a semester in Australia, so I calls it “aluminium foil” like a proper git.
…and probubly “dial” your telephone.
I like to watch a cooking show on PBS called Lidia’s Italy. Lidia Bastianich is the Italian/Croatian cook who stars, and here are a couple of terms she uses:
“Foil paper” for aluminum foil
“Close the fire” for “turn off the fire/flame”
Bahh,
I just pick up the thing, tap on the hanger/hook thingy a few times and then some spinster (who invariably looks like Lilly Tomlin) “connects” me.
Grew up in the Chicago calling it tin foil, even though I knew it was aluminum. I also called the refrigerator an icebox, even though it was electric. It was what my parents called them. This has not carried over to my daughter. I think she would figure out icebox, but I think shed look at me strangely if I asked her to get some tinfoil.
It was called “tin disease” and after the first spontaneous occurrence, tin organ pipes all over northern Europe started to crumble in the winter. Obviously the bad seed had spread.
I think “tinsmith” referred to anyone who worked in non-precious, non-ferrous metals.
The US has coins named “one cent”, “five cents”, “one dime”, “quarter dollar”, “half dollar” and “one dollar” and called, resp., “penny” (plural “pennies”), “nickel”, “dime”, “quarter”, “half dollar”, and “dollar”. Canada has coins labeled “one cent”, “five cents”, “ten cents”, “twenty five cents”, “fifty cents”, “one dollar”, and “two dollars” and called, resp., “penny” (“pennies”), “nickel”, “dime”, “quarter”, “half dollar”, “loonie” and “twonie” (or maybe “toonie”). The loonie does have a loon on it and you can figure out where the other appellations come from. Incidentally the quarter is called “trente sous” in french. Go figure. A penny is called “un sou”.
The way the government got the paper bills out of circulation was to stop printing them. There was a report on the news this morning that the Canadian senate had recommended getting rid of the penny. About time, I say. Waste of copper and money.
It’s true that lead has been used, but it’s untrue to say that tin has not. Tin capsules are still in production, in fact,
Citation: http://www.sparflexcal.com/aluminum-tin-capsules.html
“Sarah, get me Mt. Pilot.”
I know that a whitesmith worked in light colored metals (not iron or steel). I also know that there were merchants who dealt mostly or exclusively in tin wares.
I grew up in Fort Worth, but my parents came from New England (dad) and Missouri and then Texas (mom, obviously). Both of them called the refrigerator an icebox, though neither referred to tinfoil. My father was in the box business, and while everybody else called the stuff that his factory made “cardboard”, he insisted that the correct term was “corrugated fiberboard”. And I learned to call it corrugated fiberboard at home, so as to avoid the lecture, but call it cardboard everywhere else, so people would know what I was talking about. I already had the reputation of being the walking, talking dictionary at school, and I didn’t particularly care for it.
Tin foil came first and was supplanted by aluminium foil after WII. Lots of people kept the old name.
I love my squished pennies, but the penny as a coin in the American monetary system has outlived its usefulness. We need to get rid of the penny AND the dollar bill, and start issuing dollar coins on a widespread basis. Paper/plastic dollar bills are just too expensive and shortlived.
I know that a whitesmith worked in light colored metals (not iron or steel). I also know that there were merchants who dealt mostly or exclusively in tin wares.
I grew up in Fort Worth, but my parents came from New England (dad) and Missouri and then Texas (mom, obviously). Both of them called the refrigerator an icebox, though neither referred to tinfoil. As an adult, I made a deliberate effort to call a refrigerator a refrigerator, or a fridge. My father was in the box business, and while everybody else called the stuff that his factory made “cardboard”, he insisted that the correct term was “corrugated fiberboard”. And I learned to call it corrugated fiberboard at home, so as to avoid the lecture, but call it cardboard everywhere else, so people would know what I was talking about. I already had the reputation of being the walking, talking dictionary at school, and I didn’t particularly care for it.
I believe in addition to whitesmith and tin smith, the term “tinker” got it’s origin from people who make/repair stuff made out of tin.
Re. fiberboard- I thought fiberboard was that stuff they make bargain furniture and wall paneling out of: a glued-together mass of splinters and sawdust.
From Margaritaville
Yeah, right. Next thing, you’ll be saying New York is actually old!
Best wishes,
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Well, I did hear that old New York was once New Amsterdam.