Do the signs say Frozen Custard as digs said? I don’t know where, but I’m sure I’ve seen a store somewhere in Hawaii advertising Frozen Soft Serve Custard. Maybe Woolworths that I think used to have soft serve orange-vanilla.
Yeah, signs say frozen most of the time, but people are surprised anyway. Generally people from Illinois.
I know I’m days late on this but I just have to say I actually laughed out loud. Funny and apt.
Guy here and me too. Never heard of pumps meaning any other type of shoe.
That’s what I called it also. Would have been Minnesota. It stopped being a thing when a really young kid, 7 or 8, got run over and killed in a parking lot.
Upthread at least one person said “skitching.” We pronounced it “skeeching.” But it wasn’t a matter of sneaking behind a car stopped at a light. Your friend drove the car and you picked the side that didn’t have the exhaust.
I can believe that even if you didn’t get run over, you ran the risk of serious injury or death. That close to the ground your head could take a pretty good bump.
We weren’t even that smart. We would hang around a mall or grocery store parking lot and try to hitch onto people’s cars without them knowing. And we weren’t subtle about it, we got caught by drivers many times.
Another one that’s occurred to me; there’s a certain kind of french fry that’s cut very thick, such that it’s an actual cross-section of the potato, with the skin on, and fried until it’s crispy on the outside, but with a fluffy inner texture similar to that of a baked potato.
In southern California where I grew up, I recall no particular name for these, and I would have probably just called them “wedges” or “steak fries”. Jack in the Box uses them for a menu item called “bacon cheddar potato wedges”, but if you order them by themselves they’re called “big chips”.
In the Pacific Northwest, however, they’re called “jojos” or just “jos”, and are usually sold as an accompaniment to fried chicken at gas stations, truck stops, and grocery store delis. It actually confused me for several years after I moved up here, as I would see the term advertised on menus or on banners at gas stations, and I had absolutely no idea what it meant.
I knew someone that was skitching off the driver’s side window and fell. The rear wheel ran over his elbow and he was hurt pretty bad. It was still giving him problems years later when we met.
Kopp’s really is site to behold. They run a magnificent operation and rise to the challenge of the high volume during summer. The building has a weird layout and it’s spic & span stainless inside. I don’t eat custard (frozen or otherwise, sorry) but there are lots of tasty burgers & fries coming off the line.
A couple summers in a row, some buddies and I booked a room at the La Quinta next door for Summerfest. The first time, it was a happy coincidence that it happened to be adjacent to a classic joint. The second time wasn’t an accident.
I can honestly say I’ve never even seen a Rehoboam of liquor in the flesh, and I shudder to imagine the logistics of getting one home from the store and storing it in your fridge or pantry.
4.5 liters = 1.18877 gallons…a little bigger than a gallon of milk, not THAT ginormous.
Growing up in southern New Mexico, we used “mountain lion” and “cougar” interchangeably, though we were aware that “puma” was an alternative. My parents and grandparents usually just said “lion”. This confused me. To me, “lion” meant the African cat with the big mane, who wrestled with Tarzan all the time.
Among Mom’s relatives, the noon meal was “lunch”, and the evening meal was either “supper” or “dinner”. Among Dad’s relatives, the noon meal was “supper”, and the evening meal was “dinner”.
Soft drinks were “cokes”.
“Soda” was unusual, but would be understood.
“Pop” was understood, but sounded weird.
Around here, “chile” is the pepper.
“Chile con carne” is the dish made with it.
“Chili” is the misspelling favored by ignorant Texans.
Now that one I’ve never heard. I’ve only heard/seen “supper” for an evening meal; the midday meal is “lunch” if it’s not “dinner”.
I agree, that’s interesting. If there’s a “supper,” it’s always the evening meal, in my experience; “dinner” may be the noon-time meal or the evening meal. I wonder if this is specific to the region, or more localized to the family.
Between growing up in southern California and now living in the Pacific Northwest for close to 20 years, I don’t believe I’ve ever used the word “supper” to refer to a daily meal. There’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and that’s it, unless you’re feeling fancy and you want to substitute brunch for a late breakfast. “Supper” to me always seemed like a word that was either old-fashioned or only used by country bumpkins.
The only context I use “supper” in is to refer to Burns Supper, which I try to attend every January (though I missed it this year for obvious reasons.)
In England there’s a North-South divide between dinner and lunch, with Northerners referring to dinner and southerners referring to lunch. Northerners refer to the evening meal as tea. Some working-class southerners use the Northern terms, but it’s much less common. And, confusingly, at school we have “school dinners” (hot) and “packed lunch” (sandwiches you bring in yourself).
I genuinely did have a friend once turn up several hours early because he was coming over for dinner and we hadn’t specified a time. It was a very casual arrangement with a close friend - he even had his own keys to my flat (my intercom system didn’t work so my most frequent visitors had keys), and he just walked into the flat while we were still strolling around in our pyjamas.
Supper is used far less often, and mostly by upper-middle class or upper-class people. Though I have heard it used for a very late evening meal at home, like ten pm.
I think breakfast is the only one that’s consistent across the country and I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m wrong about that too.
I’m don’t know about Jewish tradition, but I’ve always thought of The Last Supper as an evening meal and therefore, supper as a later evening meal. I’ve heard people say late supper more than late dinner. To me dinner is between 5-8pm after that, it’s no longer dinner, but supper. No logic or reason though.
Edit: Thinking about it, I can hear my Dad saying: “Eating time…eat!” which meant no later than about 6pm. If you didn’t eat when the meal was served, you missed dinner time and it wasn’t dinner that.
In general, “dinner” means the big meal of the day. What’s changed in the past 50-100 years isn’t the meaning, but that the big meal of the day has shifted from midday to evening
In the Antelope Valley (CA), ‘Frito pie’/‘Walking tacos’ are called ‘pepper bellies’.
And yet, a fancy combination of breakfast and the midday meal is not champagne brinner…it’s champagne brunch.
Jerry Seinfeld noted that there is no “lupper” either.