It’s called the verge in the UK too. I’d guess it’s because it verges on the road. But most people don’t think of the etymology of everyday words - it’d get exhausting!
In England there are at least 20 regional words for the basic bread roll. The type of roll you put a hamburger in. The ones I’ve heard in real life are roll, stottie, bap, cob, bun, barm cake, even teacake (and no, neither of the latter two are actually cakes, they are basic bread rolls).
What do you call a drive thru liquor store?
That drew a blank from me. i had no idea such a thing existed. As did 48.26% of the population.
A bad case of faulty brakes?
I’m trying to wrap my head around a drive-thru… I could see ordering online nowadays, but I’ll bet this was before that. Did they have a menu board like McDonald’s? Or did you just speak into the clown’s head: “A liter of Woodford Reserve 12 Year Bourbon, please!” and then pay whatever they charged you?
Was this some state/municipality thinking it’d cut down on demon alcohol?
In West Texas, we had drive-through “package” stores. A package store sold only beer and wine. Hard liquor was in its own store, and you had to walk inside for that. Now the town I grew up in was dry, but the county was not. So we had what was called the Strip, which was just that – a long strip of stores selling alcohol right outside the city limits. Naturally you already needed to know what you wanted for the drive-through package stores. If you didn’t, you could still walk in and browse.
I always used to hear the owners of the stores along the Strip were the driving force in keeping the town dry, because they’d all have to go to the trouble of relocating otherwise. But times apparently caught up, as I believe my hometown is now wet and the Strip no more.
In May we visited my sister and her husband at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. At one point they drove into this rundown strip mall parking lot and pointed at a stand alone building in the parking lot. Could we guess what it was? No? Drive-through Daiquiri store. I was so “what the -?!?!” I took photos.
No, we didn’t buy any.
In Utah where I grew up, the city owns the land but the landowner of the adjacent property has a legal responsibility to landscape and maintain the land, and there are set standards.
My wife is from Los Angeles, and she calls grocery shopping “marketing.”. Like, “I’m going to make a marketing list, for the next time we go marketing at Wegmans.”. I never heard that before I met her.
In Buffalo, New York, iffy corner stores are called “delis”, even though most of them don’t make or serve deli food.
Parika or Paprika? I work in produce and often see ‘paprika’ on the boxes (or the wiki page when looking something up).
I believe they’re popular in some areas (Texas? NOLA?), I’d never heard of them until I went to college (Kenosha, WI) and there was one nearby.
Interesting. I recall the only time I’ve ever heard shopping being called “marketing” or going to “the market” was on the TV show ‘The Brady Bunch’. Died-in-the-wool Los Angeles area show.
In downstate NY it was the same thing with any mom & pop corner store being referred to as a deli.
I think it’s a NYC thing to call those stores “bodegas”.
Depends on the neighborhood, the people who own the store, what food is sold, exactly how the store is set up, etc. In the neighborhood where I live and also the one where I grew up , there are Italian delis, and German/Polish/European delis as well as “bodegas”
Around here, there’s a thing called a “tully burger” This is simply a burger with lettuce, tomato, raw onion, cheese, and mayo. When I first moved here I got upcharged to one when I asked for lettuce and tomato on a cheeseburger. It was like a buck more. That place is no longer in business.
20 years later I still think tully burgers are bullshit.
I’m a Los Angeles County native, and we called it marketing. And going to the market. Maybe to differentiate from other kinds of shopping?
We called that strip of grass between the lawn and the street as the parkway.
Pittsburgh native here, and it was always “pop.” When I went to Penn State, middle of PA., I was working in a deli. Some guys came in wanting soda. I told them we don’t carry baking soda.
Geez, again Didi44?! Spellcheck! 
Yes, paprika! TY!
Interesting. Could it have been named after someone, as some things are? Is wrestler Tully Blanchard from you State?
I’m sure somewhere there’s a The Rock or Stone Cold burger!
I’m from San Diego, but the NYT test puts me in San Jose. Interestingly enough, I swear that when I took a test like that one 10+ years ago, it picked San Diego.
Maybe it’s because I’ve lived in Olympia, WA since 2004 and my dialect has slowly been creeping northward. (God help me if I ever start saying “pop” instead of “soda”, though.)
We do have a small chain called The Rock in my neck of the woods, but all their burgers and other entrees are named after classic rock songs, not members of the Four Horsemen. 
Lightning bolt brainstorm!!
Four sliders with horseradish! Makes you go Woooooooo! 
Apparently, it’s specific to the area of Ithaca, NY, and it’s named after a regular customer at a local diner.
It reminds me of a pizzeria here in Olympia where one of the signature menu items is a sub sandwich called “the Jake” - pepperoni, salami, and ham, on a roll with mustard-mayo mix on one side and Caesar vinaigrette on the other, topped with pizza cheese and broiled in the pizza oven, then finished with shredded lettuce, tomato, and more vinaigrette. It was supposedly the custom order of a man named Jake at some point in the '60s or '70s that eventually got added to the menu.