Baklava -- Undermining Humanity

Carlene · December 23, 2006

Re roast beef and roast pork, we say it the same way as GeezerSue does up here in Canada. We also call all soft drinks "pop" whereas you Americans call them "soda." If you want a Coke or Pepsi or Fanta or whatever, you have to ask for it by name.

Not in the south. Everything is a Coke here. But if you are in a restaurant and you want a Dr. Pepper, you have to say so. If you say "Coke", that's what you'll get.

Kaydotrn · December 29, 2006

Have to add my 2 cents for what it's worth..

In my region (Boston) soda was called tonic when I was growing up. I would go to a restaurant and order a tonic (meaning a coke or pepsi). Now I would say Coke. ANother funny is that denim jeans were referred to as "dungarees" anyone else?

bitteroldhag · December 29, 2006

Re roast beef and roast pork, we say it the same way as GeezerSue does up here in Canada. We also call all soft drinks "pop" whereas you Americans call them "soda." If you want a Coke or Pepsi or Fanta or whatever, you have to ask for it by name.

Only some Americans call Coke soda. I remember when I moved to Illinois from Texas this really good looking guy asked me out for a soda. I had visions of an ice cream soda with two straws -- very romantic. A soda turned out to be a Coke. I thought the guy was cheap, but he was really handsome. To me, any soft drink is a Coke except fruit flavored soft drinks which are pop. I used to love Nehi grape pop when I was a kid. If we ask for a Coke, we get Coke or Pepsi, whatever the store has. We don't seem to care. In the South, if its cold, it's good.

bitteroldhag · December 29, 2006

Have to add my 2 cents for what it's worth..
In my region (Boston) soda was called tonic when I was growing up. I would go to a restaurant and order a tonic (meaning a coke or pepsi). Now I would say Coke. ANother funny is that denim jeans were referred to as "dungarees" anyone else?

Yeah, I've heard of dungarees but have always thought they were some sort of off-white pants like fisherman wear. Of course, I think fishermen wear overalls now. We always called jeans jeans or Levis. Lots of people here in cattle country wore Levis before they got popular and became designer wear. My brother could wear out the knees in a pair of Levis in a week. So mother did a lot of Iron on Patches on his Levis. The only Levis we had were the currently very expensive 501s. We got them for about $5 a pair.

I also have heard people call tennis shoes sneakers. We call them tennis shoes even if they do cost $200 and are made by some designer shoe company. Lately I've heard people in Oklahoma using the word sneakers!! Heresy! Clearly we played tennis in rubber soled shoes while the rest of the nation was sneaking up on someone. Tonic here means tonic Water for alcoholic drinks. Man, I would have been lost in Boston.:nervous

Jachut · December 29, 2006

Its like "bluejeans". Well, duh, what other colour is denim? They're just jeans!

We call coke and the like softdrink. A beer can also be a stubbie - it used to be a tinnie back in the days when beer didnt come in stubbies (glass bottles).

Biscuits are Cookies - we dont even have what you call biscuits over there. Or bikkies for short. A sandwich is a sanga. Tomato ketchup is sauce or dead horse. Thongs are something you wear on your feet and if you tried to open a drugstore here you'd get arrested. Its a chemist or a pharmacy. And you have a fringe, not bangs.

I love these posts, lol.