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Regional sandwich names

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  • MOD
    MOD
    NO MAYO!~!!!
  • MOD
    MOD
    NO MAYO!~!!!
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Don't you dare contradict James Beard!
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Don't you dare contradict James Beard!
  • arock75
    arock75
    Re: Wedge
    I grew up in Rockland County (which is not "upstate" by the way) and never heard the term wedge in reference to a sandwich. It was always hero.
  • arock75
    arock75
    Re: Wedge
    I grew up in Rockland County (which is not "upstate" by the way) and never heard the term wedge in reference to a sandwich. It was always hero.
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    In North Jersey it was always a hero or a sub. Sub didn't really start in til Subway started popping up. Or just a plain ol sandwich would often be the terminology. Never heard anyone from the Bergen County, NJ/Rockland County, NY area ever call it a hoagie or a wedge.
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    In North Jersey it was always a hero or a sub. Sub didn't really start in til Subway started popping up. Or just a plain ol sandwich would often be the terminology. Never heard anyone from the Bergen County, NJ/Rockland County, NY area ever call it a hoagie or a wedge.
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    arock75 wrote: Re: Wedge
    I grew up in Rockland County (which is not "upstate" by the way)
    Hah! I laugh any time I hear someone refer to Rockland as upstate. I'd barely consider Orange or Dutches "upstate".
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    arock75 wrote: Re: Wedge
    I grew up in Rockland County (which is not "upstate" by the way)
    Hah! I laugh any time I hear someone refer to Rockland as upstate. I'd barely consider Orange or Dutches "upstate".
  • arock75
    arock75
    Yeah it's ridiculous. Sometimes when people ask where I am from I tell them Rockland and they give me a puzzled look and then ask if that is somewhere in Jersey or Westchester. I try to explain where Rockland is in relation to the city with the Hudson River as a reference and that doesn't always work, maybe I will start carrying a little map in my wallet. I don't know why but I am very sensitive about being referred to as "upstate".
  • arock75
    arock75
    Yeah it's ridiculous. Sometimes when people ask where I am from I tell them Rockland and they give me a puzzled look and then ask if that is somewhere in Jersey or Westchester. I try to explain where Rockland is in relation to the city with the Hudson River as a reference and that doesn't always work, maybe I will start carrying a little map in my wallet. I don't know why but I am very sensitive about being referred to as "upstate".
  • danielle123
    danielle123
    "Jimmys" are chocolate sprinkles on ice cream and a "bubbler" (pronounced, "bub-luh") is a drinking fountain....at least in Massachusetts.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    arock75 wrote: Yeah it's ridiculous. Sometimes when people ask where I am from I tell them Rockland and they give me a puzzled look and then ask if that is somewhere in Jersey or Westchester. I try to explain where Rockland is in relation to the city with the Hudson River as a reference and that doesn't always work, maybe I will start carrying a little map in my wallet. I don't know why but I am very sensitive about being referred to as "upstate".
    The minute you cross the northern border of the Bronx you are upstate.
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    arock75 wrote: I don't know why but I am very sensitive about being referred to as "upstate".
    No I totally get it. It's not upstate. It's very much downstate. Anything north of West Point I'm ok with calling upstate I think. Especially Rockland though cause I'm from about 4 minutes from the Rockland/Bergen border and if Rockland is upstate I'd like to known how much of NY they've crammed underneath Orangeburg Road to warrant such.
  • arock75
    arock75
    I will not take your bait Carnivore. As rtraindweller is alluding to upstate is a "state of mind" and I pretty much agree with your psychological border.
  • bigguy
    bigguy
    In CT, sprinkles for ice cream are often called "shots". I get weird looks when I ask for them by that name elsewhere.
  • hamilton
    hamilton
    my uncle use to say he gave some guy a knuckle sandwich.
  • rtraindweller
    rtraindweller
    Hamilton wrote: my uncle use to say he gave some guy a knuckle sandwich.
    I think those originated in Jersey City but popularity grew rather quick so it's exact origins are kinda blurred.
  • hamilton
    hamilton
    rtraindweller wrote: [quote=Hamilton]my uncle use to say he gave some guy a knuckle sandwich.
    I think those originated in Jersey City but popularity grew rather quick so it's exact origins are kinda blurred.


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  • carnivore
    carnivore
    http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_64.html
  • emmaviz
    emmaviz
    roux42 wrote: Does anyone know what... jimmys, bubbler and a malted are/is?
    A malted is just a milkshake with malt in it. Never heard of the other two tho...
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    EmmaViz wrote: [quote=roux42]Does anyone know what... jimmys, bubbler and a malted are/is?
    A malted is just a milkshake with malt in it. Never heard of the other two tho...
    I think "jimmys" or "jimmies" is what people in some less developed parts of the country call what we call "sprinkles" (like for ice cream).
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    and a bubbler is a massachusetts water fountain (see above).

    lots of funny names in massachusetts, but the one that cracked me up most consistently was their insistence on calling grocery carts "carriages".

    then again, y'all wait "on line", which is just confusing.
  • scarlett
    scarlett
    Carnivore wrote: [quote=EmmaViz][quote=roux42]Does anyone know what... jimmys, bubbler and a malted are/is?
    A malted is just a milkshake with malt in it. Never heard of the other two tho...
    I think "jimmys" or "jimmies" is what people in some less developed parts of the country call what we call "sprinkles" (like for ice cream).

    Ha! In CO we called them chocolate or rainbow sprinkles, but in NJ they call chocolate sprinkles jimmies.

    Another good one is candy on a stick. In CO it's called a sucker. Here, lollipop. When I asked someone if I could have a sucker they thought I wanted a hickey.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    scarlett wrote: When I asked someone if I could have a sucker they thought I wanted a hickey.
    :roll: :lol:
  • carmen
    carmen
    hey the south has its own weird sayings:

    "put it up" (put it away)
    "waitin on someone" (waiting for someone)
    "right quick" (very quickly)
    "mash the switch" (a personal fave meaning switch the switch)
  • anastasia beaverhausen
    anastasia beaverhausen
    My personal favorite southernism "Don't make me no nevermind" (I don't care)
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    How about "fixin' to" do something, instead of "going to" do something?
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    the difference is that all of the southernisms you mention make perfect sense.
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