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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 4, 2023 8:23:23 GMT -5
Down here they also call lunch, supper. It's breakfast, supper and dinner. Weirdos. But what about second breakfast?
I have heard that before but not a common as supper for lunch. In the Yankee territory we always said "yodee" as in Wile E Coyote. Then I married a southerner and finally moved to the south and it "yott" down here. Which drives me as crazy as Hair-ess-ment for harassment. Up, up north (I was born in Minnesota) it's pop. Further south where I was raised it's soda. Down here in the south you hear just about everything. But it's mostly pop or coke. As in a coke is a generic term to use for any soft drink and most likely you'll end up with a Dr.Pepper because apparently southerns love that stuff. My father-in-law calls it soda pop. Down here they also call lunch, supper. It's breakfast, supper and dinner. Weirdos. Not sure how far south you are, but in my neck of the woods (TN-AL-MS) it's "dinner" for lunch, as in "Sunday Dinner", which is the meal you invite the preacher to right after church, and "Supper" for the evening meal. "Lunch" is still heard more frequently in cities, while "dinner" still rules in the rural and small towns for the mid-day meal. "Supper" and "Dinner" are sometimes interchanged for the evening meal, but again it depends on how urban or rural the locale might be.
I am in OK-TX region. And I have heard "Sunny Dinner" before but mostly from the older generations. Like when my wife's grandmother would invite the family to eat on Sunday, many called it "Sunday dinner" even if there was no preacher. And it was usually around the 11am to 2pm eating time depending on how long all the cooking took.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2023 8:59:31 GMT -5
Down here they also call lunch, supper. It's breakfast, supper and dinner. Weirdos.
But what about second breakfast?
We always have second breakfast before elevenses.
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Post by impulse on Oct 4, 2023 11:44:10 GMT -5
I must have bumped into the reality wall a little too hard and fell out of the Classic Comics Forum and into the Regional Dialectics Forum.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 4, 2023 12:20:34 GMT -5
A regional language question that needs more research - after you check out at the supermarket, are your purchases put into a bag, or a sack?
I grew up with "bag", but in recent years I've been asked more than once whether I want a "sack".
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 4, 2023 12:43:10 GMT -5
A regional language question that needs more research - after you check out at the supermarket, are your purchases put into a bag, or a sack? I grew up with "bag", but in recent years I've been asked more than once whether I want a "sack". They were always baggers when I was growing up also. Or box-boys.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 4, 2023 12:59:08 GMT -5
A regional language question that needs more research - after you check out at the supermarket, are your purchases put into a bag, or a sack? I grew up with "bag", but in recent years I've been asked more than once whether I want a "sack". They were always baggers when I was growing up also. Or box-boys. Bags, always. Sacks held something other than groceries. I've always read that some rural Americans also used the word "poke," as in "Don't buy a pig in a poke." Came over from Scotland and England, IIRC. That was quite a while back, though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2023 13:01:35 GMT -5
I remember in one place we lived when I was growing up, our local grocery store had "supposedly" the top bagger in the state (I guess bagging competitions are actually a thing!). I think his name was Vance and not only was he a bagger at our store, but evidently he also trained all the other baggers and was in demand at other locations. He was a total legend.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 4, 2023 13:10:08 GMT -5
I remember in one place we lived when I was growing up, our local grocery store had "supposedly" the top bagger in the state (I guess bagging competitions are actually a thing!). I think his name was Vance and not only was he a bagger at our store, but evidently he also trained all the other baggers and was in demand at other locations. He was a total legend. Someone should make a movie about him.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 4, 2023 13:12:33 GMT -5
I've always read that some rural Americans also used the word "poke," as in "Don't buy a pig in a poke." Came over from Scotland and England, IIRC. That was quite a while back, though. I looked that up a while ago. "Poke" is an archaic word that's related to "pouch" and "pocket". A pig in a poke was a medieval scam - someone would come to town on market day with an opaque bag and say that it held a suckling pig ready for roasting. If you were foolish enough to buy the bag without looking inside, you'd find that you had a dead cat or something else that was the approximate size & shape of a suckling pig.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 4, 2023 13:24:08 GMT -5
I remember in one place we lived when I was growing up, our local grocery store had "supposedly" the top bagger in the state (I guess bagging competitions are actually a thing!). I think his name was Vance and not only was he a bagger at our store, but evidently he also trained all the other baggers and was in demand at other locations. He was a total legend. Someone should make a movie about him. There is a My Name Is Earl episode Girl Earl where Earl's then girlfriend makes a karma list of her own like Earl and the first thing she crosses off is making amends to a championship bagger whose fingers she broke. So to make it up to the bagger he trains Earl to bag for him in the upcoming championship. If I remember right the competing other champion bagger was named Bagger Vance.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 4, 2023 16:28:25 GMT -5
A regional language question that needs more research - after you check out at the supermarket, are your purchases put into a bag, or a sack? I grew up with "bag", but in recent years I've been asked more than once whether I want a "sack". I'm familiar with both terms, though "bag" is far more commonly used in NE Ohio. There's a Sacksville-Baggins joke in here somewhere...
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Post by impulse on Oct 4, 2023 17:12:40 GMT -5
A regional language question that needs more research - after you check out at the supermarket, are your purchases put into a bag, or a sack? I grew up with "bag", but in recent years I've been asked more than once whether I want a "sack". As a 90s teenager, sacks were either full of nuts or potatoes. Grocery stores have bags.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 4, 2023 17:26:19 GMT -5
Sacks are full of Marilyn Monroe.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 4, 2023 18:31:09 GMT -5
Sacks are full of Marilyn Monroe. Did you say "sacks" or "sex?"
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 4, 2023 18:32:15 GMT -5
Ugh, first nosebleed of the season. Gonna be a long winter!
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