Kitchen

[beach-mom]

This post is so much fun!

I grew up in the South. Any soda of any kind was a "coke."

We ate "subs."

I know there are others. That's what comes to mind for me right now! 

[newjerseygirl]

Sprinkles or Jimmies

[shoesnbags]

In New Orleans we drink "soft drinks" with our "po-boy" sandwiches. And if you want lettuce and tomato on that sandwich, you say that you want it "dressed."

[sunshine45]

i am from the mid-atlantic/northeast......

we always called them jimmies growing up, but most of the time now we call then sprinkles because the young kids behind the counter have no clue what jimmies are.

i always call a soda by its name........i dont use soda pop, pop, soft drink.

have heard the term grinders, po-boys, hoagies, submarines, subs, heros......i always call them subs.

we dont call pizza "pies" and i cannot think of any local pizza places that call them pies either......even the italian owned shops/restaurants. we just call it pizza.

when you buy sandwich meats at the deli or at the grocery store we call that "lunch meat."

a black and white is either a cookie OR a milkshake made with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup.

[feline groovy]

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@house_cat wrote:

When I first moved to LA from NYC, we called the local pizza place said we wanted to order a pie.  The kid on the phone told me that they didn't sell pies, they sold pizza, lol.  NY "hero" sandwiches are "subs" here in the west. There are others that I can't recall off hand, probably because I've lived here long enough to adapt to the different terminology.

Have you noticed any regional differences in food names?

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Had the same thing happen back in college when ordering a pizza, as a native New Jerseyan in northwest MA.

I also grew up saying "sub", which is short for submarine if anyone's wondering.

 

[Kati]

Here in the West, we call it cantaloupe, but growing up in Indiana it was always muskmellon.

I also never heard the word 'pasta' till living in the West.  It was always spaghetti or macaroni no matter what type it was.

Great topic!

[VanSleepy]

I had the opposite happen with the pizza...when we moved to NJ we kept seeing "bar pie" on the menu and were wondering what type of pie was specific to bars.

I call a package of ground beef "hamburger".  My friend calls it chopped meat.

[Toppers]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

Ooh yeah. Some of the names people use for soft drinks make me cringe.     They are soft drinks!     I even heard sody pop one time.  gadzooks!  hehe

Also, I guess Marshmallow Cream is called Fluff in the east.

That's about all I know.

Well, there are some Paula Deen-isms I used to hear but they were just wrong.  For example when she refers to 'confectioner's sugar' she calls it 'confectionate sugar'.   

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There's a brand called "Marshmallow Fluff," so maybe that's where the term\word "fluff" came from. Just a guess. 

As for other words for soda, where I live now, some soft drinks are sodas, but some can be drinks like lemonade or Kool-Aid. In other parts of the Midwest a soda is called "pop."

Doesn't bother me at all, as these are just regional ways that people have of speaking. 

[Bellabutterfly]

Yes, grew up on the east coast Northeastern PA...Moved to California 37 years ago.  This what I found interesting...Back then.

I grew up with "Hogie"  Italian Cold Cut...Here in CA..."Subs".

I grew up with "Spaghetti"...Here in CA it is ..."Pasta".

I grew up with "Macaronni Salad"...Here in CA it is "Macaronni"

I grew up with "Pitz"...Here in CA it is "Pizza"

I grew up with what they call...I want a Slice...That means a slice of Pizza back East...Here CA when I first said that they looked at me strange..."Ya...You want a slice..Of what bread"? 

This one is the biggest at least for me it was 37 years ago...I grew up calling "Green Bell Peppers"...Mangos...Everyone, who I knew weather they were Italian, Polish, Slovok, Irish where I lived in Northeastern PA a"Green Bell Pepper was called a Mango!!!

So, imagine me at 19 yrs old shopping in a CA grocery store asking the cleark were are the Mangos...He took me to this item I have never seen before in my life.  It was a true Mango (the fruit) to me it looked live a foreign object.   I go..."What is that"?  He goes a Mango...I go that isn't a Mango?  He goes, "Honey I don't know where you came from...But here they are Real Mangos".

[Doxielover]

I live in Ohio and we refer to soft drinks as "pop." When I lived in Florida, it was referred to as "Coke." I have some family that lives in South Carolina and they refer to shopping carts as "buggies."