Do you call them suckers?

[LaraK]

My grandparents did not have a couch or sofa....they had a davenport

They also didn't go down to the stream or creek...they went to the crick.

They drank pop and called a large group "Y'ins".

They "rhet" up their houses.

They didn't have rubberbands, they were gumbands.

(ten points for anyone who can tell me where they were from)

 

[Disney Ella]

Here in south Jersey, they are called taffy, which took me a long time to get used to when I moved here. I've lived in several other parts of New Jersey and have always called them lollipops.

People call them that in Philadelphia too. When I first started working where I work, someone asked me if I wanted a hard taffy. I had no idea what that was - salt water taffy that you let get hard? But no, it was hard candy and the person called lollipops taffy too.

Lollipops

Hershey's bar


Lara, my mother says all of those things and lives in Western Pennsylvania.

 

[Piglet's Momma]

I say suckers.
Candy bars.
I tend to say "soda", but when I was younger it was "pop". However, it infuriated me when I worked at a restaurant when I was eighteen and I'd go around refilling drinks. People would say, "Pop", and I'd be thinking, "We do NOT have a brand called 'Pop'!"

My kids grew up in New England, with a totally different set of words: "tonic", "bubbler", and eating lunch in the "basement".

 

[LaraK]

Lara, my mother says all of those things and lives in Western Pennsylvania.

Yup! A small town outside of Pittsburgh called New Kensington

 

[crz4mm2]

suckers.
Pop.
Couch. Although my mom called it a Davenport.

 

[emma'smom]

Lollies, Soda, Couch, and chocolate bars!

We also wear "tennis shoes"...but where I live now, they call them sneakers and I know someone from Canada who calls them "runners".

 

[PixiePop]

I say both suckers and lollipop..but seem to favor suckers.

I call colas Coke...but Sprite is sprite...etc.

I call Hershey's candy bar

 

[L107ANGEL]

I say both suckers and lollipop..but seem to favor suckers.

I call colas Coke...but Sprite is sprite...etc.

I call Hershey's candy bar

Same here!

 

[PixiePop]

Same here!

I've told you before we would make a dangerous combo..we SO need to meet each other.

 

[L107ANGEL]

I've told you before we would make a dangerous combo..we SO need to meet each other.

we will

 

[momof3disneyholics]

It's a sucker.

 

[aprilgail2]

Lollipops- a sucker is someone that gets something pulled over on them LOL

Soda- coke is a KIND of soda, not ALL kinds- If you order a coke, you get a coke, if you want sprite, root beer etc, you have to call it by its name.

Chocolate bar

sprinkles for ice cream

a couch

sneakers are sneakers- tennis shoes are those little white shoes you wear while playing tennis-if you don't play tennis you wear sneakers

candy is candy-never herar it referred to as "sweets"

 

[cristit14]

Suckers, candy bar, candy, pop, couch, tennie shoes

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Lollipops- a sucker is someone that gets something pulled over on them LOL

Soda- coke is a KIND of soda, not ALL kinds- If you order a coke, you get a coke, if you want sprite, root beer etc, you have to call it by its name.

Chocolate bar

sprinkles for ice cream

a couch

sneakers are sneakers- tennis shoes are those little white shoes you wear while playing tennis-if you don't play tennis you wear sneakers

candy is candy-never herar it referred to as "sweets"

What she said.

 

[helenabear]

I call them both lollipops and suckers. Candy bar, candy, sweets, chocolate bar... doesn't matter to me. All work equally as well and I have no preference.

The only thing I HATE hearing is pop for soft drinks. I prefer soda or coke (we're mostly Coke only drinkers so it doesn't bother me as much) or even as I already said soft drink. Anything bug pop for me.

Sprinkles are rainbow colored and don't have a "flavor" (other than sugar to them)
Jimmies are chocolate flavored/colored sprinkles

 

[Liberty Belle]

Suckers
Couch (or davenport, but mainly because my granny called it that)
Pop
Drinking Fountain
Tennis shoes (though it comes out more like tenna shoes) or gym shoes
Frosting (not icing)
Bag (not sack)
You throw something away, you don't "pitch it."
You turn off the light, you don't "cut off the light."
Kitty corner (not catty corner)
Pajamas does not rhyme with llamas.
"carmuhl", not "care-uh-mell"
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner (though I used to call it supper more often)
Rummage sale
Bedclothes (when talking about the whole bedding ensemble)
That little bit of lawn between the sidewalk and the street is called the "easement."

 

[NHdisneylover]

I like lollipops and Hershey's bars

I drink soda

I weartennies

Rainbow coloured ice cream sprinkles are just sprinkles. But the chocolate ones are jimmies

I drink from a water foutnain

Babies ride in a stroller and suck on pacifiers

At the grocery store I put my things in a cart and out checkout they are placed in a bag

Frosting is thick and spread on, icing is thin and poured on

I am sitting on the sofa

I like pasta (not noodles)

We have moved around a lot and I am always pleasantly surprised by just how many regional differences there still are.

 

[ShuisFan584]

I call them lollipops, I've never heard the term suckers for lollipops before!

Lollipops- a sucker is someone that gets something pulled over on them LOL

That's what a sucker means haha.

 

[fraggle551]

ok I have a question about the soda thing. If you order a coke, but you really want a sprite, do they say, which type of coke? How do you do it? Why dont you just say sprite or whatever you prefer in the first place?

This has confused me forever so answers would really be appreciated!

 

[kimkarli]

ok I have a question about the soda thing. If you order a coke, but you really want a sprite, do they say, which type of coke? How do you do it? Why dont you just say sprite or whatever you prefer in the first place?

This has confused me forever so answers would really be appreciated!

When you are ordering and want a specific beverage then you state you want a Sprite, or whatever. But, when just generically referring to drinks call them Cokes.
For example: "Finish drinking your coke." Regardless of what kind of beverage they are actually drinking.