regarding sofas and couchs and davenports

[pumba]

My Nana always called the porch a piazza

 

[pumba]

and my garbage disposal is a

PIG

 

[buckylarue]

My Nana always called the porch a piazza

You mean the patio? Or the lanai?

 

[pumba]

nope the side porch or back porch.....In georgia I read on line that some people still refer to the porch as the Piazza

 

[Kahana-ri]

We always had a deck and front porch. Grandma does call her couch a davenport though still.

 

[momrek06]

and my garbage disposal is a

PIG

My DAD (80yo) has always called the disposal a "PIG"...weird..

Despite hearing that my whole life..in our house it is a "disposal"...and how original of all of us....

 

[momrek06]

We lived a short time in OHIO coming from New England....

First time we went to the DRIVE-UP Bank Teller in Sylvania, Ohio...my boys were quite young...the clerk says.."Thank You and any SUCKERS out there"...

WHATTTTT, suckers....who is she calling a sucker...she doesn't even know us...all this is going through my head and I say "EXCUSE ME" and she says...

LOLLIPOPS....I see you have little ones...how many lollipops....

Ohhhh....so a SUCKER in Ohio is really a lollipop!!!!

 

[Linda/MA]

My in-laws including DH call the fridge an ice box.

 

[Micca]

My parents called the fridge an ice box, the couch a divan(devan?), soft drinks pop, lollipops suckers, and me son

 

[tevagirl]

I call a disposal a disposal, a lollipop a lollipop, and a couch a bed for dh.

 

[jumoo044]

My Grandmother called the porch the piazza, too...and the living room was the parlor...and a hot dog was a frank.

 

[mamacatnv]

DH from NH and me CA. - Me-Couch DH-Sofa


Me-Soda DH-Tonic - My first visit to his family and mother in law sends me to the store for "tonic" I returned with tonic water, 20 years later they still bring this up.

Me-Rubber Bands DH-Elastics

Me-MilkShake DH-Fribble, now how do you get fribble out of milkshake


Me-Grocery Basket DH-Carriage

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

Visiting my sister in College Station, Texas, I ordered a coke with my meal. The waitress asked, "What kind?" Ummmm, Coke? My sister took over ordering for me.

Apparently, "coke" is the generic term for soda there.

 

[helenabear]

Ohhhh....so a SUCKER in Ohio is really a lollipop!!!!

no, no, no, silly They are not the same. The suckers are the smaller sphere shaped candies on a stick. A lollipop is one of the big round flat ones

I do love hearing the regional differneces though

 

[disneymcgraw]

DH from NH and me CA. - Me-Couch DH-Sofa


Me-Soda DH-Tonic - My first visit to his family and mother in law sends me to the store for "tonic" I returned with tonic water, 20 years later they still bring this up.

Me-Rubber Bands DH-Elastics

Me-MilkShake DH-Fribble, now how do you get fribble out of milkshake


Me-Grocery Basket DH-Carriage

Your post made me laugh. Growing up my aunt and uncle lived in NH and when we'd go up to visit she'd ask if we wanted a tonic (tawnic) lol. We didn't know it was soda until we made a yuck face and said we don't like seltzer lol.

That brought back some nice memories...thank you.

 

[punkin]

My parents called the fridge an ice box, the couch a divan(devan?), soft drinks pop, lollipops suckers, and me son

We sat on a divan while I was growing up. My neighbors had a sofa. No one I knew had a couch.

 

[momrek06]

no, no, no, silly They are not the same. The suckers are the smaller sphere shaped candies on a stick. A lollipop is one of the big round flat ones

OOOOOOOOh.....well, thanks for clearing that up...too funny...BUT seriously, when she ever just so NICELY said ..."how many SUCKERS out there"...I am thinking, here I am all the way from home, from my Boston roots and first thing someone is calling me is a SUCKER???

AND so funny, as they say POP instead of soda and despite the fact we were there almost 3 years, I never caught onto calling soda, POP at all....

 

[delilah]

We lived a short time in OHIO coming from New England....

First time we went to the DRIVE-UP Bank Teller in Sylvania, Ohio...my boys were quite young...the clerk says.."Thank You and any SUCKERS out there"...

WHATTTTT, suckers....who is she calling a sucker...she doesn't even know us...all this is going through my head and I say "EXCUSE ME" and she says...

LOLLIPOPS....I see you have little ones...how many lollipops....

Ohhhh....so a SUCKER in Ohio is really a lollipop!!!!

I was born and raised in Illinois, attended university in Florida, went to grad school/medical school in Ohio, and now practice in Indiana. I have never called a "sucker" anything besides a "sucker". Nobody I ever grew up with or worked with called them anything else, either. A "lollipop" is what my dad called the elevated water reserviors that have the town names written on them, but, he always called the little candies "suckers".

Believe me, as a health professional, I have distributed my share of "suckers" over the years, to whichever of my young patients whose parents will allow it.