Regional Differences

[Michelle67]

Not just in this state, but...

You might be from a fishing town if:

-you don't know how to roller skate, but you do know how to tie a skate
-you know the difference between a purse seiner, a gill-netter, and a long-liner
-you know what shives are (not the kind made in prison)
-you know what one of these is, and maybe even have one on your keychain for uses slightly different from what they are made for (like I do ):

Just hoping to lighten things up a little

 

[golfgal]

Not just in this state, but...

You might be from a fishing town if:

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Just hoping to lighten things up a little

A rope with a knot tied on the end

 

[Michelle67]

here we make a run to the packy were everywhere else its a liquor store, and some of you can even get it at the grocery store which blows my mind

Just curious: can you get any form of alcohol in the grocery store? Here you can get beer and wine, but no hard liquor. Hard liquor can only be purchased in a state-run liquor store, most of which close early. I always appreciate being able to get liquor late at night from the grocery store when I'm in California. As in...wow, long day at Disneyland, kids are asleep, and I'd love to sit back and have a little rum and Coke. HEY, I can run to the grocery store!

 

[golfgal]

Just curious: can you get any form of alcohol in the grocery store? Here you can get beer and wine, but no hard liquor. Hard liquor can only be purchased in a state-run liquor store, most of which close early. I always appreciate being able to get liquor late at night from the grocery store when I'm in California. As in...wow, long day at Disneyland, kids are asleep, and I'd love to sit back and have a little rum and Coke. HEY, I can run to the grocery store!

In some states you can get everything at the liquor store. Here you can get 3.2 beer at the grocery store and that is it. Everything else is sold at liquor stores.

 

[kkacar]

I agree. And that's the perfect word - jeans and tennis shoes makes me think of my mom . I don't mind certain style jeans with tennis...but mom jeans with them is just hideous, IMO!






WAHHHH? Do tell what tomato gravy is? That sounds right up my alley!



Sounds about right for MN, too.



Agreed. I HATE ma'am and sir. It sounds very patronizing. Have never used it for people "of authority". Kids respond with "ok" or the like. If I ever addressed a superior with ma'am or sir...they would think of me as mocking their position.

Tomato gravy is fabulous. We love it.

easy explanation: The same way you would make gravy; equal parts oil (I love to use bacon grease... yah I know but it is good) make a roux when the flour is all brown and you would normally add your liquid add tomatoes and the juice. (if you are using a can tomatoes then use it all, I use the tomatoes we put up during the summer when they are fresh so I use a quart jar.) Let it cook down just like you would any other meat gravy. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour over huge cathead biscuits and let me tell you it is good.

And yes sorry I say yes ma'am all day every day. Would not even consider saying anything different.

And PP, I was just letting you know how my portion of the gulf coast is. Was not insinuating yours was bad, as with anything else, If we were all the same what point would there be in having more than one of us??


Kelli

 

[shine87]

Just curious: can you get any form of alcohol in the grocery store? Here you can get beer and wine, but no hard liquor. Hard liquor can only be purchased in a state-run liquor store, most of which close early. I always appreciate being able to get liquor late at night from the grocery store when I'm in California. As in...wow, long day at Disneyland, kids are asleep, and I'd love to sit back and have a little rum and Coke. HEY, I can run to the grocery store!

Nope no alcohol at all there is a loophole that allows very few gas station/grocery stores to carry beer but very few like I only know of one in my area and it's not in a very good neighborhood so I wouldn't just drive there to get some if the packys are closed

 

[doxdogy]

Just curious: can you get any form of alcohol in the grocery store? Here you can get beer and wine, but no hard liquor. Hard liquor can only be purchased in a state-run liquor store, most of which close early. I always appreciate being able to get liquor late at night from the grocery store when I'm in California. As in...wow, long day at Disneyland, kids are asleep, and I'd love to sit back and have a little rum and Coke. HEY, I can run to the grocery store!

Here you can get beer and wine inside the grocery store itself. Some are starting to add liquor stores too. But the liquor store is in an attached separate building from the grocery store.

I have no idea what the picture is Michelle. Care to clue us in?

 

[golfgal]

Tomato gravy is fabulous. We love it.

easy explanation: The same way you would make gravy; equal parts oil (I love to use bacon grease... yah I know but it is good) make a roux when the flour is all brown and you would normally add your liquid add tomatoes and the juice. (if you are using a can tomatoes then use it all, I use the tomatoes we put up during the summer when they are fresh so I use a quart jar.) Let it cook down just like you would any other meat gravy. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour over huge cathead biscuits and let me tell you it is good.

And yes sorry I say yes ma'am all day every day. Would not even consider saying anything different.

And PP, I was just letting you know how my portion of the gulf coast is. Was not insinuating yours was bad, as with anything else, If we were all the same what point would there be in having more than one of us??


Kelli

Ok, more regional differences here--put up here would be canned and what in the HECK is a cathead biscuit???

 

[Michelle67]

A rope with a knot tied on the end

Hey we have a winner!

If they have a proper name I don't know it, but we call them "fish thumpers." They are used for knocking out large fish before they flop all over the deck and damage their meat (or you, for that matter). They are tied out of ganyon material (some thing skates are tied out of). There's a ball bearing inside that knot, and they can pack a wallop. That one came off my keychain, I put it on there after I took it away from my children. My commercial-fisherman cousin sat here one day and tied two of them and gave them to my kids...who within the hour were running around smacking one another with them. Can you tell my cousin doesn't have kids?

 

[kkacar]

Ok, more regional differences here--put up here would be canned and what in the HECK is a cathead biscuit???

Ok canned means it was bought from the grocery store. When we put up fruit it's in a mason jar. Or frozen in little containers like peas and beans and the like.

LOL, sorry a cathead biscuit is just a biscuit the size of a cat's head. And I know I may be in Florida, BUT there is a huge difference between north Florida and South Florida.

Kelli

 

[aprilgail2]

On the other side...I have been surprised that the weddings up north involve alcohol,hugely expensive receptions and that people dole out hundreds or dollars for gifts.

Ive been to exactly ONE wedding that didn't have alchol at it an it was in Virginia in the "hell hole" as we called it--it was the basement of a church and it had to be 90 degrees down there!---I did go to one here that had a "cash bar" and that was like the talk of the wedding LOL--its just not done!

 

[golfgal]

Ok canned means it was bought from the grocery store. When we put up fruit it's in a mason jar. Or frozen in little containers like peas and beans and the like.

LOL, sorry a cathead biscuit is just a biscuit the size of a cat's head. And I know I may be in Florida, BUT there is a huge difference between north Florida and South Florida.

Kelli

We used canned for both but when you "put up" canning is used as a verb--"We are canning corn today" vs an adjective as in "buy some canned corn at the store"

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Maybe cuz in mass most people are just rude so I expect it

OP and MA resident here and I disagree.

If I had power I'd respond more, but I don't.

 

[mhsjax]

OP and MA resident here and I disagree.

If I had power I'd respond more, but I don't.

But that poster is a MA resident.

 

[SaraJayne]

Just curious: can you get any form of alcohol in the grocery store? Here you can get beer and wine, but no hard liquor. Hard liquor can only be purchased in a state-run liquor store, most of which close early. I always appreciate being able to get liquor late at night from the grocery store when I'm in California. As in...wow, long day at Disneyland, kids are asleep, and I'd love to sit back and have a little rum and Coke. HEY, I can run to the grocery store!

We can purchase beer, wine and hard liquor at the grocery store, convenience store and liquor store.

 

[madge]

That is a big difference. Here it is polite to do that, and people teach their children to do so. It is seen as a sign of respect towards adults, or even towards customers. It doesn't bother me at all to be called ma'am if it is a situation like that.

But when this topic comes up on these threads, I always wonder what the northern approach is. If you tell your child or a teacher tells her student to do something, does the child just walk away and do it without speaking? Or is there something they say besides "Yes ma'am/sir"? Maybe they just say "Okay" and walk away?

While "ma'am" doesn't bother me, "Miss" does. Either by itself, or as "Miss Krista". It's popular here for children to call adults who are not necessarily in a role of authority over them "Miss" or "Mr." insert-first-name. I don't want to be called Miss by anyone except for a few certain adults who use it as a sign of endearment towards me. There's a DIS friend who calls me Miss Krista, and I love it as a sign of our friendship . Kids that I am not in an authority role over can just call me "Krista".

I can't stand to be called "Miss", by itself, either. I don't love being called Miss Madge, but I'm ok with it. It happens mostly at church by the preschool set. My kids' friends all call me Mrs. _____ ... which took some getting used to - it made me feel old at first!

My younger two kids don't call any adult by their first name. (that I know of, LOL!) My oldest son does occastionally, but mainly they're referred to by Mr/Mrs Last Name. I am forty something and still call all my parents' friends Mr/Mrs Last Name.

It probably goes without saying my children (and me, when appropriate) say yes/no ma'am/sir It doesn't have to be ma'am/sir, though. Just as long as there's no yeah, and ideally they'd address the person by name or something. (yes, Mrs. Smith, yes, please .. no, thank you, etc)

 

[golfgal]

We can purchase beer, wine and hard liquor at the grocery store, convenience store and liquor store.

And on Sunday...

 

[SaraJayne]

And on Sunday...

Yes, liquor sales are 7 days a week. Are you kidding? Not sell alcohol on a PACKER Sunday??

 

[golfgal]

Yes, liquor sales are 7 days a week. Are you kidding? Not sell alcohol on a PACKER Sunday??

 

[Michelle67]

I kinda sorta make a tomato gravy. I pour canned (actually "put up," as I can them myself) tomatoes and onions over roasts before I bake them, and then use that mixture/dripping to make a really amazing rich tomato and beef gravy. It's soooooo good.

I'm a little afraid of the wedding thing because I've seen it get kinda vicious in the past, but...I just find myself being drawn in. I've been to weddings where there was an open bar, weddings where there was a cash bar, weddings where there was no alcohol served at all but guests were notified that they were allowed to bring it if they wished, and weddings where there was no alcohol served OR permitted for various reasons. There was no liquor at all at the last wedding/reception I attended.

Liquor is sold here 7 days a week at some liquor stores, but they used to only be open Monday through Saturday.