Regional Differences

[PrincessKsMom]

I once had a drink thrown at me while working at a counter service restaurant at WDW over this very issue. The guy ordered a "coke," so I rang up a Coke and when the person handed him the drink he was LIVID. She was from AZ and I'm from Chicago, we were dumbfounded. I apologized, stating that I thought he had ordered a Coke. He replied that he did. So I asked what the problem was? That is when he launched the drink at me, just threw it right at me. He was ranting how I was so rude not to ask what kind of coke he wanted. I just stood there shell shocked because I did not get it at all. Other CMs had got a manager and they dealt with it. The other girl and I kept asking him to just tell us what drink he wanted and we'd get it, no problem, but he was so unbelievably angry.

Another guest, who witnessed it, was from Tennessee and explained what happened.

There is NO excuse for behavior like this. I hope they booted his butt out of the park.

 

[JVL1018]

Ditto -I dish it up and then put the plates on the table

Less dishes (don't have to wash serving bowls) and more importantly for us
Smaller portions
We don't need seconds!

If I have company I usually do serving bowls -either set out on a buffet or on the table

Since I read about it, I do plate up ravioli and ziti and the like from the stove.
Nothing else, I stick with my serving bowls/platters for everything else-but with the pasta, yes..and I do enjoy washing less dishes.

 

[KrysiaG]

That people call spaghetti sauce gravy

This!

I am from Cincinnati but relocated to RI for a bit. I couldn't believe they called marinara/spaghetti sauce "Gravy" - and they had NO CLUE what real GRAVY was (traditional biscuits & gravy). Also, that they called a water fountain a "bubbler." LOL!

And a shopping cart here is a shopping cart. They called it a carriage.

 

[JVL1018]

This thought totally blows me away.

Do people not register for wedding gifts in NJ?

Here, everyone registers for gifts at a multitude of stores and receives a ton of gifts off the registry.

Yes.
You register prior to your bridal shower and that is where the bride gets all that she's registered for.
By the time the wedding comes, most gifts have been bought off the registry and you just give cash.

 

[KrysiaG]

Funny, we lived in SW Ohio for 13 years and never once heard soda called pop!

I haved lived in Cincinnati all my life (with the exception of 1 year living in Rhode Island in my early 30s). So 37 out of 38 years lived in Cincinnati.

EVERYONE calls it pop here. EVERYONE. When I say "soda" (which is what they called in in RI), people literally look at me like I am insane. Here - It is pop. Anywhere in the entire Cincinnati area, it is called pop. LOL

 

[KrysiaG]

Yes.
You register prior to your bridal shower and that is where the bride get all that she's registered for.
By the time the wedding comes, most gifts have been bought off the registry and you just give cash.

oh duh, that makes sense. registry = bridal shower. wedding gifts = $. Got it.

 

[aprilgail2]

Sure, but just so you know, I'm expecting a awesome cocktail hour with raw bar and passed hors d'oeuvres, a sit down dinner with many courses, open bar and viennese table, plus lots of dancing!

LOVE LOVE LOVE the viennese hour-my favorite part of a wedding!!!

I found it strange that a guest would be invited to the dance part of a wedding reception but not the dinner part of a wedding reception.

That one blows me away--you are good enough to come to the wedding but not good enough to come to the dinner....

Actually, I also say that I live "on" Long Island. Go figure.

LOL---I have never in my life heard someone say they live IN Long Island--I would think it rather odd to say that rather than ON long island...we live on the island, not IN it!

MORE---
People that don't give a wedding gift if they gave a shower gift...

Places that don't have children at weddings

Actual gifts brought to a wedding!

People that let another group of homeowners decide what you can and can not do with your own property

That in some places they have showers for every baby a person has not just the first!

That some places have 6 year old kids still in kindergarten

That some places people want you to take your shoes off before entering a house.

This one I am actually jealous of--people that can give 50.00 for a wedding gift and its considered generous!

That in some places people go to high school football games even if they are not the parent of one of the kids.

That people can "opt out" of halloween in places by turning off a porch light.

A wedding reception serving just cake, punch and mints!

Any type party not serving a meal

 

[KrysiaG]

Jack & Jill parties, for one.

Other wedding differences I can't remember specifics about.

The whole soda/pop/coke business, which I knew about before DISBoards.

I'm sure there are others I can't think of.

What is a Jack & Jill party?

 

[KrysiaG]

That "please" in SouthWest Ohio means anything from "excuse me" to "could you repeat that?"

VERY true. Please is universally used in this area, LOL!

 

[disneyofcourse]

I've learned-
Your crazy if you spend any money on vet bills for your pet because its just an animal in certain areas.
Babysitters run you about $3-5.00 an hour or less in some parts and that's including them paying for food and activity.
Dog boarding is $10 a day a includes a bath or less. People who spend more are just wasting money.
People are expected to pay to attend a party.
Barbecues that require the guests to bring food and the host makes nothing
Host wants guest to pay money to buy the food for the event they are hosting.
You must invite your neighbor if you have a party or else its the end of the friendship.
Kids aren't allowed outside alone until they turn 21
No boy/girlfriends until after college and a career is some parts is the norm.


Oh the many things on the Disboards! Ok, so maybe its not all just regional stuff and just things I find interesting.

 

[Missy1961]

Tacky? I'm not sure I'd go *that* far.

For a formal dinner party, I would probably put everything in serving bowls. But for every night dinner, I serve from pots to plates. (Our kitchen table is small and it means fewer dishes for me.)

Everybody doesn't line up with their plates at the stove, though. I assemble plates for everyone on the counter, then carry the plates to the table. (Think "restaurant" not "cafeteria line.")

that's how my mom did it. and my sister does it that way too. So my nieces always thought I was "fancy" when I put food into bowls first!

 

[PrincessKsMom]

That "Bless Your Heart" means anything other than "damn idiot".

 

[JVL1018]

LOVE LOVE LOVE the viennese hour-my favorite part of a wedding!!!



That one blows me away--you are good enough to come to the wedding but not good enough to come to the dinner....





LOL---I have never in my life heard someone say they live IN Long Island--I would think it rather odd to say that rather than ON long island...we live on the island, not IN it!

MORE---
People that don't give a wedding gift if they gave a shower gift...

Places that don't have children at weddings

Actual gifts brought to a wedding!

People that let another group of homeowners decide what you can and can not do with your own property

That in some places they have showers for every baby a person has not just the first!

That some places have 6 year old kids still in kindergarten

That some places people want you to take your shoes off before entering a house.

This one I am actually jealous of--people that can give 50.00 for a wedding gift and its considered generous!

That in some places people go to high school football games even if they are not the parent of one of the kids.

That people can "opt out" of halloween in places by turning off a porch light.

A wedding reception serving just cake, punch and mints!

Any type party not serving a meal

What is your cut off date?
Even when I was a kid(I'll be 40 next month) and the cut off date was Dec 31st(it's Oct 1st now), half of the kids in my class turned 6 in Kindergarten. The children who were born Jan 1-late June all turned 6 while they attended K.

Unless you have a cutoff date the last day of school, won't there always be 6 year olds in K?

 

[Conservative Hippie]

I once had a drink thrown at me while working at a counter service restaurant at WDW over this very issue. The guy ordered a "coke," so I rang up a Coke and when the person handed him the drink he was LIVID. She was from AZ and I'm from Chicago, we were dumbfounded. I apologized, stating that I thought he had ordered a Coke. He replied that he did. So I asked what the problem was? That is when he launched the drink at me, just threw it right at me. He was ranting how I was so rude not to ask what kind of coke he wanted. I just stood there shell shocked because I did not get it at all. Other CMs had got a manager and they dealt with it. The other girl and I kept asking him to just tell us what drink he wanted and we'd get it, no problem, but he was so unbelievably angry.

Another guest, who witnessed it, was from Tennessee and explained what happened.

I am in the South -and if we are discussing soda in general we often use the word "coke" as a generic term (we are loyal coke people here)
But if we are in a restaurant -most people I know say what they mean
"sprite" "diet coke"

That rude guest was inexcusable. Back when I did drink soda, we would use "Coke" in the generic since, but always specify the flavor if we were ordering. Or you might ask what kinds of Coke the place serves if you don't know!

I love the pop vs. soda map! I live in the Four Corners area, and Polk, Lake, and Orange are all "Coke" counties, while Osceola is "soda."

 

[cornflake]

I've learned-
Your crazy if you spend any money on vet bills for your pet because its just an animal in certain areas.
Babysitters run you about $3-5.00 an hour or less in some parts and that's including them paying for food and activity.
Dog boarding is $10 a day a includes a bath or less. People who spend more are just wasting money.
People are expected to pay to attend a party.
Barbecues that require the guests to bring food and the host makes nothing
Host wants guest to pay money to buy the food for the event they are hosting.
You must invite your neighbor if you have a party or else its the end of the friendship.
Kids aren't allowed outside alone until they turn 21
No boy/girlfriends until after college and a career is some parts is the norm.

Oh the many things on the Disboards! Ok, so maybe its not all just regional stuff and just things I find interesting.

Even back when I was in h.s. I made $13/hr. babysitting - for one kid!

Some places people don't have careers?

 

[Tosie]

I took a present to my first NYC wedding....it was a big Tiffany box...and people looked at me like I was nuts. I'm from Ohio and nobody clued me in. The bride was very gracious though...

We got one actual gift at our wedding, given by a guest who grew up in the midwest. It was a Cuisinart food processor and I was thrilled!!!

 

[PrincessKsMom]

I took a present to my first NYC wedding....it was a big Tiffany box...and people looked at me like I was nuts. I'm from Ohio and nobody clued me in. The bride was very gracious though...

Just curious. Was it actually from Tiffany, or just in the box? I actually know of a person or two who tried that.

 

[scrapquitler]

I've always wondered the same thing about the 'coke' for soda thing. I've never actually heard anyone do it, but I don't live in the south, but I've heard about it and... why go through the rigamarole?

As for the dishing from pots on the stove, that is just.... tacky? I dunno, that's weird. What do people line up like the stove is a buffet? I can see it in the 'I left the stew warming on the stove til you got home' scenario but in a 'dinner time' for everyone scenario?

Sometimes we do it that way...everyone goes to the stove and puts the food on their own plate and then goes to the table to sit down and eat. Other times, I stand at the stove and dish out everyones food onto the plates and then put the plates on the table. It depends on what the meal is. Tacos they definitely do it themselves.

 

[tvguy]

1) States that allow smoking inside restaurants, bars and even grocery stores.

2) Pork steaks. Been to more than one butcher shop in California and got the deer in the headlights look back when I asked if they had any.

3) Opening Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve. Geez, Santa doesn't even come until after you've gone to bed on Christmas Eve.

4) Blue laws. I work M-F, if I can't shop on Sunday, I won't have groceries.

5) Sweet Tea. One sip, you've got instant diabetes. Surprised the food police haven't sentenced someone to death for that syrupy creation.

6) State run liquor stores, and states that ban sales on liquor and beer.

7) Passing on the right hand shoulder on the highway.

8) People who think a 5.9 earthquake is newsworthy.

 

[scrapquitler]

This thought totally blows me away.

Do people not register for wedding gifts in NJ?

Here, everyone registers for gifts at a multitude of stores and receives a ton of gifts off the registry.

Here in CT mostly people buy gifts from the registry for the shower and give cash for the wedding.