Regional Differences

[Liberty Belle]

Really? All the women in my neighborhood meet monthly to play Bunco. I figured it was our generation's version of bridge.

I guess it's come back. Or maybe it was just my town that it was mostly old ladies.

 

[Strawberry's mom&dad]

I'm guilty of saying warshed too. I've also been known to say I'm from Warshington. My midwest upbringing.
I agree that corn hole means something else to me also. We also play cribbage and Mexican train dominoes along with other card games.
Smoked salmon out here is quite tasty. Definitely different than lox but it all depends on what you grew up with.

 

[Mama-san]

Here, we use both peep-eye (I don't understand the freak out over this term) and peek-a-boo.

I had a Momma, Daddy, a Ma-Ma, and a Pa-Pa.

Cornhole is popular around here, but I refuse to be a part of this activity strictly because of the name (I guess "bean bag toss" didn't have enough pizazz). However, I love playing pinocle when we visit with my DMIL in PA (relatively unknown game around here).

I don't know what a bialy is, but I do know the character Max Bialystock from "The Producers".

Most of the salmon I have eaten in my life came out of a can and was made into patties and fried.

FWIW, #1 on my trip wish list is Europe.

 

[SaraJayne]

I'm guilty of saying warshed too. I've also been known to say I'm from Warshington. My midwest upbringing.
I agree that corn hole means something else to me also. We also play cribbage and Mexican train dominoes along with other card games.
Smoked salmon out here is quite tasty. Definitely different than lox but it all depends on what you grew up with.

We don't say "warsh" here.

 

[Michelle67]

Hey Imzadi....ya know during the course of our last exchange I had a sudden revelation. Maybe there was more to that whole pointing from the bridge thing that my husband did to me than I thought. Ya think maybe it had anything to do with those cracks I made about the pizzas he and his brothers went and got for me? I figured out that thems were fighting words, but revenge actually never occurred to me.

I guess it'd come back. Or maybe it was just my town that it was mostly old ladies.

When I first started playing with my bunco group it was all old ladies except myself and my friend who were invited (by my ex-MIL) to replace two who didn't play anymore. Now it's about an even split between old women and those of us who are in our late 30s or early 40s. My husband (when he's here) and another man play regularly, and a few other husbands sub for us. But I know a whole bunch of other women through PTA and such (elementary level, so most are in their late 20s through early 40s) who play as well.

Most of the salmon I have eaten in my life came out of a can and was made into patties and fried.

The can is a sin here, but we do that too in my family only we call them fritters and it's what you do with leftover salmon (unless you make it into dip...yum yum).

 

[Michelle67]

I'm guilty of saying warshed too. I've also been known to say I'm from Warshington. My midwest upbringing.
I agree that corn hole means something else to me also. We also play cribbage and Mexican train dominoes along with other card games.
Smoked salmon out here is quite tasty. Definitely different than lox but it all depends on what you grew up with.

I've heard warsh, and I've heard worsh (and Warshington and Worshington).

 

[wdwgirl03]

I only read the first couple pages of this thread but noticed a lot of the comments are wedding related. One thing that I've been surprised to hear about is engagement parties. I have never heard of that before.

We don't say "warsh" here.

LOL, I was just thinking the same thing.

 

[mhsjax]

I have to say this attitude is very different to me. I don't know anyone that doesn't have some desire to see other countries and other parts of the US. They might not have the means nor the time, but usually there is some interest.

It might be because I know a lot of people who are immigrants or children of immigrants. For them the plane ride to Europe is actually very quick compared to the flight to Asia. Also many people here work for the government and perhaps do international business or traveled at some point for work.

Well, I have the means and the time. Sorry to disappoint some of you, but I don't care if I ever go to Europe, nothing you can say will change my mind. I don't care how many people you know that love it or think nothing of it, I have NO interest in going.

FWIW, I have friends that still have family in Europe also, they aren't that keen on it. I guess we just move in different circles. To each his own, but please everyone, don't feel sorry or look down on those of us that really don't give a crap about leaving the country. It will be less crowded for you, if those of us that don't want to go there just stay home.

 

[Robinrs]

That reminds me, I've never had bread pudding. It sounds horrible. I don't know if it's regional, but I've never heard of bread pudding until I was in my 30's. I think I was in CA at the time.




Yes, it's amazing what passes for bagels in other parts of the country. AND the refrigerate them where they become doughy and rubbery!!!

I was at the Seattle airport. The clerk let me feel their version of a "bagel." I could tell by the feel that it was a rubber ball of dough. I asked if I could just have a toasted English muffin instead with cream cheese and smoked salmon. They couldn't understand the concept of cream cheese and smoked salmon or (lox.) I thought Seattle is a seafood city. So I thought they would have heard of the combo of cream cheese and smoked salmon before? I guess there are no Jewish people in Seattle? They screwed up & gave me cream cheese and anchovies!


I bet most people outside of the NYC/LI/NJ area do not know what a bialy is.

You are soooo ME!!!

I had to find the small Jewish community here in Atlanta to find a REAL bagel! It was worth the trip!

 

[wdwgirl03]

Maybe not on the left coast but it's a BIG DEAL in NY!

Just like that 2" of snow that stops everything dead in Georgia...and those of us in New England just go when we get almost a foot of snow.

Exactly! We were just talking about this yesterday because I had seen something about some west coast people making fun of the people on the east coast. I mean really?! Yeah, if you're not used to it, it IS going to be a big deal. Let's see if those big-talking west coasters can handle a blizzard. Sorry, just had to share that.

 

[bluesaturn]

Well, I have the means and the time. Sorry to disappoint some of you, but I don't care if I ever go to Europe, nothing you can say will change my mind. I don't care how many people you know that love it or think nothing of it, I have NO interest in going.

FWIW, I have friends that still have family in Europe also, they aren't that keen on it. I guess we just move in different circles. To each his own, but please everyone, don't feel sorry or look down on those of us that really don't give a crap about leaving the country. It will be less crowded for you, if those of us that don't want to go there just stay home.

I really have no interest in changing your mind.

People are going to have opinions about it and of course they can voice them. Doesn't mean they actually want to change you.

 

[disykat]

We don't say "warsh" here.

That's because you're from WisKAHNson, masters of the "ah." My dad was from Wisconsin and my mom is from Nebraska. Her "worsh"ing machine pronunciation drove my dad nuts.

 

[vwlizard]

A popular one here (outside of Boston) is a MEAT SHOOT or a LOBSTER SHOOT. Sometimes around Thanksgiving, it is a TURKEY SHOOT.

I haven't been to one yet. We keep getting invited, but can never make it. Apparently, you buy raffle tickets and win different cuts of meat (or lobster). No shooting involved.

I'm sure I never saw this living in NJ.

 

[Michelle67]

Exactly! We were just talking about this yesterday because I had seen something about some west coast people making fun of the people on the east coast. I mean really?! Yeah, if you're not used to it, it IS going to be a big deal. Let's see if those big-talking west coasters can handle a blizzard. Sorry, just had to share that.

I'm completely with you on this. I may joke about "little earthquakes," and I really am pretty blase about them when they happen, but on the other hand I live where earthquakes are a fact of life and we grow up expecting them and knowing what to do. Also, our buildings are made to take them (and can still end up with major damage). Not sure that would be the case for you guys.

I get the other end of that comment too, from experience. A couple of years ago we had a "freak" 12-18 inches of snow fall in my area. May not sound like a big deal in places where you get feet and feet of it, but it's a mighty big deal when:

-your city does not even own a snow plow
-the county doesn't have many either
-nobody owns a snow shovel (okay, probably not nobody, but I'm going with the vast majority)
-roofs are neither pitched nor reinforced with snow in mind
-most people's pipes are not insulated for that kind of weather
-most people don't own clothing for that kind of weather

I couldn't get out of my garage, let alone my loooooong driveway, for a week. The snow was over my bumper, and I had no way of moving it. I finally called my ex to come rescue me (my husband was in Iraq). He called all over three counties trying to get a snow shovel for me, and there were none. Not many stocked in the first place, and everybody needed one. He finally came over with his lifted 4wd and drove up and down my driveway to compact the snow for me, and dug my car out of the garage with a garden spade. It's okay to laugh...yep, we are pretty helpless in the snow on this side of the mountains!

I now own a snow shovel. It may sit there and look pretty in the garage for the rest of my life, but if that nonsense ever happens again I'm READY!

BTW, I have a friend in Verona, WI. She thinks it is hysterically funny that our schools close over an inch of snow (although really the ice is the problem). She wonders whether to let her daughter walk to the bus stop when it is -13*, and my kids don't even have school if there's visible snow on the ground. LOL She calls us wimps every year.

 

[Strawberry's mom&dad]

I actually probably pronounce it worsh rather than warsh. I came from SW Iowa close to Neb. so it's probably a sub regional thing.
I agree it's the ice more than the snow but if somebody sees a snowflake we're on snow alert. All in all our weather is pretty benign compared to other areas.

 

[Imzadi]

Hey Imzadi....ya know during the course of our last exchange I had a sudden revelation. Maybe there was more to that whole pointing from the bridge thing that my husband did to me than I thought. Ya think maybe it had anything to do with those cracks I made about the pizzas he and his brothers went and got for me? I figured out that thems were fighting words, but revenge actually never occurred to me.

That, or they were trying to save you from getting into a scuffle with a NYer. You might have blurted out something about about our pizza, and got tossed off the Statue of Liberty Island into the Hudson River.

I'm completely with you on this. I may joke about "little earthquakes," and I really am pretty blase about them when they happen, but on the other hand I live where earthquakes are a fact of life and we grow up expecting them and knowing what to do. Also, our buildings are made to take them (and can still end up with major damage). Not sure that would be the case for you guys.

I get the other end of that comment too, from experience. A couple of years ago we had a "freak" 12-18 inches of snow fall in my area. May not sound like a big deal in places where you get feet and feet of it, but it's a mighty big deal when:

-your city does not even own a snow plow
-the county doesn't have many either
-nobody owns a snow shovel (okay, probably not nobody, but I'm going with the vast majority)
-roofs are neither pitched nor reinforced with snow in mind
-most people's pipes are not insulated for that kind of weather
-most people don't own clothing for that kind of weather

I couldn't get out of my garage, let alone my loooooong driveway, for a week. The snow was over my bumper, and I had no way of moving it.

I don't get this? You're at a higher latitude than most of the U.S. How do you not get much snow?

Also, you could use a push broom to push snow around, in a pinch.

 

[Michelle67]

That, or they were trying to save you from getting into a scuffle with a NYer. You might have blurted out something about about our pizza, and got tossed off the Statue of Liberty Island into the Hudson River.




I don't get this? You're at a higher latitude than most of the U.S. How do you not get much snow?

Also, you could use a push broom to push snow around, in a pinch.

True, I could have been killed by an angry pizza-pelting mob, for that matter.

As for the latter, it has to do with wind patterns and mountains and all kindza stuff, but we get rain rain rain rain and more rain, but seldom any snow except for in the mountains. On THIS side of the state. The other side is different.

As for the push broom. It broke. I tried it. I also tried a hunk of plywood as my own personal snow plow blade, but it didn't work that well and I got splinters, and I also tried making a whole HECK of a lot of snowmen. I thought that one was kinda brilliant, but in the end it takes more than a heck of a lot of snowmen to clear a loooooong driveway. And when my husband got home he was kinda irritated at me for breaking his push broom, too.

 

[Imzadi]

And when my husband got home he was kinda irritated at me for breaking his push broom, too.

Yeah, that's the priorities of someone's who experienced a lot of snow. Never mind you couldn't get out of the drive. You broke the push broom???

 

[Michelle67]

Yeah, that's the priorities of someone's who experienced a lot of snow. Never mind you couldn't get out of the drive. You broke the push broom???

FIGYIZ! @#%$!! woman, doesn't know what good pizza is and doesn't even know what the #$!! a push broom is for, either.

 

[cornflake]

That reminds me, I've never had bread pudding. It sounds horrible. I don't know if it's regional, but I've never heard of bread pudding until I was in my 30's. I think I was in CA at the time.

I'm so confused. You're here. Don't you eat out? Or ... in? Ain't a Jewish grandma in the area can't make you a nice bread pudding. Or go to Zabar's. They make a decent noodle kugel too (but their tzimmes is bleh).

As for what it is think like... somewhat sweeter, baked, a little more custardy French Toast.

Should be made with Challah.

Word to what people think are bagels. I've seen those 'bagels' they sell in supermarkets, in packages like from the English Muffin co.? Gross roll with a hole.

Also word to whomever mentioned pizza other places. They don't make pizza, they make slabs of fluffy white bread with Ragu and some kind of packaged mozzarella you'd get in a supermarket on it. It's just gross.