Regional Differences

[aprilgail2]

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.

Here you get beer in any corner store, 7/11, grocery store, gas station. Liquor you get in a liquor store which are all over the place open 7 days a week...

 

[cluvsdisney]

Here you get beer in any corner store, 7/11, grocery store, gas station. Liquor you get in a liquor store which are all over the place open 7 days a week...

Same here. Also, wine is sold in liquor stores not grocery stores.

 

[LilyWDW]

And on Sunday...

They are actually voting about doing away with the Sunday alcohol selling restrictions... soon you might get to buy beer BEFORE church!

 

[golfgal]

They are actually voting about doing away with the Sunday alcohol selling restrictions... soon you might get to buy beer BEFORE church!

In your state or Wisconsin? We can't buy alcohol here at all on Sunday, never have been able to-so people drive to Wisconsin if they forget and need it for football

 

[TinkPirateMom]

Here, a lot of us say we have to "tap MAC" when we are getting cash from an ATM. I know when I have said that outside of this area I have been questioned.

 

[spacemountainmom]

In your state or Wisconsin? We can't buy alcohol here at all on Sunday, never have been able to-so people drive to Wisconsin if they forget and need it for football

Thank goodness I can get across the border in 10 minutes!!!

 

[Michelle67]

They are actually voting about doing away with the Sunday alcohol selling restrictions... soon you might get to buy beer BEFORE church!

That's what they did here too, but I actually didn't notice when it happened...I just know my local liquor store is open on Sunday and they never used to be. Now they are working on getting the liquor sales out of the state's hands completely and getting it into the grocery stores, Costco, etc. Beer companies are spending a lot of money to prevent that happening (they'll lose their corner on the market from 7 pm to 2 am ). It failed last time, but it's going back on the ballot again.

 

[LilyWDW]

In your state or Wisconsin? We can't buy alcohol here at all on Sunday, never have been able to-so people drive to Wisconsin if they forget and need it for football

In my state...

Don't know if it will pass. We barely got liqueur by the drink passed in my town a couple years back... and people still write in to the papers about how horrible it is! Apparently, those of us who voted for it are terrible people.

 

[Mama-san]

Well, if my kids talked to me that way all heck would break loose too but since we did our job early on OUR kids know better than to talk to adults that way, however, that isn't the case for everyone...

Wow, that was rude. Apparently as soon as your kids were able to talk you had them set for life?

 

[sherry7]

# You walk carefully when it is "slippy" outside.
# You often go down to the "crick".
# You have to "red up", before company comes over.
# You've ever gotten hurt by falling into a "jaggerbush".
# You know that Ahia is a river, a boulevard, and a state.
# You've ever "warshed" or "wershed" the laundry.
# You know where Beer Falls is. (Beaver Falls)
# Mr. Webster is wrong. You know full well that "ain't" is correct English.
# You know you can't drive too fast on back roads, cause-udda-deer.
# "Gumbands".. need I say more?
# You've ever drank an "Arn"
# You've ever told someone to "quit jaggin around".
# You know that Clinton, Monaca, and Beaver, are actually names of towns.
# You've called someone a 'jaggoff'.
# You hear "you guyses", or "yins" and don't think twice.
# You know the three rivers by name and can pronouce them correctly, but refer to them as... da Mon, da Al, and da O.
# You hate Cleveland, although you've never been there.
# You know where KerNEGgy is, and you like his museum and 'liberries'.
# You drink "pop", eat "hoagies", pierogies, and gyros (jy-rows)
# You drink melk.
# You didn't have IHOP's or Waffle Houses.
# You know what a still mill is.
# You cheer for the Stillers.
# You know where Picksburgh is,
# You expect temps in the winter to be record breaking cold and temps in the summer to be record breaking hot.
# You go Dahntahn to da-Strip District, and take your wife wtih you. Be sure to get a Permanee's sammich while yins guys are der hangin' out an nat.
# You can find Zillionopal on a map.
# You go 'food shoppin' at 'Jine Iggle'.
# You don't have a spring break in high school.
# You beleive that "Ize" is the abreviaton for "I was".
# You know someone from 'Sliberty, E-sliberty, or Wesliberty.
# You've played with a dekkacards..
# You know the Pittsburgh Zoo is in 'Hilinpark' and have been there for school field trips.
# You say "McConnell's Mills", although you know there is only one mill there.
# You know what is meant by "The Point".
# You love Pensivanya.
# Chipped ham was always in your refrigerator when you were growing up.
# If you've ever been "ascared" because that "nebby" old lady across the street saw you do something bad, and you know she will "tell on you".
# No matter how hard you try you can't stop speaking Pittsburghese.

OMG, thanks for the laugh! I've only lived in Western PA for 17 years, but I'm guilty of almost everyone of those.

 

[shine87]

Wow, that was rude. Apparently as soon as your kids were able to talk you had them set for life?

I didnt catch that earlier, that's a really rude comment, kids can be respectful without saying ma'am.

 

[luvsJack]

I didnt catch that earlier, that's a really rude comment, kids can be respectful without saying ma'am.

I am confused. I thought she was saying that THEY teach their kids early to be respectful and don't need them to say m'am. Or maybe that we are all crazy down here and our kids are really being disrespectful when they are saying ma'm. Or SOMETHING against saying ma'm and sir. Maybe I took what she said wrong.

Anyway, you are very correct a kid can be respectful with or without the words and they can also be disrespectful with or without saying them. I don't think one region of the country has a better quoto of respectful kids. Its just a custom in the south.

 

[Swan4Me]

There are no liquor stores here-except a French guy who opened a wine store

All liquor wine and beer can be purchased anywhere-even at Wallyworld-but you can't go thru the self serve checkout with it and on Sunday wait until 11 am to but it

 

[golfgal]

I am confused. I thought she was saying that THEY teach their kids early to be respectful and don't need them to say m'am. Or maybe that we are all crazy down here and our kids are really being disrespectful when they are saying ma'm. Or SOMETHING against saying ma'm and sir. Maybe I took what she said wrong.

Anyway, you are very correct a kid can be respectful with or without the words and they can also be disrespectful with or without saying them. I don't think one region of the country has a better quoto of respectful kids. Its just a custom in the south.

I'm confused too . No idea what that poster is talking about??

 

[tlbwriter]

It's not really changing the definition. If you look it up it will say it means madam and if you look up madam one of the definitions is "3. the woman in charge of a house of prostitution." Not very polite to me.

So if a child calls you "ma'am," you feel they are accusing you of running a house of prostitution, and that's why the word itself is rude?

Again, it is all in how it is said--yes, in the military it is a sign of respect but up here where it is NOT used generally is is said in a snotty tone and a 'yes ma'am", which often translates into up your's or similar intent. Think snotty teenager being told to clean their room when they don't want to and total attitude of "yes ma'am'--kind of hard to demonstrate online

So it sounds like it's the tone of voice that's the problem, not the actual word. Because someone could just as easily say "Yes, Mrs. Golfgal" in a snotty tone, right?

SaraJayne would probably fall over in a dead faint (or slap someone silly) when she got called "baby". Being called "baby" is a very common endearment (and sweet) used primarily by black women of a certain age, and spoken to total strangers.

Being called "baby" by a woman older than me is one thing. Being called "baby" by a man is something else.

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.

I've always wondered why we call it "canning" when it's really "jarring."

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!

The "Miss Firstname" thing is standard around here. I know one person who doesn't like it because her name is June and she thinks "Miss June" sounds like she should be in Playboy.

 

[golfgal]

So if a child calls you "ma'am," you feel they are accusing you of running a house of prostitution, and that's why the word itself is rude?



So it sounds like it's the tone of voice that's the problem, not the actual word. Because someone could just as easily say "Yes, Mrs. Golfgal" in a snotty tone, right?



Being called "baby" by a woman older than me is one thing. Being called "baby" by a man is something else.



I've always wondered why we call it "canning" when it's really "jarring."



The "Miss Firstname" thing is standard around here. I know one person who doesn't like it because her name is June and she thinks "Miss June" sounds like she should be in Playboy.

Yes, which is what we have been trying to point out all along

 

[tlbwriter]

Yes, which is what we have been trying to point out all along

I don't know who "we" is, but at least one poster is saying the word itself is rude, in ANY tone of voice. So, you're saying if a child calls you "ma'am" in a respectful voice, you take it the way it was intended, and not as snark?

 

[golfgal]

I don't know who "we" is, but at least one poster is saying the word itself is rude, in ANY tone of voice. So, you're saying if a child calls you "ma'am" in a respectful voice, you take it the way it was intended, and not as snark?

Again, it would be all in the way it was said. It just isn't really said around here other than being snarky or SOMETIMES someone at a store or wherever may say "ma'ma can I help you" since obviously they don't know your name but usually it is just "can I help you". In this situation it's fine but again, you rarely hear anyone say "ma'am' . I guess it would be like "y'all". No one here says that either, but common in places in the south.

 

[luvsJack]

There are no liquor stores here-except a French guy who opened a wine store

All liquor wine and beer can be purchased anywhere-even at Wallyworld-but you can't go thru the self serve checkout with it and on Sunday wait until 11 am to but it

We have liquor stores--liquor and wine-- and we have beer stores--beer and cigerettes AND we have beer at all grocery stores and convience stores, etc but no liquor at those places. All are open on Sunday, but the liquor store has restricted hours on Sunday, not sure what they are. Lots of choices of where to buy your given poisen .

 

[madge]

The "Miss Firstname" thing is standard around here. I know one person who doesn't like it because her name is June and she thinks "Miss June" sounds like she should be in Playboy.

that's funny!

it's standard here, too .. I just meant I hear it mostly at church by the preschool set. My kids are older (elementary & high school) and all their friends call me Mrs. Lastname. I'm also Mrs. Lastname when I'm volunteering at school. I don't love it because I don't love my name. I never have. LOL

a friend of mine, whenever she can't or doesn't know someone's first name, she calls them "Miss Ma'am", which I guess would break a multitude of rules in other parts of the country