Regional Traditions

[aprilgail2]

I don't know about all of Texas, but the Homecoming "corsage" here is something else. The "mums" that someone referred to earlier. HUGE, like the size of the girl's head, with stuffed animals, gewgaws, and all kinds of fat ribbon hanging from it. Not my style, but it's a big deal here.

http://jezebel.com/5965232/inside-t...ion-of-enormous-homecoming-corsages/gallery/1

OMG those have to be the ugliest things ever! Why in the world would anyone want to go out of the house with one of those things pinned on them!?!?!

 

[ecuagoddess]

Ecuagoddess, do you like poi?

In a word...NO! But I do like poi rolls.

 

[khertz]

Reminds me of the scene in the movie the "Princess and the Frog" where one character says they are from up north and the other says "Oh, y'all from Shreveport?" Cracks me up how many things that movie got spot on about south Louisiana and the culture of the area. My favorite Disney movie! Had to be written by folks from the area.

That was a great part of the movie & so true!! I went to school in Monroe and I always say I went to school "up north." It is really SO different there, it was quite the culture shock.

Another New Orleans/NOLA area thing I thought of...people will look at you crazy if you start talking about a "median." That strip of grass in the center of the road is called the neutral ground!

 

[penn19]

See this is where we disagree. I do not believe just tacking a ma'am or sir on the end of something automatically makes it polite. She may have said no ma'am but she was still throwing a temper tantrum which is not good manners no matter how many ma'ams she tacked on.

I was thinking the same thing myself when I read it. And I live in Texas. I have a hard time with the ma'am stuff. I was raised in the NE so it's either What? Or I'm sorry? If I don't hear something the first time. And I don't take it as rudeness either.

 

[maxaroni]

I agree they are like two different states. There is a traffic circle 2 miles from my home! There are still some left. ETA, yes, we pronounce some food items different here, and drop some vowels (ie - cavatelli is gavadeel, capicola (sp) is gabagool), and we have no Italian bakeries (because 99% of all bakeries are Italian - think Cake Boss without the fancy cakes).

And we have real diners - open 24/7, all year long, with menus weighing 20 pounds. If you want a roast beef dinner or greek salad at 3 am - you got it!

Gotta love the NJ diners! We just rid of a major circle and loving it. Hate the left hand "cut outs" on major highways. Didn't have that in north jersey.

First winter we lived down here and we had about 4" of snow. They preempted all morning tv to focus on the storm. That's a nuisance in north jersey not all day news

 

[maxaroni]

Most of the beaches in NJ charge for the day or season. Honestly, I don't blame them. They're expensive to keep up (especially with the hurricanes), and why should the local residents have to pay for them through their property taxes (which are insane here anyway) when others come to use the beaches (I live almost an hour from the nearest beach).

ITA. we are about an hour away as well

 

[Turn the Page]

Gotta love the NJ diners! We just rid of a major circle and loving it. Hate the left hand "cut outs" on major highways. Didn't have that in north jersey.

First winter we lived down here and we had about 4" of snow. They preempted all morning tv to focus on the storm. That's a nuisance in north jersey not all day news

Four inches of snow doesn't even register a blip on the radar beyond the morning weather report in this neck of the woods.

One thing that did crack me up, and maybe some of you that live in the south could explain this to me, is the run on certain products at the grocery store every time there is a storm. It was always milk, bread, and eggs. Now I get the bread, it's relatively nonperishable. I assume people are worried about losing power but if that's the case what good will the eggs do you? Honestly. I have always wondered what was up with that particular phenomenon.

 

[shoney]

Four inches of snow doesn't even register a blip on the radar beyond the morning weather report in this neck of the woods.

One thing that did crack me up, and maybe some of you that live in the south could explain this to me, is the run on certain products at the grocery store every time there is a storm. It was always milk, bread, and eggs. Now I get the bread, it's relatively nonperishable. I assume people are worried about losing power but if that's the case what good will the eggs do you? Honestly. I have always wondered what was up with that particular phenomenon.

It is just crazy! It got worse after hurricane sandy! The day before the recent blizzard, there were long waits for gas and no food on the shelves. I think everyone is watching too much Walking Dead!!!!

 

[Crystal Brewer]

Four inches of snow doesn't even register a blip on the radar beyond the morning weather report in this neck of the woods.

One thing that did crack me up, and maybe some of you that live in the south could explain this to me, is the run on certain products at the grocery store every time there is a storm. It was always milk, bread, and eggs. Now I get the bread, it's relatively nonperishable. I assume people are worried about losing power but if that's the case what good will the eggs do you? Honestly. I have always wondered what was up with that particular phenomenon.

I'll give this a shot I was raised in Mo tho moved to Al as teen. My mom scoped the radar to see if it was snow or ice She shrugged at snow with mild temps tho ice in my region anyway gets nasty especially for those of us in the county were the stables go fast in local stores leaving us to get through "hollers" In the south you keep many coolers or generator again in my region doesn't last for weeks yet as you know it doesn't hang out down here long before melting Now with that being my "version" I have witnessed 2 extreme(2wks no power once) in this region in the many years I've been here so I don't run just follow moms rule and keep an eye out Gotta add I spent 4 yrs on Gulf Coast and went through 1 extreme hurricane THAT wasn't fun nothing could've prepared me for what I saw

 

[pat fan]

It was always milk, bread, and eggs. Now I get the bread, it's relatively nonperishable. I assume people are worried about losing power but if that's the case what good will the eggs do you? Honestly. I have always wondered what was up with that particular phenomenon.

turn the page.....check this video out!

http://youtu.be/i6zaVYWLTkU

 

[Turn the Page]

turn the page.....check this video out!

http://youtu.be/i6zaVYWLTkU

That's funny. I have seen it before but it always makes me laugh.

 

[Colleen27]

One thing that did crack me up, and maybe some of you that live in the south could explain this to me, is the run on certain products at the grocery store every time there is a storm. It was always milk, bread, and eggs. Now I get the bread, it's relatively nonperishable. I assume people are worried about losing power but if that's the case what good will the eggs do you? Honestly. I have always wondered what was up with that particular phenomenon.

I've wondered that too, but I suspect it is a media thing rather than how people actually react. I was in VA Beach for both a tropical storm and a hurricane in the years that I spent my summers down there and didn't notice people stocking up on milk and eggs before either. Beer and bottled water were practically flying out of the stores, though!

 

[tajz90]

I've wondered that too, but I suspect it is a media thing rather than how people actually react. I was in VA Beach for both a tropical storm and a hurricane in the years that I spent my summers down there and didn't notice people stocking up on milk and eggs before either. Beer and bottled water were practically flying out of the stores, though!

I live in the south and we'd never buy milk and eggs. Water and beer... Yep

 

[Southernmiss]

I live in the south and we'd never buy milk and eggs. Water and beer... Yep

My brother works for a beer distributor and storms are always busy for him before and after. Nothing like a cold beer when you've been in the heat cleaning up after a storm.

 

[Offsides]

Octopi - They're not just for sushi. They're for tossing onto the ice during the Stanley Cup.

And then being wildly flung around in the air by Al Sobotka!

The Joe is also my absolute favorite place to hear an entire crowd of people scream the "South Detroit" from Don't Stop Believin'. I was at a playoff game once where they stopped playing the song and everybody in the arena continued to sing for at least another verse.

How can you start a thread about Michigan quirks and not mention "pop"? I'll never forget the first time I asked what kind of pop a restaurant in North Carolina had... the waitress looked genuinely clueless.

I lived in NYC for a while (and found people there to be extremely nice and polite) and got into the habit of calling it soda. Now, back in Michigan, if I "slip" and say soda everybody razzes me.

I thought of another one; here we don't "mow the lawn," we "cut the grass." And we don't "edge" we "weed wack."

My DBF says "weed whip." I'd always known it as "weed wack" growing up.

I have a lot of family that lives in Pennsylvania and the inflection in their voice when they ask a question is different than anything I have heard anywhere else. I don't exactly know how to describe it but I love the way my Pennsylvania relatives talk!

 

[emma'smom]

Lots of milk or cream--- It refers to the color of the liquid-- very light brown!

Enlighten me, please - what is "very light" coffee?

 

[palmtreegirl]

It's nonsense. Half my family is from/in New Jersey and there is ALWAYS ice cream with cake there.

It's not nonsense that me or anyone I knew growing up served ice cream with cake. It's my own personal experience.

 

[Mr. Pig]

can i ask what city you are from?

i have to admit - I will not order a burger anywhere when we are out of town - to me it's not a real burger without a hardroll. even when i visit my sister in Appleton LOL - its just NOT the same

yes to the bubbler thing!

Sorry for the late response - finally checking back now. I'm in Sheboygan also and by my screen name you can probably tell where I work.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

Sorry for the late response - finally checking back now. I'm in Sheboygan also and by my screen name you can probably tell where I work.

hey piggy!!! Im from appleton! were neighbors

 

[mhsjax]

Four inches of snow doesn't even register a blip on the radar beyond the morning weather report in this neck of the woods.

One thing that did crack me up, and maybe some of you that live in the south could explain this to me, is the run on certain products at the grocery store every time there is a storm. It was always milk, bread, and eggs. Now I get the bread, it's relatively nonperishable. I assume people are worried about losing power but if that's the case what good will the eggs do you? Honestly. I have always wondered what was up with that particular phenomenon.

NO one I know here in the south, purchases milk or eggs before a storm. Don't know who is doing this, maybe people who have never been through one. The first things to disappear are bottled water and batteries. Never milk or eggs. Nasty, nothing like curdled milk. YUM. lol