Take away, take out or to go

Calliope610
Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
edited November 24 in Chit-Chat
When I joined MFP, I read so many questions about "take away" food. It took me a while to figure out it is restaurant food you take home to eat. Here in Texas, we call that "to-go". i.e. Ya wanna get some Tex-Mex to go?

Where are you from and what do you call it when you don't do the cooking?

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    In the UK it's a take away
  • angelxsss
    angelxsss Posts: 2,402 Member
    Delivery because f**k going outside sometimes
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    Chicago To Go
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
    I learned what take away pizza was from an Ed Sheeran song.
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  • BrettWithPKU
    BrettWithPKU Posts: 575 Member
    Carry out. Sometimes 'to go' if its fast food.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    It's To-Go...although I would be willing to budge on the Take out if it was like picking up to go food from a sit down restaurant.
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  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    carry out or to go in the southwest.

    That includes pop.
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    Carry out or to go in Midwest.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    South East.. Either Carry out or take out, depends which one of us in my family you ask
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Timba and Timba say Carry out.

    https://youtu.be/NRdHsuuXxfk
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    I'll polish off a good meal while seated in a restaurant and as I'm paying the bill, I'll ask the waitress:

    So, do you also offer carry-out ??

    Yes, yes we do!

    That's a good thing because I'm stuffed, you need to carry me out to my car.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    edited January 2018
    I grew up in Iowa, Nebraska and live in Kansas. Take out or carry out I guess is what is used most around here. You will often be asked when you order "is this for here or to go?" though.
    So everything but take away maybe?
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  • KyleGrace8
    KyleGrace8 Posts: 2,205 Member
    edited January 2018
    Take out
    edit: South Carolina
  • kam26001
    kam26001 Posts: 2,794 Member
    Carryout is for pizza. Takeout is Chinese food. To go is for Taco Bell, I guess?
  • PamLiftsStuff
    PamLiftsStuff Posts: 3 Member
    I'm in Utah and I hear "take out" most often, but I've also heard "to go" and "carry out". Just for fun, I might start saying "take away" and see if I get any reactions. :D
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
    Ontario

    I say "get it to go" usually if it's a "nicer" restaurant that I would actually sit in and enjoy on occasion or "take out" for everywhere that you don't "eat in".

    Pretty much interchangeable to me.

    I would say "let's get (restaurant name) take-out"

    I would say "let's go to (restaurant name) and get it to go"
  • _pi3_
    _pi3_ Posts: 2,311 Member
    kam26001 wrote: »
    Carryout is for pizza. Takeout is Chinese food. To go is for Taco Bell, I guess?

    Ha.....
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  • WorkerDrone83
    WorkerDrone83 Posts: 3,195 Member
    edited January 2018
    Err... "Take out"
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I think take away is primarily a British thing.

    Fast food will ask if it's for here or to go.

    Most people here say take out if they're going to get food from what would otherwise be a sit down restaurant...but a lot of the signage at the restaurant will say carryout only parking or "carryout" over a particular register.
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