In your neck of the woods...What do you say?

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,989 Member
    In SF (near Berkeley) we say:

    Carbonated soft drinks
    Submarine sandwich
    Lampyridaes

    We also say "hella" here.

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  • Kisuke30
    Kisuke30 Posts: 668 Member
    Haha. Yes. I do slinky. . Both types.
  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
    Haha. Yes. I do slinky. . Both types.

    Too. Funny.

    By the way, I am a RN and my husband is a paramedic. Not a firefighter, just a paramedic. He hates fire.
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    I've been in Florida for the past 15ish years of my life, but spent my formative years in WA state.

    In any case - I say soda, subs, and I guess fireflies? But i'm not gonna lie, i can't remember the last time i referred to one of those lit up little suckers.
  • lmr0528
    lmr0528 Posts: 427 Member
    pop. subs. lightning bugs.

    This. I'm in Buffalo, NY
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    pop
    subs
    fireflies

    Ontario, Canada boom
  • shaythep
    shaythep Posts: 73 Member
    I am from Chicago and here Subs and Hoagies are two different things. Also, we say house shoes and not slippers
  • Tla0126
    Tla0126 Posts: 207 Member
    I'm from Texas and I say:

    Coke
    Sub
    Lightening bug



    And of course, I say y'all.
  • SwedishSarah
    SwedishSarah Posts: 4,350 Member
    I say:

    SodaPop (we just meld them together)
    Sub
    Fireflies
  • shegrif
    shegrif Posts: 30 Member
    Born and raised in Texas.
    It's "Coke" . No matter what brand it is.
    Subs
    Lightening Bugs
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    U.K

    Pop
    Sandwich
    we have no word for these wee beasties
  • willnorton
    willnorton Posts: 995 Member
    all soft drinks are called "A COKE" no matter what flavor...

    lighting bugs

    and samiches....
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    Grew up in NY/NJ and...
    Drank "soda"
    Ate "subs" or "héros" (although hero was more a New York thing)
    Caught both "lightning bugs" and "fireflies" in the summer (I would say I used both terms interchangeably and equally)
  • dawnawoodward
    dawnawoodward Posts: 10 Member
    I say pop, lightning bugs and subs. I am from southern Indiana. However I moved to PA 5 years ago, it was like moving to another country. They have bends, not curves. Straight on ANY road here is NOT possible. yet they will tell you straight that way...and it branches two to three ways.....lol The snow lay's here...back home it sticks.........they have jumbo......at home we have bologna. We have rubber bands....they have gumbands. The first time I heard the local weather person say it was slippy out...I about spit my coffee out....lol They offerd me pie for lunch one day at work.....I declined...thinking it strange that the guy's(fellow firefighters) were going to have Pie for lunch....Pie=apple, peach, cherry. An hour later a pizza delivery truck shows up and delivers a pizza. I said ...Hey...why didnt you guy's say you were ordering a pizza....They replied....we did ....we asked if you wanted pie...:)
    I have learned alot since then. Yinz guy's are all good en'at but I say ya'all ain't had pizza til you have pizza at bobes in Indiana :0
  • SJackson50
    SJackson50 Posts: 282 Member
    From NJ:
    I drink soda
    I eat subs and hoagies (not used interchangeably, but two different things)
    I catch lightning bugs
    I sit on a sofa (often, lol) :-)
  • gsager
    gsager Posts: 977 Member
    Yep! Native Texan
  • kaseyr1505
    kaseyr1505 Posts: 624 Member
    I'm from Texas:

    Neither, I say Coke.

    "Do you want a coke?"
    "Yeah, that would be great."
    "What kind?"

    Subs

    Fireflies? I'm not sure on that, we didn't really call them anything.
  • elusive_design
    elusive_design Posts: 1,095 Member
    Despite currently living in pa...

    I say Coke. Everything is just a flavor there of

    Subs

    Lightning Bugs

    Sofa.
  • EmilyTwist1
    EmilyTwist1 Posts: 206 Member
    From Texas...

    coke (sometimes soda)
    subs
    fireflies
  • skippygirlsmom
    skippygirlsmom Posts: 4,433 Member
    Alabama soda, sub, lightning bugs.

    I moved here from NJ and the hardest things to get used to: fixing to, buggy (instead of shopping cart), y'all, all y'all, purse (instead of pocketbook), putting it up (instead of putting it away), one of my favorites "where do you stay at?" instead of where do you live. :-) After 7 years, I admit to using "y'all" more and more.

    someone mentioned pizza...the first time I ordered a "plain pie" here the girl at the counter told me they didn't serve pie only pizza. Oh yeah duh "a cheese pizza please". I do it all the time and get the "you're not from around here" all the time" . Also if I had a $ for everytime someone made fun of my saying water, talk or coffee I could retire.
  • bloodyhonest
    bloodyhonest Posts: 196 Member
    Coke or Pepsi

    iduno
    iduno
  • grandmothercharlie
    grandmothercharlie Posts: 1,356 Member
    Lisa, I am just the opposite. I am now in Ohio from PA.

    From western PA I say: Pop. Hoagies. Lightning bugs.

    In Ohio: Pop. Subs. Lightning bugs (at least I do).

    When I lived in Pittsburgh for 10 years after leaving my hometown, they really had different terms. They had gum bands (rubber bands), jumbo (baloney), and chimlies (chimneys).
  • EmilyTwist1
    EmilyTwist1 Posts: 206 Member
    Oh and that thing you push around the grocery store is a buggy, not a cart.

    My Popeye (grandfather, couldn't say PeePaw when I was little) still calls the refrigerator the ice box. :heart: I just love that man.

    It is a buggy in Texas too. And I have stopped the use of the word "ice box," despite my own parents using it. It is a fridge.

    It must be a regional thing in Texas, because I've lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone call it a buggy. I grew up in central Texas, but extended family is all from the DFW area.
  • kinkyslinky16
    kinkyslinky16 Posts: 1,469 Member
    It is a buggy in Texas too. And I have stopped the use of the word "ice box," despite my own parents using it. It is a fridge.

    It must be a regional thing in Texas, because I've lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone call it a buggy. I grew up in central Texas, but extended family is all from the DFW area.

    Might be!
  • lexbubbles
    lexbubbles Posts: 465 Member
    UK, London (now Glasgow)

    Fizzy drink
    It's only a sub if it's from Subway, otherwise it's a baguette... or just a sandwich
    Fireflies
  • Who_DatWill
    Who_DatWill Posts: 24
    Louisiana
    Coke
    Sandwich
    Fireflies
  • kikicooks
    kikicooks Posts: 1,079 Member
    Do you say Pop or Soda?
    Hoagies or Subs?
    Lightening bugs or fireflies?

    I'm from Ohio but now in PA and I say Pop, subs, and lightening bugs.

    I'm in PA now too but from Chicago so I used to say all that but I have transitioned to hoagies and soda sometimes. Still lightening bugs though.
  • kerrilucko
    kerrilucko Posts: 3,852 Member
    Ontario Canada

    We say pop, subs and fireflies
  • cardbucfan
    cardbucfan Posts: 10,571 Member
    Grew up in St. Louis but now in Florida

    Soda
    Subs
    Lightning bugs
    Couch

    And definitely ya'll (from my Kentucky born grandpa)
  • TminusFitnessN321
    TminusFitnessN321 Posts: 58 Member
    Every soda is either called a pop or coke, no matter the drink.
    - Oklahoma

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