<p>jandjdad: How do the mixed drinks go, then? Here gin goes with tonic (a kind of flavorless soda water, but not sweetened pop) and rum goes with coke and must actually be coca cola. Vodka, of course, would be mixed with 7-Up if one uses anything other than fruit juice or Rose’s Lime.</p>
<p>So, do the Costco’s in in the mid-west not have ketchup dispensers?</p>
<p>Yes, the Costco’s do, but Chicago would only use them for fries. I hate mustard, so I order my Chicago dogs with no mustard.</p>
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When you order a gin and tonic, they know you mean tonic water and not coke/pepsi…</p>
<p>*In Florida, the further north you go, the deeper into the south you get. *</p>
<p>Observed to be true.</p>
<p>In Pittsburgh, if you order a chicken or steak salad, it comes with french fries in it. I always laugh when people from out of town order a salad, thinking they are ordering something somewhat healthy, and it comes loaded with fries. If you order a Pittsburgh style sandwich, it means there are fries and cole slaw in the sandwich too, yes in the sandwich. </p>
<p>In Pittsburgh, the equivalent of y’all is yins. I think it is short for you ins, or something. There is no grammatical justification for it. My D’s grandmother uses many forms of it, yins, yinzers, yuns…it’s crazy.</p>
<p>I’ve lived here for 21 years, and refuse to call soda “pop”. Solely on principle.</p>
<p>One I just thought of…</p>
<p>At UMich, Ypsi (pronounced more like “Ipsi” or ip-see) is the city of Ypsilanti, and it’s right next to Ann Arbor. People from here would not even think to actually call it Ypsilanti, it’s very natural for us to just call it Ypsi.</p>
<p>Worcester, MA is pronounced “weh-STAH” by the locals. If you don’t have a Boston accent it’s more like “wu-STER”. Never “wer-chester”. So how exactly do you pronounce Wooster, OH?</p>
<p>Vlad, much like the pronunciation of Mackinac Island, I can usually tell how long someone has been in Michigan by their pronunciation of the Y in Ypsi. And I can tell whether or not you’re from SE Michigan by your pronunciation of Gratiot.</p>
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<p>Really, elaborate please?</p>
<p>How DO you pronounce Gratiot? I saw this strange group of people all wearing bright pink shirts that said “Gratiot County Service Trip” or something like that. I never even knew we had this county.</p>
<p>In my Rhode Island days, sub sandwiches were called grinders. Never heard that term before (or since). I told my friends they were called heroes back home in NY. They said a hero is someone who saves your life and rides off to the sunset.</p>
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<p>In Cleveland, it was a sub. </p>
<p>Here in NC, it’s either a sub or a “hoagie.” Hoagie generally seems to be used for smaller sandwiches.</p>
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<p>Entertainingly, there’s a town (and college) south of Charlotte, NC that nobody can agree on the pronunciation of. It’s name is Wingate. Students and locals are locked in a battle between the pronunciations of “Win-gate” and “Win-git.”</p>
<p>In Philly, grinders are hoagies that have been put in the pizza oven and heated/toasted. Subs are the underground trains.</p>
<p>One of my former co-worker, a Philly native, Claims that his ancesters was the first one to call the sandwiches they were selling as submarines.
Speaking of hoagies, They are so much better in the east coast than in west coast.</p>
<p>In Texas chicken fried steak is not really steak…:)</p>
<p>And chicken fried steak is called country fried steak in the Midwest. Same mystery meat.</p>
<p>And a tenderloin is both a beautiful cut of meat and a large unded meat sandwich that is breaded and deep-fried.</p>
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<p>In California grinders are the kids at the dance doing those simulated …um…reproduction…moves. Subs are are the reason we built forts on our coastal cliffs …thus making sure those subs do not land.</p>
<p>HA ha! yes - grinders are the “dancing” kids. When I was growing up a deli opened up called Hoagie’s Corner. As we don’t call them hoagies nobody could figure out what kind of a corny name it was. It did not last that long.</p>
<p>We call them subs in NC.</p>
<p>DavidS…everybody I know says Win-git. Two of my best friends have kids who attend Win-git University .The President of Wingate U. spoke at my church last year. He called it Win-git. Anybody who says Win-gate just doesn’t know.</p>