Questions for my America friends!

[Amy Eileen]

I know that most of you, until I came along, didnt know what a poutine was... but now I have more questions!!! Please humor me. lol

Can you buy milk in bags?
Do you call them chocolate bars? Or candy bars?
Do you say soda? Or pop?
Do you say toque? (I wore mine today because it is -22C with the windchill! BRR)
Sofa or couch?
Do you know what a mickey or a 2-4 are?

[Stacey Jewell Stahl]

Poutine? Never heard of it.

Can you buy milk in bags? No
Do you call them chocolate bars? Or candy bars? Candy bars
Do you say soda? Or pop? It's POP. But it's a regional thing. I'm from the midwest where everyone calls it pop. Here in New England it's soda or even tonic. Down south everything is Coke, even when they are asking for a Pepsi
Do you say toque? (I wore mine today because it is -22C with the windchill! BRR) Say what?
Sofa or couch? Couch. My grandma called it a davenport.
Do you know what a mickey or a 2-4 are? Nope.

Do you say purse or pocketbook or handbag?

[Amy Eileen]

Originally Posted by Stacey Jewell Stahl

Poutine? Never heard of it.

Can you buy milk in bags? No
Do you call them chocolate bars? Or candy bars? Candy bars
Do you say soda? Or pop? It's POP. But it's a regional thing. I'm from the midwest where everyone calls it pop. Here in New England it's soda or even tonic. Down south everything is Coke, even when they are asking for a Pepsi
Do you say toque? (I wore mine today because it is -22C with the windchill! BRR) Say what?
Sofa or couch? Couch. My grandma called it a davenport.
Do you know what a mickey or a 2-4 are? Nope.

Do you say purse or pocketbook or handbag?

LOL I say PURSE!
Poutine is SO YUMMY! I made Mags try it when she came to visit me! French fries with gravy and covered with melted mozzarella cheese. Sometimes people add other things to them, like peas and carrots for Irish poutine, or turkey and stuffing, etc....
I buy my milk in bags! (or cartons)
I say chocolate bar.
I say couch.
A toque is a hat.
I say pop.
A mickey is a small bottle of liquor and a 2-4 is a case of beer.

[Debb Cozzi]

Can you buy milk in bags?No
Do you call them chocolate bars? Or candy bars? Candy Bars...in our house "chocolate" is only known as "Sees" because they make the BEST chocolate in the world and if you are gonna splurge you might as well splurge with the best!
Do you say soda? Or pop? Soda
Do you say toque? (I wore mine today because it is -22C with the windchill! BRR)...nope, in sunny San Diego we just always need to make sure we have our "shades"
Sofa or couch? Sofa
Do you know what a mickey or a 2-4 are? Way back in the day a "mickey" was NOT a good thing! It was when somebody would slip a narcotic into an unsuspecting person's drink.

[Debb Cozzi]

oh...and I'm always forgetting where I put my "purse"

[Amy Eileen]

Our mickey is much nicer.

Stacey, do you say purse???

[Stacey Jewell Stahl]

I do say purse. It seems like "pocketbook" is a New England thing for ladies over 50.

I have some funnies: my grandpa used to call his red bandanna in his overalls his "snot rag." Those silly farmers.

When I was little my grandma used to say, "Do you have to go toiley?" instead of "Do you have to go to the bathroom?"

Which leads me to this: do you say restroom, bathroom, toilet room, powder room? I say bathroom.

[Stacey Jewell Stahl]

Originally Posted by Debb Cozzi

oh...and I'm always forgetting where I put my "purse"

I am sincerely surprised that you don't have a regular spot for your purse! I thought I was the only one who left it where ever and then had to do a search and rescue when I needed it.

[Debb Cozzi]

Originally Posted by Stacey Jewell Stahl

I am sincerely surprised that you don't have a regular spot for your purse! I thought I was the only one who left it where ever and then had to do a search and rescue when I needed it.

Oh, it isn't just my purse!! It is the keys...my glasses....my Bible....MY HEAD!!!! Mario teases me and says it is one of my most "endearing" qualities....I just walk into a room and start dropping my belongings and "pieces of me" where ever whim takes me.

We have "bathrooms" and Mario too has a "snot rag!" When the boys were little their pacifier was a "dee" (I have NO idea why?!!) and when my baby brother was little he used to call kisses "minkos" and salad was called "turtle num num" because my grandma had a desert turtle that they rescued and we used to feed it lettuce. Yes, we are weird....but lovable all the same.

[Debb Cozzi]

oh....and we have some fun family words from my hubbies Italian heritage too. Most of these are dialect and I'm sure I'm spelling them wrong but here goes....


knick knacks and little things that make something more pretty (like parsley on a plate, flower petals floating in the pool, etc.) are called "bella vi day." So when one of my boys look at a layout and ask why I put an element in an "odd" place to their eyes I might reply, "oh, you know, it is just for bella vi day!"

A left-over that is too small to save but seems like too much to throw out is called "meduno" which happens to be the dialect name for the tiny town in Italy where my hubby's family came from originally. So when we are clearing the table you will inevitably hear, "SOMEBODY has to finish this, its just meduno!"