i KNOW i was just trying to clarify your statement
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Ha! Well here is something I did not expect to find. Manufactured domestically in Japan, corn grits!
Is 1,188 yen for 1 kg (thatās $8.30 USD for 2.2 lbs) an insane price?
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nah decent deal. $5 for 16 oz out here
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Thanks!
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Wow thatās a crazy video, seems made up but also logical in its way.
I think this kind of thing has been around for a while actually.
I was recently perusing a book about a chain of railroad restaurants in the late 1800s that had a similar āmarking codeā for orders.
Fred Harvey Company - Wikipedia
Service was so efficient, in fact, that it included a Cup Code . When train passengers were seated, the Harvey Girl attending them would take their drink order. They would then turn the cup to indicate which beverage the customer wanted. A cup turned up indicated coffee; a cup turned upside down meant tea.
āWanted: Young women 18 to 30 years of age, of good moral character, attractive and intelligent, to waitress in Harvey Eating Houses on the Sante Fe in the West. Wages, $17.50 per month with room and board. Liberal tips customary. Experience not necessary. Write Fred Harvey, Union Depot, Kansas City, Missouri.ā
Sweethearts of the West ā The Harvey Girls (slatonharveyhouse.com)
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at jimmy johns, we love to say no
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In Saskatchewan, people call dinner āsupper.ā This sounds incredibly quaint to my ears, but maybe itās incredibly normal in many places, and just not where I grew up. People also say āripā to mean driving your car. āGoing for a ripā means going for a drive and āripping down to the storeā means driving to the store. Hoodies are called ābunnyhugs.ā
These are just a few observations Iāve made over the summer. I hope to learn more winter-related terms in the coming months.
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Yeah I straight up didnāt know about sweet grits til they came up in this thread
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This has brought to mind how when I was growing up in Baltimore, my family used ādinnerā and āsupperā in a completely ambiguous way. I grew up and left home of course, and my partner and I use ādinnerā exclusively to refer to the evening meal. But then as an adult, talking with my dad I started to notice that he wasnāt actually using dinner and supper interchangeably-- sometimes dinner meant the evening meal, but sometimes, on the weekend, it meant the big meal of the day. But then also, supper mostly meant the late meal on the weekend, but it also was used interchangeably with dinner for the late meal on a weekend? Anyway, asking him about this led me nowhere, because it was almost as though he didnāt understand what I was even asking? And asking my mom about it just got her mad at me because I think she thought I was making fun of my dad or something?
So yeah, I never figured out the specificity of using dinner and supper, or if this was a regional thing or something very specific to my messed up family.
To add confusion to the whole thing, I looked up the etymology of both words and found out that historically in English, the three meals of a day were breakfast, dinner, and supper, which completely ruined my brain for all this stuff.
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omg Iāve heard the stories. How can they throw around such adorable language so casually?
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what would they say if they were smoking a huge bong
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āgonna take this bong for a driveā
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I will now insist they are called that at home now forever!!!
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anyone ever notice how people from california canāt say the word āmomā correctly
They donāt use the āUā?
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they say āmoamā as in ānoamā chomsky
I canāt even get my mouth around that pronunciation. I struggle to say it with an O but that is just out there!
well Iāve never heard that in my life. every californian I know says mom in a way that rhymes with calm.
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Iām just throwing my hat into the grits discourse. Bad grits are awful. Good Grits are a gift for taste buds.
Shrimp and Grits is the common dish that they are served with outside of breakfast. Basically grits cooked with so much butter, cheese, and stock to be rich and decadent, often topped with a little bacon and maybe green onions, and then some delicious shrimps piled on top. Not veggie friendly, but it is nap friendly.
Sweet grits are not a thing. They have an inherent sweetness because corn does, but grits are not served as or thought of as a sweet (in the south).
Collards and Black eyed peas are the southern dish I would suggest for most people especially because you can be vegan with it and dress it to your taste
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Hanging out with bearded tradesmen as they discuss their favourite bunnyhug to wear in winter and what theyāre having for supper is a sublime experience.
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