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« Reply #25 on: February 17, 2006, 05:21:08 AM »
Now, how about another hot-button issue: bags vs. sacks?

Or soda vs. pop?

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« Reply #26 on: February 17, 2006, 05:22:12 AM »
You mean soda vs. pop vs. coke, right? Tongue
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« Reply #27 on: February 17, 2006, 05:37:57 AM »
I'm going to have to get a map of the US and plot all these. Cheesy

soda...

bag...

How about grits / no grits - here is mostly no grits but you CAN find them here and there

or scrapple / no scrapple - here is no scrapple. I never heard of the stuff till I went to Joisey...still ain't never tried it... shocked

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« Reply #28 on: February 17, 2006, 07:59:08 AM »
OK/Texas - used to be "Po boy", now mostly "sub (-marine)" follwed by Po Boy and hoagie tied for a distant 2nd.
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« Reply #29 on: February 17, 2006, 10:19:12 AM »
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I first heard "sangwich" and "sammich" on Internet bulletins boards. I'll have to keep an eye out and see where the poster is from when they refer to a sandwich in that way.
Depends on whom I am around.  If I am around fellow Southerners I may call two pieces of bread with something between them a sammich. Smiley
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« Reply #30 on: February 17, 2006, 10:24:04 AM »
Ever hear of "dope and nabs"?
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"R-Oh-See and Moonpie"
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« Reply #31 on: February 17, 2006, 11:15:13 AM »
"Baguette" in England.
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« Reply #32 on: February 17, 2006, 12:27:14 PM »
Nebraska...Sub.  The special comes with pop.  The goods go into a sack.
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« Reply #33 on: February 17, 2006, 12:58:55 PM »
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If I am around fellow Southerners I may call two pieces of bread with something between them a sammich
That's what I think of as a sammich.  Two pieces of square $0.89 loaf bread with whatever you could find in the fridge stuck in between.
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« Reply #34 on: February 17, 2006, 01:21:09 PM »
Unless it's a HERO sammich...or a SUB sammich Tongue

Baguette, the high end hippy type delis around here call them that. Baguette means big bucks in this neck of the woods and they probably come with bean sprouts and watercress... shocked

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« Reply #35 on: February 17, 2006, 01:24:37 PM »
I used to say "pop" until I started traveling.  In some places it's called "pop", in others it's called "soda", and I've been places where "Coke" is used as a generic term.

I went to Florida as a teenager and tried to order a large pop.  I got some strange looks!

"Soda" is recognized nationwide so that's what I call it now.
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« Reply #36 on: February 17, 2006, 03:58:24 PM »
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If I am around fellow Southerners I may call two pieces of bread with something between them a sammich
That's what I think of as a sammich.  Two pieces of square $0.89 loaf bread with whatever you could find in the fridge stuck in between.
Amen, Bro.
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« Reply #37 on: February 17, 2006, 07:33:31 PM »
How about a "Dagwood"? I think a Dagwood can have any kind of bread but leans toward that whatever you have in the fridge idea. A little of everything.

Damn, if them Swedish meatballs I had tonite weren't haunting me so bad I'd go make me a sammich...

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