Regional Weirdness Examples
We are currently staying in the Phoenix area and, like many regions around the US, there are some unique customs and habits that would seem down right odd anywhere else. The single strangest thing we ...
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Handbasket wrote:
Any derned fool _knows_ that it's Pepsi that's properly drunk with peanuts, and the peanuts have to be Lance salted peanuts in the dime pack. Anything else is a Yankee corruption of a time-honored Southron tradition!
The more rural folks a couple of counties east of here called any kind of a soda a 'dope'. I about cracked up decades back when I was working on a DOT road crew... the lead man announced in all seriousness that it was "about time for a dope break."
And the California thing about stacks of balanced rocks has leaked over into these mountains. You see them on the edge of fields and in creeks.
Jim, "What disease did 'cured ham' actually have?"
Sorry, but in GA it's co-cola or Grapette. I once bought a Grapette at the Fillin' station where I worked that already had peanuts in it from the previous user. UGH!
