How do you say it in your part of the world

[Katryna]

This is an exerpt from an e-mail I got a few months ago entitled "Boston". My apologies to our Boston Members, but since I spent a good deal of my life as your neighbor in RI I hope you take it in the spirit it was intended:

It's not a shopping cart; it's a carriage.
It's not a purse; it's a pockabook.
They're not franks; they're haht dahgs. Franks are money in France.

Police don't drive patrol units or black and whites they drive a "crooza".
If you take the bus, your on the "looza crooza".
It's not a rubber band, it's an elastic.
It's not a traffic circle, it's a rotary.
"Going to the islands" means Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket.
If something's good, it's "pissa". If something's really good, it's "wicked pissa".

The Pat's = The Patriots
The Sox = The Red Sox
The C's = The Celtics
The B's = The Bruins

The underground train is not a subway. It's the "T", and it doesn't run all night (fah chrysakes, this ain't Noo Yawk).

Bostonians...think Rhode Island accents are annoying.

[inuvik]

We say elastic in Canada too.

[rducasey]

Is coffee milk and coffee ice cream as big in other parts of the country? The General Assembly in Rhode Island just last year made it the official drink of RI. It beat out Del's Frozen Lemonade. There are two companies I believe that make it and both are in RI. Autocrat and Eclipse. Here is an excerpt from their web page. So I'm curious, do you drink coffee milk and eat coffee ice cream? Making me hungry right now just thinking about it.

There is a lot more to Rhode Island than just being the smallest state in our nation. Certain foods have become statewide traditions and part of the state’s history. For example, Rhode Island is famous for Coffee Milk and Coffee ice cream. It is said that if you travel more than 10 miles from Rhode island, people will not know what this drink is. If you are from Rhode Island and live somewhere else, you crave it

[bluedelft]

kathy said:

This is an exerpt from an e-mail I got a few months ago entitled "Boston". My apologies to our Boston Members, but since I spent a good deal of my life as your neighbor in RI I hope you take it in the spirit it was intended:

It's not a shopping cart; it's a carriage.
It's not a purse; it's a pockabook.
They're not franks; they're haht dahgs. Franks are money in France.

Police don't drive patrol units or black and whites they drive a "crooza".
If you take the bus, your on the "looza crooza".
It's not a rubber band, it's an elastic.
It's not a traffic circle, it's a rotary.
"Going to the islands" means Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket.
If something's good, it's "pissa". If something's really good, it's "wicked pissa".

The Pat's = The Patriots
The Sox = The Red Sox
The C's = The Celtics
The B's = The Bruins

The underground train is not a subway. It's the "T", and it doesn't run all night (fah chrysakes, this ain't Noo Yawk).

Bostonians...think Rhode Island accents are annoying.

Sounds like us

Left one out:

When we say we're going to town that means we're heading into Boston.

[Katryna]

rducasey said:

Is coffee milk and coffee ice cream as big in other parts of the country? The General Assembly in Rhode Island just last year made it the official drink of RI. It beat out Del's Frozen Lemonade. There are two companies I believe that make it and both are in RI. Autocrat and Eclipse. Here is an excerpt from their web page. So I'm curious, do you drink coffee milk and eat coffee ice cream? Making me hungry right now just thinking about it.

There is a lot more to Rhode Island than just being the smallest state in our nation. Certain foods have become statewide traditions and part of the state’s history. For example, Rhode Island is famous for Coffee Milk and Coffee ice cream. It is said that if you travel more than 10 miles from Rhode island, people will not know what this drink is. If you are from Rhode Island and live somewhere else, you crave it

Mary and I discussed the coffee mile question some months back and since then each time I am in a grocery store I check for coffee syrup and it just doesn't seem to exist outside of RI. I'll have to buy me a bottle next time I am in RI to satisfy that craving!

[bluedelft]

rducasey said:

Is coffee milk and coffee ice cream as big in other parts of the country? The General Assembly in Rhode Island just last year made it the official drink of RI. It beat out Del's Frozen Lemonade. There are two companies I believe that make it and both are in RI. Autocrat and Eclipse. Here is an excerpt from their web page. So I'm curious, do you drink coffee milk and eat coffee ice cream? Making me hungry right now just thinking about it.

There is a lot more to Rhode Island than just being the smallest state in our nation. Certain foods have become statewide traditions and part of the state’s history. For example, Rhode Island is famous for Coffee Milk and Coffee ice cream. It is said that if you travel more than 10 miles from Rhode island, people will not know what this drink is. If you are from Rhode Island and live somewhere else, you crave it

I love coffee ice cream but I don't think I've ever had coffee milk. Coffee milk sounds like something that I would really enjoy.

[bjobsessed]

I don't know if we have coffee milk or ice cream since I'm not a coffee fan, but we do have iced cappuccinos. They are not quite the same as ice coffee from what I saw in NY. You get these at Tim Horton's--a donut chain--and they have coffee flavoured liquid and really fine crushed ice I think. I really like those. They are very thirst quenching.

The ice machine was broken once so I had a sip of one with no ice. Talk about disgusting!

[Dreamfire]

Unless you are talking about something different...

We have coffee milk in Australia, it's called iced coffee and it is everywhere. You can buy it at the supermarket, in the cafe's, and make it at home. We also have coffee ice cream, you buy it in ice creamshops or the supermarket. DH was recently hooked on Cafe Grande which is coffee ice cream with scorched almonds mixed through.

;D
PS do you put whitener, creamer or milk in your coffee?

we put milk in and call it milk or have it black of course. If it is regular coffe with milk we call it a flat white as opposed to cappachino's late's etc.

[Dreamfire]

kathy said:

It's not a shopping cart; it's a carriage.
Ours is a trolley
It's not a purse; it's a pockabook.
Handbag
They're not franks; they're haht dahgs. Franks are money in France.
Hot dogs, maybe frankfurters and the mini one's are lil' boys.
Police don't drive patrol units or black and whites they drive a "crooza".
Our cops drive divvy vans, divisional vans
If you take the bus, your on the "looza crooza

".
It's not a rubber band, it's an elastic.
We have both
It's not a traffic circle, it's a rotary.
we drive around the round about
"Going to the islands" means Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket.
Here going to the island means Phillip Island!A local holiday spot
If something's good, it's "pissa". If something's really good, it's "wicked pissa".
We have pissa's too. Ours come from the word "Piss up" which means a party where you have a good time and drink a lot. A Real Piss up is a bertter one.

The Pat's = The Patriots
The Sox = The Red Sox
The C's = The Celtics
The B's = The Bruins

The underground train is not a subway. It's the "T", and it doesn't run all night (fah chrysakes, this ain't Noo Yawk).
Ours is the met and we wish it would run all night
Bostonians...think Rhode Island accents are annoying.
we can't tell where you're from just by how you tawk!
When we go to town we are either going to Melbourne Central CIty or we're doing it all the way.No not in the gutter sense! anything, doing it all the way. ie go to town in cleaning up the garden would be to do it completely, make a big effort, make a big change.

[bjobsessed]

I don't know how to explain it any better since I'm not a coffee drinker. I don't think we're talking about the same thing.

Lori, can you help?

[Katryna]

ashatan said:

Unless you are talking about something different...

We have coffee milk in Australia, it's called iced coffee and it is everywhere. You can buy it at the supermarket, in the cafe's, and make it at home.

No, Rhode Island's coffee milk is different than Iced Coffee. The definition from Quahog.org (If you don't know what a Quahog is, ask Mary):

"What is coffee milk?
Coffee milk is simply milk mixed with coffee syrup. Some people pronounce it as one word: coffeemilk."

The problem is that RI seems to be the only place on the planet where one can purchase the coffee syrup!

modified to add: Oh, and I believe you can buy it in Australia!

[Dreamfire]

Sorry, we do have coffee syrup here, and we mix it with milkand call it iced coffee. You can buy it in supermarkets, cafe's and make it at home.

[Katryna]

ashatan said:

Sorry, we do have coffee syrup here, and we mix it with milkand call it iced coffee. You can buy it in supermarkets, cafe's and make it at home.

Wow! Mary, do you believe it! They can get coffee syrup in Australia. (I modified my previous post on this subject)

[rducasey]

Coffee syrup is very strong dark liquid that is added to milk, the same way you would add chocolate syrup to make chocolate milk. It's very different from Iced Coffee. Put together coffee ice cream, coffee syrup and milk and you have a coffee cabinet. Some places call this a milk shake or a frappe, In RI it is a cabinet. The only two makers of coffee syrup apparently don't distribute beyond a 40 mile radius. My husband is practically addicted to coffee ice cream. He will never ever have any other kind of ice cream.

[Katryna]

A store that sells liquor in RI is a package store (fondly known as a Packie). Here in PA they are ABC stores (Alcoholic Beverge Commission). In RI they sell liquor and Beer in the same store. Here in PA - separate stores.