<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Jon Toner:
Growing up in Boston, I ordered tonic.
The long sandwich you get is a sub.
The colorful little sprinkles on ice cream are jimmies. This last one remains a source of controversy in our house - Caitlin refers to them as jimmies (mostly just to cheese off my wife), but Victoria and Patrick call them sprinkles, as does my wife.
Funny story: I was with an out-of-towner at a restaurant in Rhode Island when they overheard someone asking for a "cabinet and italian grinder". He joked that he expected someone to come out with a music box and a monkey.
Of course, if you live in Rhode Island, you know that means coffee-flavored milk and a spicy cold-cut sub.
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I grew up in NJ and CT (I was too young to know what exit when we moved from NJ but just near Philadelphia)
I call it SODA. But love Tonic - which to me means it has quinine. Soda can also be soda water (yuck).
The chocolate things on ice cream are JIMMIES - but a friend from Ann Arbor freaked once when she heard me ask for jimmies on my ice cream 'cos in her high school that was slang for condoms.
A sub-sandwich is actually a HOAGIE. A grinder I always think of as being hot - like a meatball grinder.
Also, speaking of Philadelphia, I was never allowed to say "Philly". My mom is from Philadelphia and always insisted that only those who were uneducated said "Philly"
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