Same foods, different names (whiskey, tomatoes, garden, Southern)

[elnina]

Here - some interesting regional names for common food. (I never heard any of them except Lutefisk, but that's the proper Scandinavian name, I think)
25 Regional American Foods You Might Not Know (But Should) | First We Feast

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by elnina

I still have no clue what "pop" is. It doesn't sounds pleasant, though...

Pop where I grew up is specifically Pepsi
White pop is 7Up
Soda is a Rootbeer Float
If you want a Coke you need to go to another town

[BigGirlNow]

Originally Posted by hertfordshire

Like the Italians who leave the last vowel off of words ... like mozzarell, prosciutt, and past.
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I agree with you that people drop the vowel on those words, but those folks are Italian Americans. My family immigrated here from Southern Italy when I was a baby. I grew up in a small Philly suburban town with many Italian immigrants. They aren't the people not pronouncing the vowels at the end. Believe me, Italians can't say English words without ADDING a vowel to the end! LOL 2nd, 3rd, etc. generation Americans of Italian descent are the people that drop the vowels. My boss is one, a Philly 2nd generation American of Italian descent. That's the way they learned the Italian words from their parents and grandparents. We bicker about pronunciations of Italian words. I know I'm correct, so I just roll my eyes and let him think what he wants! LOL I call it a bastardized version of Italian! Which reminds me...I call what is mixed with pasta and made from ripe tomatoes "sauce" not "gravy", which is what my boss from Philly calls it. It's tomato "sauce" not tomato "gravy". To each his own!

[CSD610]

A Coney Dog is different than a Cozy Dog and a Cozy Dog is the same as a Corn Dog and a Chicago Dog is different than a Coney Dog, Cozy Dog, Corn Dog and Stadium Dog.

[BigGirlNow]

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

So people where you are from say they are having "slice" for dinner, and everyone would know they mean pizza?

I've heard "a slice" used to mean pizza. I think it would be used like this:

"What are you having for lunch?"
"I'm grabbing a slice."

[MillennialUrbanist]

Originally Posted by SATX56

Actually, they're all sodas down here. Pop is from up north somewhere. Coke is Coke everywhere, if it's specifically what you're asking for. You may have lived around a lot of snowbirds when you heard those terms.

Check out this "soda vs. pop" map: http://discovermagazine.com/~/media/...pop.png?mw=738

[BigGirlNow]

Originally Posted by CSD610

A Coney Dog is different than a Cozy Dog and a Cozy Dog is the same as a Corn Dog and a Chicago Dog is different than a Coney Dog, Cozy Dog, Corn Dog and Stadium Dog.

CSD610, I've heard hotdogs called weiners, franks, frankfurters. I've heard stuffing called dressing and filling. I've heard pancakes called flap jacks and hot cakes. Hoagies are subs. Green beans and string beans are used interchangeably.

[CMichele]

I didn't know this until a couple of months ago. A friend said he was eating "modern meat pie" and I was like what is that?

Turns out that it's Shepherd's Pie.

[LiaLia]

California. When I was little it was pizza pie, I'm guessing because there was a sizeable population of east coast transplants in our neighborhood. Now it's pizza. Used to be french fries, now it's fries. There were string beans too but now like you said they're green beans. A hoagie is a sub. I think as many people say dressing as say stuffing. Same for frosting and icing. One time when I visited the midwest I noticed people said sweet peas and sweet corn (and they were surprisingly sweet compared to ours) where we would just say peas and corn.

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by BigGirlNow

CSD610, I've heard hotdogs called weiners, franks, frankfurters. I've heard stuffing called dressing and filling. I've heard pancakes called flap jacks and hot cakes. Hoagies are subs. Green beans and string beans are used interchangably.

Whatever you believe.