How to be an Ohioan (Cleveland, Youngstown: live in, food, parking)

[Alaskapat528]

Originally Posted by Traveler87

How many of you in Ohio say soda, coke or pop?

I still call it "pop" - however, here in Alaska everyone refers to it as soda. Being from Cleveland, it's pop to me lol. My sister in Conn. has same problem after living there over 25 years; she still calls it pop and the others there call it soda lol.

[The Don]

Originally Posted by esya

Coneys(hot dog with chili on top, plus onions and cheese)

I often order chili dogs all over the country looking for that unique Ohio taste.

Well coneys are easy .. any northern Ohioan want to guess what a 3-way is?

[redjuel]

I live in NC now but am originally from Southern Ohio. I still say pop, sweeper, and sucker which people down here thing is so weird. Another one -- okay, when you go to the grocery store, what do you put your groceries in? When I lived in Ohio, we called it a shopping buggy. Dear god, the first time I ever said that in the south, my friends laughed their asses off. It's called a shopping cart here.

[traveling_in_the_sun]

Originally Posted by redjuel

I live in NC now but am originally from Southern Ohio. I still say pop, sweeper, and sucker which people down here thing is so weird. Another one -- okay, when you go to the grocery store, what do you put your groceries in? When I lived in Ohio, we called it a shopping buggy. Dear god, the first time I ever said that in the south, my friends laughed their asses off. It's called a shopping cart here.

I'm guessing you live in the South East of Ohio? I grew up in the Youngstown area and I say all of those things as well. Then when I went to Toledo for college I was shocked to learn no one knew what I was talking about when I said sweeper or buggy!

[CortlandGirl79]

I live north of Youngstown and i say both buggy and cart as well as vaccum cleaner and sweeper. I never call suckers lollipops though.

[SCBeaches]

Originally Posted by redjuel

I live in NC now but am originally from Southern Ohio. I still say pop, sweeper, and sucker which people down here thing is so weird. Another one -- okay, when you go to the grocery store, what do you put your groceries in? When I lived in Ohio, we called it a shopping buggy. Dear god, the first time I ever said that in the south, my friends laughed their asses off. It's called a shopping cart here.

Just the opposite for me....when I grew up in NW Ohio, we called them shopping carts but here in SC, they call them buggies, which is what we used to call a baby stroller (the kind the baby laid down in). I quickly adapted to calling "carbonated beverages" soda instead of pop because I think it sounds better. I've always called a vacuum cleaner a vacuum cleaner....never a sweeper, though my mom did.

[chikaranotori]

a few things:

1) both of those lists are absolutely true...
2) i've heard in Penn, they call soda "pop" in the western part of the state
3) if you are a Vegan in Ohio...it can suck, lol
4) and will someone explain to me why in God's name do the people in Dalton, OH call their town "DOW-ton"?!

[Ohiogirl81]

For the same reason Lebanon is pronounced "LEB-nin."

No one knows ...

[BuckeyeGal]

Yes, y'ins is Pennsylvania Dutch slang. . The southern slang is not y'll, it's ya'll and that is singular. The plural is all ya'll.

[Brenda lykins]

I always say pop but my son says soda he is always correcting me.