Same foods, different names (restaurants, hamburger, bbq, pizza)

[BigGirlNow]

Since this great country of ours is so vast, there are some foods with multiple names. The name you use usually depends on where you live or where you were raised. As an example, what do you call a long roll with a variety of fillings? Some answers could be hoagie, sub or submarine sandwich.

Here's my list of foods with more than one name and what I call them:

Hoagie
Hotdog
Soda
Pancake
Green Bean (Growing up I said string bean. Somewhere along the line it changed for me. I don't know why.)
Pizza
Stuffing
Frosting

I was raised in the Philly Suburbs and have spent the huge majority of my life here.

Do you call any of these foods by a different name? Make your list and add where you live and/or where you were raised, depending on which location you think influenced your choice. If you come up with more examples of "same foods, different names" please add to the list.

[Sundaydrive00]

What other names are there for pizza?

[Izzie1213]

I think the US is mostly homogenized on food. There some regional things. I lived/grew up in MN but in Wisconsin I saw advertising for pastys, I didn't know what it was. Never had grits or black-eyed peas(a new year thing for good luck) until I lived in Texas in the mid 80's. Never drank ice tea much until Texas. Didn't have bottomless cups for ice tea like there is for coffee in MN until not that long ago.

In Texas when you said pop it meant any flavor but soda meant coke. (or was it the other way around)

[BigGirlNow]

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

What other names are there for pizza?

My husband was raised in northern Jersey. He says pie sometimes. I've also heard people say pizza pie. It's like soda, pop and soda pop.

[bg7]

Originally Posted by BigGirlNow

My husband was raised in northern Jersey. He says pie sometimes. I've also heard people say pizza pie. It's like soda, pop and soda pop.

I've heard this - and it struck me as odd the first few times because a pie to me means something with a lid - normally pastry lid but possibly mashed potato. A pizza definitely wasn't a pie, and a pizza pie - well that would be a weird thing.

[bg7]

Another weird one (to me) is calling chuck "hamburger"

[DawnMTL]

Originally Posted by bg7

Another weird one (to me) is calling chuck "hamburger"

I've seen people write "hamburg" instead of "hamburger." At first I thought they just forgot to type the "er" at the end. Then I kept seeing it. I figured it was a regional thing but I always say "er" in my head when I read it.

[RP2C]

In Chicago, they call that bread-bowl full of sauce: "Pizza".

Also there seems to be a North/South - Iced Tea/Sweet Tea difference.

[SATX56]

Originally Posted by Izzie1213

I think the US is mostly homogenized on food. There some regional things. I lived/grew up in MN but in Wisconsin I saw advertising for pastys, I didn't know what it was. Never had grits or black-eyed peas(a new year thing for good luck) until I lived in Texas in the mid 80's. Never drank ice tea much until Texas. Didn't have bottomless cups for ice tea like there is for coffee in MN until not that long ago.

In Texas when you said pop it meant any flavor but soda meant coke. (or was it the other way around)

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.

Grits aren't big in Texas. I for one was introduced to grits by my mother who was from the Bahamas. We do use "burger" in place of hamburger a lot in Texas. "Q" for BBQ or BBQ for barbecue.

[Izzie1213]

Saxton
I guess I thought grits were just a southern thing. People were eager to get me to try "southern" food when we first moved there. My in laws in Arkansas ate grits and it was on menus in restaurants. Yeah, now that you mention it, it was the pop they didn't use but there was someone that got me confused about the soda thing, she was from Kentucky.