Your City's Slang

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by lukeache

When I first moved to Houston, TX, I noticed how the word for laundromat was "washateria" I am not sure if this is also a Louisiana thing, but it was weird to see the word "Washateria". Also, frontage roads are called "feeder roads". Can anybody explain if these words are used only in Texas?

I've seen "washateria" before, and I've only blown through Houston, so it must have been somewhere else. I have never been to Louisiana.

[elfyum]

Originally Posted by WeeMadArthur

White Castle is the lowest of the low. Until reading this thread I have never heard of anyone actually liking it. BLEH!

You've GOTTA be sh*ttin me!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been vegan for 5+ years, but when I was a little kid back in Queens I LOOOOVED those things!!!!!!!!
Then a while before I went vegan I discovered the frozen ones!!!! Not the same of course, but MAN!!!!!!!!
Nothing beats a White Castle!!!!!!! (But I never heard any weird termonology until down in FL where they have some other variety & some weird slang for them that I don't remember - heard it from my mom in Boca. Any SOFL people know what I'm talking about? Something to do with a red wagon???)