Words/sayings that are a dead giveaway to where someone is from. (vs, train)
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Lived in NYC all my life... wtf is "Mischief Night"?
It's Goosey Night...which we called it in my NNJ town, but I since found out that's rare. The night before Halloween when you go out and throw eggs at cars and soap windows and put toilet paper in trees and ring doorbells and run away.
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Do they not have mischief night in the rest of the country?
We had mischief night in Philadelphia, too - at least in my suburban neighborhood. For those who don't know, it's the night before Halloween when people do "mischief" like TP/egg someone's house. Needless to say, not a popular "holiday" with adults.
It's Goosey Night...which we called it in my NNJ town, but I since found out that's rare. The night before Halloween when you go out and throw eggs at cars and soap windows and put toilet paper in trees and ring doorbells and run away.
Ring & Run! LOL
We don't have anything like "mischief night" or "goosey night" here
I'm not Italian, but my mom made spaghetti and meatballs because we liked it--a lot. She also made lasagna. You're probably right though about "pasta" as a generic term not being that common in the 70s.
It was spaghetti, macaroni, and noodles. Odd shapes like radiatore were called spaghetti because they were served with meat sauce or meatballs.
I never heard of mischief/whatever night until I moved to NJ, then quickly learned there are several names for it, and kids who grew up 5 miles apart from one another would argue over which name is "correct."
It was funny to me because I'm listening to these discussions thinking "you guys know none of this matters or makes sense outside of a 30 mile radius here, right?"
Same thing with pork roll/Taylor ham. Jersey people will argue among themselves about which name is right, but most people outside the state have never heard of it.
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