Friday, August 22, 2008

unique to RI

I added another page of interest to my website -- unique phrases/foods to RI.

Here's a sample:


If there are any RIers out there who know of other ones, let me know!

p.s - I know some of the terms are found elsewhere in the US

www.meghan-mccarthy.com/bio_ri.html
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9 comments:

  1. nelsong8/22/08, 1:51 PM

    Stuffed quahog?

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  2. Libby Koponen8/22/08, 3:36 PM

    And "milk shake" -- in RI when you ask for a milk shake you get just that, literally: milk shaken up. I remember this one from college; a friend from the midwest saying when he was already home and it was too late:
    "God damn Rhode Island!"

    He should of course have asked for a CABINET.

    What a fun page -- I'll try to think of more.

    Libby

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  3. ChatRabbit8/22/08, 6:49 PM

    Hot weenahz...all the way, up the arm.

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  4. Meghan McCarthy8/23/08, 1:27 PM

    Really, they shook up the milk and that was that? I've never encountered that!

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  5. Blue Rose Girls8/23/08, 3:36 PM

    But you probably never asked for "a milkshake." Didn't you say "cabinet" or "frappe"?

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  6. Blue Rose Girls8/23/08, 3:38 PM

    PS Of course I was in college a long time ago! Maybe now RI is more mainstream.

    But that did really happen.

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  7. Meghan McCarthy8/23/08, 11:02 PM

    I'll ask my parents since they grew up in RI. I've never asked for a frappe or cabinet, I always say "shake"

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  8. alvinaling8/25/08, 3:22 PM

    Maybe it was Amelia Bedelia who made that milk shake...

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  9. Meghan McCarthy8/25/08, 11:05 PM

    Heh. It probably was.

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