YALP!

[gnomi]

...or, Yet Another Language Poll!

[Poll #721210]

A clarification: I was thinking of hot tea in regards the tea question. My grandmother (my mother's mother) used to serve a gluzzeleh teh, hot tea in a glass, and I was thinking of that when I wrote the question.

Comments

[oldblackbird.livejournal.com]

it's the beer store and we call it coke.

As in, "y'all want a coke?" "yeah." "what kind?" "Dr. Pepper."

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

that was so odd when I was in 'bama.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Yep. I grew up in Atlanta and that is so true. My buddy Jeff use to come and ask me if I wanted a Coke cause he was going out to the deli and would bring me back a ginger ale since that was my beverage of choice in the non-alcoholic catagory at the time.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

This was one of this things that made me all head-tilty when I visited friends in Georgia.

D: "Ya'll want a coke?"
Jean: "Sure, thanks!"
D: We have Sprite, Dr. Pepper...
Jean: *blink* Oh, a coke is fine.
D: We don't have coke, you want a Mountain Dew?
Jean: *blink blink*

That, and the whole "sweet tea" thing. :D

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I knew that was true of Atlanta folks; I didn't know it was more universally southern than that.

[madfilkentist]

In Germany and Holland, soft drinks in general are often called "lemonade."

[angwantibo.livejournal.com]

I almost answered this coke as well, having lived in Texas.

[cafemusique.livejournal.com]

Here, beer and wine/liquor are sold in different stores, so you either have the liquor store (or "The LCBO" - short for "Liquor Control Board of Ontario") or The Beer Store.

[cafemusique.livejournal.com]

Forgot to clarify the other answer. I'm probably about the only person who fairly consistently uses the generic "soft drink."

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

You probably should have specified hot tea.

Which can go in a glass.

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

wouldn't it be iced tea that goes in a glass?

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Not for Ashkenazim two generations back...

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

seems to me, then, that specification wouldn't have mattered. Because EITHER can go in a glass.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Ah, but no one puts iced tea in cups or mugs. And, of course, for certain values of people, tea == iced, while for others, unless modified, tea==hot.

Which is now really convoluted, so I will stop. And maybe do some actual work.

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

I put iced tea in cups sometimes. Granted, not in tea cups.

I will add that when I first read the question, I wondered what kind of tea she meant (iced or hot).

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

i think the point was, in some areas of the country if all you say is "tea" they think you mean "iced," in which case you would answer "glass." those folk specify "hot tea" when they mean hot tea.

as opposed to us yankees, who mean hot tea unless we specify it as iced.

(went to school down south, so i picked up on these things quickly out of self-preservation. tho i flat out REFUSED to call all soft drinks "coke." the best they could get out of me was "pop.")

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

mamadeb got what I was going for. Hot tea in a glass was my grandmother's generation (though she was a Galitzianner, and they do things oddly) ;-)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, probably; see my clarification. :-)

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Some of these were situational. A liquor store is, like, Marty's or something--a large place that prides itself on its selection. A package store (or, if I want to pretend to be more townie than I am, a packie) is a small corner-grocery-type store that sells liquor along with food, lightbulbs, phone cards and other household necessities. And, if I'm making tea properly, with the teapot and leaves and a strainer, and serving it to someone, it goes in a cup--but if I'm making it for myself and can't be bothered, it goes in a mug.

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

I call the place we get our kosher wine the drug store, because by a historical accident the best kosher wine store in town is the local Rite Aid. But in general, growing up in NY, we got all our alcholic beverages from the local liquor store.

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

I grew up calling it pop, but now I call it soda.

And apparently, my new england accent has sunk in enough that I don't pronounce pop right anymore.

[queue.livejournal.com]

I grew up with pop in Indiana, but I started calling it soda when I moved to Oregon for college.

[cicirossi.livejournal.com]

all brand name carbonated beverages are a "coke"

[cicirossi.livejournal.com]

lol. And now you clarify. Tea goes in a glass because tea is cold. Period ;)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

All tea is cold?

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

if you live in the southeast, yes. if you just say "tea," you mean cold. if you meant hot tea you would have said "hot tea." very very few southeast-people want their tea hot. ;)

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

I call it a liquor store, but when I lived in Connecticut and Boston, I called it a package store, though I never could figure out why people called it that.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

A barbaric Yalp! Oh, that's "yawp". :D

I went to school in Boston where we called it a "packie" and we drank "pop". But only while I was in Boston. When I came home I drank "soda" and got my beer at a "liquor store".

:D

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Hee! 'Cause "pop" around here is one's father, as far as I've always known. "Tonic" is the local for what most people now call soda.

(an aside -- where in Boston did you go to school?)

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

Emerson College

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Tea goes in a glass if it's cold. Otherwise it goes in a cup (if we're being proper) or in a mug (if I just want a big steaming mass of tea).

[cellio]

Yup. I answered on the assumption that you meant hot tea, which I would never drink out of a glass. Cold tea, on the other hand, only goes into glasses.

[cellio]

This is Pennsylvania; the laws are different here.

Beer comes from a beer distributor, from which you must buy by the case (no mixing and matching). All other alcohol comes from the state store, aka the liquor store.

Except that you can buy kosher wine in Kosher Mart or even a non-grocery Judaica store, because the state stores think carrying Manischevitz is sufficient. I used to have to fill out a form on which I listed, among things, my congregation, but that stopped a couple years ago for reasons unknown to me (but I'm not complaining).

[perpet.livejournal.com]

Thanks to my father, liquor stores are forever known as beer stores in my head.

[saxikath]

I grew up saying "pop," and now live in "soda" territory -- and can't say either one and have it sound right to me anymore!

[jencallisto]

same here! it's sort of frustrating.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I have these great clear-glass mugs that are perfect for tea, hot or cold, because you can watch the fluid dynamics when you add sugar.

Our dishes came with teacups -- boxed settings consisting of two plates, a bowl, a cup, and a saucer. The cups are in the cupboard (how appropriate!) and we never use them. If I'm going to the trouble of making tea, it's because I want to drink a mugga tea, not a few sips from a teacup -- and I always assume our guests feel the same way.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

It's "liquor store" and "soda" because "package store" (or, really, "packie") and "tonic" are both irredeemably lower-class, and we of the WGBH set don't speak that way! ;)


And I once did have hot tea in a glass -- in a kosher deli in the Whitechapel area of London. Metal holders like ice-cream-soda-glass holders, and sugar cubes to hold in your mouth as you drank it.

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

I primarily call the place one purchases beer/wine/etc.

...someplace to avoid.

[angwantibo.livejournal.com]

Tea goes in the ocean of course! Duh! I know you're from the Boston area, show it!

My ex might say beaker in addition to mug.