What I Thought Was a Regionalism...

[gnomi]

...popped up in a book I was reading, and thus I poll

[Poll #1253058]

Comments

[jadelennox]

I totally thought that was a regionalism. In fact, I thought it was a Dunkiesism.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It can also mean "not decaf."

[kerryp.livejournal.com]

Ditto

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Oh, that makes sense. Yes, that would mean that to me. But it would give me no info whatsoever about the desired cream/sugar status.

*goes to use up the last of the milk in a fresh cup*

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's it for me too.

[cellio]

Yup. Regular coffee (I haven't heard it inverted like in the poll) means not decaf and not a special flavor -- y'know, just coffee. Additives are not covered.

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Coffee with only milk, no sugar.

[tmcay.livejournal.com]

To me, "coffee regular" would mean caffeinated coffee as opposed to decaf. Though in a choice between black and cream/sugar, I would assume "regular" would refer to the former.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I'd assume either a non-decaf coffee or a medium sized coffee.

[betra.livejournal.com]

OMG The Java song...

I always thought that coffee regular was straight up leaded, one dash milk and 2 sugars.

But maybe that is because that is how J drinks it, and so when I make it for her, that is her 'regular' cup of coffee.

[jordan-c-price.livejournal.com]

To me it means "just a coffee" and not one of those other coffee drinks on the menu like lattes, Americanos, mochas. Though if there were just coffee and decaf on the menu, I'd assume it meant not-decaf. I don't think of "regular" as indicating cream/sugar desires.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

"coffee regular" to me means "regular coffee", like the house blend at starbucks or wherever you buy your coffee. not dark roast, not espresso, not any one of a number of absurdly flavored coffees (blueberry? really?), just... coffee. like folger's or something, caffeinated.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

See, at Starbucks you put in your own cream and sugar over at a little stand, that's why. Places where you order "coffee regular" do it for you - like the roach coaches. :D

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

what's a roach coach?

i don't drink coffee, so possibly i'm not the right person to answer this poll in the first place....

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

Hee!

A roach coach is one of those sidewalk-side trucks with the sides that flip up that you can walk up to and buy coffee or greasy breakfast or lunch. I don't even know what they're really called? A food truck? A mobile diner? LOL

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

a lunch truck? i have no idea. i know what you mean, tho. i always think "hot dogs" when i see them.

aaaand now i'm hungry. >.< i hate you.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

We had one in when I lived in NY that had knishes. :D

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Canteen truck. I know them mainly from job sites, rather than sidewalk-side. Coffee break was when the canteen truck came by in the morning; lunch was when they came by around noon.

[tikvah.livejournal.com]

That's what I though all my life, but in my early 20's, in NYC, I walked a block or two to get a regular coffee, and found myself holding a cup of coffee with milk and two sugars. Bit of a problem, being allergic to milk, and then having to argue the definition of a "regular" coffee with a guy who did not want to replace my lousy cheap small coffee (but ultimately did).

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I know I'm changing my answer from last night. That's because I've slept.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

And "coffee light & sweet" means even *more* cream and sugar. And "coffee no sugar" means you do want cream...

Ah, I miss my coffee roach coach days.

[red-tanya.livejournal.com]

coffee regular = drip coffee, not some espresso thingie

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

growing up on long island, "coffee regular" ordered from anywhere but starbucks (e.g. the roach coach, a deli) meant "milk and sugar." then again, i moved away long before the Great Starbucks Invasion.

the term is simply not used here in chicago as best as i can tell.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

"Regular" seems to be dying out in Eastern Mass. Some folks still use it to mean "cream and sugar," but still more are using it to mean "not decaf."

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

I know "regular" as a Canadianism for "milk/cream and sugar" - but to me, it indicates "not decaf"....and now I learn, through your comments, that the milk/sugar usage is not strictly limited to Canada.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Doesn't surprise me, though -- culturally, New England is more closely tied to the Maritime Provinces than to most of the United States.

[thespisgeoff.livejournal.com]

"Regular Coffee" = "Caffeinated"
"Coffee Regular" = "With cream and sugar"

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

ooo! yes. exactly. :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yes. Just like that. That's how I learned it.

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's what I learned too. My origin=south of Boston (Dedham, to be exact).

[bbennett.livejournal.com]

I am all astonishment. I've never used this phrase, but I would have assumed it meant a plain cup of coffee. At home (KY), I don't think someone would order that, but if they said "regular coffee", they'd get just that - coffee, black, and in a cup.

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Hi Nomi! :)

Did you and Michael get my e-mail?

I hope you are doing well!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I did get your mail. Last week was ridiculous and this one is shaping up similarly. I'm sorry we missed you this time round.

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too! But, I will be back in town late next month so we will surely meet up for a meal. I am really looking forward to it. This trip was crazy for me, but I wanted to make sure I e-mailed you guys to let you know the situation. Talk with you soon! :-)

[farwing.livejournal.com]

...but that's just what I might guess it meant, as I don't really know that I've heard it before. *messes up poll*

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

Hey, first bug I've found with Google Chrome. My friends page had the results to date of the poll on it. I only got the chance to vote when I came to the actual post itself.

[sorek.livejournal.com]

THREAD SHIFT!

Tell us more about Google Chrome. I hear it's a lot faster on benchmarks but haven't read of comparisons using actual websites yet.

[llennhoff.livejournal.com]

So far I'm liking it a lot, especially after the revised EULA.
Problems to date:
1) Absence of plugins
2) Uses internet options in control panel to set proxy
3) lj poll issue reported above
4) problems on some web pages with bad layout frex http://www.thomasekenny.com/

Advantages:
Incredibly intuitive interface - I love the Omni bar

Imports most settings and favorites from Firefox without difficulty
(but see problems 1 and 2 above)

blindingly fast (this seemed to slow down towards the end of the day - memory leak problems, perhaps? The cartoon documentation suggested that the cure for memory leaks was to close the particular tab that had the leak - all memory would be recovered at that point without closing the browser).

[fauxklore]

I thought it meant coffee with milk or cream but no sugar.

As a person who drinks my coffee black, this was often a source of frustration in NYC, so I got in the habit of ordering black coffee.

Nowadays most coffee I don't brew myself is so dreadful that I drink tea when outside my own house.