- Brinjal = Eggplant
- Ladies Fingers = Okra
- Yam = Sweet potatoes. Purple yam is nonexistent here (or atleast I have not seen any in the grocery stores or farmer's market yet)
- Supermarket = Grocery store
- Green Beans are steamed/boiled. Never stir-fried in garlic.
- Barbeque is not the same as fixing ribs on a grill and pouring on sauce- barbecue is a noun, not a verb, and to confuse the issue, every Southern state has its own brand of barbecue. Eastern North Carolina style barbecue is pulled pork, marinated with a vinegar-based sauce
- Biscuit is not a cookie served with hot tea. A biscuit is a flaky piece of bread you eat with supper, and serve with iced tea. Sometimes you eat biscuits with gravy (and grow fat)
- Almost all dogs are sent to training school to learn some obedience. I think that is really cool.
- I do not see any stray cats (or dogs) walking around in parking lots. Even the cats that you sometimes see walking alone around the neighborhood actually belongs to someone.
- You can eat chips in bed , and drop crumbs on your sheets and no ants will crawl all over you when you are asleep.
- You will die without central air-conditioning.
- If someone tells you that someplace is just "down the road", it does not really mean you can "walk" there.
- It is quite common to ask for separate checks when you are eating out in restaurants. And it is ok to go dutch. It will not be considered rude or stingy.
(Oh by the way, cheques = checks)
- And never ever forget to tip, eventhough service sucks. Service is usually pretty good.
- It is not rude to leave your shoes on when you enter someone's house. (I would've received a "You have no manners" stare if I did that back home)
- It is also not rude for children to call adults by their first name. (Back home, women were always "Aunt" when we used first names for adults. Men were "Uncle" with their first names. And they do not have to be related to you. It could be anyone on the street. Basically, anyone that is older or around your parent's age is an aunt or uncle)
- You have to have a car in order to get around. Taxis/ cabs are rare, except at the airport.
- Shopping cart = buggy
- Boot of a car = trunk
- Petrol = Gas
- Everything has a 7.5% sales tax
- dish rag = dish cloth
- Football (American football) is a religion
- Dinner is at noon. Not at night. Supper is at night. (Then what is lunch? I still get confused with this one. I am assuming dinner is a formal lunch. Please correct me if I am wrong)
- Pedestrians always have the right of way. Do not ever honk at a pedestrian.
-Burger King = Burger Kang
- Uhmukin = Someone who lives in the United States of Uhmurka
I'm sure there are many more things that I have discovered in the past one year but these are just the few things that I can remember now.
There'll be more things to learn and discover fer shure while I'm 'eah, idinit? Watch out y'all. Lawd, hammercy.
Ahh, it's good to be 'eah!
11 comments:
Well, it is not "necessarily" rude to leave your shoes on. You have to see how the host or hostess feels about it.
Dinner and supper are pretty much the same thing, to my understanding anyway. I don't know if some particular locales treat them differently, but I never have.
Breakfast is in the morning, lunch is at mid day. Brunch is somewhere in between (a late breakfast or early lunch). Dinner/supper are in the evening.
I've been told differently here. So I took a mental note of that.
I've always understood that :
Breakfast - morning
Lunch - mid day
Tea - mid afternoon
Dinner - Evening
Supper - late night
Not yet :)
i too am confused about the dinner and supper thingy. can't imagine dinner at mid-day.
Dinner is never at mid-day. It should be early evening at the earliest. Holidays, like Thanksgiving, sometimes have it in the late afternoon.
Addendum:
Some biscuits are intended for dogs, hushpuppies are not.
There are two “kinds” of slaw:
White slaw = Fish Camp slaw
Red slaw = Barbecue slaw
Fish Camp or Fish House is not a place where fish go on vacation.
“A mile or so”.. see: “Just down the road”
If you “warshed” your car “yesterday” don’t be surprised if it rains today.
It’s ok to walk around bare foot when you’re outside.
And it’s ok if your dog sleeps outside, as long as he’s not on top of your car or his doghouse.
Oh yeah, and for whatever reason 90% of people refer to all dogs as "him" and cats as "she". Go figure.
haha.. good one, Brian
Okay, I always thought (and was told) that dinner is ALWAYS at night, and supper is the noon-ish large meal that usually takes place on Sunday.
I've never heard "scales" used in the plural like that, but my parents are damn yankees, so that may explain that.
Don't EVER say "liberry" or I will have an anuerism. Even though you hear it all the time... it's WRONG and people who say it should be SHOT at DAWN. Or earlier.
And expect to be confused when someone "axs" for a "pin." They mean "pen" and will look at you like you sprouted a head from your abdomen if you hand them a safety pin. Southerners have NO idea how you can confuse "pin" with "PIN." Despite the fact that the latter actually is spelled with an "e" and therefore should be pronounced differently.
That reminds me.. I need to go to the "liberry" to "ax" the "liberrian" if Judith McNaught's latest book is out yet.:)
Nothing new out since Every Breath You Take. :-P
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