Funky names

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Gregory Geboski" <ggeboski at hotmail.com>
>
>M Forstater wrote:
>
><< "what the hell are jimmies?! nobodies used that word for twenty years!"
>tell me it's a regional thing, please.. >>
>
>It's a regional thing. Are you from New England? Every kid in Massachusetts
>knows what jimmies are--I just had to pull my kid away from some in the
>grocery store. Sugar and food dye. Yum. I think it said "Jimmies" on the
>lid. But the term was never used in Michigan, where I grew up.

New England seems to encourage these regionalisms.  What's called a milk 
shake (milk, flavoring, ice cream) just about everywhere else in the US is 
called a frappe in Mass. and a cabinet (of all things) in Rhode Island.

Carl
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