Does anyone hear the following terms where they live...

[BBrown]

Do people get Scrapple anywhere else but Philly area? Would they want to?

I didn't think Philly had a reputation for Scrapple?
I thought that was a definite central PA to OH thing.
But my friend from Moneta, VA liked Scrapple and Pig Souse and I thought that was just a PA to OH thing.

 

[Connorpozlee]

Lexington.

Likewise. Interesting.

 

[AWS1022]

Likewise. Interesting.

I live in Versailles and work in Lexington.

 

[Connorpozlee]

Not many Penn State folks in these parts. Good to know there’s another one around.

 

[AWS1022]

Not many Penn State folks in these parts. Good to know there’s another one around.

Not many college football fans in these parts...too much college basketball.

 

[LaJolla Lion]

I still prefer the New York/New Jersey food.

Publix in the south started selling it everywhere...which is nice.

 

[artsandletters]

I find it interesting that people who love where they live are upset when others want to visit or move there.

Shoobies are people who go to the shore for the day and bring their things in a shoebox. Shoebox became shoobie.

 

[artsandletters]

You mean the people that provide the money for those areas to stay viable?

My definition of shoobie is different than ro’s. See my response to Ranger below. The term shoobie is pejorative only inasmuch as they only stay for a day and bring their stuff with them in a shoebox.

 

[artsandletters]

Ahhhhh....... interesting. Can you elaborate? What specific meats and cheeses are required for a hoagie?

Smoked ham, Genoa salami, capacola, provolone cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, salt, pepper, oil and oregano. Hot peppers are an option.

 

[artsandletters]

Depends on where you are from. My mom was from Manayunk and she would always call it "going in town" when we'd go to Wanamakers at Christmas or the like--and it usually meant we were taking the train from Hatboro in.

She also used to use the word "serve" to mean deliver. I had a Bulletin paper route as a teen, and when the papers came, she'd tell me to "go serve your papers". The only way you see that usage in standard English is "serving a summons".

I served the Inquirer and the Bulletin. I wrote that ‘in town’ is interchangeable with ‘center city’. Has your mom been back to Manayunk snce all the changes along the river?

 

[JoeLion]

I recall Jumbo being used to represent baloney as in a jumbo sandwich in lieu of a bologna or baloney sandwich. Western PA lingo?

 

[BobPSU92]

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

Those people?!

 

[delcoLion]

My definition of shoobie is different than ro’s. See my response to Ranger below. The term shoobie is pejorative only inasmuch as they only stay for a day and bring their stuff with them in a shoebox.

I think the old definition of shoobies are people at the shore for a day and who bring their lunch in a shoebox.

 

[mrtailgate]

I think the old definition of shoobies are people at the shore for a day and who bring their lunch in a shoebox.

This is correct.

Yesterday was a bad day seeing the throngs of people return to my street down the shore. Went for ice cream last night, wife got water ice. I got choc jimmies on my ice cream.

 

[Nitwit]

This is correct.

Yesterday was a bad day seeing the throngs of people return to my street down the shore. Went for ice cream last night, wife got water ice. I got choc jimmies on my ice cream.

There used to be an ice cream place called Hillary’s near the Penn campus that called jimmies - chocolate Irvings. There were all chocolate jimmies, not the multi-color kind.

 

[mrtailgate]

There used to be an ice cream place called Hillary’s near the Penn campus that called jimmies - chocolate Irvings. There were all chocolate jimmies, not the multi-color kind.

That is a new one to me, but then again me being on an Ivy campus wasn’t in the cards anyway.

 

[NittPicker]

I recall Jumbo being used to represent baloney as in a jumbo sandwich in lieu of a bologna or baloney sandwich. Western PA lingo?

Ah yes, jumbo. That's strictly a western PA thing. When I was a kid it was always called jumbo instead of bologna. I think it was because one of the local companies made a type of bologna branded as "jumbo". I never hear it called jumbo nowadays though. Maybe the company doesn't make "jumbo" any longer. Or maybe it's because I no longer eat bologna.

EDIT: Your post got me to thinking so I checked out Isaly's website. Jumbo bologna isn't listed as one of their products. However, they still sell the chopped ham which you must order as chipped from the deli counter. Everyone looks at you strangely if you don't. The product description says "loaded with real-ham flavor". Take from that what you will.

 

[Frabjous]

Ah yes, jumbo. That's strictly a western PA thing. When I was a kid it was always called jumbo instead of bologna. I think it was because one of the local companies made a type of bologna branded as "jumbo". I never hear it called jumbo nowadays though. Maybe the company doesn't make "jumbo" any longer. Or maybe it's because I no longer eat bologna.

EDIT: Your post got me to thinking so I checked out Isaly's website. Jumbo bologna isn't listed as one of their products. However, they still sell the chopped ham which you must order as chipped from the deli counter. Everyone looks at you strangely if you don't. The product description says "loaded with real-ham flavor". Take from that what you will.

Ha, you don’t want to know how laws and chipped chopped ham are made. Remember the Isaly’s on the Boulevard of the Allies near Craft Ave? They made a lime green milkshake that was uh, tastier than chalk.

 

[AWS1022]

Ah yes, jumbo. That's strictly a western PA thing. When I was a kid it was always called jumbo instead of bologna. I think it was because one of the local companies made a type of bologna branded as "jumbo". I never hear it called jumbo nowadays though. Maybe the company doesn't make "jumbo" any longer. Or maybe it's because I no longer eat bologna.

EDIT: Your post got me to thinking so I checked out Isaly's website. Jumbo bologna isn't listed as one of their products. However, they still sell the chopped ham which you must order as chipped from the deli counter. Everyone looks at you strangely if you don't. The product description says "loaded with real-ham flavor". Take from that what you will.

Jumbo must be a really regional term because I grew up in Western PA too and I never heard it.

 

[delcoLion]

This is correct.

Yesterday was a bad day seeing the throngs of people return to my street down the shore. Went for ice cream last night, wife got water ice. I got choc jimmies on my ice cream.

Yep, it's a shocker after 8 months of peace and quiet. But if they didn't come, our good fortune to live at the shore wouldn't be as valuable. We're on LBI.

I, too, got chocolate jimmies on my ice cream.

 

[bobroars]

or are they local to where I live, the Delaware Valley? I think most of them are, but wanted to make sure.


Hoagie - called submarine sandwich elsewhere, or hero, or in the case of New Orleans, a Po'boy.

Skitch - called bumper rides in other places - when you hang on to the back of a UPS truck and let it it pull you down along the snow and ice on the street during the winter months. Easy to do in this area, because they never seem to plow the roads properly.

Jimmies- those little candy items that you put on top of soft ice cream. Called sprinkles in most other places.

Skeev - when something is distasteful to you, you "skeev" it. Not sure what others call it, but "skeev" is fairly descriptive.

Shore - not just the beach, but the boardwalk, horseshoe crabs, dragon flies and the beach tags.

Shoobies - those people who go to the Shore but are not from the Shore. Applies mostly to people from west of the Delaware River.

Water Ice - shaved ice with flavored and colored sugar water poured on top. Probably called Italian Ice everywhere else. (Note: appropriate pronunciation of water is "wuhter").


My morning's work is done.

Spent snow days on Long Island stitching. Oil trucks and VW beetles were easy pickings

 

[kgilbert78]

I served the Inquirer and the Bulletin. I wrote that ‘in town’ is interchangeable with ‘center city’. Has your mom been back to Manayunk snce all the changes along the river?

She passed in 2011.

 

[delcoLion]

In Philly ‘downtown’ means South Philly. You have to be around the city for some time before you know that, unless you have a friend from ‘downtown’ . ‘Center city ‘ or ‘in town’ is the expansive business and residential area surrounding City Hall. Otherwise it’s neighborhoods - Mayfair, Queen Village, Port Richmond etc.

Yep, I grew up in So Philly and it was always referred to as "downtown".

 

[kijanacat]

Shoobies—those people who came to the shore with their lunches in a shoebox. They came for the day and left by nighttime. Jersey shore term

 

[Woodpecker]

I find it interesting that people who love where they live are upset when others want to visit or move there.

Call some place paradise - kiss it goodbye

 

[PearlSUJam]

Shoobies = bennies (mostly from North Jersey and New York)

Shore = down da Shore (emphasis on da pronounced duuuuh)

Pork Roll Egg & Cheese = Taylor Ham, Egg and Cheese above Monmouth County.

Hoagie = Sub