Whatchamacallit

[Beth Gallagher]

Ours was part of a Waterfall bedroom set (if you recall that style of furniture.) I wish I had the matching vanity with the huge (4 foot?) mirror that was attached to the back. In fact, when I moved here, I picked up a Waterfall sofa table(?) for my dining room.

That's a gorgeous piece.

 

[Mary Robi]

So did your grandma actually call it a chifferobe? I'm curious if anyone has ever heard this term used.

Yes, that's what she called it. One of my sisters still has it.

 

[Kate Ellery]

Me!

And me ….

 

[Kate Ellery]

We Aussies call the shopping thing a trolly ….like hubs says are you getting enough shopping to need a trolly

Call baby carriers ~ Pushers

Sports shoes ..sneakers / runners

Food shopping was always called ….an order ( I’m going out to get an order )

 

[Lois E. Winters]

We called a sofa, sofa or couch.
Cutlery was just that. Dishes were china.
Sneakers were sneakers or trainers
My mother called a dresser a chifferobe. I never did.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Has anyone here ever used or heard the term chifforobe? The only time I've heard it was in the movie "To Kill A Mockingbird," when Mayella Violet lured Tom Robinson onto her yard under the pretense of "chopping up a chifforobe."

I have one that's been in the family for a long time (they're not really valuable), and always called it a wardrobe. It's a handy thing when you lack closet space.

Pic from the web:

Apparently a chifforobe is a hybrid piece of furniture with a hybrid name. A chiffonier is what I call a chest of drawers, with or without a mirror on top. A wardrobe is where clothes are hung. A chifforobe has both.

I have a 'chiffrobe' is the way we pronounced it. just 2 syllables, not 3.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Now that you mention it, we used to call it a davenport when I was a kid. I've not heard (or used) that word in ages. The internet says that term came from A.H. Davenport & Company, a furniture manufacturer that ended in the early 1900s.

I think my parents used that term to elevate the status of our plastic-covered couch.

Mine too. Mom didn't want us to be thought of as shanty Irish.

 

[Mary Stetler]

@Madge Bumstead @Yvonne Smith

You still haven't told me what "pop" is.

Carbonated soft drinks. The bubbles pop, right?
When I moved to Wisconsin I found that water fountains are bubblers. You get laughed at here when you say 'What?"

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

My grandmothers 'buffet' was much older, but some idea as to what she called the buffet
I remeber many of the words used that you all have mentioned. Pop was something my aunt who lived in California said. In Texas everything was called Coke , otherwise you had to be specific in your choice of fizzy drinks.
Carts are for grocery items
On a business trip to Wisconsin once, I ordered a tea and hamburger.. Middle of summer, was brought hot tea, and a bun and meat pattie...apparently things were different there than in Texas.
A favorite memory of mine, was a car trip to see my mamawa in Missouri, we stopped in Oklahoma somewhere and It was a lesson to me that people eat different everywhere. Ordered breakfast and lo and behold, there were taters on my plate! I did not know you could eat potatoes for breakfast. I was about 7,but to this day I love potatoes regardless of the meal.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Carbonated soft drinks. The bubbles pop, right?
When I moved to Wisconsin I found that water fountains are bubblers. You get laughed at here when you say 'What?"

Indeed, the bubbles are super-fizzy and pop.

 

[Ken Anderson]

On a business trip to Wisconsin once, I ordered a tea and hamburger.. Middle of summer, was brought hot tea, and a bun and meat pattie...apparently things were different there than in Texas.

I had never heard of anyone drinking iced coffee or iced tea until I moved to California.

 

[John Brunner]

Carbonated soft drinks. The bubbles pop, right?
When I moved to Wisconsin I found that water fountains are bubblers. You get laughed at here when you say 'What?"

Please refer to my prior comment regarding "liquid." It narrows things down, but that's about it.

 

[John Brunner]

I had never heard of anyone drinking iced coffee or iced tea until I moved to California.

The south is all about their iced tea. Iced coffee sounds like someone forgot to turn the warmer on, and the cheap guy who owned the diner hastily added it to the menu.

 

[Madge Bumstead]

We Aussies call the shopping thing a trolly ….like hubs says are you getting enough shopping to need a trolly

Call baby carriers ~ Pushers

Sports shoes ..sneakers / runners

Food shopping was always called ….an order ( I’m going out to get an order )

Baby carriages are baby buggies

 

[Mary Stetler]

The south is all about their iced tea. Iced coffee sounds like someone forgot to turn the warmer on, and the cheap guy who owned the diner hastily added it to the menu.

When I had kids I got very used to iced coffee. You set coffee down and ran around doing things. When you got back, it was cold. No micro waves and I sure wasn't going to throw it out.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

When I had kids I got very used to iced coffee. You set coffee down and ran around doing things. When you got back, it was cold. No micro waves and I sure wasn't going to throw it out.

That is exactly right ! My coffee was always cold, too, back when I had kids growing up, and even afterwards, because I guess I just got used to that happening. It might still happen, but now I have one of those mug-warmer things that keeps my coffee hot until I get it drank.
I remember , my daughter got me a coffee mug that said “Mold Experiment in Progress”.
I do actually like iced coffee in the summer, and I like it better than iced tea.

 

[Don Alaska]

Apparently in the part of North Carolina my mom's family called home, soda pop was called a "dope", like in "Wanna go down the store and get a cold dope?"

For health purposes, I try to hold my Coke consumption down to one a week, but when I do take that first long pull on an ice-cold fully sugared and caffinated Coca Cola, I think I know what a heroin addict feels when he shoots up. That sugar and caffeine coursing through my veins.....heaven.

Some of the old timers when I lived in North Carolina referred to "a dope and a Moon Pie". The dope term apparently came from when Coke contained cocaine.

 

[John Brunner]

Some of the old timers when I lived in North Carolina referred to "a dope and a Moon Pie". The dope term apparently came from when Coke contained cocaine.

Yeh, but they were probably talking about RC Cola. It's a southern favorite.

And I never thought of the cocaine angle. Original Coca Cola must have been Red Bull on steroids.

 

[Marie Mallory]

In Idaho, it was any kind of soda drink that came in a glass bottle and with a top that came off with a little bottle opener . It was not any special brand or flavor, just a carbonated and bottled drink. I don’t remember having an actual soda fountain, but in the restaurants, they had pop that came from the commercial pop machine, similar to the ones in a convenience store now.
If it fizzed, it was pop, period !
When someone bought a bottle at the store, we had the bottle opener and could open the pop for them . The pop bottles were in a cooler that kept them cold.


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I remember those. also remember before the pop tops, we used 'can openers' for can drink's.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Some of the old timers when I lived in North Carolina referred to "a dope and a Moon Pie". The dope term apparently came from when Coke contained cocaine.

I like the carbonation fizz of soft drinks.