You Say Tomato I Say Shut Up

[River Wren]

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins".

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins"

ROTFLMAO!
Where I come from a "chilly bin" is a woman who won't put out.
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We had a couple here from AR a few weeks ago and I went thru some of the words they would run across here that probably would not get them what they wanted. The most important being 'Coke'. 'Coke' around here gets you Coke, not Pepsi, not ginger ale, not 7-up. They said, 'Yeah, we found that out yesterday.'
They already knew about the iced tea. They said they were warned in advance that no one here would make the tea the right way.
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Yes, when I was a kid, we used the word coke for ANY soft drink.
Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
90% of people in my town no longer order tea. They only order "sweettea" (all one word) referring to iced tea with the sugar added while it's still hot. They say it tastes better than unsweetened tea that has the sugar added after it's iced.
I wouldn't know. I only like it unsweetened, with lemon preferred.
My dad had a first cousin who taught at Cornell U. in New York for about 100 years. When she would come to visit, she'd order tea at restaurants and was always shocked when she got iced tea rather than the hot tea she wanted. She was never good at the "when in Rome" thing. Pitched many fits. Embarrassed me no end.
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The great 'pop' vs 'soda' vs 'coke' map. Nary a Yankee on there saying 'pop'. (Yankee being a New Englander.)
You, OTOH, saying 'soda' must get you funny looks given the map showing a preponderance of 'coke' lovers. Unless you live in that little, tiny corner in the, you guessed it, northeast.
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Nary a Yankee on there saying 'pop'. (Yankee being a New Englander.)

Well now we need another map. Nobody I know limits the term "Yankee" just to New England (though I stipulate that you are technically correct). Yankees to us are all people from non-Confederate Civil War states east of Nebraska, and it's not considered a compliment to call someone a Yankee.
Most of the Yankees we Arkansans run across are from Illinois and Michigan. For some reason they like to retire to Arkansas. They are not loved because they're prone to calling a spade a spade, rather than sugar-coating their opinions the way we do.
Interestingly, we like folks from New England (the real Yankees). They are considered exotic and foreign, like the British, French, or Vulcans.
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Interestingly, we
like folks from New England (the real Yankees). They are considered exotic and foreign, like the British, French, or Vulcans.

lol, you're funny.
I'm visualizing Fabio with vulcan ridges on his forehead. . . 'cep, of course he's Italian.
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...with vulcan ridges on his forehead...

Vulcans don't have forehead ridges. That's the Klingons.
Vulcans have pointy ears. Like Yankees.

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...with vulcan ridges on his forehead...

Vulcans don't have forehead ridges. That's the Klingons.

hahahahaha! Busted! You are clearly not a trekkie!
_\\// Live Long and Prosper!

 

[gillumhouse]

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins".

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins"

ROTFLMAO!
Where I come from a "chilly bin" is a woman who won't put out.
.

We had a couple here from AR a few weeks ago and I went thru some of the words they would run across here that probably would not get them what they wanted. The most important being 'Coke'. 'Coke' around here gets you Coke, not Pepsi, not ginger ale, not 7-up. They said, 'Yeah, we found that out yesterday.'
They already knew about the iced tea. They said they were warned in advance that no one here would make the tea the right way.
.

Yes, when I was a kid, we used the word coke for ANY soft drink.
Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
90% of people in my town no longer order tea. They only order "sweettea" (all one word) referring to iced tea with the sugar added while it's still hot. They say it tastes better than unsweetened tea that has the sugar added after it's iced.
I wouldn't know. I only like it unsweetened, with lemon preferred.
My dad had a first cousin who taught at Cornell U. in New York for about 100 years. When she would come to visit, she'd order tea at restaurants and was always shocked when she got iced tea rather than the hot tea she wanted. She was never good at the "when in Rome" thing. Pitched many fits. Embarrassed me no end.
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Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
What can I say, my Mom was from Illinois. And DH's grandparents and parents retired to AR Hot Springs first, then Ma moved to Eureka Springs.

 

[Arks]

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins".

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins"

ROTFLMAO!
Where I come from a "chilly bin" is a woman who won't put out.
.

We had a couple here from AR a few weeks ago and I went thru some of the words they would run across here that probably would not get them what they wanted. The most important being 'Coke'. 'Coke' around here gets you Coke, not Pepsi, not ginger ale, not 7-up. They said, 'Yeah, we found that out yesterday.'
They already knew about the iced tea. They said they were warned in advance that no one here would make the tea the right way.
.

Yes, when I was a kid, we used the word coke for ANY soft drink.
Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
90% of people in my town no longer order tea. They only order "sweettea" (all one word) referring to iced tea with the sugar added while it's still hot. They say it tastes better than unsweetened tea that has the sugar added after it's iced.
I wouldn't know. I only like it unsweetened, with lemon preferred.
My dad had a first cousin who taught at Cornell U. in New York for about 100 years. When she would come to visit, she'd order tea at restaurants and was always shocked when she got iced tea rather than the hot tea she wanted. She was never good at the "when in Rome" thing. Pitched many fits. Embarrassed me no end.
.

Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
What can I say, my Mom was from Illinois. And DH's grandparents and parents retired to AR Hot Springs first, then Ma moved to Eureka Springs.
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I'm at a Eureka Springs B&B right now, taking my aspiring innkeeper seminar. I've made LOTS of notes and taken lots of photos of good ideas I see in their house.
Eureka Springs is the most wonderful place in Arkansas. There are about 50 B&Bs in this little town of 2200 residents. No place else like it.
It helps their tourism that they're fairly close to Branson, Missouri. My own little town doesn't have 1/50th of what this place has to see and do, but we also have no guest house but mine...at least for now...and it doesn't even have mine, yet!

 

[Joey Camb]

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins".

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins"

ROTFLMAO!
Where I come from a "chilly bin" is a woman who won't put out.
.

We had a couple here from AR a few weeks ago and I went thru some of the words they would run across here that probably would not get them what they wanted. The most important being 'Coke'. 'Coke' around here gets you Coke, not Pepsi, not ginger ale, not 7-up. They said, 'Yeah, we found that out yesterday.'
They already knew about the iced tea. They said they were warned in advance that no one here would make the tea the right way.
.

Yes, when I was a kid, we used the word coke for ANY soft drink.
Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
90% of people in my town no longer order tea. They only order "sweettea" (all one word) referring to iced tea with the sugar added while it's still hot. They say it tastes better than unsweetened tea that has the sugar added after it's iced.
I wouldn't know. I only like it unsweetened, with lemon preferred.
My dad had a first cousin who taught at Cornell U. in New York for about 100 years. When she would come to visit, she'd order tea at restaurants and was always shocked when she got iced tea rather than the hot tea she wanted. She was never good at the "when in Rome" thing. Pitched many fits. Embarrassed me no end.
.

Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
What can I say, my Mom was from Illinois. And DH's grandparents and parents retired to AR Hot Springs first, then Ma moved to Eureka Springs.
.

I'm at a Eureka Springs B&B right now, taking my aspiring innkeeper seminar. I've made LOTS of notes and taken lots of photos of good ideas I see in their house.
Eureka Springs is the most wonderful place in Arkansas. There are about 50 B&Bs in this little town of 2200 residents. No place else like it.
It helps their tourism that they're fairly close to Branson, Missouri. My own little town doesn't have 1/50th of what this place has to see and do, but we also have no guest house but mine...at least for now...and it doesn't even have mine, yet!
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A thought for the future is to be up to speed on all your local attractions, you can put them in your guest information in your rooms and on your web site. I try to keep all local events on mine and keep them up to date

 

[gillumhouse]

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins".

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins"

ROTFLMAO!
Where I come from a "chilly bin" is a woman who won't put out.
.

We had a couple here from AR a few weeks ago and I went thru some of the words they would run across here that probably would not get them what they wanted. The most important being 'Coke'. 'Coke' around here gets you Coke, not Pepsi, not ginger ale, not 7-up. They said, 'Yeah, we found that out yesterday.'
They already knew about the iced tea. They said they were warned in advance that no one here would make the tea the right way.
.

Yes, when I was a kid, we used the word coke for ANY soft drink.
Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
90% of people in my town no longer order tea. They only order "sweettea" (all one word) referring to iced tea with the sugar added while it's still hot. They say it tastes better than unsweetened tea that has the sugar added after it's iced.
I wouldn't know. I only like it unsweetened, with lemon preferred.
My dad had a first cousin who taught at Cornell U. in New York for about 100 years. When she would come to visit, she'd order tea at restaurants and was always shocked when she got iced tea rather than the hot tea she wanted. She was never good at the "when in Rome" thing. Pitched many fits. Embarrassed me no end.
.

Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
What can I say, my Mom was from Illinois. And DH's grandparents and parents retired to AR Hot Springs first, then Ma moved to Eureka Springs.
.

I'm at a Eureka Springs B&B right now, taking my aspiring innkeeper seminar. I've made LOTS of notes and taken lots of photos of good ideas I see in their house.
Eureka Springs is the most wonderful place in Arkansas. There are about 50 B&Bs in this little town of 2200 residents. No place else like it.
It helps their tourism that they're fairly close to Branson, Missouri. My own little town doesn't have 1/50th of what this place has to see and do, but we also have no guest house but mine...at least for now...and it doesn't even have mine, yet!
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Once you are up - so you are the FIRST - start crossing your fingers for another. My take on it is that one can be anywhere; two or more there must be something there. THAT is the reason Eureka Springs supports 50 B & Bs. The numbers tell people we have something really great here!
Also there is the shared marketing/advertising costs - if they look at each other as people in the same business and NOT as competitors. I have seriously been hoping another would open for 12 of my 14 years in operation.

 

[Samster]

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins".

cooler, igloo, in New Zealand where he was born they call them "chilly bins"

ROTFLMAO!
Where I come from a "chilly bin" is a woman who won't put out.
.

We had a couple here from AR a few weeks ago and I went thru some of the words they would run across here that probably would not get them what they wanted. The most important being 'Coke'. 'Coke' around here gets you Coke, not Pepsi, not ginger ale, not 7-up. They said, 'Yeah, we found that out yesterday.'
They already knew about the iced tea. They said they were warned in advance that no one here would make the tea the right way.
.

Yes, when I was a kid, we used the word coke for ANY soft drink.
Also in Arkansas we call them sodas, not "pop". Only Yankees say pop.
90% of people in my town no longer order tea. They only order "sweettea" (all one word) referring to iced tea with the sugar added while it's still hot. They say it tastes better than unsweetened tea that has the sugar added after it's iced.
I wouldn't know. I only like it unsweetened, with lemon preferred.
My dad had a first cousin who taught at Cornell U. in New York for about 100 years. When she would come to visit, she'd order tea at restaurants and was always shocked when she got iced tea rather than the hot tea she wanted. She was never good at the "when in Rome" thing. Pitched many fits. Embarrassed me no end.
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Folks in the MidWest & a lot of Western States say "pop". I was corrected on more than one occasion when I moved from the East Coast to Colorado.
Tea here is so sweet that it hurts your teeth.

The theory is that the sugar dissoves better when added to the hot brew. I never drink it unless by accident or waitstaff error.