Dialectual differences...

[Suu]

Also: quahog.

A quahog is a goddamn chowder clam everywhere else on the fucking Eastern Seaboard but in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. It's also NOT a city, as Seth McFarlane has led you to believe.

Steamer. It's called a steamer clam.

And they suck for chowder. We use cherrystones.

If you really want me to be pedantic, I could say they're all the same species of fucking clam, just different sizes.

[Suu]

Alright, fine then.

Here is the new dialectic, more forthcoming as you all send me your colloquialisms to be translated, quantified, typified, number-crunched, compacted, unpacked, and otherwise reworked to be more efficient. These will all be changed over and take effect as of the next fiscal year. Please prepare accordingly as those found still using previous nomenclature will be summarily totemized.

1. CABINET= N speculatively upright utilitarian holding cell, or SUUHC, after translation pronounced SUCK. use: "put the dishes in the suck."
2. MILKSHAKE= N. lactose based sugar beverage, or LB SB, after translation pronounced POUNDESSBEA. Use: "Jerry, there's too many flies in the poundessbea machine, call the manager."
3. WATER FOUNTAIN=  N. water dispensing spigot cover, or WDSC, after translation pronounced WETSK. Use: "The wetsk is broken, how are the beer taps looking? don't cut your gums up too bad on them."
4. GRINDER: N. auto meat rendering slicing and dicing interior contraption, or AMRSDIC, after translation pronounced AMOROUSDICK. Use: "Bring your amorousdick in here, we need to cut up a head cheese."


THAT IS ALL!

REMEMBER: ALL THOSE FOUND USING PREVIOUS TERMS ARE SUBJECTED TO SUMMARY TOTEMIZATION!

There is something severely wrong with you.

[East Coast Hustle]

Also: quahog.

A quahog is a goddamn chowder clam everywhere else on the fucking Eastern Seaboard but in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. It's also NOT a city, as Seth McFarlane has led you to believe.

Steamer. It's called a steamer clam.

And they suck for chowder. We use cherrystones.

If you really want me to be pedantic, I could say they're all the same species of fucking clam, just different sizes.

cherrystones are not the same species as steamers and quahogs, they are vastly superior. No bellies, no neck, just a little piece of sweet delectable clam meat. You can even eat them on the half-shell.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

LMNO is right, chitlins are just whatever's in a sausage without the casing. I can't do scrapple, though.

I've eaten some strange shit, but I really just don't like the taste of entrails. I mean, sausage is usually spiced enough to hide it, but I couldn't do haggis. I DID try it, btw. I just didn't like it. Mama always said to try it twice.

Correction- they are the casing

Also, why do Americans look at me so funny when I pronounce Publix as "pube-licks"?

I do that too 

Ya know what pisses me off? American "Italian" Food... specifically all the people with a Hollywood gangster sounding last name that believes one should stew tomatoes for 10 hours because that's the "traditional" Italian style. How about all that "Italian" Pizza... Really? Your great great great grandma in Sicily made Deep Dish Pizza in the 1800's before your family came over on the boat? You sure she wasn't your Great Grandma in Chicago during the Depression? And what the fuck are you still talking about that boat for?!

I mean, FFS I don't care if you want to identify with the genetics of three or four generations ago, but at least try to get the food right... if you're gonna claim it as anything close to 'ethnic'. It's like a Mexican making food from Taco Bell and telling me its an old family recipe, something no self respecting Mexican would do (and I am told by my Puerto Rican friends that Mexicans have no self respect*). Either way, they STILL aren't about to hand me a Gordita and tell me its their Great Great Aunts recipe!!!


*My Mexican friends say other things about the Puerto Ricans...

Ask them both about the Dominicans. 

I once made empenadas that passed for Puerto Rican, barely.  I can't jsutify enough sazon and adobo to get them exactly the same.

[Suu]

Also: quahog.

A quahog is a goddamn chowder clam everywhere else on the fucking Eastern Seaboard but in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. It's also NOT a city, as Seth McFarlane has led you to believe.

Steamer. It's called a steamer clam.

And they suck for chowder. We use cherrystones.

If you really want me to be pedantic, I could say they're all the same species of fucking clam, just different sizes.

cherrystones are not the same species as steamers and quahogs, they are vastly superior. No bellies, no neck, just a little piece of sweet delectable clam meat. You can even eat them on the half-shell.

http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/mercen_mercen.htm

Species Name: 
Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name:
Northern quahog, hard clam, cherrystone, littleneck

Size classes for Mercenaria mercenaria have been designated as follows to standardize commercial conventions: Seed clams: < 1"; Beans: 1.0 - 1.5 "; Buttons: 1.5 - 2.0"; Littlenecks: 2.0 - 2.5"; Topnecks: 2.5 - 3.0"; Cherrystones: 3.0 - 4.0"; Chowders: >4.0".

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Damn I can't keep up!!!

OK I agree with everything Suu said in the OP. 

Chitlins, what to say on chitlins. Squid was correct in that they are the intestinal casings.  Another thing is I don't care how clean they are, they fucking stink when you cook them. I'm wondering how many here have actually eaten them?

Now I can eat them as long as they are prepared far away from me and my nose.  I'm not saying they are a favorite but I've eaten them.

Scrapple, now scrapple is potentially (if mixed with the correct spices) one of the most wonderful foods in the world.  Just like ECH said, a fried egg and scrapple sandwich after a night of drinking.  MMMMmmmmm  OMG now I want scrapple really really bad.

I don't care one way or another for chowder.  The only one I like is the version made with a cream base and the best I ever had was made by a neighbor of my mom's who came down to Florida from Maine every winter.  She brought the clams and they were not chewy at all, so maybe she did use the cherrystone or possibly littleneck ones IDK.  I have a recipe for corn chowder, but I guess it isn't really chwder because it doesn't have clams?  I don't know but it's delicious whatever it is 


Publix is the best store IN THE US and I, like Suu, would be more than happy to donate an ovary or uterus to get one up here in St. Louis. 

Hoops, funny story.  When I had first moved to Florida back in the late 80's I was at a stop light with a girlfriend headed to the beach.  These mexican guys pulled up beside us and started talking to my friend.  They wanted us to meet them at the Pube-Licks parking lot and go to some party with them.  Probably should have considering.  That story has converted many to calling Publix Pube-Licks.  My dad called it that to the day he died. 

Now if y'all want some fucked up shit, come on over to the midwest.  They deep fry the ravioli here.  The favorite pizza of St. Louis is IMO's and they use provel cheese instead of mozzerella or parmesan and I think it tastes funny.  Then, they cut it in squares so it never comes out even and somebody always gets more which makes everyone mad.  Then we have Budweiser, that alone is enough to make St. Louis suck ass for all eternity.

[AFK]

Can I play?

Maine.  This state is called Maine.  It isn't Northern New England.  It isn't The Rest of New England.  It's fucking Maine!  I mean really, how hard is that?  We are the only state in the Union with a one-syllable name.  It's a homonym for a word you use every damn day.  Every city in the country has a Main Street.  And the extra letter is SILENT! 

Everybody say it with me:  Maine. 
Again,   MAINE. 

[LMNO]

TRONE.
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[East Coast Hustle]

Also: quahog.

A quahog is a goddamn chowder clam everywhere else on the fucking Eastern Seaboard but in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. It's also NOT a city, as Seth McFarlane has led you to believe.

Steamer. It's called a steamer clam.

And they suck for chowder. We use cherrystones.

If you really want me to be pedantic, I could say they're all the same species of fucking clam, just different sizes.

cherrystones are not the same species as steamers and quahogs, they are vastly superior. No bellies, no neck, just a little piece of sweet delectable clam meat. You can even eat them on the half-shell.

http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/mercen_mercen.htm

Species Name: 
Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name:
Northern quahog, hard clam, cherrystone, littleneck

Size classes for Mercenaria mercenaria have been designated as follows to standardize commercial conventions: Seed clams: < 1"; Beans: 1.0 - 1.5 "; Buttons: 1.5 - 2.0"; Littlenecks: 2.0 - 2.5"; Topnecks: 2.5 - 3.0"; Cherrystones: 3.0 - 4.0"; Chowders: >4.0".

Ahh. I always thought that quahogs were what you guys referred to regular steamer clams as. We call those cherrystones or littlenecks but some sick fuckers like to eat these things:



which are the aforementioned steamers.

[AFK]

TRONE.
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My first 20 puns will be dedicated to you. 

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I puked.

Squid- don't like no clams neither, but I'll eat em anyway (cause I'm self hurty stupid like that)

[Luna]

My first thought was, "damn, the first person to actually eat one of those things HAD to have been hungry."  It was immediately followed by, "nah, had to have been a bar bet."

[Eater of Clowns]

My first thought was, "damn, the first person to actually eat one of those things HAD to have been hungry."  It was immediately followed by, "nah, had to have been a bar bet."

Really?  Because my first thought was MMMMMMMM.

Suu, I've lived my whole life a half hour from your state capital and I haven't heard a good number of those.

I also learned recently that Rhode Island has a disturbing term for hot dogs.  What was it?  Throaters?  Phallus munchies?  BJ sticks?  I can't fucking remember.

[Luna]

My first thought was, "damn, the first person to actually eat one of those things HAD to have been hungry."  It was immediately followed by, "nah, had to have been a bar bet."

Really?  Because my first thought was MMMMMMMM.

Suu, I've lived my whole life a half hour from your state capital and I haven't heard a good number of those.

I also learned recently that Rhode Island has a disturbing term for hot dogs.  What was it?  Throaters?  Phallus munchies?  BJ sticks?  I can't fucking remember.

Gaggers.  First time I heard that one, I about fell out of my chair laughing.

[Kai]

I once had a ridiculous argument with someone who assured me that Italians had mastered the tomato in the Middle Ages. It made the baby Scappi cry.

Wut.

Tomatoes are nightshades. They were considered poisonous. The earliest sign of Italian recipes using tomatoes isn't until the 1500s and it's Venetian and essentially just stewed tomatoes. Please tell me this person was not a SCAdian. I'm not even a cook and I know that.

Not to mention tomatoes are native to the new world...just like potatoes, and corn, and chillies.