Exactly. Y'all is never used as a singular pronoun. "Y'all" is the plural of "you," while "all y'all" means "each and every one of you."

It has long been common in Eastern NC too, where it basically means "and the rest of the family," as in "Are Sally Lynn'n'em comin' home for Christmas?"


Absolutely, as proven here. :D

Cake doughnuts are generally worthless, and Dunkin' Donuts are just plain horrible.

I have to chime in. The best donuts I ever had and it beats out Shipley's is ROUND ROCK donuts. If anyone is ever in central Texas and your are near Round Rock, this is a must try. It's worth the wait.

Sorry but Sesame Donuts out in Oregon are the best. Similar to Dunkin' Donuts. I believe Sesame bought out the Dunkin's in the area actually.

And if you are getting your coffee from Dunkin'... well Bless your heart! We have more coffee shops than just about anything else out here. Try Stumptown coffee.

When I first moved to Chicago, we went to a Dunkin Donuts, and I made a mental note: We live down the street and around the corner from the Dunkin Donut. Do I have to tell you how many times I got lost with that bit of information? I don't know WHERE the closest Dunkin Donut is from my hometown in PA!

Just googled it - over 8 miles away! After that one, I would have to go downtown!

This made me smile! My daughter (we're from the mid-Atlantic area) has been completely won over by the South (I believe she was always really a Southerner, she just was living in the wrong place). The one thing, however, that she does miss from home is Dunkn' Donuts coffee. She just got home from school last night (only home for 2 1/2 weeks as she wants to quickly return to school and work in the admissions office) and Dunkin' Donuts was one of the first things she mentioned.

In a cruel trick of fate, there are no Krispy Kremes in Houston. When I visit Gypsyboots in San Marcos, however, I can have my lovely, light, delicious Krispy Kremes.

This thread is officially derailed! :p

Actually, the whole point of the thread was North vs. South, so it's surprisingly ON topic for Page 2 of a thread.

ETA: I just heard my Carolina born 'n raised boss say "Meg'en'em" to mean "Meg and her coworkers". ;)

That's what "yinz" is for. :)

I've been saying that since I learned to talk, so no, it is not a Southern thing. Sometimes "them" is singular, sometimes plural.

Mister Donut, exit 10 on the PA Turnpike. RIP :(

Our Dunkins all closed and then came back...same thing is happening with Popeyes.

As a Midwesterner in the South, I have to very emphatically state that I want UNsweetened iced tea. I have not adapted to the whole sweet tea thing. I also haven't adapted to the heat. Snow all the way! ;)

I have, however, added "fixin' to" to my vocabulary.

Just to chime in on southern things that are missed when you go north - Whataburger! Best hamburgers and sorely missed when out of town.

My son said in a facebook post - you know you're from Texas when every other status update is how excited people are that HEB is going to carry Whataburger Ketchup and Mustard.

We are extremely loyal to that brand (and I agree that Shipley's donuts are great!).

Another thing we love down here are kolaches - the kind made with good German sweet dough. My son can't get them in Florida and thinks he should open a shop!

Also, a good friend of mine from South Carolina says - You'ens instead of y'all. Is that common?

And fixin to is part of any conversation ;)

A soft drink is a Coke, regardless if it is a Pepsi, Sprite, Mountain Dew. Pop is for Balloons and corn. Soda is a float made with ice cream and "Coke"

And in the north, at Dunkin Donuts, if you order a "regular" coffee, you get 2 creams and 2 sugars. I guess it's the northern version of tea. :D

I remember when Krispy Kreme opened in MA. My friends and I went the first week it was open for our free donut. The place was packed. Police were directing traffic. And... I never went back. And neither did anyone else. I think it closed within 2 years...?

This was me when I returned home from school, too! I went to school in northwestern PA, and there weren't any within a 60 mile radius!

I just moved to TX 5 months ago, and I was introduced to Whataburger almost immediately. Yum! I love going for late-night breakfast :)

I'm with you on the first two. Completely. But I've never heard "soda" used to mean a float. Where I'm from, "soda" means club soda/soda water or baking soda.

Me too on all counts.

Ewww Yahhh Whataburger! Not as good as Whataburger but Might Fine is good even though it not southern.
You also know you are in Texas when you see Taco Cabana. Yumm!!!

My family being from Massachusetts, coke is called tonic. Weird.

And when asked what type of "coke" you wanted, you are likely to reply "coke-cola" if you want the *Coca-Cola* brand.

As in...

Question: I'm fixin' to go inside and get me a coke. Would y'all like one?
Person 1: Yes please. I'll have a coke-cola if you have one.
Person 2: Y'all got any RC?

Yup, my grandparents (from MA) call it tonic. For me, it's soda. Pop was said in PA where I went to school and it drove me crazy.. mostly because everyone tried to correct ME when I said soda.

And I've yet to go to Taco Cabana. I guess I'll need to try it. But of course, there are a ton of Mexican food restaurants here. I have so many at which I need to eat!

In our neck of the woods, a soda is any ice cream float that is not made with root beer. Soda does not equal pop. Pop is pop. Period. Often you'll see the heading "soft drinks" on a menu, but people don't use this term verbally.

Also, if someone gives you a perplexed look when you hold up your right hand and point to where you live, they're definitely not from Michigan!

I vaguely remember a Pinterest pic that something like this:

P- I'll have a Coke.
Waiter - Is Peipsi okay?
P- Is Monopoly money okay?;)

The thing that I learned when I lived in the South, besides those already mentioned, is to have an answer to the question "Where do you go to church?" In St. Louis, we are infamous for always asking new people we meet where they went to high school. (On a job interview today for an associate attorney position I was asked that question.) When I lived in Little Rock, I learned that they ask the church question with even more regularity. I think I was probably invited to every single church in the metro area while I lived there. :)

(And I get my sweet tea fix these days at McAlister's.)

To my Ohioan mother, soda is called pop, although she's since mostly unlearned this one as a result of being on the East Coast for so long. As far as my New England brain is concerned soda is soda and if I want a Coca-Cola I will specify that when I ask for one, but not all sodas are Coke.

My Clemson friends all took immense pity on me when I told them I'd never had Krispy Kreme before-and when I'd said I'd never had Chik-Fil-A, or Bojangles, or Waffle House, or Sonic, or Cookout. I got a lot of pity that way:P I will say that all of those places are delicious but should be eaten VERY sparingly if you have any sort of concern for your health.

I'm not really enamored with any of these places. Sonic is definitely better than the rest. And I do not understand everyone's obsession with Chik-fil-A. They're everywhere here in TX and they're always packed. I don't get it.

Dunkin Donuts map! Zoom out to see how DD has taken over the east coast!

http://www.allstays.com/c/dunkin-don...ations-map.htm

I don't even think they have all the locations pinned. I actually used the DD store locator online, and at my old address in Nashua, NH, I had 20 DDs within a 5 mile radius, and an additional 27 that were 5-10 miles away.

Yea... they're EVERYWHERE in the northeast.

I'm a Krispy Kreme Fan, but Thomas' Donuts in Panama City has them, and DD beat by a LONG SHOT.

Some of the best donuts I've ever had: Mighty Fine donuts in Erie, PA. Yummm!

I didn't really enjoy any of those places simply because they all seemed to cook with so much grease that it didn't settle right with my stomach, although the milkshakes at Cookout were yummy. People acted as though I hadn't lived until I went to Chik-Fil-A when I figured I could easily say the same thing about DD.

Exactly.

And I agree about the grease. Even the Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwiches seem way too greasy. How you manage to do that with grilled chicken, I don't know.

Ahhh, donuts. Every time we would visit OSU Daughter, we had to go to Buckeye Donuts, a 24 hr. donut shop right across the street from campus, has been there forever, including when I was at OSU. Their donuts are made from scratch in the shop. They also have gyros and salads. Spent some 2:30am Thursday night/Friday mornings in there with a gaggle of friends with a gyro, a boston cream donut, and a Tab (hey, diet coke wasn't around yet.) And we drank Tab for the taste. OK, I lied about the taste part. And maybe a raspberry jelly filled donut for the road.

And when you make it yourself, you aren't supporting the oppression of people here and abroad.

Say what?:confused:

Chik Fil A made contributions to the conservative think tank behind the Ugandan death penalty for gays legislation and the sham "conversion therapy" clinic, Exodus Intl. I'd say that's an argument for frying your own nuggets.

Methinks this thread is about to get derailed again....

No mention of Wawa from the mid-Atlantic crowd? Best ever.

I think the prefered spelling is Co'Cola. ;)

Which has been extensively discussed, including discussion on exactly what Chik-Fil-A did and didn't contribute to and its current practices (which do not involve donations to those groups), in a thread on that subject. I vote we not derail this thread with that political discussion.

1. Yes

2. For the love of baby Elvis, please yes. If y'all want to discuss the politics of CFA, please take it to that other thread. This one is fun and enjoyable; let's don't ruin it. FWIW, I'm saying that as a pro-gay rights, politically liberal leaning person.

This thread made me smile so much. And miss my Southern roommate who'd refer to every kind of carbonated beverage as "Coke". And I miss freshly baked Krispy Kreme donuts. I haven't had a single donut in Europe that tasted anywhere near Krispy Kreme. Even DD donuts beat the crap they sell as donuts here. The cupcakes I can deal with, i'll just bake my own, but the donuts here are horrible!

Chik-Fil-As are generally very clean and the staff is always exceptionally friendly. But I agree about the greasiness. I never go to CFA because it seems the only time I have a craving for waffle fries is on a Sunday, when they are closed, which is for the best anyway. I have the same issue with Hobby Lobby: I only seem to ever want to start a new project on Sundays!

I never understood the obsession with WaWa either. It's a glorified gas station, people!

Sheetz > WaWa