Greek life at the Southern Ivies

[AOEforme]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

I thought bubbler was more of a Wisconsin thing though?

I did, too! I didn't know it was a Northeastern thing, too.

[ree-Xi]

My original statement was not intended to sound arrogant. As someone who, for more than 3 decades, associated "Ivy League" with a specific small group of Universities in the north east, it made me "giggle", because to me, it would be the equivalent of saying the Big East (basketball, not football) is "The Northern SEC". There is only one SEC, as there is only one Ivy League.

No pretentions, no arrangonce intended.

PS Tonic water = club soda.

[Nanners52674]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

PS Tonic water = club soda.

According to Wiki Tonic Water is a carbonated beverage flavored with quinine and Club Soda (aka Seltzer, or Carbonated Water) is simply water infused with carbon to make it bubbly (no flavor). . . .

[lillady85]

Thanks. I didn't know if it was a funny, old fashioned way of calling cough syrup something else.

[Nanners52674]

Originally Posted by lillady85

Thanks. I didn't know if it was a funny, old fashioned way of calling cough syrup something else.

No I live in Connecticut, have my whole 21 years and I personally have never heard tonic used to mean club soda. . . I am however very familiar with wicked, jimmies, frappes, and my two personal favorites from high school packy and cocked. . .

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by Nanners52674

I am however very familiar with wicked, jimmies, frappes, and my two personal favorites from high school packy and cocked. . .

Oh boy....I've never been to new england (for real)....and until this post, I've never heard of any of those words (except wicked).

...I never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for urban dictionary. jimmies = sprinkles? That's hilarious.


U.D. didnt have frappes though. what is that? frappuccino?

[Nanners52674]

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Oh boy....I've never been to new england (for real)....and until this post, I've never heard of any of those words (except wicked).

...I never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for urban dictionary. jimmies = sprinkles? That's hilarious.


U.D. didnt have frappes though. what is that? frappuccino?

Frappes = Ice Cream Shake NOT a milk shake (which is simply milk and syrup mixed together) a frappe is milk syrup and ice cream

Packy = Package store and u better make sure you get there before 9. . . Unless you want to have to buy half pints from the bootlegger in Hartford

Cocked = Wasted, Smashed, Hammered, Blitzed

*Frappes and Jimmies are more Massachusetts terms that I picked up from summers on Nantucket*

[tallgreekalum]

Originally Posted by Nanners52674

No I live in Connecticut, have my whole 21 years and I personally have never heard tonic used to mean club soda. . . I am however very familiar with wicked, jimmies, frappes, and my two personal favorites from high school packy and cocked. . .

That's because much of Conn isn't really New England
Tonic-Flavored carbonated water (cola, root beer, moxie(a whole 'nother story etc.

Soda- we mix it with whiskey.

Pop- what we call our father (pronounced fah-thuh)

Grinder- a sandwich made on a long bun(you might call it a sub, po' boy etc) also known as a spucky

Packie- where you go to buy 'naries (be-ah)

Bulkie- a roll used to make sandwiches or served with butter for breakfast.

Bubbler- a water fountain

Pickup-what we do with the opposite sex on Sat nt.

Milk Shake- milk and chocolate syrup, shaken

Frappe (Frap) add ice cream to the shake

Jimmies- you put them on top of ice cream,

In the immortal words of Winston Churchill, "we are one people, separated by a common language"

And yes, we've heard of the "southern ivies" Vandy, Duke, Wake Forest, Emory, etc.

[oncegreek]

There are plenty of people in California who refer to Harvard as the "Stanford of the East," and MIT as the CalTech of the east. I won't even get started on what folks from USC and UCLA say about each other... or folks from Northern and Southern California.

However, I can vouch for the fact that on beautiful, sunny days in January (perfect sun, surf, temps in the 70's) waaay back in the eighties, at least a few students at UCSB would raise the old Corona bottles in a toast, and say,
"You can keep Harvard...... we have the beach."

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

PS Tonic water = club soda.

actually, in New England, “tonic” can be used to simply mean soda. It’s generally an older term though. My grandparents still use it. And jimmies and frappes are a general New England thing, not just Massachusetts as Nanners52674 said. I grew up in New Hampshire, and moved to MA, and I heard them used everywhere. Although, in Rhode Island, a frappe is actually called a “cabinet”

I heart New England.