Do ya'll talk funny?

[two_bit_score]

We have a term here "a case quarter" as in "Hey Bubba, do you have a case quarter? I want to buy a coke." Meaning a 25 cent piece not two dimes and a nickel.

You mean a "solid" quarter?

 

[farmgirl19]

2Lane; I grew up eating field corn. I still think it has more flavor than sweet corn. But we always called them "roastn ears". I still find myself calling them that, and others having no clue to what I am referring.

And when it comes time to harvest corn, have the water boiling when you go out to pick. Corn, of any variety, begins to lose it's flavor, the minute you pick it. So, want to get it cooking or frozen, ASAP!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

2Lane; I grew up eating field corn. I still think it has more flavor than sweet corn. But we always called them "roastn ears". I still find myself calling them that, and others having no clue to what I am referring.

And when it comes time to harvest corn, have the water boiling when you go out to pick. Corn, of any variety, begins to lose it's flavor, the minute you pick it. So, want to get it cooking or frozen, ASAP!

You are exactly right. The story goes like this: once you pick an ear of corn, it triggers an enzyme that turns the sugar in the corn to starch; thus the quicker you get it into the boiling water (to either blanch or cook) the quicker the enzyme is killed by the heat and the sweeter it tastes. We always go to the farm and get our corn right out of the field (early in the morning!), clean it, blanch it and freeze it the same day. That way it is just as good and sweet on New Year's day as it was on the 4th of July.

P.S. I'm glad to find out that there are some more folks out there who called them roastn' ears; I simply don't hear the term any more...the older generation of my family are all gone now, and I miss them a bunch...my Granddad used to say "haint" instead of "ain't"; he would say "fit" instead of "fought", and I miss hearing some of his big BS stories.

 

[dragoneggs]

Not sure how this thread turned from talking funny to cooking fresh but here in the the great Northwest we say put them in screaming. Normally we are talking about boiling live crab but it also applies to corn. That said, I haven't 'eared' corn scream before but I have heard a 'Dungy' whistle.

 

[k0ua]

We ate a lot of roast'n ears up here in southwest Missouri too, as a kid, but most folk's around here now just say corn on the cob. If wonder if it is a generational thing.

James K0UA

 

[farmgirl19]

Not sure how this thread turned from talking funny to cooking fresh but here in the the great Northwest we say put them in screaming. Normally we are talking about boiling live crab but it also applies to corn. That said, I haven't 'eared' corn scream before but I have heard a 'Dungy' whistle.

We put stuff in screaming too, from crabs to crawfish! Don't know that I've ever heard one really make noise before though.

 

[/pine]

2Lane; I grew up eating field corn. I still think it has more flavor than sweet corn. But we always called them "roastn ears". I still find myself calling them that, and others having no clue to what I am referring.

And when it comes time to harvest corn, have the water boiling when you go out to pick. Corn, of any variety, begins to lose it's flavor, the minute you pick it. So, want to get it cooking or frozen, ASAP!

Field corn is very good (if picked early) especially roasted...!...by early I mean a day or so after the exposed silk starts to turn color...the locals here say any corn should be picked in the AM before the dew has time to dry on it...

As for "talking funny"...around here the hominy based food stuff that is normally served with eggs at breakfast (and often with fried fish) is pronounced "grey-its"

 

[forgeblast]

In the area where I grew up it was all considered Da Valley, and you could go Up the Line or Down the Line. There is a whole book written on how we speak. The Anthracite idiom; or Sundays we are closed go around the back; revised edition by Klopfer, Tom: Castle Publications, Scranton Signed by Author(s) - Bolerium Books Inc.
The book is called "The Anthracite Idiom, Or Sundays we are closed go around the back" (it refers to the blue laws when bars were closed on Sundays, but if you knew the owner all you had to to was go around back.
I had never though we spoke that different until I lived in Raleigh for a few years and realized what I was calling something was not the same as what someone else did.

 

[deepNdirt]

I think the worst thing ever to happen to our southern language was when Jeff foxworthy and Larry (the cable guy) came along, in the 80's We were just about to overturn the southern hick accent when suddenly these two characters came along, Not only did they make mockery of the way some of us southerners talk they decided to kick it up a notch by adding their own twist & twang to it, Little did they know our young Red-necks were to idol them, and the trend started, However it wasn't just a passing trend, it continues on today,

I can remember when my son was in his teens, was an animated program called Bevus & Butthead on TV, My son seemingly was inspired by these characters and he and his friend would go around talking like them, ( actually was a good take off of them ) But it drove me crazy with all that huh! huh! huh! and Bungholio something-another,

It was a relief when my son grew up and his friend parted and became distended, However they do still get together from time to time even as adults they still talk like Bevus and Butthead, only now I can find it a bit humorous . I think these characters will always have a lasting effect on the both of them,
So even though language is inherited from everyone parts of their region, I think some of us are mostly effected by what we hear and watch on TV,
We may innocently start out only mocking what we hear but then it ultimately becomes a way of languages,

 

[2LaneCruzer]

That is so true. I saw it with my wife's nephews, who watched old reruns of the Three Stooges on TV. We were afraid they were going to really hurt each other trying to imitate all their stunts. I am also reminded of an incident with my young grandson...I bought him a tape of Peter Rabbit. It was narrated of course in English, but I didn't realize that it was a British production, and with a veddy veddy British accent. He happened to be watching it when the wife and I went over to visit one afternoon; I saw Peter Rabbit come on to the screen, and I asked: "Who is that guy?"...and in a very British accent, he said very loudly: "Pee-tah"!