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Started by Martinus, June 27, 2011, 04:07:27 PM

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Caliga

#60
June 28, 2011, 06:08:08 PM
Yeah, you can't get Cheerwine here at all and most people have never even heard of it.  Hmmm... can you get Ale-8 down in Knoxville?
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Ideologue

#61
June 28, 2011, 06:09:42 PM
"Food City" sounds like the grocery store you'd make up for a movie.

...I guess "Bi-Lo" is a pretty fucking terrible name, too.  You just get used to it.
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Caliga

#62
June 28, 2011, 06:11:21 PM
I think "Piggly Wiggly" sounds teh ghey. :)  Kroger FTW. :showoff:
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Ideologue

#63
June 28, 2011, 06:12:47 PM
Concur on Piggly-Wiggly.  I think "Food Lion" sounds pretty cool.
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Capetan Mihali

#64
June 28, 2011, 06:15:00 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 28, 2011, 06:08:08 PM
Yeah, you can't get Cheerwine here at all and most people have never even heard of it.  Hmmm... can you get Ale-8 down in Knoxville?

I haven't seen it.  The big East Tenn. specialty soda is "Dr. Enuf" from Johnson City, which is some kind of old-time tonic from the '40s, tastes like an herbal 7-Up with a bunch of B-vitamins and caffeine in it.  Atlanta soft drinks like Red Rock ginger ale seem common here too, but in the specialty rack.  Cheerwine on the other hand is in the coolers, 12-packs, etc.  Vernon's is common here too, unlike the Northeast.
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Eddie Teach

#65
June 28, 2011, 06:23:43 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 28, 2011, 06:11:21 PM
I think "Piggly Wiggly" sounds teh ghey. :)

They should rename it Caecilius Metellus Numidicus.
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Caliga

#66
June 28, 2011, 06:31:01 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on June 28, 2011, 06:09:42 PM
"Food City" sounds like the grocery store you'd make up for a movie.

...I guess "Bi-Lo" is a pretty fucking terrible name, too.  You just get used to it.
The dumbest one I ever encountered was "Price Chopper", which was a chain up in Massachusetts and upstate New York, which of course means it's pronounced "Price CHAWPPAH". :D
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Caliga

#67
June 28, 2011, 06:32:01 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on June 28, 2011, 06:15:00 PM
I haven't seen it.  The big East Tenn. specialty soda is "Dr. Enuf" from Johnson City, which is some kind of old-time tonic from the '40s, tastes like an herbal 7-Up with a bunch of B-vitamins and caffeine in it.  Atlanta soft drinks like Red Rock ginger ale seem common here too, but in the specialty rack.  Cheerwine on the other hand is in the coolers, 12-packs, etc.  Vernon's is common here too, unlike the Northeast.
Never heard of Dr. Enuf, but reading about it on Wiki makes it sound a lot like Ale-8, which is fairly popular around here--it's bottled in Winchester, Ky. out by Lexington.
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garbon

#68
June 28, 2011, 06:44:13 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 28, 2011, 06:31:01 PM
The dumbest one I ever encountered was "Price Chopper", which was a chain up in Massachusetts and upstate New York, which of course means it's pronounced "Price CHAWPPAH". :D

They chop prices.
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dps

#69
June 28, 2011, 07:22:06 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on June 28, 2011, 06:12:47 PM
Concur on Piggly-Wiggly.  I think "Food Lion" sounds pretty cool.

Food Lion used to go by the name "Food Town".

Wish we had a Kroger's around here.  Nearest one's in Greenville (actually, there might be on in Smithfield, which is closer, but both are too far away to go just to go grocery shopping.

Scipio

#70
June 28, 2011, 07:22:39 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 28, 2011, 06:23:43 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 28, 2011, 06:11:21 PM
I think "Piggly Wiggly" sounds teh ghey. :)

They should rename it Caecilius Metellus Numidicus.
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garbon

#72
June 28, 2011, 07:26:47 PM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Maximus

#73
June 28, 2011, 07:34:53 PM

It wouldn't have gone well with the whale blubber, would have been too heavy for the dogsled, and we had no place to keep it in our igloo.

Caliga

#74
June 28, 2011, 07:38:51 PM
The thought of people living as Inuit yet speaking Plattdeutsch amuses me.
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