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ric
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Party store? What's a party store?
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Jan 10 17:56 UTC 2006 |
So naturally, all you Michigan folks know that you can't really say "pop"
outside of the state.... most everywhere else it's called "Soda"
I never thought about this, but Adrienne's step-sister Erin, who is also from
Michigan, is living with us now and the other day she was at work and someone
asked where you could go to cash a check and she said something about a "party
store"
They had NO idea what she was talking about.
Nobody around here knows what a party store is.
For that matter, we don't have the equivalent of party stores, really.
Mostly because:
#1 - we have no lottery
#2 - hard liquor is sold by government run ABC stores
stand-alone convenience stores don't exist here. They're always part of a
gas station.
There is a "mini-grocery" that I pass on the way to/from work every day which
looks like it might qualify as a convenience store - but it's a mexican mini
grocery.
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mcnally
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response 1 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:00 UTC 2006 |
If you know what's good for you, don't ask anyone where you can find pasties.
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tod
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response 2 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:04 UTC 2006 |
I remember buying Pete's Wild Irish Rose on weekends at the Jim Dandy party
stores in NC. Its truth about the booze though..you gotta hit the ABC store.
You can get beer at Piggly Wiggly or IGA, though.
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twenex
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response 3 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:05 UTC 2006 |
Re: #1. Hey! Just because YOU'RE a card-carrying member of the American
Anti-Pasty League doesn't mean we ALL have to be!
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keesan
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response 4 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:14 UTC 2006 |
Tonic.
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ric
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response 5 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:21 UTC 2006 |
re 2 - Piggly Wiggly and IGA can only be found in very small towns. I'm sure
sure if there are any of either within 30 miles of Raleigh! :)
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tod
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response 6 of 96:
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Jan 10 18:31 UTC 2006 |
<blank stare>
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scholar
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response 7 of 96:
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Jan 10 19:00 UTC 2006 |
in canada, a party store... is a store where you go to buy silly party gags
and flowers and costumes and junk.
no alcohol. :(
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marcvh
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Jan 10 19:29 UTC 2006 |
It's untrue that Michigan is the only place where it's called "pop."
See www.popvssoda.com for statistics; briefly, it's called "pop" across most
of the northern US from Buffalo to Portland, "soda" in the Northeast,
Southwest, and around St Louis, and "coke" in the south.
It's always seemed kind of silly that they call it a "party store"
instead of what it is, liquor store. I remember that Meijer used to
call it the "Party Pantry" which seemed even more nondescriptive. I
suppose that if hard drugs were legalized they would come up with some
nicer phrase for "crack store."
IGA stands for I Get Annoyed.
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tod
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Jan 10 19:34 UTC 2006 |
We always said party store and that would mean a place that sold snacks,
booze, magazines, lottery, and sometimes grocery items.
I've got several friends where I grew up that are still running some.
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marcvh
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response 10 of 96:
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Jan 10 19:42 UTC 2006 |
So what do you call a store that sells hats, streamers, noisemakers and
the like? A "party supply store"?
Another regional variation I haven't seen studied as much is how people
refer to freeway names in casual conversation. If you're talking about
Interstate 17, what do you call it?
Michigan: "Eye 17"
Washington: "17"
Southern California: "The 17"
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kingjon
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Jan 10 20:15 UTC 2006 |
I'd be interested in knowing what all the other classes of roads are called. As
I learned (in Michigan), a United States Highway would be "You-Ess-17", while a
Michigan state highway would be just "17."
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gull
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response 12 of 96:
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Jan 10 20:19 UTC 2006 |
Re resp:8: To me, the term "liquor store" suggests a store that sells
*only* liquor, like the state-run "LIQUOR & WINE" stores here in
Washington. A party store is more like a cross between a liquor store
and a convenience store.
Re resp:11: A state highway in Michigan is usually referred to with its
M-prefex, such as "M-17". I sometimes heard major highways of all
classes truncated to just the number, but not very often. Detroit
seems to be unique in the state in referring to highways by name
instead of number. ("The Fisher," "The Lodge," etc.) I don't think I
ever heard "the" used before a number, though. Californians refer to
"the 5" but I don't think I ever heard a Michigander refer to "the 75"
or "the 696".
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