Slang Words Used In Your Area

El Diaco said:
I use the two different terms mostly because they aren’t very similar and we have to be specific where I am. We get Schwartz’s Krautburgers most of the time and they put a Runza to shame. But we also drive over to Loveland and get actual Runzas occasionally. They just aren’t interchangeable because they are so different. There can be a very wide disparity in the yumminess of Krautburgers, bierocks and Runzas. However I agree that it’s ridiculous the restaurant forced the name issue.
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Might have to get over to Schwartz's!! 

 
GSG said:
Might have to get over to Schwartz's!! 
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Yes you need to. Don’t know if you heard of them before but their original location is a little dump in Evans, been there forever. About 6 months ago they opened a 2nd location in Greeley around 20th Street and 35th Ave. I haven’t tried the new place yet (I still frequent the original) but the new place would be the nearest one for you. They have only 4 kinds; regular, cheese, jalapeño cheese and some oddball chicken/broccoli mixture that I’ve never tried. I always get the hot cheese. They have a few (literally only 3) other things, cinnamon rolls, greble (which is basically a sugared twist donut) and usually some kind of coffee cake or cobbler. All the sweets are good but I prefer the cinnamon rolls.

 
Mavric said:
Apparently "Sloppy Joes" are called "Yum-Yums" at Hastings St. Cecilia.   At least that's what my wife tells me (she didn't attend, just competed there).
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My dad grew up south of Hastings in the Campbell/Red Cloud area.  My aunt always called them Yum-Yums.   In NE Nebraska they are taverns.  Out in the sandhills, I taught school at Cody-Kilgore for 2 years they called them ranch burgers.  

 
GSG said:
Might have to get over to Schwartz's!! 
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Didn't realize there was a "runza" place in Greeley.  I know there is a Krautburger place in Brighton, but we haven't made it there to check it out.  My wife just made homemade runzas this past Sunday.  They were damn good.

 
El Diaco said:
I’ve heard the term loose meat sandwich a few times (mostly from the Roseanne show) I still have no idea what they refer to. If it is basically browned crumbled ground beef with no sauce, no thanks.  Before this thread I’d never heard of a tavern or maid rite. I grew up in Columbus...maybe that isn’t far enough east? I know what a Sloppy Joe is.  I’ve always called it pop for most of my life but lately I catch myself saying soda every once in awhile. Must be exposure taking over.

Around here they are Krautburgers, not Runzas. I use both but Runza is reserved strictly for the ones by the restaurant of that name.

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Ive seen slight variances of this map but this one seemed close enough to use
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I live Idaho now and no one calls it pop.  It is soda out here.  My favorite thing is NAPA stores.  All of the guys that work for me call it N  A  P  A, they say the letters.  I always say you mean napa?  I have never heard that before, and this is the only area I have heard it.  

 
NUinID said:
I live Idaho now and no one calls it pop.  It is soda out here.  My favorite thing is NAPA stores.  All of the guys that work for me call it N  A  P  A, they say the letters.  I always say you mean napa?  I have never heard that before, and this is the only area I have heard it.  
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Yeah, I don’t think this map is the most accurate or up to date. I think soda use is growing and spreading. I’d say it’s about 50-50 pop-soda here in Colorado.

 
Grew up in extreme north east Ne, within eye sight of SoDak. 

A crick ran pert near to our house.

Ate taverns at church pot luck, no pop though, just tea (un-sweet).  

Getting to have a pop was a special occasion only. 

Never heard of Yum Yums until today. 

Never heard of Runzas until a classmate went to college in Norfolk. 

Had relation in west central Minnesota.  They accused us of having a southern accent.  

 
El Diaco said:
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It's been years since I first heard that people in the south refer to every brand of pop as "Coke" and I still think it's just a really elaborate practical joke.  It so illogical that it physically lowers my morale.

 
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The Dude said:
Someone recently flipped out on me for referring to ground beef as "hamburger". 
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Weeellll...I wouldn't flip out over it but technically hamburger is a sandwich made with a patty of ground beef. My work is closely associated with the meat processing industry so I'm pretty much an expert. ;)   But I also call it hamburger a lot.

 
El Diaco said:
Weeellll...I wouldn't flip out over it but technically hamburger is a sandwich made with a patty of ground beef. My work is closely associated with the meat processing industry so I'm pretty much an expert. ;)   But I also call it hamburger a lot.
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It's also synonymous with ground beef.  The true abomination is this same person referred to it as "hamburger meat".

 
El Diaco said:
Weeellll...I wouldn't flip out over it but technically hamburger is a sandwich made with a patty of ground beef. My work is closely associated with the meat processing industry so I'm pretty much an expert. ;)   But I also call it hamburger a lot.
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You don't live near Greeley without being involved in the meat processing industry.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
You don't live near Greeley without being involved in the meat processing industry.
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Very true. Although it is quickly becoming less and less of a factor around here. There’s been a lot of growth and it no longer controls the local economy to the extent it has historically. We do stuff for them nationally as well as other beef, pork and food processors.

 
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