What STuPiD stuff do people believe about YOUR state/area?

• fuzzy_dogs_mom Posted : 6/21/2006 6:13:06 PM I don't know if this is true or not, so some of you guys from the south will have to set me straight if it's wrong. I've heard that you can say something absolutely awful, totally insulting to someone, but if you follow it with "Bless your heart", [] then it's OK.  Like "My godness, you look like death warmed over - bless your heart" or "Gracious sakes, you must have packed on 50 lbs. in the last couple of months.  You're as big as an elephant - bless your heart". True? Not?  Just curious.[] Joyce 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sandra_slayton Posted : 6/21/2006 6:53:32 PM Yep, I have heard many statements like that....even used some myself.  Only we call it "being honest and truthful" and the ending part is to let them know we are sorry for their condition and are wishing them well.  However, I am quite sure some do use it as an intentional jab. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• ron2 Posted : 6/21/2006 6:56:48 PM I've noticed that many people say the opposite of what they mean.   "I don't want to be mean but ...' and then they are mean. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• tacran Posted : 6/21/2006 11:41:21 PM Cookiemonster - I wish the pizza was shipped to me, but it was only the bagels.  I always think if I had some money to invest, I'd open up a Pizza/Bagel restaurant and I'd hire someone from back east to do the cooking.  I'd be the only customer (along with a few other transplants here in Salem!).   As for Dunkin Donuts - there is only one for many, many miles in our town, unlike New England, where they're on every block.  There aren't even good pastry places here, like REAL Italian bakeries.  If you want pastries or breads or cookies, you have to get them from a basic grocery store, and they're terrible! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Michele Harris Posted : 6/22/2006 12:08:50 AM [sm=tex.gif][sm=wink.gif]My folks live in Southern California and when I go visit I carry 3 suitcases, giant ones.  Well not really 1/2 suitcase for me (dont need much clothes I can do laundry at moms).  The suitcases are for food.  Are you ready, okay here goes the shopping list: Bagels, Italian Bread, yankee doodles, devil dogs, italian pastry, my t fine chocolate pudding, cheese, coney island kinishes, deli mustard, entemanns cakes & doughnuts, and believe it or not NYC tap water.  My mom cooks the same things and the same way she did when she was here.  I figured out why everything in California tastes AWFUL.  Its the water.  The water is AWFUL!  Thats why I have to bring NYC tap.  Crazy Huh?[sm=rotfl.gif] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Benedict Posted : 6/22/2006 3:43:11 AM Actually, I thought NYC tap water was pretty good too.  I loved NYC - and I bought the absolute most beautiful skirt in Macy's at the Staten Island mall.  Not to mention pigging out at Cinnabon and buying so much at Yankee Candles I almost had to pay excess baggage fees on my way home.   I would go back to NYC in a heartbeat.    Kate 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 6/22/2006 5:18:47 AM I am sooo glad that I'm not the only Dunkin addict!  And just so everyone knows, you can actually set it up so that they SHIP you your coffee beans every month.  I would get a 5 lb bag of beans shipped each and every month when I lived places not convenient to a Dunkin. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Alice Posted : 6/22/2006 5:51:03 AM Haha, very clever ideas [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• micksmom Posted : 6/22/2006 8:22:03 AM ORIGINAL: luvmykcdawg Micksmom, I have to laugh... I also grew up in NY and recently moved to Warren Co., NJ. I thought it would be all chemical plants, etc. until I saw all of the mountains. I love it there.  When you moved, did you also get the question, "You're from NY... where's your accent?"    Not really, but then again, we always say either  I grew up in NYS or upstate NY.  The question we get a lot is how in the world did a redneck girl from upstate NY meet a guy born and raised in NJ? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Nadine Treadway Posted : 6/22/2006 8:29:38 AM Alright now I want to know more. So Dunkin Donuts coffee is the best? I might have to try that, so far my mom sends me coffee (every month) from Germany, I cannot stand the brown WATER they sell as coffee here most places. Yuck [] LOL 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sharismom Posted : 6/22/2006 8:39:43 AM Nadine, I personally would not qualify Dunkin Donuts coffee as the best.  I hate regular coffee and only drink espresso.  I am very picky about the quality of the espresso beans I use.  Many people in America (and I am American) have no clue about coffee.  Drink it in Italy or France some time.  Thanks to serving in the Navy when I was younger, I have. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 6/22/2006 8:45:06 AM If you are accustomed to a strong coffe, you probably won't like Dunkin.  I have a commercial Bunn coffee maker and LOVE Dunkin...it's all I drink.  When given a choice of Folgers, Maxwell House, etc or Dunkin, Dunkin wins hands down every time.  I don't care for most of the Starbucks blends....way too harsh.  I enjoy a smooth cup of joe that does NOT peel the enamal off my teeth. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• micksmom Posted : 6/22/2006 8:47:16 AM ORIGINAL: nadinetreadway Alright now I want to know more. So Dunkin Donuts coffee is the best?   If you like real, honest to goodness coffee, Dunkin' Donuts' is to die for.  My husband went through DD withdrawal so bad when he was working in California, that one of his co-workers's mother Fed Xed some out to him (you can buy it in bags to make at home).  Of course, I only found out after he came home.  Silly me, I didn't realize Dunkin' Donuts was a regional thing. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• micksmom Posted : 6/22/2006 8:53:27 AM ORIGINAL: glenmar If you are accustomed to a strong coffe, you probably won't like Dunkin.  I have a commercial Bunn coffee maker and LOVE Dunkin...it's all I drink.  When given a choice of Folgers, Maxwell House, etc or Dunkin, Dunkin wins hands down every time.  I don't care for most of the Starbucks blends....way too harsh.  I enjoy a smooth cup of joe that does NOT peel the enamal off my teeth.   I have to be honset, as much as I love Dunkin' Donuts coffee, I don't like the beans from the one down the road.  When it comes to making it at home, we prefer Chock Full of Nuts over everything else.  Starbucks?  Forget it!  That has to be the worste cup of coffee I've ever had!  No matter how much sugar and half and half I put in it, it still tasted like the last cup in a pot that had been sitting on the burner all day. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sharismom Posted : 6/22/2006 9:05:26 AM If you are used to drinking coffee from Germany, you probably like the strong stuff.  Even regular coffee over in Europe is different.[sm=2cents.gif] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login