Is "water ice" some kind of sno-cone or slushie or something like that? I've heard the term before, but I don't know if I ever knew what exactly it was. It's amusing, whatever it is.
Hoodsie cup, no clue what that is. I also love that there's a store called Wawa. (I do know what a grinder is. Or "grindah".)
Yeah, it's Italian ice. It makes me laugh every damn summer. Water ice? As opposed to...dry ice? Then shouldn't that be a stand where you buy bags of ice?
It's hard to get places to toast a proper grinder here in Hoagieville--WaWa comes closest.
I have absolutely no idea what either of those phrases mean. I'll go google now, though. I'm thinking a Hoodsie cup is one of those insulated jobs - like a Bubba Keg?
This is one of the things I love about living in the UK - it's English, but with twist all it's own. All kinds of great slang and regional differences. I get a kick out of prostitutes being (almost affectionately, it seems) called "prossies" or that they're "on the game".
A hoodsie cup is a little plastic ice cream cup from a dairy company called Hood that has half-chocolate, half-vanilla ice cream and one of those little wooden tongue-depressor spoon things like you'd get from an Italian ice from the ice cream man. When I was a kid they were the default hand-out treat at things like church picnics and pool parties. Those or Otter Pops.
My favorite from the truck was Big Sticks. A mushy popsicle that you had to eat very quickly that tasted sort of like Cactus Cooler, pineapple, orange & cherry I think. They looked a bit different in the 70s & 80s http://www.popsicle.com/products/individual/index.cfm?upc=02082
God, those carnation chocolate ice cream cups with the wooden stick. ew, only get those if the good stuff is sold out, lol.
Oh yeah, I remember the mushy-pop things! They sold them in my lunchroom senior year-or something like it, they were in a push-up thing not on a stick.
okay, so I'm from this area, but truth is, there is no real Italian Water Ice (all initial caps) other than the stuff sold in little It'ly near the Blue Parrot. They make it and sell it out of big tubs, and it has bits of lemon peel in it. It's nothing like the stuff in the grocery store that needs heavy metal objects to chip away at it.
That vanilla/chocolate cup thing is not real ice cream. It's like ice skim milk or something. I have a hankering for a root beer float, but I do have that limited edition Edy's Root Beer Float Ice Cream in the freezer. It really does taste like it, minus the liquid.
PS: Our new cafe crew must originate from the north, because they make a grindah special every day!
Also, the park today if FILLED with all manner of good bad for you food. Funnel cakes, Deerhead hot dogs, boardwalk fries with malt vinegar...yum. I think I'm going to be sick.
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Hoodsie cup, no clue what that is. I also love that there's a store called Wawa. (I do know what a grinder is. Or "grindah".)
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It's hard to get places to toast a proper grinder here in Hoagieville--WaWa comes closest.
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This is one of the things I love about living in the UK - it's English, but with twist all it's own. All kinds of great slang and regional differences. I get a kick out of prostitutes being (almost affectionately, it seems) called "prossies" or that they're "on the game".
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Nope. Not a bubba keg.
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Those or Otter Pops.
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God, those carnation chocolate ice cream cups with the wooden stick. ew, only get those if the good stuff is sold out, lol.
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I am SO buying ice cream when I get out of here.
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That vanilla/chocolate cup thing is not real ice cream. It's like ice skim milk or something. I have a hankering for a root beer float, but I do have that limited edition Edy's Root Beer Float Ice Cream in the freezer. It really does taste like it, minus the liquid.
PS: Our new cafe crew must originate from the north, because they make a grindah special every day!
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