Quote:Throughout Vermont, a yankee is a person who eats apple pie with cheddar cheese for breakfast.
I wish they had asked about this, I could have raised my score by three points. I horrified my Texan friends when, at a Stucky's, I asked for
cheese with my pie instead of vanilla ice cream.
It was the same in the backwoods of Arkansas when I asked for iced coffee, the waitress was dumbfounded, "Ya mean ice tea, right?" she asked. " She stumbled toward the kitchen with orders to bring two large glasses of ice and two cups of black coffee.
I further embarrassed myself by asking for some more of the Cream of Wheat off the breakfast bar at the Waffle House. "Ah, ya mean ya want some of them grits, sweetie?" um. Sure. "Salt and Pepper?" NO! I mean, no thank you. Whew.
I also remember growing up wondering how anyone outside of New England could be called a Yankee. (I was born in Manchester, Connecticut.) My mother, (Holyoke, Mass) explained that some people had made the mistake back during the Civil War and that some people were still laboring in ignorance. The New York Yankees were not spoken of in our house.
Joe(Is is a shake, a frappe (frap) or a malt?) Nation
