Speech pattern and typographical variations across Canada - Page 221

kwoldtimer · #**4401** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 1:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by rousseau

A hot fudge sundae?

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Tin Roof. Hot Tin Roof if the chocolate sauce is heated. I think it may be too old-fashioned for many to remember it.

esquire · #**4402** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 2:08 AM**

To me, that pictured item above is a drumstick. I have never heard it referred to other than as such, at least in Canada.

As for the car question, I'm with Vorkuta. "It's good on gas" is the most common saying I can think of. Obviously not the way engineers would put it, but that's how the typical non-technical or non-car person would say it.

Loco101 · #**4403** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 2:35 AM**

Drumstick for sure where I live as well. Sure Nestlé has the named trademarked and other companies make them as well but Nestlé used to be the only brand that made them when I was young.

Hot fudge sundae is what I would call the other one mentioned.

rousseau · #**4404** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 3:11 AM**

Well duh, not sure why I was blanking on drumstick, but it looks like it's pretty much the go-to conventional term here for what they call a cornetto in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumstick_(frozen_dairy_dessert)

rousseau · #**4405** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 3:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Tin Roof. Hot Tin Roof if the chocolate sauce is heated. I think it may be too old-fashioned for many to remember it.

I'd say that with "hot tin roof" you've let the cat out of the bag when it comes to being old-fashioned.

Heh.

jonny24 · #**4406** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 11:32 AM**

In general, I'd agree with Drumstick.

However, with me being a huge fan of the Cornetto trilogy, and my wife having gone to high school in Australia, between the two of us we call them Cornetto's.

Lately though we've been getting the "chocolate dipped ice cream on a stick" type from the corner store freezer, and those we just call "an ice cream".

Those saying that "ice cream cone = scooped in front of you".... are you saying that to the exclusion of soft serve (i.e. not scooped?). I think it could be either.

Acajack · #**4407** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 12:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by jonny24

Lately though we've been getting the "chocolate dipped ice cream on a stick" type from the corner store freezer, and those we just call "an ice cream".

In Quebec French, that's generally known as a "revello". Pretty sure it reflects a brand name.

MolsonExport · #**4408** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 2:05 PM**

Yeah, I am pretty sure that Revello is a brand (but synonymous with the dipped vanilla ice cream on a stick). Like Fudgesicle, which is a brand (which I will always call Fudgicle, because that is what we called 'em growing up in Montreal in the 70s).

esquire · #**4409** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 2:11 PM**

I think local Winnipeg frozen treat magnate Dickie Dee referred to the dipped ice cream on a stick as the Revel, which is how I knew them.

Acajack · #**4410** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 2:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Yeah, I am pretty sure that Revello is a brand (but synonymous with the dipped vanilla ice cream on a stick). Like Fudgesicle, which is a brand (which I will always call Fudgicle, because that is what we called 'em growing up in Montreal in the 70s).

Yeah from what I recall the fudgesicle is solid chocolate ice cream, whereas the revello is vanilla covered in a fine layer of hardened chocolate dip.

SignalHillHiker · #**4411** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 6:22 PM**

I’ve never heard anyone reference one of those except my father and he says drumstick. Vague flashes of memory of handwritten price list signs saying drumstick also. I hate the texture of nuts in absolutely everything so doesn’t come up much for me. Icecream, brownies, salads, stir fries, whatever it is, I’m getting it without nuts. It’s as much of a non-starter as cilantro.

SignalHillHiker · #**4412** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 6:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Yeah from what I recall the fudgesicle is solid chocolate ice cream, whereas the revello is vanilla covered in a fine layer of hardened chocolate dip.

I had a whole post written out about how we don’t really have a term for that. I’d just say the brand name, typically Magnum at superette/gas stations here.

But I checked with a few local friends and immediately got “polar bar”. Not sure I’ve used it myself but the remembrance of it washed over me as soon as the first said it haha.

rousseau · #**4413** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 6:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I think local Winnipeg frozen treat magnate Dickie Dee referred to the dipped ice cream on a stick as the Revel, which is how I knew them.

I rode a Dickie Dee ice cream bike for one day in Hamilton at the age of sixteen. It was early spring, sales weren't so great, and by the end of the day I realized that I didn't want to be a Dickie Dee guy.

MonctonRad · #**4414** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 7:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by rousseau

I rode a Dickie Dee ice cream bike for one day in Hamilton at the age of sixteen. It was early spring, sales weren't so great, and by the end of the day I realized that I didn't want to be a Dickie Dee guy.

I won a Vroom bicycle in a Popsicle Pete contest back in 1964.

The engine of course was fake, but it made a neat motorcycle sound as you pedalled down the street.

Acajack · #**4415** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 7:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

I had a whole post written out about how we don’t really have a term for that. I’d just say the brand name, typically Magnum at superette/gas stations here.

But I checked with a few local friends and immediately got “polar bar”. Not sure I’ve used it myself but the remembrance of it washed over me as soon as the first said it haha.

Thanks for reminding me of the Magnum. I definitely know those too and my kids would refer to them by name.

They do look different from a Revello though, in shape and size (a lot smaller).

I wouldn't refer to a Revello as a Magnum or to a Magnum as a Revello.

jonny24 · #**4416** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 8:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

I’ve never heard anyone reference one of those except my father and he says drumstick. Vague flashes of memory of handwritten price list signs saying drumstick also. I hate the texture of nuts in absolutely everything so doesn’t come up much for me. Icecream, brownies, salads, stir fries, whatever it is, I’m getting it without nuts. It’s as much of a non-starter as cilantro.

They do make no-nut drumsticks

Love me some peanuts in my pad Thai

esquire · #**4417** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 9:05 PM**

Ah the Magnum. The summer when I was in China, one of my coworkers at the software company would get one every day for dessert from the company canteen after lunch... whenever I see them, the first thing that comes to mind is that hot, humid east coast Chinese summer of 2002

rousseau · #**4418** Posted **Apr 26, 2022, 9:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I won a Vroom bicycle in a Popsicle Pete contest back in 1964.

The engine of course was fake, but it made a neat motorcycle sound as you pedalled down the street.

Nice!

jamincan · #**4419** Posted **May 3, 2022, 6:03 PM**

Listening to This American Life, the most recent episode has a guest who starts to say "Yeah, it's not like a maybe. I have proof out the ass--", and then apologizes, "sorry for language. I have a lot of fucking proof."

Is there actually an inversion where ass is considered more profane than fuck by some people?

kwoldtimer · #**4420** Posted **May 3, 2022, 6:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by jamincan

Listening to This American Life, the most recent episode has a guest who starts to say "Yeah, it's not like a maybe. I have proof out the ass--", and then apologizes, "sorry for language. I have a lot of fucking proof."

Is there actually an inversion where ass is considered more profane than fuck by some people?

Is profanity profane anymore?