22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From One Another

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23. They used to call sub sandwiches 'grinders' there

And in Massachusetts a milkshake was (is?) called a frappe, except in Boston, where old-timers call it a 'cabinet.'

I briefly lived in Worcester (1972), worked briefly as a waitress, and had learned the term 'frappe'. But I was stumped when an elderly woman ordered a 'coffee cabinet.'

Thinking she might be slightly senile, I gently told her we didn't sell furniture.

Stunned silence. Then another waitress table informed me that she wanted a coffee frappe.

I grew up in NJ, where it was called a milkshake or shake, except if you were at a Buxton's restaurant where they called it an awful-awful (awful big, awful good.) If you managed to finish 3 of these monsters, you got a 4th one free.

Also in Massachusetts, a store that sold alcohol was called a 'packie', short for package store.