Originally Posted by SewingSew

Notwendy, I grew up saying that I was fixing to do something too, or that "it's coming up a storm", or that we "put up" 40 quarts of tomatoes, instead of we "canned" 40 quarts of tomatoes. And a pepsi-cola could refer to any kind of soda, unless you decided to call it by its true name. Dinner was eaten arbout noon-time, and supper was the evening meal. If we were cooking enough of something (like beans) for a meal, we would say that we were cooking up a mess of beans. I could go on and on. I've lived in many different places, and every place has their own personal collection of regional things that they say and do.