Tomato, toe-mah-toe
Where did you grow up: Southern California
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream (or if smaller, creek)
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch pail
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Cola (even if it isn't cola-flavored)
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Bathing suit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Pill bug
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
Class-one lever. Or teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Start at the narrow end, eat the crust last.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
My last house, the furnace was in a closet. And the thing under the house was a crawl space. But the answer you're looking for is: Basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain
WHAT DO YOU CALL:
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream (or if smaller, creek)
2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Shopping cart
3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch pail
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Sofa or couch
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Porch
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Cola (even if it isn't cola-flavored)
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Bathing suit
12. Shoes worn for sports.
Tennis shoes
13. Putting a room in order.
Cleaning
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Pill bug
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
Class-one lever. Or teeter-totter
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Start at the narrow end, eat the crust last.
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
My last house, the furnace was in a closet. And the thing under the house was a crawl space. But the answer you're looking for is: Basement
21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Drinking fountain
