Thread: When you got shopping; where do you put the groceries ?

put them in the buggy.. sometimes cart.. most of the time buggy

Originally Posted by nanajoanie

Glad to know my 26 yr. old grandgirl will caall it a cart. She just moved this past week to just north of Phoenix, a little town called Peoria.

Here in NC our groceries go in a cart. And I ride the racecart at Harris Teeter and it holds over a weeks work of vittles for me.

Peoria isn't that little. I used to live in Glendale, just next door.

Grew up in Cali, always been a cart for me.

From the central valley of Ca.
I tell my kids to go get us a shopping cart.

My dad is from Louisiana he says buggy

Originally Posted by ilovecats

It is a shopping cart or carriage here.A basket is the little thing with handles.I didn't know that anyone called it a buggy.I know in some areas people call the shopping bags sacks.That sounds funny to me too.

Same here - shopping cart or carriage. Baskets are the small plastic things you need to carry. I have only heard anyone use sack in reference to bed time - as in "Time to hit the sack".

Originally Posted by ilovecats

That is funny.What do you call the thing babies/small children are pushed in?
I know some people call them strollers.Around here they are carriages.

I learned it as strollers are the things that toddlers can only sit in. Carriages are the ones that fully recline & you would an infant in. . Then again, that was before all of these convertable strollers with the detachable car seat became big.

Originally Posted by ilovecats

Tonic: Chiefly Eastern New England. soda pop. (got that from dictionary.com)
I don't know anyone who calls it soda. Anyone I know calls it either tonic or coke.
The other questions:counter,cabinets,I never say groceries or even grocery store.It is food shopping and food store.

In SE Mass, I have never (even when I used to waitress) heard anyone call it tonic. Just soda or brand name (Coke is Coke, Pepsi is Pepsi, etc)

Kitchen's have counters & cabinets that hang on the wall. A cupboard was a separate piece of "furniture" (like a microwave cart) used to store things in.

I use both buggy and cart. Still got a little yankee left in me, but I am saying buggy more often.

I put mine in the buggy BUT hubby puts them in the trolley lol

Originally Posted by MistyWolf

Midwest and it's a cart here.

Same here

Up in the north, we call them buggies, and a Coke is a Coke. LOL

Guess I'll need to learn the slang if ever I decide to visit the south.