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...asks for the name used by New Englanders for "milk shake."

Mike and I, simultaneously: "Frappe. Or cabinet."

And we lost.

Because we didn't phrase it in the form of a question.

And we weren't on the actual show, of course.

(The show would have had a cow over the "cabinet" answer. As Mike said, "Rhode Island is, alas, part of New England, baby.")

on 2013-01-08 01:16 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] bovil.livejournal.com
"Frappe or cabinet?" is a question...

on 2013-01-08 01:52 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] jcbemis.livejournal.com
I got frappe, as did Tony. Cabinet was a new term to me though, thanks.

we arrive in Boston next on the evening of Jan 17

on 2013-01-08 02:19 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] debgeisler.livejournal.com
Heh. Sadly, not the way we said it...

on 2013-01-08 03:43 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com
Huh. I've heard "frappe" (although I couldn't have told you what it was -- Long Island isn't part of New England) but "cabinet" is totally new to me.

on 2013-01-08 04:09 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] debgeisler.livejournal.com
"Cabinet" is vintage Rhode Island. You don't hear it used so much these days.

It's like "tonic" for "soda" here in greater Boston: mostly used by people of a certain age.

on 2013-01-09 01:08 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] mmegaera.livejournal.com
Is it pronounced like the storage things in your kitchen?

on 2013-01-09 02:15 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] debgeisler.livejournal.com
It is, yes. Likely to have derived from a freezer cabinet or something like that.
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