What is a Yankee and New England Proverbs:

To the European, a Yankee is an American.
To an American, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To a New Englander, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who eats apple pie for breakfast.
And to a Vermonter who eats apple pie for breakfast
a Yankee is someone who eats it with a knife.
~An old Yankee joke

"You can't keep trouble from coming, but you don't have to give it a chair to sit
on."

"Wishing isn't doing."

"The world is your cow. But you have to do the milking."

"Talk less and say more"

"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves."

"In New England we have nine months of winter and three months of darned
poor sledding." (my comment: that is already noticeably changing)


"The quickest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time."



More at: http://www.theheartofnewengland.com/Quotes.html

To a Texan, anyone north of Amarillo is a Yankee

To a Mexican, anyone north of the Rio Grande is a Yankee.

~An old Mexican joke :hi:

Anything north of the Red River is a Damn Yankee.

What more complete meal could you ask for? Fruit, bread, and if you want some calcium as well, some cheddar cheese.

Beats the hell out of a bowl of cereal with milk and a couple of strawberries, to which it's about nutritionally equal.

PS: A real Yankee knows which directions "downstreet" and upstreet" indicate. (I do, and also the reason those terms are pretty much unique to New England.)

Redston

I am born and bred N.E. stock and....I *hate* Apple Pie.

:yoiks:

And I thought I was a NE freak for not eating Lobster ;)

ice cream. I'm afraid they'll kick me out of New England if they find out.

Redstone

So you do not know that yumminess that is the Oreo Cookie Klondike? Oh dear!
Duckie

Redstone

Oreo cookie Klondike Bars are sin.

I won't tell no one would believe ;)

tell you why. It just doesn't appeal to me anymore. Nor does candy, or chocolate, or really any sweet foods except fruit. The occasional SMALL drip of maple syrup on pancakes, but that's it.

Bizarre, yes, but true. You can ask Mrs R.

Redstone

but, I will eat Lobstah! And Chowdah is one of my favorite dishes! :bounce:

or they'll kick us out of New England.

Redstone

:D

Btw, going home this weekend to stay with Pops while Bro takes Mom to Montreal to see Rush. Very excited to hang out with him. :D

I have to go the other direction (if I'm able) to PA for my kid brother's 50th birthday party.

I hope I'm able to make the trip, because I NEED a Pudge's cheesesteak hoagie, and I need it NOW!

http://www.pudgessteaks.com/menu.html

Redstone

I'll give him your good wishes instead :)

:hug:

after about three months without. Having eaten two meals a day for three days in a row now, which I haven't done since June, is damn encouraging.

Especially for someone who likes food as much as I do...even Mrs R's spectacular cooking didn't break the barrier.

But I'm on my way back.

Redstone

:shrug:

We ate nothing but pie for breakfast during the weekend after Thanksgiving.

I'll bet. Not to mention ham salad sandwiches, which I've never seen outside New England.

Redstone

My mother ground her own ham from the Sunday dinner leftovers, and made split pea soup with the ham bone.

:crazy:

We hear that The Gobbler at the All Star Sandwich Bar in Cambridge is da bomb! :D

I never heard it in CT, that I can remember, nor do I remember those among the many quaint locutions I learned during my four years of college in Waterville, Maine. Maybe I should go back and have a new listen to my "Bert and I" vinyl. Traveling south or north on the road maybe ...?

using the river's flow to drive the mill machinery. Therefore, the typical pattern of those towns is that the manufacturing / shopping areas are down in the valley next to the river. That leaves the uphill parts of the valley for people to build houses and live.

So, naturally, "downstreet" is roughly equal to "downtown," or toward the center of town, given that you travel down the hill to go there. "Upstreet," then, means away from the center of town (and generally uphill).

Took me years to figure this one out, but if you go to almost any town in Vermont or New Hampshire, you'll see the pattern (now that you know to look for it.)

Redstone

As a matter of fact I went to college in Waterville which was set up just like that, Colby itself "upstreet" at the very top of the hill (although its origin was "downstreet" until it outgrew that location, Pendleton factory and lumber mills on the river and shopping on the level above that. Same thing in the Connecticut town I'm from and in pretty much all of the manufacturing areas of the state. Just that in neither place was that particular terminology used.