Are they bags or sacks? Sneaks, tennis shoes or tennies? What do you call them?  

Well, DC, that's because they were all MINE!!! Each one gave me the idea for the next one. Mooch mentioned "tonic" in the hoagie discussion and that made me think about the other things soda was called (or pop). Which made me think of other words I knew about, so I took the discussion into Life to ask this question.

Thanks so very much for answering all of them!!

AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh - that was one I totally forgot about!!! How could I forget the infamous gym shoes!!!??? LOL Thanks!!

I know what you mean about Europe, though. I try to find out what things are called before I get there just in case. But, there always seems to be one thing that gets missed (like gym shoes!)

Oh, believe me, I know what you mean. I suffered major culture shock moving from NJ to Utah. Then I moved to Arizona and really enjoyed the "do what you want, just don't hurt anyone" kind of atmosphere they had. Then back to NJ - and I revisited culture shock as well as confronting STICKER shock! I had never lived on my own in NJ before, so I was really shocked by the tremendously higher costs around here.

But, I'm inclined to offer help myself, so I don't know if it's how I was raised or if I picked it up out West or what. It just seems to be the right thing to do when you see someone who you might be able to help.

I drove through Texas on my way back here - apparently, I lost a lot of stuff from the top of my car. By the time I realized it, I had no idea where it was. I was pulled over in the shoulder of the highway that goes through Pecos with my kids and my cats and all our belongings stuffed in and on my little Suburu when a little truck and a little man stopped by to say, "Howdy, Ma'am - did you all happen to lose a pair of speakers?" I was drawing a blank, trying to go through my mind what was in the corner of the roof rack that was now missing. Then I remembered and gasped, "My STEREO!!!" He was so nice to tell us about it - to even suspect that it was ours. I drove back to where he told me he saw it and, yep, there it was. All the buttons popped off, but otherwise in one piece. I had to laugh - what else could I do?

Wow that was really cool and nice of him to do. The very first thing I noticed in austin was that nobody ever honked their horns. Hell in cali when the light turned green and if you didnt go right away everyone started honking, including me, when I was in austin I was a stop light, the light turned green, the people in front of me didnt go, I of course layed on my horn, they all turned around and looked at me weird, the people in the other cars were all staring at me lol. Now I hardly ever use my horn. April of last year I went back to cali after 4 years to visit my parents and get my new car, they had bought a new one and gave me their old one, but yeah I know what you mean about reverse culture shock lol, I had been driving slower over the years and lots of other stuff, and damn it was like I had never lived there before lol. When I moved from oklahoma to memphis, even further into the south, wow you hear about racism in the south and all that but damn. I stopped at a gas station in a small town in arkansas to get gas. As I was walking out there was an older black woman and two teenagers coming in, I without thinking about it, since ive done it all my life, held the door open for them. She was surprised and said why thank you sir, the two teenagers were also surprised and said thank you sir. I said your welcome but it was weird how they reacted. Where im working there is a lot of black people, hell theres a ton in memphis itself lol, and im always surprised by stuff here that happens or how people think almost everyday, and ive been here almost a year now.

Yes, they're different, but I'd be hard pressed to know what it is - they're a very similar sandwich with very different names that most would think are interchangeable.

Well, it might depend on the area but here subs are on thicker rolls and have more toppings. They're the ones that are more special orders...you get whatever you want basically, beyond the basics there's pickles, sweet peppers, hot peppers, black olives, and probably other things I can't think of right now. They also have hot varieties. Hoagies are usually just basic. The rolls are thinner. They get meat, mayo, lettuce and maybe tomatoes and onions.