Aldi's formula for success: Small selection, low prices - Page 2

BerryBaby · 08-11-2008, 10:41 AM

I'm from Chicago and never heard it called the Jewels. Is that a new thing? I do know many from Chicago that add an 's' to many words that do not need them such as 'always'....never understood why.

Food Network Fan · 08-11-2008, 11:30 AM

Many people here call Kroger... "Kroger's" but I always assumed it was because the store started out as that. Bernard Kroger owned them so that makes them Kroger's store.

Is Jewel a person or just a company name? Maybe the old timers remember them being called that as belonging to someone named Jewel?

ibcheft · 08-11-2008, 11:47 AM

I really wonder if it has anything to do with proper English, since there is more than one when you talk about them you would add the s, but than again if we talk about walmart we do not always say we going to the walmarts or do we ? Strange how somethings seem so proper yet it is not correct. I guess if you talk about all of them yes you would add the s, if talking about one it becomes what ever the name is like Walmart, or Jewel, if your talking about prices in the stores you would say the price in Jewels is such and such, but if you say my local Jewel has it at such and such. Also you have your regional things, like for Texans it is awl well, that we pump oil from, and I know New Yok drops its r's, and Canadian add eye to the end of everything, Got no idea what this has to do with food but some interesting insights that I have notice.

Food Network Fan · 08-11-2008, 11:59 AM

When we had dinner at NOLA we were seated next to a couple from Texas. They asked us what part of Texas we were from. WV is said to have an accent very similar to Texas.

When I was in school they had "far" drills. Sometimes there would be a far drill right after the rasslin match.

ibcheft · 08-11-2008, 12:08 PM

well since I am from the north get it all the time down here, well sorta, have lost most of my yankee accent, but the one thing they all rode me on was roof they said I called it rough, I told them it was if you slid down it on your butt.

MiseEnPlace · 08-11-2008, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Food Network Fan

When we had dinner at NOLA we were seated next to a couple from Texas. They asked us what part of Texas we were from. WV is said to have an accent very similar to Texas.

When I was in school they had "far" drills. Sometimes there would be a far drill right after the rasslin match.

I've had the opposite experiences. My mom told about when she lived over in Ohio for awhile people told her she didn't sound like she was from WV.
I lost my accent for TV

But I know people who pronounce the long I in ice and nice and say all types of colloquialisms. And the farther south you get from Charleston it gets a lot worse.

As for Aldi... i do love their chocolate bars. Creamy milk chocolate, Swiss or German, some of the best chocolate I've had!

bakerman · 08-11-2008, 06:09 PM

The imported Aldi chocolate bars are my weakness, the milk chocolate is so creamy.

In NC we have a grocery chain called Lowes Foods, no apostrophe (although technically it should). In the very beginning two brothers with the last name Lowe, started a business, well they branched out and one went into the hardware business(Lowe's home improvement), and the other grocery, I guess the grocer didn't feel the need for an apostrophe!

MAC

bakerman · 08-11-2008, 06:12 PM

Hey I am from rural Maine, they can give southerners a run for their money when it comes to accents and made up words.

I moved away 12 years ago, and I have to pay close attention when my family is talking because some of the words that they use aren't used anywhere else!

MAC

BerryBaby · 08-11-2008, 06:44 PM

We've been told that TV stations across the country send people to the PNW because we don't have an accent. I honestly don't think we do, but we probably do to some people.

Totally not food related, but why is it, no matter where you live, people who live on a ranch speak with an accent...similar to the South.

I just watched a news segment on a LOCAL rodeo and they all spoke like they were living in the South. Could be that they did live there before? Maybe, but there are too many for that to be true.

Food Network Fan · 08-11-2008, 06:52 PM

My husband seems to have it more noticeable than I do. I was being questioned during an interview for jury duty a few years back and the judge actually stopped everything and asked me where I was born. I pointed out the window because you could see Saint Francis hospital out that window. He went on to say I sounded like I was from Pennsylvania. The guy that was on trial for murder didn't seem interested and I wasn't too sure I wanted that guy knowing too much about my personal life.