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stariel ([personal profile] stariel) wrote2005-11-04 10:06 pm

Just for fun...

[Poll #605482]

To explain: I often have problems in Boston with milk, like the following conversation:

Me: I'd like a Chai with nonfat milk, please.

Barista Boy: Oh, sorry, we don't have skim milk.

Me: Um...

BB: We have regular milk, soy milk, and fat free milk.

Me: Ok, I'll take fat free milk.

BB: Really? OK.

So I asked some Boston-ites about this, and apparently here skim=1% low-fat=2% and nonfat is called fat free. Kinda like how a milkshake doesn't contain ice cream and chocolate sprinkles are called Jimmies. The first woman I talked to actually asked me what we call 1% on the west coast, since we don't call it skim. Um... 1%?

[identity profile] prinnyc.livejournal.com 2005-11-05 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Boston is silly!

[identity profile] lunacia.livejournal.com 2005-11-05 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Uhm... I think I tried to post a comment to this while I was logged out. How silly.