Posted in Iowa
April 06, 2016
10 Words And Phrases People In Iowa Just Don’t Understand
Part of growing up in Iowa is going somewhere else in the country, like the South or the Northeast, for the first time and realizing you don’t know what the heck these people are talking about. Sometimes, the regional slang is so bad, you can go through a whole conversation with someone and not have understood a word they said – you just smile and nod. Much like “Yinz,” “Fixin to” and “N’at,” here are 10 words and phrases that people from Iowa just don’t understand:
No, no, no. It's carry out, take out, to go, ANYTHING but take away.
Leave it to the New Englanders to make things more complicated than they need to be. It's a sandwich or a sub, people.
Pop is a noun here in Iowa. Get used to it.
If you call a shopping cart a buggy in Iowa, expect to get a confused, somewhat concerned look.
Yeah, we wear thongs, just not on our feet - we call those flip flops or sandals - like normal people.
It's a fridge - why do we need to call it anything else?!
Goose bumps, goose pimples, chicken skin - anything but duck bumps, please!
Okay, admittedly there are places in northern Iowa that call it a hot dish, but for the most part, it's called a casserole in Iowa.
IT'S CAR-MUHL, JUST STOP.
Ever been to Wisconsin? It's pretty nice besides the fact that they call drinking fountains "bubblers."
To be fair, though, we Iowans have some pretty weird slang of our own – like “crick,” “warsh,” “padiddle,” “cornhole,” or my personal favorite: “kybo.”
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