Doggie Bags, anyone?

[Cornell]

This is the information that you all have come to TUG for....

Unwrapping the History of the Doggie Bag

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[stmartinfan]

Lived on a farm in Minnesota as a youngster and, yes, supper was what you ate after the evening milking of the cows was done! Then you got to relax on the Davenport. (Interesting to see that autocorrect makes it a capital D). I didn't hear the term doggie bag until I was grown because we seldom ate out and if you did, you cleaned your plate! I do remember getting white bags printed with a sketch of a poodle at many places with the leftovers inside.

 

[PigsDad]

We went to Texas Roadhouse tonight and came home with:
-- 2 boxes with steak+potatoes.
-- 2 doggie bags with peanuts... they just call 'em "bags"...

You can bring home bags of peanuts from Texas Roadhouse? I just learned something new today!

Kurt

 

[geekette]

You can bring home bags of peanuts from Texas Roadhouse? I just learned something new today!

Kurt

Yeah, ditto! Had no idea.

Just yesterday I was looking into how to grow peanuts. Heckuva lot quicker to just cruise for steak and bring some home!!!

 

[Talent312]

They're small bags...

 

[TravelTime]

I remember when we used to ask for doggie bags in restaurants (for leftovers, not necessarily for the dogs) and now we ask for boxes for leftovers. I call the bags we carry with us to clean up after the dogs “poop” bags. We never used the term supper. Breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner for us, no supper. I use the terms living room and family room, but not parlor. I used both terms gym class and PE class growing up. I think we called it PE as we got into the higher grades.

 

[nerodog]

What about veranda ? Porch ? Lanai ? I had this nice screened in sun porch. My elderly uncle also called it the veranda. The patio to me was outside of the porch.

 

[TravelTime]

I think the terms veranda and lanai might be regional. They are all used but the term varies by location. I tend to call them all patios. But if a certain term is used locally, i will use it. The term porch tends to be an unscreened, covered patio attached usually to the front of a house and porches are regional too.

here’s a good definition of these terms.

Do you know the difference between a veranda and a lanai? | St. Louis Magazine

Balcony: A platform on the outside of a building enclosed by walls or balustrades, supported by columns or console brackets. The platform projects

www.stlmag.com

 

[amycurl]

My grandmother, who would be almost 114 now (she did live to 97,) always used Davenport, and I had no idea where the term came from. Dinner is always the main meal of the day. Said maternal grandmother’s spouse was an American Baptist minister, so, on Sundays, this was always mid-day. Now, it’s usually the evening meal, but, if it is not, then the evening meal is supper.


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[pedro47]

When I heard the word veranda. I think about a cruise ship that has a veranda. LOL.

 

[geekette]

What about veranda ? Porch ? Lanai ? I had this nice screened in sun porch. My elderly uncle also called it the veranda. The patio to me was outside of the porch.

Lanai I first heard Here. I had to look it up. I thought it might be a lounger ; )

I consider a veranda and balcony to be same - not ground level.

Porch is right outside front door. Patio is out back, unless covered by a deck.

this would have been even more fun if we were doing these comparisons 100 years ago.

 

[bbodb1]

What about veranda ? Porch ? Lanai ? I had this nice screened in sun porch. My elderly uncle also called it the veranda. The patio to me was outside of the porch.

As I recall, a porch was any covered structure that allowed for sitting, was attached to the house and was elevated (off the ground) while a patio was at ground level and had no cover.
Our back porch has two parts (porch and patio) as a considerable part of the concreted area extends beyond the covered area.

There is also another term worth including here - entryway. That small, covered area one usually finds around the front door area of a house that allows a person to escape the elements, and unlock a door with some cover overhead. There is NOT sufficient room to sit in an entryway.

 

[bbodb1]

Found the following with photo examples:

What is the Difference Between a Porch, Balcony, Veranda, Patio and Deck?

The difference between your balcony, porch, veranda, patio, and deck lies in the unique characteristics of these outdoor living spaces, perfect for

www.homedit.com

Speaking of porches, one of my favorite things to have in a house is a porch that runs along 2 (or more) sides to allow for escaping the direct sun while sitting outside. I guess that might be more correctly called a veranda.......

 

[Glynda]

In Charleston, they are “piazzas”.

 

[Luanne]

In Charleston, they are “piazzas”.

And in New Mexico they are portals.

 

[silentg]

We had a mud room in the baseball or cellar by the back door. And the storage space off the family room was the crawl space because it was low and unless you were under 3 ft tall you could not stand upright.House was called a split level. Built in the late 1960’s

 

[bbodb1]

We had a mud room in the baseball or cellar by the back door. And the storage space off the family room was the crawl space because it was low and unless you were under 3 ft tall you could not stand upright.House was called a split level. Built in the late 1960’s

@silentg - ...in the baseball?

Might auto correct have struck here?

 

[nerodog]

Holy mackerel!! Remember that phrase pre Awesome or brilliant!

 

[TravelTime]

What about a courtyard? We had one in front of our house that was enclosed but not covered. We had it paved with bluestone tile. I guess that could have also been called a patio or verandah somewhere else.

 

[PigsDad]

Lanai I first heard Here. I had to look it up. I thought it might be a lounger ; )

LOL, I'm glad I'm not the only one who had never heard of a lanai before reading TUG! To me, it was either a patio (concrete), a deck (wood) or a balcony (elevated).

Kurt

 

[Glynda]

What about a courtyard? We had one in front of our house that was enclosed but not covered. We had it paved with bluestone tile. I guess that could have also been called a patio or verandah somewhere else.

Yes, I think of a courtyard as being walled in.

 

[nerodog]

LOL, I'm glad I'm not the only one who had never heard of a lanai before reading TUG! To me, it was either a patio (concrete), a deck (wood) or a balcony (elevated).

Kurt

Lolol..I heard about it from friend in Florida.. I was like what ?!?

 

[Old Hickory]

I'm familiar with doggie bag but I haven't heard that in many years. So at my first chance, I'm going to use it to see if I get a look/laugh (hopefully both).

Thanks!

 

[Jan M.]

We have lanais in the front and back as do all the houses in our plan here in Florida. Both are screened in and the front one while bigger is only part ceiling and the rest screened on top too. DH and I just aren't cool enough to not feel pretentious in calling them lanais so we refer to them as the front and back patios.

Lanai, porch, patio, stoop, veranda, I get a mental image for each. The difference is size, steps, ground level, flooring (concrete, wood, tile) and fancy or simple.

 

[Luanne]

In California we had a porch/patio

In Hawaii we have a lanai

In New Mexico we have a portal (pronounced por tall)