Doggie Bags, anyone?

[Cornell]

So when I refer to "doggie bag", I'm meaning leftovers from a restaurant, not dog waste bags.

I remember getting restaurant leftovers in a wax coated bag with "For the Dog!" printed on it. I still use the term "doggie bag" sometimes and my daughter does too. She was telling me that her friends were howling with laughter at that terminology as they had never heard it before.

Is this a regional thing? Just outdated?

Does anyone else still use that expression?

Random Question I know.

 

[Luanne]

I still use that term.

 

[DaveNV]

I've heard it all my life, and I've lived all over the place. So it can't be regional.

Dave

 

[Cornell]

Then maybe it's an expression that is truly fading away from use with the youngest generation.

 

[Beachclubmum]

Then maybe it's an expression that is truly fading away from use with the youngest generation.

Don’t feel bad. Last year I told a group of students to go home and xerox a certain page from the book and they all looked at me like I had two heads!

 

[Braindead]

Kind of like “Supper” many don’t have a clue what you’re talking about

 

[jehb2]

My kids don’t have the concept of “reruns.” When they were really little their shows on nickelodeon and Disney would air multiple times throughout the week for weeks. They would always replay episodes.

 

[Luanne]

Kind of like “Supper” many don’t have a clue what you’re talking about

I think supper may be regional. We never used that term when I was growing up. It was always dinner.

 

[geekette]

No supper here, but if there are leftovers, they are in a doggie bag. I have yet to leave a restaurant with my leftovers twisted into a foil goose, but maybe I eat every last morsel at the finer restaurants.

Most of us are still saying "I taped that" but I'd guess most of us haven't touched tape in many many years. I keep trying to say Recorded but it's difficult.

Kids can giggle at me if they want. I'm good with it. Eventually their kids will giggle at them.

 

[nerodog]

So when I refer to "doggie bag", I'm meaning leftovers from a restaurant, not dog waste bags.

I remember getting restaurant leftovers in a wax coated bag with "For the Dog!" printed on it. I still use the term "doggie bag" sometimes and my daughter does too. She was telling me that her friends were howling with laughter at that terminology as they had never heard it before.

Is this a regional thing? Just outdated?

Does anyone else still use that expression?

Random Question I know.

Yes I still use it...maybe it's a generational term.

 

[nerodog]

I think supper may be regional. We never used that term when I was growing up. It was always dinner.

Lolo..and we used supper !!! In New England.. could be a family thing as well...like the ottoman vs the hassock.

 

[pedro47]

I have heard it for over fifty (50) years.

 

[pedro47]

Kind of like “Supper” many don’t have a clue what you’re talking about

Now that is a term used in the South.
It is time for "Supper." LOL.

 

[Sugarcubesea]

I’ve used this term forever and have lived in GA, and MI. Both the south and the Midwest use this term.
When I was younger and visited my aunt she would always ask me to stay the night and say I could stay on the Davenport. It was not till years later that I found out she was asking me to sleep on the couch. LOL

 

[beejaybee]

I used to ask for a doggie bag, but now I request a box, please. Did so last evening after my 1st "post-stay-at-home" restaurant visit, self boxing my leftovers. Dined on the patio at the same restaurant that was the last "supper" on March 12 for my friend and me- indoors then and we'd no idea of the restrictions to come a few days later.

Got a goodie bag from the dermatologist earlier this week! I commented on how I missed the free samples basket and one of the staff went to a closet and filled a bag with lots of small bottles of lotions and potions!

 

[presley]

When I was a kid, my parents asked for a doggy bag and whatever was put in the bag did go to the dog. I think that nowadays, it's considered very unhealthy to give scraps to the dog, so maybe that's why it no longer exists. We get our leftovers "to go" and they are for us. The only time any of our dogs ever get our leftovers is if they are on their last leg and won't eat anything else

 

[geekette]

I’ve used this term forever and have lived in GA, and MI. Both the south and the Midwest use this term.
When is was younger and visited my aunt she would always ask me to stay the night and say I could stay on the Davenport. It was not till years later that I found out she was asking me to sleep on the couch. LOL

My grandmother referred to the davenport. No one else ever.

 

[geekette]

The only time any of our dogs ever get our leftovers is if they are on their last leg and won't eat anything else

I am kind of that way, too, my dogs don't get people food. And they don't beg. Mom gives her dogs people food, and they beg.

Every so often I would try to be sneaky and a piece of fat from a steak **somehow** showed up in her bowl. I never let her see me do it. I kind of wanted her to believe in magic, but pretty sure that smart border collie knew quite well that all good things come from Mom.

 

[Talent312]

Not having a dog, asking for a doggie bag would feel like lying.
We always ask for a box to-go, sometimes before we're finished.

 

[Cornell]

"Davenport" - LOL my grandmother used that word. I haven't thought about that forever.

I once referred to high school gym uniforms as a "gym suit" and was met with shrieks of horrified laughter. When I was in high school we had those horrendous one piece zip up gym suits.

 

[Country Roads]

Not having a dog, asking for a doggie bag would feel like lying.
We always ask for a box to-go, sometimes before we're finished.

 

[geekette]

"Davenport" - LOL my grandmother used that word. I haven't thought about that forever.

I once referred to high school gym uniforms as a "gym suit" and was met with shrieks of horrified laughter. When I was in high school we had those horrendous one piece zip up gym suits.

The gym suits!!! I don't know what else to call them. I remember those, but we were lucky - the bloomers also were gone before I had to wear them in grade school PE, and the gym suit thing didn't last either. I remember HS PE was shorts and a T, school issue. It was a reversible T so it was easy to have 2 teams.

 

[SandyPGravel]

I’ve used this term forever and have lived in GA, and MI. Both the south and the Midwest use this term.
When is was younger and visited my aunt she would always ask me to stay the night and say I could stay on the Davenport. It was not till years later that I found out she was asking me to sleep on the couch. LOL

My grandma always said davenport too. (She would be 94 going on 95 if she was still with us. I've never used the term, definitely generational)

 

[clifffaith]

Lolo..and we used supper !!! In New England.. could be a family thing as well...like the ottoman vs the hassock.

Supper and dinner were used interchangeably in our house to mean the evening meal. Ottoman/hassock/foot stool too were interchangeable. I think my parents used couch, and neighborhood kids used sofa, so I used both. Davenport really wasn't used, but we all knew it was a couch. We don't tend to use the term doggy bag any more, but the "best" meals out throw off a container of leftovers to last a day or two!

 

[Talent312]

From etymonline.com
davenport (n.)
"large upholstered couch," 1897, apparently named for the manufacturer.

A. H. Davenport and Company was a late 19th-, early 20th-century furniture
manufacturer and interior decoration firm, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.