sarah is funnnnny

[verbicide]

Just two Sarah-things that cracked me up and I wanted to record them for posterity. (And so that Matt and Emily and Ida could be amused.)

So, Sunday night. Sarah and her beyond-glorious mom came over for dinner. The topic came round again to how some people in the Midwest refer to green bell peppers as mangoes. (Incomprehensibly, they refer to the fruit as fruit-mangoes.)

This drives Sarah as completely insane as it does me.

Sarah: *plucking at shirt* I am going to call this pants.
Me: And they call the fruit... fruit-mangoes.
Sarah. Ah. *plucks at pants* These are my leg-pants.

Half the hilarity is her delivery and her facial expressions. Her mom and I about died.

And today, on Days of Our MSN

Me: do you want to try to do a quilting thing
Me: i mean, sep projects
Me: but we both harmoniously quilt together like we're in an episode of Little Women or something?
Me: i could buy us bonnets and shit
Sarah: i absolutely do, but only if i get an apron to wear as well. preferably with ruffles around the edges.
Me: I think a pale green gingham would be fetching with your eyes
Sarah: wicked. so i'll get on the apron purchasing, and then we can have quilting circle. except not a circle, more like a straight line, as we only have two people.

Sarah, you're brilliant and I love you.

Comments

[mixed-up-media.livejournal.com]

Sarah. Ah. *plucks at pants* These are my leg-pants.

Hee! :)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

She is so awesome. :D

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

how some people in the Midwest refer to green bell peppers as mangoes

I have lived in the Midwest for almost 20 years altogether, and I have never heard this. I'm not saying that there's not some people somewhere that do this (possibly even in the Midwest), but it is not a Midwesternism.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And actually, Sarah's from the Midwest, too and had never heard of it. I'm not sure what exact region it's from.

I first heard of this from Jeff, who is from Indiana. And I don't think I quite believed him until his dad said it in front of me. Jeff nearly died laughing at the look on my face.

When I first heard of it, I did a desperate Web search and found nothing. But I checked again and found: http://www.foodreference.com/html/fmango.html

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

Weird.

The article you link suggests it's an old-fashioned term used by grandmas and such, so that would explain why nobody's heard it.

Can you imagine making a recipe calling for mangoes and using the fruit, only to discover later that it meant "green peppers"????

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

No!! Because weird!!

But Jeff's dad, who just isn't THAT old still uses it. So maybe his region of Indiana is just that clingy to terms that are, you know, insane.

[some_other_dave]

I grew up in downstate Illinois, and spent many summers (and one full year) in northern Delaware--which is right next to eastern Pennsylvania.

I, too, have never heard of this particular reference before.

My theory, since I am from IL, is that Indiana people are all insane. :-D

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Well, I imagine that's true even without the whole mango thing!

I ought to check LJ more often than twice a month

[pinkminx.livejournal.com]

... Because that's priceless. I had another moment of deep amusement when you raved about wanting to send a Thank You card to Jeff's parents. You should. :-)