Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!molter From: molter@eosp1.UUCP (Larry Molter) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: local words ("rubbish and garbage") Message-ID: <724@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 08:41:27 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.724 Posted: Thu Mar 22 08:41:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 08:08:07 EST Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 22 - When I was growing up in my parent's home in nothern New Jersey (my folks were from Queens - this is the key), we had two containers for wastes in the kitchen. One was the "garbage pail" were we threw all WET items. The "rubbish pail", on the other hand, was were everything else that wasn't wet or drippy, or smelly, or wasn't food, went. And... it was the "rubbish men" who came and collected the rubbish every Tuesday and Friday. My wife, and her parents, all grew up in northern NJ. They still have difficulty deciding what items go in which pails. (Yes, I've kept the two-pail tradition alive in my house). But... I put the "garbage" out for the "trash men" to collect. Another one with no flashy sign-off. -Larry