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Wait til you hear that one random tiny state calls milkshakes “cabinets”
One common, but unsubstantiated, explanation is that the soda jerk or pharmacist kept the coffee syrup in one of the polished wooden cabinets behind the counter.
The good old days when you had service minded jerks rather than the unpleasant ones we have today 😄
I grew up near the triple point so I change phases between drinking fountain and water fountain while encountering the occasional bubbler
And then there’s that town that made up its own language.
Living in northern Minnesota, drinking fountain and water fountain get used interchangeably. And I’ve only known one person that used bubbler regularly. But they weren’t in their right mind most of the time.
And ain’t nothing IDs a Minnesotan faster than hot dish vs casserole or even worse, Duck Duck Grey Duck vs Duck Duck Grey Goose. We WILL go to war over that stuff.
Yeah, I grew up in Wisconsin closer to the Minnesota border, so I used both as well. When I moved to Eastern Wisconsin, I solidified on “drinking fountain” because people here call it a “bubbler” and tease you more about “water fountain.”
Oh yeah, and I remember getting blank stares in college when mentioning that we had a lot of hot dish growing up. I didn’t realize how regional that phrase was.
You mean Duck Duck Goose.
Duck Grey Duck vs Duck Duck Grey Goose
So it HAS to be grey, but it’s debatable whether or not it’s vodka? Americans are weird sometimes 🤔
Funny enough, there’s a brand of vodka made in Minnesota called Grey Duck.
Where I’m from in the US it was always duck duck goose, a kid moved to our school and said grey duck once. Poor kid didn’t hear the end of it until middle school
WTF? A bubbler is a kind of weed pipe.
show it
Nice try officer
Water fountain is the ornamental thing you see in a park with multiple tiers full of gross water and coins.
What do they call a water fountain if it’s not the drinking kind?
And having lived in the “bubbler” zone, I’ve never once heard it called that. Must be disappearing.
A fountain. Drop the word water, as you aren’t drinking from that.
That’s because they spelled it wrong. Asked someone from the Boston area. It should end in -a not -er
I live in Australia and I use these interchangeably for some reason, but ive mainly been calling them “water bubblers”, not sure why though lol, nobody here calls it that.
elbow pasta?
Aka Zippy-Doodlers, aparently.
TIL the rest of the country uses weird words. Macaroni? They nammed Zippy-Doodlers and Orangey Goopey after the president of France???
People in New Hampshire watching the Bluey episode “Bin Night”
This is a bubbler (a bubbler-brand bubbler, too!):
iirc from the last time this came up, they were super popular in the “bubbler”-using regions so the name stuck around to describe all drinking fountains, not just bubblers.
Thank you! Bubblers were created and patented in Wisconsin, too, so I’m glad we are keeping the name alive.
This reminds me of the similar map of names for soft drinks. You have your soda vs coke, but I live in one of the “pop” regions which is admittedly a larger area than these little “bubbler” enclaves.
I mostly switched over to “soda” once I went to college though. A nationwide and international assortment of group members will encourage that.
The worst are the places that call every soda “Coke.”
The concept makes me irrationally angry.
Fireflies, lightning bugs, and glitter bats
glitter bats
That’s fucking delightful! 😄
Glitter bats? …That’s him officer!! Get em!!!
Wife still uses bubbler to this day. It was (is?) a brand name.
“is there a water fountain here?”
“Yeah, at the entrance to the neighborhood in the retaining pond”
