Cheapass Survey

[gfish]

Quick little linguistics survey while I watch over this lab section.

1) Do you know what 'gorp' is?

2) Is it a term you would actually use, should you be talking about the subject in question?

3) Where are you from?

Comments

[hollyking.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes. Kansas City, Missouri.

[eeyorerin]

1) Good Ol' Raisins and Peanuts -- only mine usually had chocolate chips in, too. Or M&Ms. Mmmm. I'd pick those out first.

2) Probably. I certainly did back when I made it and carried it for Girl Scouts and Hiking Club.

3) upstate/central New York

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

1) Yes

2) Yes

3) An hour away from Seattle

[hrj.livejournal.com]

1) Do you know what 'gorp' is? Yes (at least, if you mean "a mixture of nuts, dried fruits, and sometimes small candies esp. m&m type used as a quick-energy snack while hiking; also known as 'trail mix'".

2) Is it a term you would actually use, should you be talking about the subject in question? I think I have used it, although I suspect I alternate with 'trail mix'.

3) Where are you from? California

[niac.livejournal.com]

1. Good ol' Raisins & Peanuts
2. Sure, in the context of hiking
3. Missouri, but not for 9 years.

[porysski.livejournal.com]

1) Yes
2) Yup
3) East Coast (I grew up in eastern PA, and definitely used the term there)

[morinon.livejournal.com]

1) Good old raisins and peanuts

2) Usually I say 'trail mix', as I add in more.

3) Seattle.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

1. Yes

2. No

3. Mississippi

[callmem.livejournal.com]

1) Yes
2) Yeah, but I'm more likely to say trail mix. (Or likelier still, bring a cliff bar instead.)
3) Spokane

[adularia.livejournal.com]

1) Yes
2) No, since I disagree with it. It's "trail mix". "Good" is not an adjective I would use for the raisins/peanuts flavor pairing.*
3) Semi-rural Snohomish County, effectively.


*mmmmmmm, granola

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Yes.
Sure, why not?
Coloraddy.

[crimmycat.livejournal.com]

1. yep, good ol' raisins & peanuts (& m&m's, and everything else in trail mix, up to and including chopped dates or pumpkin seeds.)

2. These days I usually call it trail mix. When around boy scouts or people who hiked the AT (Appalachian Trail), always called it gorp, but among casual hikers and geeks, "trail mix" is a much more understood term.

3. military brat. Mainly Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia with Texas, Georgia, etc. thrown in.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

1) Yes.
2) Yes.
3) Florida, but I learned what gorp is either in Seattle or in New York state.

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

1) Yes.
2) No.
3) Born in London to Minnesotan parents, childhood in Oregon, live in Seattle, went to college in Iowa, which is where I first heard the term. Actually, my college's outdoor club was named GORP.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

1) Good ol' raisins & peanuts!
2) If confronted with some, but I don't like raisins or peanuts, so I don't make my own. Plus I keep running in to people who don't know the word (transplants from Back East mostly) and think maybe I was trying to say "Gaunch" instead, which is less appetizing of course. I buy or make expo mix instead, which has smarties! I am pretty sure expo mix is not found outside vancouver, since it's named for expo '86 and involves canadian smarties, not US smarties which fail at being chocolate.
3) Vancouver, born & raisined.

Geez, I can't even find one google hit for expo mix. Dan-D packages it, though. Good ol' Dan-D-Mart. Maybe it's on their site...

AUGH NOOOO THEY ARE RENAMING IT "OLYMPIC MIX" AND NOT FOR THE OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS EITHER! I feel so... betrayed.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Of course, expo mix has peanuts and raisins in it. But somehow they are tolerable if they are in the same bag as some chocolate. I bathe in irrationality!

[plantae.livejournal.com]

1. yes
2. usually trail mix. Occasionally gorp if that is how others are referring to it.
3. Central Washington.

[irgth.livejournal.com]

1) I think I'd heard it before, but had forgotten until reading this thread.
2) No
3) MN

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

1) I do if we're talking about a granola-esque snack mix to eat on a hike or camping trip.

2)Sure, if it came up.

3) Massachusetts.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

What is the word's derivation? Is it an acronym?

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

1. yep
2. yep
3. Boston, but I first heard the term at summer camp in Vermont

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I've heard various back-formations like (rot13) "tbbq byq envfvaf naq crnahgf" to explain its origin.

No -- I'd usually say (rot13) "genvy zvk".

I'm from the Baltimore-Washington area, and speak the Mid-Atlantic dialect sometimes called "Standard American". The Northwest dialect sounds vaguely Canadian to my ear.

[maribou]

Yes, yes, Prince Edward Island, Canada (and knew what the term was when I still lived there).

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

It's like trail mix. I never use the term myself, but it was popular, IIRC, with camping/survival/hiking types in 70-80s-ish? Think it implies some high-calorie foods in the mix, like chocolate.

-B.

[lolmike.livejournal.com]

1. Not immediately, but in light of question 2, I think it --- oh wait! Is it that trail mix stuff?

2. Never.

3. Everywhere.