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

[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!