Comments on: Fudge Round or Star Crunch?

By: billymac

billymac — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:29:51 +0000

yeah, i guess it was too easy… next time i’ll pull one out of The Warriors or the deeper regions of my ass…

By: sadcox

sadcox — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:31:43 +0000

Obviously The Usual Suspects. C’mon!

By: BillyMac

BillyMac — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:58:12 +0000

Back when I was in a barber-shop quartet in Skokie Illinois, we ate double-decker oatmeal cream pies. I know it wasn’t as cool as a military occupation of an Asian country but we rocked! (free respect for identifying the movie reference in this post without google or wikipedia)

By: tch

tch — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:01:49 +0000

I don’t think I realized until sometime in my early thirties that those fine canned products were even intended to be pronounced like a city in It-ly. Same with Arsh (Irish) potatoes. By the way, once they started flavoring the sausages, that was it for me. The bbq style are really bad.

By: sadcox

sadcox — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:48:42 +0000

I can confirm that “VYE-ayn-nah” is the correct pronunciation in Tennessee, although we will also accept “VYE-ee-nah”.

By: Hungry Mother

Hungry Mother — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:50:10 +0000

When I was in the army in the outback of Thailand in ’63, a couple of buddies and I would often pop a can of Vienna Sausages for a little midnight snack after a night of guzzling suds at the NCO club. My buds were mainly rednecks from Tennessee and Texas, so I thought for years that you pronounced it “VYE-ayn-nah”. A couple of years ago when I finally got to visit Vienna, Austria, I found myself slurping down chocolate torts instead of the mushy sausages. Go figure.