Saturday, September 4, 2010

Just A Snippet...

I thought I'd better get a little something up in case I'm too tired after the game this evening to post. OU's first game is tonight and it's only on pay-per-view. A good friend called and said she was buying it and did I/we want to come watch it with her. My folks didn't raise no fools and since I didn't have to pay for it I said, "You bet!!!" Carol decided she'd like to see it, too, and she even whipped up some tortilla roll-ups for snacking.

Now to the snippet.

A friend dropped by yesterday for a visit and in the conversation said she was going to dinner at her mom and dad's and asked what we were going to do for our dinner. I told her we were going to have scraps... She looked at me oddly and I said, "you know, left-overs." The light then dawned on her and she said she had never heard left-overs called scraps.

How about it? I was raised with both phrases and I just wondered if it would be confusing for anyone else in my world. Some of the best meals we had were scraps and bits of other meals when mom would clean out the refrigerator. You notice I didn't date myself even more by saying ice box.

Scraps or left-overs or either or both?

6 comments:

Tatersmama said...

BOTH! Leftovers or scraps... or even "pick 'n pull" when we would clean the fridge out by picking out what we wanted, and pulling it out.
I hadn't heard "scraps" in years - until we went home in April and my son asked me to cook plenty, so we could have scraps the next day!!
But then again... my Mama was an Okie and I'm proud of it! ;)

farmlady said...

We always called them "leftovers" when I was growing up, but there's a familar sound to calling them scraps. I think my paternal grandma called leftovers "scraps". I'm not sure but I vaguely remember someone using that expression. I like it. My Grandma Williams was from Oklahoma so that's probably were I hear it.

Debbie said...

Nope sweetie. Scraps were for the dogs LOL. We got the leftovers. I pride myself in always having leftovers to eat..Especially when I stop and get to go food. Make two meals outta one and save.

Not sure who won the game but hope OU!

hetty said...

When I think of scraps I think of pieces of fabric to make quilts with. We called them leftovers. The leftover leftovers were called scraps and went to the pigs.

Sara said...

Both - leftovers & scraps were words I grew up hearing. My mother used everything but the "oink" as she loved to say. However I must admit there were a lot of her scrap meals that I couldn't make myself eat.

Reddirt Woman said...

Wow, Katie, it is a small world. I usually say left-overs but occasionally scraps just comes out naturally. Didn't it just take you back when your son said he wanted scraps?!

Connie, if there is any Okie blood in the lines it's like ingrained knowledge of things like scraps. And any more you only hear if from older folks like your Grandma Williams and me...

I hear you Deb... my aunt and uncle that I was raised around a lot had hogs and the scraps went to make slop for them and to feed the farm dogs. But come on to dinner-time when it was one of those busy days it was off to the fridge to see what scraps you had to whip up a meal with and then those scraps could be to feed the dogs, hogs or cats or chickens.

Hetty, I figured that you and some of my other blogging friends that are quilters would think of fabrics before food as scraps. But as much as anything I felt the question would depend on regionality as to whether or not folks had heard the term in reference to food.

Sara I love that saying. I have heard it most of my life and heard my folks talk about using everything possible out of anything they did, whether it was growing and canning, food or critters. I don't understand, however, pickling pig knuckles, but that's just me...