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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI has this for suppah tonite (Dysart's truck stop Bangor Maine)
It was awesome - as was the cole slaw and potatoe salad.
jpak
(41,758 posts)<div style="position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="
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(14,154 posts)Down he-ah in Androscoggin County.
"potatoe' salad?
jpak
(41,758 posts)What a waist it is to loose one's mine.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)They always pronounced it more like Gee-shert.
jpak
(41,758 posts)But I think they gots Gee-shert on the menu.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Well, he weren't too pleased about it.
jpak
(41,758 posts)"Bert- didn't yer huss (horse) have the Glanders?"
"Ayuh" says Bert
"Whatya give it?" asked Titus
"Kerosene" says Bert
Bert walked away tow-ard his barn.
The next day Titus was at the Fence again.
"Bert - didn't you say yer huss had the Glanders?"
"Ayuh" says Bert
"And didn't say you gave it kerosene?" says Titus
"Ayah" says Bert
"Well my huss died" says Titus.
"Well so'd mine" says Bert.
My grandfather was from Maine. We go way back there. He had the accent.
Livermore Falls.
jpak
(41,758 posts)The Chuck Wagon restaurant there is a National Treasure.
Best fried scallops and onion rings and burgers and steaks in the Sate-o-Maine.
Oddly - no lobstah dishes.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)I haven't been there in decades.
My great-grandfather Augustus joined the First Maine Cavalry from there to serve in the Civil War, and came back there to farm for the rest of his life. He went to the 50th reunion of the battle of Gettysburg in 1913, at Gettysburg, where he suddenly died.