Quick question, idea stolen from Vox's Question Of The Day.

[xiane]

What do you locally call the summertime concotion of shaved or crushed ice and flavouring? Where I'm from, we call it a Snowball.

Comments

[thekdog.livejournal.com]

snowcone.

[nakedyouth.livejournal.com]

snowcone.

[joecarnahan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, another snowcone (or alternately, "snocone" or "sno-cone") here...

[parkas-4-kids.livejournal.com]

Yep, Snowball.

[jukebox-heroine.livejournal.com]

Sno-Cone...

[nannar.livejournal.com]

Snowcone.

Apparently there is a difference between a snowball and a snowcone though....

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowcone

Most of the time a snow cone (or sno-cone) is a crunchier ice in which the flavoring sinks to the bottom. A snow ball means that the ice is fluffier and the flavoring somewhat soaks in. Furthermore, in most cases snow cones are made in advance. Snow balls are made in front of the waiting customer.

[kava.livejournal.com]

a snow CONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[megdalyn.livejournal.com]

sno-ball or i've even seen sneaux balls

"it depends"

[nixer.livejournal.com]

Crushed ice is a sno-cone, then there's hawaiian ice which is fluffier and is shaved.

[baobh.livejournal.com]

Snowcone. Or Sno-cone, depending on how lazy of spellers are selling it.

[saintaspartame.livejournal.com]

Sno-cone. I can't call anything "snowball" after watching Clerks.

[playright.livejournal.com]

ditto

[krasota.livejournal.com]

sno-cone!

[xelucha.livejournal.com]

snowcone, but most people serve italian ice instead.

[omiewise.livejournal.com]

snowball...alternately: redneck ice cream

[mistresschewtoy.livejournal.com]

SHAVE-ICE! Well it's what we call it back home in Hawaii. THE SHIT WE DO TO THEM THERE IS UNREAL!

[rhubarbrapini.livejournal.com]

Slurpeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[glass-grenade.livejournal.com]

mmmm sno-cones!

[swandust.livejournal.com]

I have heard both "Snowball" and "snowcone" in my neck of the woods...

[shocktrama.livejournal.com]

Snowcone.

[chattybadtz.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Miami and we called it a snowcone. Here in Baltimore, snowball.

[halloween-jack.livejournal.com]

Mint julep.

[bestiame.livejournal.com]

funny you should mention, i just heard this story on npr this morning.

and i dunno. i think i actually call it shave ice? i grew up with snowcones, though.

[fortunine.livejournal.com]

I know of what you speak, but I can't quite recall it. I want to say "frozen ice" but that is vibrantly stupid. Probably just flavored ice, I guess. It's in a little paper cone, right?

I don't even want to tell you what we call a "snowball" in this city. Stay sweet, kid.