Pimento cheese, a popular local snack-food/condiment, often eaten in a sandwich on white bread with mayo.
1. Tonic is the common generic term in Boston for soft drink.
2. Soda
In the early 1900s, the nickname for a group of early skyscrapers at the intersection of 20th Street and 1st Ave.
An avocado.
Nickname for Atlanta that comes from the generally sticky-hot weather in the city.
An infamous legal trial that took place in Phoenix in the 1960s, a complicated fiasco involving an inheritance and "scientific proof" for the existence of a human soul.
Referring to something that was damaged or destroyed during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. The hurricane made landfall as a category 4 storm and did extensive damage to downtown Charleston as well as the northern suburbs of Mount Pleasant, Sullivan's Island, and Isle of Palms.
The native Rhode Islanders' reference to the hordes of tourists from Massachusetts who swarm their beaches each summer.