The word "creemee" (spelled various ways) actually has two related meanings:
- Soft-serve ice cream
- An ice cream stand that serves soft-serve ice cream
So, you could say: let's go to the creemee to get creemees.
It is true that this word is pretty much confined to the borders of Vermont; however, in Northfield, Massachusetts, just a couple of miles from the southeast corner of Vermont, there is an ice cream stand called the Northfield Creamie. ( http://www.northfieldcreamie.com )
There are a lot of stores named for their principal offering. Let's go to the Dairy Queen for Dairy Queen.
In Lima Ohio, people who are hungry for sliders go to a Kewpee to get Kewpees. The stores have plump naked dolls with a sign that reads something like "Hamburg, pickle on toip, makes your heart go flippity-flop", so those must be Kewpee dolls.
In New Jersey there is a Jake's Cree-Mee Freeze, but it doesn't serve Cree-Mees. It serves soft serve / soft serve ice cream. Maybe Jake is from Vermont.
I just noticed on Jake's Cree-Mee Freeze website that they list the hours as 12AM - 10PM, etc. I suspect that they open at noon. Whoops!
Glenn said
I just noticed on Jake's Cree-Mee Freeze website that they list the hours as 12AM - 10PM, etc. I suspect that they open at noon. Whoops!
Since noon is nether ante-meridian nor post-meridian, I used to argue that noon is 12 M, but somehow, people assumed that 12 M meant 12 midnight and 12 N meant noon, instead of 12 meridian and 12 nightly.
In military time, is midnight 24 hundred hours and 5 minutes later 24:05, or is it zero hundred hours and 00:05?Â