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Username: Brother_james
Post Number: 4
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 - 8:48 pm: |    |
I just returned home from the Detroit area and I was pleased to once again find a Sanders store, this one in Wyandotte. I understand that the brand has been bought and there are four stores open so far. The lady who manages the Wyandotte store pointed out that people in downriver almost universally say "Saunders" rather than the way the name is spelled, Sanders. I grew up always hearing "Saunders" and never really looked that closely at the spelling. But if I met John Sanders, I wouldn't say "Saunders". So... what do you say? Sanders, or "Saunders"?
(Message edited by brother_james on June 15, 2007) |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5358
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 12:06 am: | |
Sanders in Detroit, Saunders in the suburbs.
jjaba on the Westside eating a hot fudge puff and water in a dixie cup with pewter holder. |
Focusonthed
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Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1035
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 12:35 am: | |
Never heard of Saunders, always Sanders. |
Iddude313
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Username: Iddude313
Post Number: 85
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 1:46 am: | |
yes. Sanders.
My friend always tells me i'm wrong and that its Sawn ders.
Sanders. |
Homer
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Username: Homer
Post Number: 193
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 7:48 am: | |
OK Sanders or sawnders.
I and my family have always have always pronounced it "Sonders"........... |
Mauser765
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Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 1560
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 7:55 am: | |
The family name is Sanders - like Sand + Ers
Fred Sanders great grand-daughter still makes the original bumpy cake from the exact recipe. |
Kville
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Username: Kville
Post Number: 63
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 8:43 am: | |
On east side - Sanders, most generally. But my next door neighbor in same area said "Saunders." You figure it out. To me it will always be Sanders, but you can always tell a Detroit accent, and the short "a" sound is typical. (I had a guy in New York ask me once, "Are you from Detroit?" I asked how he knew, and he said, "your accent." Until then, I never knew I had one, but I hear it in a lot of pronunciations now). |
Esp
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Username: Esp
Post Number: 83
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 10:44 am: | |
Yes, the flat Midwestern drawl. Not as colorful as the others. I remember pronouncing it SAWN-DERS as a kid, but, it's definitely SAN-DERS. There is an Arcadia book out about the company by Greg Tasker. |
Harpernottingham
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Username: Harpernottingham
Post Number: 191
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 11:35 am: | |
The older folks on the east side of the city all pronounced it "Saunders," but they was wrong.
Say it like Barry, Charlie, and the Colonel, and you've got it right. |
Jeffrey_thomas
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Username: Jeffrey_thomas
Post Number: 52
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 12:46 pm: | |
lahser/lasher |
Gplimpton
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Username: Gplimpton
Post Number: 14
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 6:55 pm: | |
is this a serious question |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5361
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 7:05 pm: | |
Gplimpton, welcome to Forum. All questions on this Forum are serious. We are about answering some of the strangest questions ever posed.
They brook no demeaning.
jjaba, Proudly Westside. |
The_rock
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Username: The_rock
Post Number: 1790
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 7:43 pm: | |
OK, jjaba, pick on me for a week while I am gone. Have you ever had Smucker's chocolate fudge sauce? Gotta admit that it is richer than Sanders, don't you?
Back in a week to face your abuse. |
56packman
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Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1429
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 8:00 pm: | |
At my house we drank Jo-bell beer |
Tarkus
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Username: Tarkus
Post Number: 341
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 8:13 pm: | |
Ahhh, Jo-bells the fine french beer. |
Tayshaun22
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Username: Tayshaun22
Post Number: 370
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 8:18 pm: | |
It's SAWN-ders here in Downriver. |
Matt
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Username: Matt
Post Number: 1191
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 9:25 pm: | |
Jesus Christ, what has this forum become? |
Jasoncw
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Username: Jasoncw
Post Number: 368
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 12:38 am: | |
Sanders, I'm going to go put some on my ice cream now! :D |
Kova
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Username: Kova
Post Number: 112
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 12:49 am: | |
i had smuckers hot fudge the other day ( not the sauce type), it was HORRID! long live saunders! |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5363
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 1:04 am: | |
Sanders and Smuckers, apples and oranges.
jjaba, pouring Sanders on Butter Pecan Ice cream. |
Paulmcall
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Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 182
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 9:30 am: | |
Morleys now owns the Sanders candy brand name.
Some of their stuff is like the old Sanders. Strohs didn't get the butter pecan ice cream to taste the same. I think they own the ice cream brand.
Guernsey butter pecan ice cream is the closest to the original. |
Why
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Username: Why
Post Number: 17
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 2:09 am: | |
My ex-stepmother used to pronounce it Saunders and it always bugged me, even when I was 8 years old. She was wierd. She also pronouced Dearborn as Dearburn which was wierd. She pronouced chocolate as chaklit. She was wierd.
People who pronouce Sanders as Sawnders are wierd, along with those who pronounce coupon as Q-pon. We don't pronounce soup as sewp. |
Kville
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Username: Kville
Post Number: 64
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 5:22 am: | |
Well then, you eastsiders, is it "Chalmers" or "Chawlmers"? We're back to square one. |
Applesauce
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Username: Applesauce
Post Number: 36
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 2:40 pm: | |
My Mom always said Saunders and she grew up by city airport (eastside to the bone!). I vaguely remember going to a Sanders at Mack/Moross. Is this correct, did they have a lower level or was that Eastland? |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1332
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 2:43 pm: | |
Kville, the Chalmers is technically sounded out as Chawlmers. It doesn't matter how you spell it.
Back to the Ice Cream Shop. Tomato, Tomauto, Potato, Patauto. It's just another place to buy Ice Cream. As long as you buy Detroit, it really doesn't give. |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 788
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 4:56 pm: | |
When I think of Detroit, I always think of Hot Fudge. |
Margaret
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Username: Margaret
Post Number: 14
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 7:03 pm: | |
oooh oooh we had that Jefferson Sanders (I think we pronounced it Sanders like a sandbox?)...cream puff hot fudge and that big revolving door, the waitresses in pink, right? and the cone-shaped paper cup in that pewter holder. oh the memories and me here trying to diet...and it's pronounced Chawlmers as far as I know...we lived on Lakewood, just one block from Chalmers...good old Detroit. anyone remember the teen dance show "Swing Time" or "Swingin Time?" with Robin Symour? I used to dance on that thing! what I wouldn't give for some footage. thanks for making me crave Sanders hot fudge, sheesh... |
Kville
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Username: Kville
Post Number: 66
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 5:39 am: | |
Applesauce - the Sanders with the lower level was Eastland. The Mack-7 Mile store did not have one.
The Chalmers/"Chawlmers" response makes me realize that it must be more than regional accent differences - it must have something to do with family & parents, etc. My parents always used the "uncouth" short A sound (as do all of my wife's family), so for us it was Chalmers (short a). Maybe we were from the wrong side of the tracks from our next-door neighbor (and perhaps the other 50% in our neighborhood) who said "Chawlmers." Not sure what the explanations are - I'm no linguistic expert. |
Terridarlin
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Username: Terridarlin
Post Number: 20
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - 7:08 am: | |
In our eastside home it was "Saunders" but the best was my mother's pronunciation of "Port Urine" for Port Huron drove my Dad crazy. |
Hawthorne
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Username: Hawthorne
Post Number: 20
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 1:57 pm: | |
Terridarlin: My wife, who grew up just north of Port Huron, says that most residents (and those who grew up nearby) pronounce it as your mother did. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 5382
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 4:35 pm: | |
Correction from Detroit's Westside Sanders Country: Porch Urine.
jjaba. |
Terridarlin
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Username: Terridarlin
Post Number: 21
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - 7:58 pm: | |
Jjaba
"Correction from Detroit's Westside Sanders Country: Porch Urine."
LOL Lucky for my Dad he lived on the eastside. |