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re: What do you say, Ice Chest or Cooler?

Posted on 7/4/22 at 9:40 am to
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
41205 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 9:40 am to
Depends on how I’m feeling that day. Some days it’s a cooler and some days it’s an ice chest.

Either way stop sitting on it so I can get stuff out.
This post was edited on 7/4/22 at 9:41 am
Posted by bigberg2000
houston, from chalmette
Member since Sep 2005
70738 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 9:42 am to
Ice chest.

From the New Orleans area.
Posted by Hardy_Har
MS
Member since Nov 2012
16333 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 11:03 am to
North and east of Hattiesburg it’s a Cooler apparently. If you told me to look in the ice chest I’d probably be confused after several..
Posted by Lowndes45
Lowndes Co. AL/ Mid-City NOLA.
Member since Sep 2017
85 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 11:08 am to
I recall this topic arising in a linguistics class. I-10 is the generally accepted (and approximate) cooler/ ice chest line of demarcation within the Southeast U.S.
Posted by Doofus
Member since Apr 2022
529 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 11:09 am to
Growing up I called it a cooler, but have switched to team ice cheat since moving to Louisiana.
Posted by rexorotten
2314762 posts
Member since Oct 2013
5120 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 11:55 am to
Cooler. Never heard of an ice chest until I read it on this board. Ice chest sounds like something people in the 1950s would call it.
This post was edited on 7/4/22 at 11:56 am
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87290 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 12:49 pm to
quote:

I've only heard my Mississippi/ Louisiana in laws use "ice chest".
I've only heard "cooler".


Apparently Alabama, GA and South Carolina are now "the north"
Posted by redneck hippie
Oklahoma
Member since Dec 2008
6413 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 12:52 pm to
Ice chest here

My dad still calls the refrigerator an ice box.
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
143773 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 12:55 pm to
Only person I ever hear say “cooler” is my mother in law from Ohio.
Posted by Skillet
Member since Aug 2006
113798 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 1:00 pm to
icy breeze here...and for reference i'll us it in a sentance


"hey hun, come sit on the patio with me and enjoy the cold fresh air provided by my icy breeze chest and air cooler"
Posted by dtmb
Member since Mar 2013
709 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 1:08 pm to
quote:

North and east of Hattiesburg it’s a Cooler


Can confirm. I grew up in North Mississippi. I never heard anyone use the term “ice chest.”
Posted by chili pup
Member since Sep 2011
3697 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 1:17 pm to
Cooler
Posted by Nephropidae
Brentwood
Member since Nov 2018
2772 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 1:19 pm to
quote:

Yankees are the only people who call it a cooler.
negative. only people in Louisiana (mostly) say ice chest. Do a Google trends search for “ice chest” and tell me what you see. Case closed.
Posted by whiskey over ice
Member since Sep 2020
3758 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 1:22 pm to
Cold water cooler
Posted by 1BamaRTR
In Your Head Blvd
Member since Apr 2015
24837 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 1:26 pm to
quote:

GenXers will call it an ice chest. Millennials call it a cooler.

And you pulled this out of your arse
Posted by lsubuddy
houma, la
Member since Jul 2014
4994 posts
Posted on 7/4/22 at 2:03 pm to
Ice chest . Advertising usually says ice chest cooler I think. Cooler is more for ice and liquid w/ pour spout. Ice chest has a drain plug.
Posted by 3deadtrolls
lafayette
Member since Jan 2014
6900 posts
Posted on 7/5/22 at 12:48 pm to
Yeti baw!

Ice chest
Posted by Wermanium
Member since Apr 2016
760 posts
Posted on 7/5/22 at 12:50 pm to
I'm 46 and I've always heard and called it a cooler.
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
49830 posts
Posted on 7/5/22 at 12:51 pm to
Both
Posted by Rambler
Coastal Landmass
Member since Jan 2011
1539 posts
Posted on 7/5/22 at 2:53 pm to
Mississippi coast baw says ice chest.
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