Why do people say "making groceries"?

I always thought making groceries meant cooking, not shopping


Eta: I'm probably wrong about that though because I don't say that dumb shite

would you prefer they said "brake tag"

I have never heard that in my life.

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Why do people say "making groceries"?

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Because they are dumb. Don't be like them.

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I have never heard that in my life.

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It is strictly and exclusively an old school New Orleans phrase. You won't hear it anywhere else.

It's a phrase that has really died out and an older generation thing. It's pretty much just said as a joke now.

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I always thought making groceries meant cooking, not shopping

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nope. In nola it means shopping.

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You won't here it anywhere else.

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Don't let yer mom and dem hear you talking such shite language.

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Nice edit pussy.

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I noticed it 10 seconds after I posted. Jeez

Because Schweggman's use to have a bar in most of their stores.... Husbands would get so loaded they would say their wives were "making groceries...."

As I understand it, the French for grocery shopping involves the verb for "to make/to do" which is fare in Italian, and hacer in Spanish. Whatever it is in French, it likely to be part of the colloquial phrase in said language. Given the preponderance of French-speaking people in many parts of New Orleans for well nigh 200 years, it would make sense that many would translate it literally, and voila...we "make groceries."

Some say it in fun, some say it half in fun and half in trying to keep some local color alive before we all sound like we're from wherever the education barons think the "perfect" American English accent and diction originates. Lord forbid we all sound different and reflect our roots without getting the pop culture's approval.