So, Sugarland is the opposite. You couldnt grow sugar at your house in Sugarland, but it was commercially viable.
This is what I love about CF. Pick the most random topic (like, oh...I don't know...growing pears....) and you can bet there's someone here who is an absolute EXPERT in the field. #BetterThanAI
No, you explained it well. I just thought pear trees were way more common here since we had a couple growing up but now that I think about it, I don't see them often nowadays.
Yeah, my grandfather had them at his house in Seabrook. I used to get the rotten ones (and the worms) mushed up between my toes when I was a kid. People just don't eat pears much anymore.
People that had good access to Pears and made Strudel, subbing in Pears for Apples in the Recipe was a common thing.
Nobody calls it taller TX, thats just a heavy accent and from going there and being around the area, I can tell you there are a lot of heavy accents in that part and surrounding areas.
No kidding. My parent's "GI Bill" house off Reveille in Southeast Houston was built behind a farmhouse. It must have belonged to the folks that sold much of the land the neighborhood was built on. In the deep backyard behind their house, once the backyard of the farmhouse, were two pear trees that must have been there for many years because they produced edible pears. My grandmother put up jam with those pears and anything she made was good. I had no idea there was a crisis regarding Pearland and how to pronounce it. My sister lives in Pearland.
I asked Siri and Alexa how Pearland was pronounced, and they got it right. Then Alexa started prattling on about how some people pronounce the acronym differently. She’s crazy. Yankees, CVS phone system and GPS call it soo-garl-und Not sure if srs. I met a lady in Detroit last week who was from Tyler, I said ‘don’t you mean taller’, and we laughed and held each other, then wept.
