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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah it's true. The game originated in Sweden, and we have a lot of Swedish immigrants in Minnesota. It was originally called anka anka gråttanka, which translates to duck duck grey duck. Or that's the story we tell here at least.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That's really neat. Were you also aware of "duck duck goose" growing up, or was it weird hearing it another way the first time?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I heard both growing up. To me they were just synonyms for the same game. Well, almost the same. Duck Duck Gray Duck is a little more fun because you assign colors to all of the ducks, so you have to pay a little more attention. But when not actually playing the game, the two versions live in the same pigeon hole within my brain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I had not heard of duck duck goose until I was like 15 and my mind was blown.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I grew up in southern Minnesota and played Duck Duck Grey Duck as a kid. The first time I heard of Duck Duck Goose was when I moved away for college. When I first heard someone say Duck Duck Goose, I thought they were just making up a weird verse in the game.

We always played where each person tapped gets a different "Duck" so, "blue duck, orange duck, wet duck, baby duck, and so on" and then when the caller says "Grey Duck" then the chase is on. So in that version "goose" could just be one of the ducks called, so that's what I thought they were doing. It was much later that I learned that other folks didn't have any variation to the calls other than "goose" and "duck".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I’m not telling you

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Wait, fucking excuse me? That's not real

Not fucking possible...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I know. How can the entire country be wrong. Only one state got it right. Also, it's called pop.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Does this involve your mouth?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Depends on a whole lot of things that probably shouldn't be said here

But yeah probably

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is the internet, where else should such things be said?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Worth the risk then?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. But you guys also say "aboot" and "rut beer", so you're Canadian and don't count.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

the twin cities doesn't have a 'little italy' or 'chinatown'.. but they got a whole suburb 'little canada'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Am Canadian, saying "grey duck" disqualifies one from being Canadian so we definitely cannot take them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They're also one of the states where people say "on accident" instead of "by accident" so I'm not terribly surprised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's true, the game outside of Minnesota is way more boring and missing all of the other ducks.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They know the horror of Canadian geese first hand. No way in hell will you get them to willingly partake in a ritual that has even the slightest chance of summoning one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I try to teach all small children of friends to call geese "honkeys."

Hilarity ensues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Something something marinate!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

No, I hunted one of those motherfuckers one time, you can marinate that motherfucker all you want and it’s still not gonna be edible.

Like $100 in special permits and special ammo and it wasn’t worth a damn.

I see why Christmas goose fell out of favor.

See, at the end of a Christmas Carol, Scrooge never actually was rehabilitated.

He went and bought the biggest one of those nasty ass birds he could find to stick on those poor people’s table.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

duck. duck. duck. duck. duck. goose.

vs

blue duck. purple duck. yellow duck. grrrrrrrrrrreen duck. black duck. grey duck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If that's actually how it plays I'm on team Minnesota now. We've been doing it wrong the whole time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

That's how it goes. So much more variation. Green duck gets em every time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Can confirm, adjectives go on all the ducks, so you can throw people off. Grrrrrr-een duck.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was in an antique mall the other day with my teenage daughter and we stopped to look at a bunch of wooden duck decoys, and I was able to touch each one with a "duck, duck, duck," then gleefully touch her head and say, "goose!" I hadn't said it since I was so little.

She did not chase me around the antique mall. Probably for the best.

This has been today's episode of Squid shares something no one cares about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Weird, I remember when I was in elementary school in MN they used 'duck duck goose', this is the first i've heard of the other variation.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

I live in MN, it's definitely grey duck here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I grew up in northern MN, I always said duck duck goose as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

South East MN checking in, was definitely duck duck goose

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Also slightly different games:

Duck Duck Grey Goose

and

Duck Duck Cold Duck

Which you play paasing a bottle after robbing a liquor store and are shooting it out with the cops.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For a moment, just imagine a Minnesota accent saying "goose."

Now you know why they call it "grey duck."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Paper baig? Baggel? I fuckin love you guys.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This is fantastic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Ducks are way better than geese. Unless you're also a duck.

But on the other hand, it makes more sense to run from a goose. If a duck came at me, I'd probably stand still to see what it wanted.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

These weirdos are probably doing their online searching with "Duck Duck Gr" too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

sponsored by duckduckgo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

What the hell, what? Go on, say it. Shout your shame to the world, you sorry psychotic excuse for waterfowl, deserving not of even the most ridiculed of colors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

duck duck grey duck is the correct version of the game

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Imma stick with duckduckgo