Who uses the term "Calling out" for food delivery?

[getagrip_already]

We use the term all the time, but apparently family from Pittsburgh have never heard of it and think we are from Mars for using it.

Did my small family unit in central mass invent it or do those folks live in a regional black hole from a dialect standpoint?

[Croney]

1. I'm in eastern Mass. and don't think I've ever heard it.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I have heard this term being used ... it's not as uncommon as one would think, such as calling out the troops,

calling out the big shots, calling out the big guns, calling out for food, calling out for etc.

[Nittersing]

3. Carry out, take out, to go

Never heard of calling out.

(Born in Lexington MA '54-'64)

[ailsagirl]

19. Or in UK, they sometimes say "take away"

[Elessar Zappa]

4. Never heard of it.

Regional maybe? I live in SW NM.

[happybird]

5. We call it Carry Out

Never heard it called Calling Out.
Yinzers may not be the best people to be throwing shade on others regarding slang. Just sayin’

[getagrip_already]

6. We use the term for delivery....

It's a Mashup between take out and call for delivery.

And yeah, we can be inventive.

[happybird]

7. My family is originally from Western PA

Johnstown suburbs. I love the slang! We’ve had a lot of good giggles with my nieces and nephews (born and raised in NC) over what the heck certain words and phrases mean when our extended family use them.

[Basic LA]

8. It sparked a memory.

I grew up in the Newark/NYC area. Maybe we used that term there. Sure sounds familiar.

[getagrip_already]

10. I grew up on long island...

My parents were from Astoria.

Maybe thats where it came from?

[Basic LA]

11. "Let's call out for pizza."

Yes, it's really coming back to me now. It must've been a NY metropolitan area thing.

[rogerballard]

9. British use takeaway...

I say togo like pogo

[Hope22]

12. We say order...

When my son was two and a half we were in the drive thru at McDonalds. The voice from the box said ‘welcome to mcDonalds may I take your order. A little voice from the back seat yelped Order…order pizza!!!! Thursday night was pizza night in those days and the standard question was Did you order the pizza? The only context he had ever heard the word order LOL! We still crack up at that!

[Polybius]

13. How do you use it it a sentence, in the same way I would say "I'm ordering a delivery"?

I've never heard anyone say that in NYC. Here, "calling out" means that you call your boss and say that you can't make it to work today.

[getagrip_already]

14. Its even in the collins english dictionary

As an example sentence.

Alternatively, we can call out for pizza to be delivered to reception.
Scarlett Thomas GOING OUT (2002)

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/call-out#google_vignette

So I'm not completely crazy. Crazy yes, just not completely.

[malthaussen]

15. Well, I was born in Pittsburgh, and I'm living here again...

... and I've always used it, but maybe my speech was poisoned by the 50 years I lived in Philly.

-- Mal

[Harker]

16. Mars is very close to Pittsburgh. n/t

[getagrip_already]

17. My wife is the one from Pitts....

So in our case, the woman is from mars, and the man is from venus......

[Harker]

18. Nice touch! n/t