noun Street Slang

Schwegmann's bag

· noun · nola

An informal unit of volume — roughly what fit in the giant paper sacks from the old Schwegmann's grocery chain.

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A NOLA unit of rough volume — about three cubic feet, or 'whatever fit in one of those huge Schwegmann's grocery sacks.' Used for everything from crawfish to laundry. Pure local shorthand; nobody outside the city has any idea what you mean.

“I came home with a Schwegmann's bag full of mirlitons from Miss Edna's yard.”
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Schwegmann's bag In A Sentence

I came home with a Schwegmann's bag full of mirlitons from Miss Edna's yard.

Origin & Usage

Schwegmann Giant Super Markets, a New Orleans grocery chain that ran from 1869 until the late '90s, famously bagged everything in outsized paper sacks. Even after the chain died, the bag stuck around as a casual unit of measure.

Variants Schwegmann bag
Tags #nola#measurement#nostalgia#local

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