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Is it Pop or Soda?
| January 15th, 2015 at 8:01:42 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I thought only Canadians said "pop" any more. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| January 15th, 2015 at 11:25:32 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
They say soda in SoCal and I hated it. In the 7 years I was there I refused to say soda, it sounded dumb. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 15th, 2015 at 1:01:20 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
In the northeast if you draw a line north-south from Syracuse to Harrisburg what is west of it says "pop" and east says "soda." When I lived in Albany I refused to say "soda" same as I refused to call hamburgers "steamed hams." "Soda" sounds too suburban to me. The President is a fink. |
| January 16th, 2015 at 2:57:22 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The oldest piece of writing with the use of the word "pop" to mean soda is over 200 years old. A new manufactory of a nectar, between soda-water and ginger-beer, and called pop, because 'pop goes the cork' when it is drawn, and pop you would go off too, if you drank too much of it.” [Robert Southey, letter, 1812] Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. As far as I know he never came to USA or Canada. |
| January 16th, 2015 at 4:11:49 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
I have never been there but met people and the weirdest one I thought was how in parts of the deep south it is all coke. Coke is coke. Sprite is coke. Pepsi is coke. I have heard people who said they were asked, "what kind of coke do you want?" and ended up totally confused. The President is a fink. |
| January 16th, 2015 at 6:46:27 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | Somewhere I saw a list of what every condemned man in Texas ordered for his last meal. Almost all of them asked for Coke. Not a single one for Pepsi. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| January 16th, 2015 at 7:06:26 AM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4516 |
Just to really confuse this my parents who grew up on the Canadian prairies used to call it 'soda pop' when I was a kid. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| January 16th, 2015 at 7:16:42 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
As one who prefers Pepsi not sure how to take that. Coke is more popular in the South, but that boggles the mind. I would rather face the firing squad after a nice, cold Pepsi than without. The President is a fink. |
| January 16th, 2015 at 10:39:01 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
People sure have different tastes. I refuse to drink Pepsi, it's flat, it doesn't have the bite on the tongue Coke has. In the big store near me, the Coke guy has to come 6-8 times a day to restock the shelves. The Pepsi guy come twice max, some days it's only once. I know because I asked them. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| January 16th, 2015 at 11:22:04 AM permalink | |
| RedNeckerson Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 5 Posts: 32 | In Texas condemned prisoners no longer get a last meal request. Not sure if I'm smart enough to paste a link here but here goes. http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/27159180/texas-prisons-end-special-last-meals-for-inmates-after-ridiculous-request |