| Author | Message | ||
     Buellkowski |
Although I am culturally a "Yellow" stater.   | ||
| Hootowl |
I'm yellowish blue, though I live in a solidly red state. What the heck do the greens call it? Customer: "Waiter, can I have an other?" Waiter: "Another what?" | ||
| Two_seasons |
That data map probably cost $100M to produce  | ||
| Jb2 |
We always called 'em soda-pops so we just got farkled off the map. | ||
| Spacecapsule1 |
when i moved to texas it was called soda-water but i called it pop at the time. now i call it coke or soda. | ||
| Blake |
When first moved to Texas, I had more than one conversation akin to... You want a cold drink? Sure! Thanks! You want tea or coke? Coke please! What kind coke you want? Regular coke please. Okay, but what kind?  What kind of coke you want... Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Mountain Dew, Root Beer, or Coca-Cola?  After 30 years here, I'm fixin' to be fluent in the language. ![: ]](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/proud.gif) | ||
| Blake |
>>> when i moved to texas it was called soda-water but i called it pop at the time. And how many times calling it "pop" got you soundly ridiculed by the natives?  Anther memory from my intro to Texas... It's pronounced peh-kahn; a pee-can is what you use inside the hunting blind you stupid yankee. | ||
| Buellathebuzzer |
Look at Southern WI. I grew up in the NE corner of Rock County. The last blue county on the right along the bottom row. We were blue, surrounded by yellow. We called it Soda Pop. I wanna know why Minnesota's Infamous NW Notch is Green. Much of that county is water and you have to drive through Canada to get to part of it. | ||
| Buelltoys |
I grew up in Northern Illinois. Called it pop for the first 30 years of my life. I moved to Alabama and now I just say the kind I want it is a whole lot let confusing. And they still call me a "damn yankee". | ||
| Spacecapsule1 |
....blake, i quickly adapted! I think the soda-water phrase was more prevalent with the hispanics though... i also moved to texas from west virginia, so my accent had to change quickly too, and it did! | ||
| Strokizator |
I come from Detroit where we drank pop. A soda was pop with a scoop of ice cream. Moved to California when I was 11 and had someone offer me a soda. I was thinking "Hell yeah, that sounds good!" When I was given a plain old glass of pop I looked back at the guy with a WTF? look on my face. | ||
| Crusty |
Growing up in Massachusetts, soda (pop, coke, etc.) was called tonic. We used to go down to Sammy's and getta bottla tonic. It cost a nickel if you drank it in the store. It was seven cents to take it out to the playground, but you got your two cents back when you returned the empty bottle, and could use it to buy candy. like four Mint Julips, or a couple of Mary Janes or even two pieces of Bazooka bubble gum. | ||
| Mtjm2 |
Growing up , my grandfather always called it pop , And so did we until the late sixtys . Growing up outside of Philli. was a little different than goin to pop pops in Maryland . He always called it pop . | ||
| Etennuly |
I feel so 'dirty'.  I began my life with "pop". I moved to and lived in the land of "soda". Then I moved to where they call it "coke". While in Florida we had a specialty drink if sent to get it for others. It was called a "goob(gube) soda", where after putting ice in their cup you fill it with all the flavors available at the fountain no matter what they ordered. I guess it is not unlike what Crackers called me when I moved to Florida from Pa. Because I "got sand in my shoes" and stayed in Florida they called me a "damn yankee". Then I moved to Tennessee where they call me a "half back" figuring by the time I am about dead I will be back in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Hootowl |
It was called a "goob(gube) soda" We called it a tooty fruity. A little splash of orange soda was all you needed to tilt it. | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
interesting map coke county | ||
| Pwnzor |
I think it's funny that they don't drink soda in Minnesota. | ||
| Milt |
+1 pwnzor. I think the Boston area wins the Peculiar Usage Award. A carbonated bottled beverage is "tonic". Milk, syrup and ice cream whipped up together is a "frappe" Milk and syrup makes a "milk shake". Go figure. | ||
| Whistler |
Born and raised in Texas I grew up with the "coke" thing but for some time now I hear and say "soft drink." I remember my first trip to the Big Apple at age 18. Went to a diner and ordered a hamburger. I asked the waitress to "cut" the tomatoes, meaning leave the tomatoes off the sandwich. She thought that was a scream, laughed and said, "honey we always cut our tomatoes before putting 'em on burgers." I was mortified. | ||
| Kyrocket |
I'm a pepper. | ||
| Fahren |
I think the Boston area wins the Peculiar Usage Award And you put jimmies on your ice cream cone. Not sprinkles. | ||
| Buellathebuzzer |
Don't for get, in Boston frappe is pronounced frap. Which just adds another layer to the peculiarity. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Seattle, (soda/coke/pop is for amateurs )- make it a red eye quad short skinny on the ropes with slap Drip coffee, with four shots of espresso made with highwater (cafinated water) and a shot of Raspberry Turbo truffle (100 mg caffinated syrup) | ||
| Kyrocket |
I guess in Ky. it depends on which side of I75 you live on. |
