OT - Mindless Rant

geoschmo · #1 July 27th, 2001, 05:18 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Aronnax:
pop? must be candian

Yes, let's resurect the great "Soda vs Pop vs Cola" debate.

I, living in Ohio call it pop as well. I have friends from various parts of the country who call it one or the other. After much research I have placed the dividing line, running roughly in a north-south direction, somewhere slightly west of Indianapolis Indiana.

Anybody care to chime in so we can narrow it down more specifically.

Geo

Lerchey · #2 July 27th, 2001, 05:33 AM

I live in Pittsburgh. It's POP, damnit. Not "soda"; POP!

Col. John
Drinker of pop.

ZeroAdunn · #3 July 27th, 2001, 06:04 AM

Pop, not soda! NOT SODA DAM... never mind.

I lived in Iowa for four years, and for those four years I had to deal with, "Pop? what the hell is pop? Anybody wan't some Sooodaaaa, ya stupid redneck."

Pop, not soda, pop.

Quikngruvn · #4 July 27th, 2001, 06:24 AM

Around here, in South Carolina, no matter what kind of soda it is, it's a Coke. (SC's state motto: "Hey, at least we're not dead Last in education!")

Yes, soda. Pop is what you do to a balloon. Or listen to on the radio. Or call your father.

Next time on Mindless Rant: "Sub, Hoagie, or Grinder: the Sandwich Wars."

Quikngruvn

[This message has been edited by Quikngruvn (edited 27 July 2001).]

justjake73 · #5 July 27th, 2001, 06:33 AM

hoagies and grinders hoagies and grinders meatloaf sandwich....

I went to school at IUP in Western PA - Pittsburghers call it soda, Phillies call it pop... I'm from Rochester NY and usually say soda.

To all you Pittsburghers: Are yins gonna warsh ya cah today with wad'r, or drink soda and watch a tape of the Stillers?

justjake73 · #6 July 27th, 2001, 06:34 AM

Oh I got that reversed..who gives a %#@ anyways...

capnq · #7 July 27th, 2001, 07:02 AM

I grew up in Berks County, Pennsylvania, roughly 50 miles NW of Philadelphia. I drank soda when I lived there, and pop when I moved here to Pittsburgh. Back then I ate "Italian sandwiches" and "steak sandwiches", which are subs and Philly cheesesteaks here.

justjake: nah, I've got an appointment in 'Sliberty today; have to take a bus dahntahn to get there.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"