akl@wbux5.UUCP (03/18/84)
(for the almighty line-eater) Bubbler? I must admit that's a new one for me. However, I grew up near Buffalo, NY (boy, do I miss wings!) and "pop" was a carbonated beverage that came in bottles or cans, like Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, Squirt, etc. We even had "Poppe Shoppes" where all they sold was pop by the case. A SODA was what you got at the ice cream place, and consisted of soda water, flavored syrup and ice cream all blended together. When I moved to NJ 3 1/2 years ago, I received many a strange look when I said I was going to get some pop. Until now, I was unaware of anyone else who used the term "pop" as I did. Any other "pop" people out there? Anita K. Laux Bell Communications Research West Long Branch, NJ wbux5!akl
co@cbscc.UUCP (Corinna Owens) (03/20/84)
From my observations, folks here in Columbus, Ohio use the term 'pop'. A friend from Columbus just returned from a four year stay in Oklahoma. She picked up the term 'soda' down there. I also have a sister-in-law from Columbus who sent several years in S. Carolina and picked up the term 'soda'. ---------------------- Corinna Owens cbosgd!cbscc!co
ed@unisoft.UUCP (Ed Gould) (03/22/84)
I hear the term "pop" now and then, but I'm not sure where it's common. Seems like the midwest or the south is where I've heard it most. Out here (Berkeley), "soda" is a carbonated soft drink; the ice cream store variety is explicitly an "ice cream soda". No one at all would know what an "all chocolate soda" was, not even the ice cream shops! -- Ed Gould ucbvax!mtxinu!ed
geoff@druxi.UUCP (SherwoodGC) (03/22/84)
There are indeed other pop-people out here. I am from Michigan (many moons ago), and when I got to South Florida, it was always soda -- NEVER 'pop'. After a few years we went to Mississippi -- soda again -- or Coke. It is not at all unusual to hear Mississippians ask what kind of Coke a restaurant serves. I am now here in Denver, and 'pop' is again the name of the game. geoff sherwood druxi!geoff
leimkuhl@uiuccsb.UUCP (03/23/84)
#R:wbux5:-17200:uiuccsb:7000032:000:194 uiuccsb!leimkuhl Mar 22 10:50:00 1984 Where I come from, we use "coke" to describe any carbonated beverage. Thus saying, "I'm going out for a coke" could mean that you are getting a Pepsi, 7up, or whatever. -Ben Leimkuhler
penny@ctvax.UUCP (03/24/84)
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ctvax!penny Mar 22 20:26:00 1984
(line for the line-eater)
Where I grew up, in the north-east of England,
pop was also the generic name for all kinds of
"fizzy" drinks. In fact I just queried another
Brit from the south and he said he also called
it that.
Another curious thing was that lemonade
there referred to something similar to your seven-up,
but not exactly the same. The first time I asked for
lemonade here it was quite a shock.
Penny Muncaster-Jewell
Computer * Thought
Plano Texas.jmike@uokvax.UUCP (03/25/84)
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uokvax!jmike Mar 24 04:50:00 1984
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I've called fizzy drinks `coke' or `soft drinks' or `cold drinks'
most of my life (in Oklahoma) but I seem to remember my grandfather
from Arkansas calling it `pop' or `soda pop' excuse me he said:
sody pop ( so-dee pop )
so maybe the two terms soda and pop came from there... who knows.
Mike Stanley
...ctvax!uokvax!jmikewombat@uicsl.UUCP (03/27/84)
#R:wbux5:-17200:uicsl:3800043:000:1005 uicsl!wombat Mar 26 15:59:00 1984 In central Illinois, "pop" was always more common than "soda." Also, small children would usually start out calling it "sodee" and would have to be trained by their parents to call it something else. Norm Hinton (at Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL) did a large survey over PLATO on this sort of thing a couple of years ago. People were asked what they called, say, a drink with carbonated water, or the grass strip between the sidewalk and the street -- things like that. He also asked respondents were they had grown up and where they currently lived. Those taking part in the survey were to type in the first word that came into their minds after reading each description, and there was no chance given for changing their minds. The results were very interesting. He could map out where people said soda and where pop, and for some descriptions there were areas where people had a word for it and other areas where there was no word. Neat stuff. Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat
leimkuhl@uiuccsb.UUCP (03/28/84)
#R:wbux5:-17200:uiuccsb:7000033:000:685 uiuccsb!leimkuhl Mar 27 19:37:00 1984 Wombat's story reminds me of a friend at Indiana U. who is majoring in cartography. He's interested in making maps that illustrate stuff other than the usual topography, rainfall, etc. One of his ideas: Conduct a nationwide poll in which you ask people how afraid they are on a scale of 1-10 (10 - practically paranoid, 1 - calm). Then he would use these numbers to make the contour map of fear. Another: Go around the country asking people what they have for breakfast. Then write their answers on a map. The resulting "breakfast surface of the US" would presumably have such things as the "bacon and eggs belt" and "Rice Krispies regions." Ben Leimkuhler
andrew@inmet.UUCP (03/31/84)
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inmet!andrew Mar 29 08:13:00 1984
This isn't even remotely related to net.cooks... but Judson Hale's book
"Inside New England" contains a test to determine where (in New England)
you were raised based on the words you use to describe various items.
Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics ...{harpo|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrewjmike@uokvax.UUCP (04/04/84)
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