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Your fav diet pop?
George Shirley wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>> George Shirley wrote:
>>> Ophelia wrote:
>>>> George Shirley wrote:
>>>>> Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>> George Shirley wrote:
>>>>>>> Becca wrote:
>>>>>>>> Do you call it pop, soda, Coke?
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>>>>>>>> http://popvssoda.com:2998/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We saw this a few years ago, I believe.
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>>>>>>>> Becca
>>>>>>> Always reminds me of the hokey old signs I used to see in the
>>>>>>> upper south at Mom and Pop stores. "We don't know where Mom is
>>>>>>> but we have Pop on ice."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cold drinks are cold drinks or sodas around here. In some areas
>>>>>>> everything is a "coke", as in, "what kind of coke do you want?."
>>>>>>> In Georgia Coca Cola is "Co cola" and around here Dr Pepper is
>>>>>>> DP. Go figure.
>>>>>> In parts of Scotland, anything fizzy is called 'ginger' 
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>>>>> Yeah, ginger beer. Lots of Scots I knew would drink that stuff. I
>>>>> couldn't stand it.
>>>> But they call all pop, ie orange, lemon etc 'ginger'
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>>> Just a regionalism O, the UK is full of them as is the USofA.
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>> As I said, "In parts of Scotland........"
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> Can't be the Highlands, those folks only drink real spirits. :-})
LOL wanna bet? )
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