merryb wrote:
> On Apr 28, 11:10 pm, "
> > wrote:
>> On Apr 28, 9:37 am, dsi1 > wrote:
>>
>>> You called it "soda." Most folks in WA don't do that. It used to
>>> bug me. :-)
>>
>> I grew up in Seattle, and we always called it pop. Then we moved to
>> Iowa, and everybody calls it soda. We are back in Seattle. A few
>> people around here call it soda, but most say pop.
>>
>> When I went to Mexico, they called all pop - coke. That really
>> puzzled me.
>
> I grew up in Northern CA, and we also called all sodas coke...

I lived there about 8-12 years ago and they didn't call all sodas Coke then.

Cheryl wrote:
> On 4/29/2011 2:33 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> The problem was we were not anywhere near the room all day and
>> couldn't get there even if we wanted to. Plus I didn't bring it
>> because we had been promised a fridge which we didn't get.
>>
>> I did bring an insulated lunch bag. But I couldn't bring a cooler
>> into the ballroom. There simply wasn't enough room.
>>
>> And there was no way we could have done a crockpot or anything like
>> that. We were in one of the ballrooms from early in the morning
>> until late at night.
>
> What did the other people there do for meals during those long hours?

They could eat things we couldn't. Like certain kinds of protein bars.
Those little lunch packs of crackers with tuna or chicken salad. I did
brting those. Daughter could eat the salad and I could eat the crackers. A
lot of people got McDonalds stuff. There was one across the street. I saw
a LOT of candy being eaten. And dried fruit. One studio simply brought a
bag of bagels and some sort of shelf stable spreadable cheese for breakfast.
For lunch they had a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter.

Husband had more leeway. He was able to leave the building and go get what
he wanted. But if you had a kid under a certain age (I think it was 16),
one parent had to be in the building so long as the kid was. I say building
instead of ballroom because some parents had multiple kids of varying ages.
And different age groups were in different ballrooms. So some parents had
to go back and forth from room to room. Tecnically I could have sent
husband out somewhere to get us food. Realistically he would not have
brought back that which we could have eaten. Not even if I had written down
specifically what it was we wanted. So I didn't even try.

In many cases, if a person did go out to buy food, they bought food for
their entire studio. One woman from our studio owns a Jimmy Johns
(sandwiches). They were sent for all of the people but us because we can't
eat them. So I don't know the particulars of how they did it. Yes, I know
they deliver. This wasn't in the city where that store is, but nearby.
That was not at this past convention but the one we went to earlier in the
month.

Cheryl wrote:
> On 4/28/2011 6:32 AM, Storrmmee wrote:
>
>> one of the things i appreciate about you julie, is that you are who
>> you are without apologising or pretending otherwise, even when i
>> totally disagree with your actions or decisions, i really do
>> appreciate your openess
>
> Me too. I'm too guarded in what I say (note, I didn't say "write") in
> my life, though I wear my emotions on my sleeve, as they say. I just
> don't always say what I'm thinking if I think it is silly. Those who
> do are always the ones who everyone gravitates to, IME. I tend to
> think Julie is very real and how she acts in write is how she acts in
> person.

This is very much true. What you see is what you get. I also tend to
strike up a conversation with pretty much anyone. I find most people
interesting to talk to.

Cheryl wrote:
> On 4/29/2011 7:59 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> Growing up in the NYC area, it was the same thing, you'd just ask
>> for a coke. Even if they only carried Pepsi.
>
> Around here, if you ask for coke and they only have pepsi, they make
> it a point to tell you.

They do that here too. I generally just say I'll have a "diet", but...
More restaurants here are offering a choice of diet sodas, so I can't always
do that.

There was a really good Russian restaurant that opened on Staten Island
shortly before we moved from there. I believe it is still there. At least
their website it still up and running. They did not have any soda of any
kind. They did have several bottled waters. I believe they had coffee and
tea. Perhaps even milk and juice. Just not soda. But after we'd been in
there a few times and they realized I wanted a diet soda, they sent someone
out to buy one for me. I thought that was very nice.

Oh how I miss that food! It was very good stuff. We usually didn't order a
whole meal. Just soup, salad and some other side dishes. They often
garnished our food with caviar. And my daughter's favorite thing was a
dessert that they made of some kind of fruit. I can't remember now what it
was. I want to say it was an orange but maybe it was a peach? I just
remember it was hollowed out, filled with sorbet and frozen. They served it
with chocolate sauce and whipped cream. Very messy to eat.

Doug Freyburger wrote:

>> Seattle/Tacoma. Usually soda.

In the Parkland/Summit/Puyallup/Tacoma area I have never heard 'pop' refered
to as 'soda', it is always 'pop'.


--
Dave
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

"Dave Bugg" > wrote

> "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
> butcher a hog, conn a ship,

Thanks to you, Dave, I learned a new word today!

> design a building, write a sonnet, balance
> accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
> give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
> problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
> efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

On 01/05/2011 4:36 PM, Dave Bugg wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
>>> Seattle/Tacoma. Usually soda.
>
> In the Parkland/Summit/Puyallup/Tacoma area I have never heard 'pop' refered
> to as 'soda', it is always 'pop'.
>
>

It was always pop here. When my son was about 12 we were on vacation in
the US and a a waitress asked him if he wanted a soda. He had no idea
what she was talking about.

Dave Smith wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 4:36 PM, Dave Bugg wrote:
>> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>>
>>>> Seattle/Tacoma. Usually soda.
>>
>> In the Parkland/Summit/Puyallup/Tacoma area I have never heard 'pop'
>> refered to as 'soda', it is always 'pop'.
>>
>>
>
> It was always pop here. When my son was about 12 we were on vacation
> in the US and a a waitress asked him if he wanted a soda. He had no
> idea what she was talking about.

LOL!!! The same happened to me in reverse......... I came back from an
extended trip and picked up the terminology of 'soda' when requesting a
'pop'. It was either that or keep explaining what I meant by ordering a
'pop'. Well, I get back home to WA. and ordered a 'soda' and the waitress
looked at me as if I were speaking Mandarin Chinese. :-)

--
Dave
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."