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Re: [at-l] Re: RC & Moon pie was Re: Debates




>don't recall the lemon phosphates, but I do know that the word "drink" was
>synonymous for Coke.  As in:
>
>"Would you like a drink?"
>
>"No, I'll have a cheerwine."
>
>Folks who were "not fum aroun' here" were real confused with that "drink"
>business, always thinking it contained alcohol.
>
>
>I might also add that you were truly living large if you had a pack of
round
>square nabs and a short coke.
>
>Lynn
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Hicks <daveh@usit.net>
>To: AT-L <at-l@edina.hack.net>
>Date: Monday, March 06, 2000 7:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Re: RC & Moon pie was Re: Debates
>
>
>>Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:58:27 -0500 "Lynn Setzer" <hikester@mindspring.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Where I grew up, near Charlotte, it was an
>>>
>>>Ah-ra C cola anna mooon pie.
>>SNIP
>>
>>Every since this thread started, I have been wondering when the word
"cola"
>>came in play or if it was a geographic thing.
>>
>>As a teenager in southern VA, we grabbed "Ah-ra Ceee anna mooon pie,"
every
>>chance we got.  Don't remember using the word cola for RC or if you were
>>more sophisticated "Jus ah Coke."  BTW -- who remembers a lemon-phosphate
>>(SP?)?
>>
>>Chainsaw
>>
>>
>>
>>
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