[at-l] soda/pop/coke - was: Denatured alcohol container

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

Mississippi, where I grew up, was solidly "coke".  We went to the picture
show, then off to the drive-in (restaurant) for a coke and nabs.  <G>
anklebear

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From: The Weathercarrot <weathercarrot@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:35 AM
Subject: [at-l] soda/pop/coke - was: Denatured alcohol container


>
> At one point I was actually thinking of making a map of North America
> specifically depicting where it's soda, pop, and coke. New England's soda
> would be surrounded on three sides by Canada's pop; meanwhile the soda/pop
> line would proceed south from Lake Ontario, straight through downtown
> Rochester, NY, through west-central PA (Altoona?) and into northwestern
WV.
> >From the south, the coke and soda line is less difined, and has some
> overlap, such as in VA, or in urban areas like Atlanta. WV seems to be
where
> soda, coke and pop come together. Pop then continues well into the
> upper-mid-west, but interestingly turns back into soda for portions of the
> Rockies and the west coast. Not quite sure what's going on in Texas....
>
> wc
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
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> To: winchester@unnet.com, frombackcountry@markrebuck.com,
> at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Fw: RE: Denatured alcohol container
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:24:25 EST
>
>
> The correct terms are pop or soda pop, not soda.  Soda is something that
> goes
> with Scotch.  Nobody around here understands that.
>
> Black&blue&native Ohioan&naturalized Texan& current Delaware resident
>
> In a message dated 02/07/02 10:18:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> winchester@unnet.com writes:
>
>  > Also, I don't take pop(soda for you Easterners)on the
>  > trail so misidentification on my part would not be likely.
>
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