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From: Richard Lindberg <>
Subject: Re: [APG] APG Digest, Vol 3, Issue 140--Soda vs Pop
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:46:16 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <d10.1e9025c6.34f48dd7@aol.com>


In the Pittsburgh of my youth, pop meant Coke, Pepsi, etc. Soda was the result of pouring pop over ice cream.

Richard L. Lindberg
Pottstown, PA
APG member

wrote:
In a message dated 2/25/2008 3:54:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

>
> "great" part would only come into the picture if someone asked you to
> define how someone was related.
>
> As for that "non-southerners who call coke 'pop'," that's kind of
> like Southerners who call all Northerners Yankees -- an
>
I can only laugh when I read this as a North South thing--which to some
degree it is. We had a friend who moved to Florida from Boston. Bill was a middle
school principle at one time and thus had to work sports contests and other
evening events at the school. At some evening event he had tasked one of the
staff with getting some "soda" for the folks to have to drink that night. [You
can see the train coming-right?] When the staff member pulled in and started
unloading the "soda" from the trunk of the car Bill went sky high since they
had about 15 cases of "soda" and no coke, pepsi, etc.
Needless to say there was a second trip to the store and a better
understanding of what a northerner meant when he said "soda"
Doug Burnett
Satellite Beach
Fl



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