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From: Claire Keenan Agthe <>
Subject: Re: [APG] APG Digest, Vol 3, Issue 140--Soda vs Pop
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:33:55 -0500
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On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Richard Lindberg wrote:

> 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
>


In the Philadelphia of my youth, that's not soda, that's a float.
Especially if made with root beer. But no one made it like my mother
-- first you cram the glass with ice cream, then you dribble in the
soda (pop) / Coke / Pepsi / Root Beer.

I think we need a real New Yorker to explain egg creams, though
(milk, chocolate syrup, and seltzer / soda water).

Speaking of regionalisms, what about birch beer? I knew someone from
Connecticut who insisted it was clear, while I (the Pennsylvanian)
insisted it was reddish-brown. Turns out, we were both right, but
neither had ever seen the other variety. And I've come to realize
many outside of the northeast have never seen or tasted any birch
beer. To think of what they've missed, drinking all that Coke and
Pepsi... ;-)

Is anyone else getting thirsty??

Claire Keenan Agthe
http://www.bloodlines.biz





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