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From: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Soda vs Pop
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:37:35 -0500
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My goodness! I haven't checked my home e-mail for a while, and looking
at the subject lines for the APG list from the past week, I thought that
my work e-mail from the Association for the Study of Food and Society
had somehow gotten switched to the home list. I haven't had a chance to
read them all, but I'mm looking for ward to it.

I was born and lived the first six years of my life near Pittsburgh, and
we called it "soda pop." Perhaps that's some artifact of being right on
the line where the terms changed, or the result of having a mother from
Pennsylvania and a father from the mid-west.

In case it hasn't been answered in another post (as I said, I haven't
read all the food ones), _The New Food Lover's Companion_ says that an
egg cream is called that "because of the froth (resembling beaten egg
whites) that crowns the drink."

Christine (genealogist by night and weekends, reference librarian at The
Culinary Institute of America by day).

--
Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Hyde Park, NY 12538
Genealogical Writer and Speaker
Author of Long Distance Genealogy:
Researching Your Ancestors from Home

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