Let’s pretend its summer, and you’re on a peaceful stroll in the park. You can pick the park, any park will do. It’s blistering hot outside, and while walking past a street vendor, you notice your mouth is a tad bit parched. Captain obvious says thirst is the diagnosis, and a carbonated beverage does sound delicious right about now. You go to order your soft drink, but when you order it, what do you say? Soda or pop???
Well, according to this neat color-coded piece of cartography, it all depends on where you’re from.
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My fellow residents of “The Most Dangerous City in the Nation” say soda.
Chicagoians call it pop.
What do you call it?
As for me? Well I don’t really care; they’re all mixers to me…
I ask for "A regular Coke please, or a Pepsi if that's what you serve."
ReplyDeleteI'm a "pop" guy in a "soda" county.
ReplyDeleteWork hard. I can hear opportunity about to knock with all of the seniors graduating. And minimize the mixers.Drink milk and myoplex and become an All Big Ten forward as you are destined!
ReplyDeleteI am old so when I say, "I'll take a soda please." They respond, "Sure, POPS."
ReplyDeleteHave you seen this map? I mean, if you like neat pieces of cartography, particularly when they display something trivial, you'll like this one:
ReplyDeletehttp://bigthink.com/ideas/21212