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View Poll Results: What do you call it? | |||
Pop | 33 | 25.98% | |
Soda | 56 | 44.09% | |
Coke | 33 | 25.98% | |
Other | 5 | 3.94% | |
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06-07-2004, 02:11 PM | #51 | |||
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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If I understand correctly, pop is a collective name like tea or pizza, not having a flavor included, right? The common word here is "frisdrank" [= soft drink], most of the time abbreviated to just "fris".
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06-12-2004, 10:47 AM | #52 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: The Mad City, WI
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Didn't you see the last sentence in my post you quoted? By the way, a water fountain is a thing you find in front of a bank, in an urban park, or in a pond. You drink out of a bubbler, or a drinking fountain. Kohler (of toilet fame) invented the bubbler in the late 1800s. For those of you not from southeast Wisconsin, Kohler is about an hour north of Milwaukee. They patented the bubbler, so other companies couldn't use the name. Hence, bubbler is part of the local lexicon, but most people outside of southern Wisconsin have no idea what it is. |
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06-12-2004, 04:55 PM | #53 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: In the thick of it.
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One time I was in a restaurant eatting lunch with my grandfather. The young waiter came and asked us what we would like to drink. I said water, and my grandfather said club soda. The kid looked at him and said, "Oh sorry we don't have club soda, um...we have carbonated water if you want that"
I have not the words. Oh yeah, and it's Soda you sick bastards.
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09-13-2008, 09:40 AM | #54 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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10-01-2008, 09:35 PM | #55 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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Interesting map. I assume the lone yellow county in Iowa is Johnson county> that is where I grew up and everyone I knew called it pop.
I live in missouri now. Everyone I know says soda here. word play with my wife. I make fun of her because she says "worsh" instead of wash. And we have an icebox not a refridgerator. |
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