Posted on 12/21/2004 10:05:42 AM PST by agenda_express
Where does the name davenport come from ??
Growing up in a dark blue county of northwest Indiana I called it "pop". After having spent the last 20 years in the greenish-yellow county in Maryland (suburb of DC) I call it "soda." Unless I return to the mid-west....however in Germany I didn't bother with either, I asked for "bier."
Yep. Our daughter grew up here and moved to Seattle where they call it pop. Now that they have moved back here, they had to start calling it coke again. The teens still think it is odd to say coke.
Correction:
Pop here in other than eastern WI
;^)
I go up to Sheboygan now and then. (I'm from Arkansas.) On one flight up I was seated between two talkative women. One from Racine and the other from Savannah GA. Thank goodness it was a short flight!
I live in Racine.
When I visited friends in the South they thought I was weird for not knowing that a coke wasn't a Coca-Cola.
Soda down here in immigrant liberal land (South Florida).
If I'm not mistaken, that was the brand name of a popular sofa a while back (similar to Kleenex being synonymous with tissue or Coke with soda).
Now that we have this one settled, I'd like to see a map of hoagie, sub, grinder, hero usage.
How about a refrigerator an ice box? I have heard that a few times on tv.
It is vitally important information like this that FR is all about.
....oh and I'm a soda man here in So. Cal.
Actually, I've seen one before...try Google.
Working in Texas recently, I was amused when someone at the bank I was working at asked me if I wanted a Coke. I said yes. They said "We have Mountain Dew Cokes, and Orange Cokes in the fridge, and other kinds in the machine". I thought everyone knew it was actually pop.
And my Grandparents from Lowell, MASS called a milkshake a frappe.
Thanks for that info
Oh and it's Kleenex here :0)
I wonder if someone up in the NW Angle of MN was having fun at the researcher's expense. Can't imagine what "other" thing they might call it up there.
Archaic.
I still say it. Should that tell me something?
I thought it was kinda funny too. I just moved from Western New York where it was pop, to East Tennessee where it is " coke". I'm getting used to it though.
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