Pop, Soda, or Coke?

http://www.popvssoda.com ^ | 12/21/04 | http://www.popvssoda.com

[Mo1]

There used to be ice in fridges to keep things cold

The ice box part is called a Freezer

In the east the put their burgers on rolls and have buns with their meals

That sounds backwards .. Burgers, it's buns .. Hot Dogs, it's rolls and just for dinner it's rolls

[Darkwolf377]

And my favorite New Orleanian term, Lagniappe

YES--a friend from "N'awlens" told me that one twenty years ago. You're the first person I've ever seen actually USE it!

[numberonepal]

Now that we have this one settled, I'd like to see a map of hoagie, sub, grinder, hero usage.

You fergot Po-Boy.

[SoDak]

Not to mention the BBQ, Sloppy Joe, Tavern question.

[Betis70]

Do you have Grinders in Mass and NH too, or is that strictly a CT thing?

[MamaB]

I think it is Emerill or however you spell his name who calls it an ice box. I do not watch him enough to know if that is what he calls it all the time. An ice box is something in the ole days where people kept their piece of ice. I can remember going to an ice plant when I was very young and seeing all the 100 lbs of ice being taken out of the freezer. What did they use to freeze it? I can remember that it really smelled! We had both. There is nothing better than homemade ice cream made from chips of ice from the ice plant. After they did that, my younger sister and I would scrape the ice off the sides of the machine. It was like a snowball in the hot summer days in MS.

I can also remember the huge watermelons that were kept in the ice room for customers. I often wondered why they did not freeze.

[beaversmom]

Hey TX--thanks for the ping. Until I was 7 I grew up in Maine. I believe I used to call it Soda and Coke when I was little. When we moved out to Colorado when I was 7, my friends called it pop. I can remember thinking that was very strange. I don't think I use the term coke anymore because people would think I want a coke. I call it both soda and pop and use the terms soda pop and soft drink as well.

[Fresh Wind]

Yeah, I forgot a few, but as we all know, "hoagie" is the ONLY correct term.

[eyespysomething]

Soda or Coke. Depends on what comes out of my mouth.


That doesn't sound right, does it?

[MamaB]

I have never heard that term.

[beaversmom]

Growing up we always used the term ice box. Now we call it a fridge.

[numberonepal]

But that is a town that says silver dime for dime coin, as opposed to 2 nickles or some other combination, and also a silver quarter, sometimes, same thing.

In Southern Bama a quarter is called a "case quarter". People will exchange two dimes and a nickle for a case quarter.

[beaversmom]

ping

[Chode]

did you say 7Up???

but 7Up is still POP here

[Squantos]

Understand.....when I was a pup my Dad used to get the Saturday morning "babysitting" detail and he take me down to a local pool hall. The place had a big shelf on the wall over a big over stuffed leather couch that had a radio up on it . My Dad would take down the radio and sit me on that shelf with an RC & a Moon Pie. He'd shoot a few games till I finished the RC cola and then we'd walk back home just in time for Mom to come back from shopping.

All was well........

[4kids dad]

No you only had ice to cool it. No electricity just ice. The ice man came around every day to put a block of ice in.

[metesky]

I'm glad it survives.
;O)

[jslade]

What happened to "Ahraa-C"?

[Ryan Spock]

Kind of like crick for creek, ruff for roof and you guys instead of you all...

I think there are different variations of "you all" and "you guys" just like there are for the various "coke", "pop", and "soda" names.

I grew up in Houston, where we said "y'all". It wasn't "you all", it was "yall". But I guess in the slower-drawl parts of the Deep South, they draw out the "you all" more.

Here in California, I think people say "you guys", at least the people I know here do. And this includes if you are talking to girls -- it makes no difference, they're still "you guys".

I have family in Pennsylvania (south central PA) and besides talking funny in general, they say "you'ens" or "yunes" or something like that.

[Betis70]

Grinder for me, but I understand all the others.

I wonder where "Hero" came from? An English corruption of Gyro maybe?