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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Various things
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.200925.29553@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:09:25 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- From the keyboard of gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener):
- :b) What areas of the U.S. still call carbonated beverages "pop" and
- :not "soda" ?
-
- I always wondered why some areas still call them "soda" instead of "pop".
-
- "Pop" is pretty common here in Colorado, especially amongst
- mountain-dwelling natives instead of city-slicker imports.
- If you go into a convenience store or restaurant, you often
- see "pop" or sometimes "soda pop". It's the same in Wisconsin.
- But in Texas they just hassle you about it. (Notice how the
- soda people hassle the pop people but not vice versa? :-)
-
- --tom
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- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
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