If you live in the Midwest and have every traveled to either of the coasts or to the South you’ve most likely run into a situation where your attempt to order “pop” is met with a blank stare. Well, I think we have some answers for why that happens. Here at the main office of The Tales in the 701 we’ve been busy putting together a map detailing Pop vs. Soda vs. Coke. Well, actually my friend whose job it is to read every square inch of the Internet sent this to me. All I really did was copy and paste the website address and add a few humorous observations. Anyway, I will be visiting both the East coast and left coast in the next two months and I will most definitely inquire about “pop” just for the sheer joy of it. My favorite carbonated water moment was when I was at Squealer’s BBQ in Indiana and a waitress asked me what kind of Coke I wanted. I was a younger man and less worldly so I thought for a moment and then responded weakly with, “New Coke?” Since that day I knew something was afoot in the pop world. This confirms it. Click the link to take a detailed look.
I wish they would publish the highest ranking “other” write-ins. Any idea??
I’m curious about what “other” would be as well. Sweet carbonated beverage?
In reference to the “what kind of Coke do you want”: I lived in Georgia two different times when I was growing up due to my dad working on his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. I had grown up using the word pop, and that is what I still use today. But definitely down south, it was, and I presume still is, “what kind of Coke (not pop, not soda) do you want?” I’ve always just presumed it was because the company Coca Cola is located in Atlanta!
Bro#5,
Two things: I’m in Jacksonville, Florida for today’s Primary. I’ll order a “Coke”. Also, it looks like one of the “other” counties is Minnesota’s own – Lake of the Woods. I’d suggest you send a reporter and camera crew up to Baudette ASAP to find out what the heck they are calling these beverages.
Bro#1