Pop vs. Soda

[john70t]

I call it delicious overpriced-flavored-corn syrup-water, with or without a level of caffine added.

quote:"I dont drink water. Fish f#$k in it". Mmmm, caviar. Even better is tiger testicles. Make pp hard.

[rcecale]

Originally posted by speeder
So in the south, when you want a Sprite you ask for a Coke??

Yep, Denis, according to my co-workers that grew up here, it's ALL coke. It just comes in different flavors, i.e., Mountain Dew, Sprite, Root Beer.

Walk up to the counter and the server will ask if you want a coke to go with that. When you say "yes" they ask you which kind. Amazing!!!

Randy

[dd74]

Originally posted by john70t
quote:"...Even better is tiger testicles.

Ummm...my mother-in-law is from Buffalo, Wyo. Her stories of the cowboys there eating Rocky Mountain Oysters aren't too bad once you find out how they "humanely" get them while out on the range.

[djmcmath]

Absolutely it's all Coke, unless it's sweet tea. Pepsi's even Coke, which really threw me off, at first. Weird.

[DonDavis]

Originally posted by UconnTim97
My parents still drink Tab....there is a large liquor outlet in town that still stocks it.

You know Bill Murray drank Tab and vodka in "Scrooged". Is that how they drink it?

Also, my buddies and I will say "Let's have a few pops" when we are referring to beers.

I grew up in East Tenn and there we said "coke". Sometime over my adult life it became "soda" but my favorite has to be adult "pops" .

[Adam]

Good thread! You guys should come visit down here. If dialectual variances excite, you'll be permanently bewildered here in Aus.

Whenever take a road trip, I usually need a phrase book, or just think hard for a few seconds before replying to decode the Crocodile Dundee vocabulary. Seems truncating words and alliteration are our national passtime.

ie, Imagine Bryan Brown asking the barmaid for a "tinnie".

[dd74]

Originally posted by Adam Chaplin

ie, Imagine Bryan Brown asking the barmaid for a "tinnie".

LOL, Adam! Imagine me asking in Aussie girl, "Hey babe, what's in your fanny pack?"

[Adam]

If you're real lucky, David... she just might tell you.

Do you guys know what a good ol' Aussie "Dunny" is? Seriously, for good Australian-isms, you should rent "Two Hands", which wasn't terribly good, but it's funny watching true Australians being... well, Australian.

For the record, I cringe when I see how we're sometimes portrayed overseas.

[dd74]

Hmmm...a couple people have told me "Mad Max" had to be entirely re-dubbed for the U.S. market because of the Australia-isms in the movie. It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I don't recall a lot of out-of-synch lips-to-words dialogue like in Anime or Godzilla movies - which is an indicator of dubbing work.