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"Pop" doesn't really bother me, but the South's "coke" does.
Coke is a specific soda brand. Ask for a "coke" in the North, they'll bring you a Coke… which is the logical response.
Asking for a "coke" and meaning Sprite is just confusing and makes absolutely no sense to me.
If you want a 'coke' in the south you ask for a co-cola, maybe even a coca- cola, which IS the original name of that soft drink, not coke. Asking for a coke is just shorthand for any carbonated soft drink.
No worse than asking for a kleenex or a band-aid though. Do you really expect the brand name product when you ask for a kleenex too? It's not that confusing.
If you want a 'coke' in the south you ask for a co-cola, maybe even a coca- cola, which IS the original name of that soft drink, not coke. Asking for a coke is just shorthand for any carbonated soft drink.
No worse than asking for a kleenex or a band-aid though. Do you really expect the brand name product when you ask for a kleenex too? It's not that confusing.
I don't ask for a Kleenex, I ask for a tissue.
And coca-cola may be the technical name but the diet coca-cola bottles say "diet COKE."
If I lived in the Midwest, I would use the word soda. I think "pop" sounds stupid and wrong. It's slang and shouldn't be used regularly IMO.
They will run you out of there for not using "pop". All kidding aside, using soda in the Midwest (outside of Saint Louis or Milwaukee) will just let people know your from the northeast.
They will run you out of there for not using "pop". All kidding aside, using soda in the Midwest (outside of Saint Louis or Milwaukee) will just let people know your from the northeast.
Or the west, Californians/Arizonans seem to pretty well known for it.
Breaded and fried?? Do they still squeak after such ignominy?
Well no, they're gooey at that point. Again, nothing wrong with fried cheese curds, I mean how could you go wrong with frying cheese? But "cheese curds" here means uncooked, fresh squeaky curds, and that's both healthier and tastier (in my opinion). Most gas stations and stores throughout the state have fresh cheese curd days, where bags are thrown on a table or up by the register; some areas near factories have them pretty much every morning. The only place I've found this to be rare is in Milwaukee, which only has one (fairly new) cheese factory and tends to refrigerate even "fresh" curds.
In most of Wisconsin we say "soda." There are many other goofy things that we say though - bubbler, TYME machine, etc.
I'm sure they are, but one thing no one else understands about Wisconsin cheese curds is that we're not talking about the breaded/fried cheese curds (though they certainly are tasty), we're talking fresh-that-day from the factory. They should be squeaky, never refrigerated, and hopefully still warm from the vat. I have never seen them sold properly in other states, though I've tried disgusting refrigerated bags of junk from MI, CA, and NY (which were the absolute worst - smelled like gym socks and got thrown out the window).
Many of these "charts" apply to southern Midwest (there isn't even a Steak N Shake in Wisconsin) and not Upper.
Not even Minnesota?
people here go ape sh-t over those things, the beer battered cheese curds at the MN state fair are probably the most amazing thing on the face of this earth.
Agreed using the term 'coke' when referring to soda in general is just plain nonsense.
Yeah, I never really got that...If you want Mountain Dew you wouldn't ask for 'coke'...if you ask for a 'coke' and you really want a Pepsi it really wouldn't make any sense either. We say soda.
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