Snow? (Morristown: buy, restaurant, store)

[Ucandoit]

Oh yeah, I forgot the one about the shopping cart.......LOL I still chuckle to this day when the bagger asks me if I want my bags in the buggy? LOL Oh and that is another thing when I say bags, everyone makes fun of me, they think I say bugs, and also when I say eight, I have to go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8 to them or they don't get me saying "eight" not certain what they think I am saying.......!
You guys are great fun.......But, I don't know about you guys but I am starting to feel alittle old.

Don't know if any of you listen to Joyce Meyer at all but in one of her tapes, about grocery stores, and minding the voice that says put that back where you found it if you don't want it anymore, don't just stick it anywhere. And the voice that says "put your shopping cart back where it belongs" when you are done using it......LOL Even she says shopping cart!

Oh well just a thought

[JMT]

Originally Posted by gemthornton

And, SMG, coke is Coke, but sometimes it's Dr. Pepper, 7-UP, Sprite, etc. Where did that come from, anyhow? We always called it "soft drink" where I grew up. I went away to college and suddenly all of the cool kids called it "soda".

When I went home for Christmas break my freshmen year I wanted to show all of my old buddies what a cool, sophisticated college woman I had become. As we all sat at the fountain in Widman's Drug Store, I ordered a soda. Well, you know what I got! Yep, soda water. Double yuck! It sure isn't worth it to try to be someone you're not. I had to drink that thing to save face in front of my friends.

This comes up periodically in this forum! I think it's hysterical. So here's that map again that I post from time to time to show regional differences. Is it soda? pop? coke?

[Beretta]

And let's not forget bags and sacks. Do you want your groceries bagged or sacked? I thought that sacked is what happened to quarterbacks?

[gemkeeper]

SmokyMtnGal, I had never heard that term either - "sacked". Unless, you count my inebriated uncle who would say at New Year's Day football parties, "I ad so minny snacks, I tink Um all sacked out."

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by JMT

This comes up periodically in this forum! I think it's hysterical. So here's that map again that I post from time to time to show regional differences. Is it soda? pop? coke?

That is hysterical. And I wonder how much time someone spend doing it.

[gemkeeper]

And, why?

Unless you did it as a class project, JMT, then it makes perfect sense.

[MrsMtnsOnTheMind]

Originally Posted by alleycat

That is hysterical. And I wonder how much time someone spend doing it.

Yeah....our government probably paid for it too.

[gemkeeper]

You know, I think we all crave this kind of information for some reason or another. I have been back to look at the chart JMT posted 4 times now because another area of the country "pops" (That's for SMG) into my head. I have to know what they call that pop/coke/soda/soft drink/other stuff!

We are information junkies. (And, we called it "other" - soft drink where I grew up. That must be that teeny-weeny fuschia "no data" spot in N PA.)

[Tinman313]

I can remember this as a child in the Morristown area..... Kickapoo Joy Juice - The Original Dogpatch Recipe - Flavors - Soda Pop

[JMT]

Whoever did that survey HAD to have some sort of government grant. I mean, it says they surveyed over 120,000 people. Holy cow that's a lot of paperwork.

But that kind of stuff fascinates me. Look at Tennessee. Pretty much all of Tennessee is in the "Coke" territory. But there's one little county in SE Tennessee, Polk County, that says "soda." What happened in Polk County?? And it looks like Jackson County, just NW of Cookeville, says "pop." Has the world gone mad???

And Utah. Most of Utah says "pop" but in most of southern Utah they say "Coke." And, interestingly, southern Utah is called "Utah's Dixie" because it was originally settled by Southerners sent there by Brigham Young to establish cotton farms. Yet this was BEFORE Coke ever existed.

Anyway, I'm sure this won't be the last time this discussion comes up. So be prepared to see this map pop up again sometime on here.