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Cliotheleo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
......... and Bo, I suppose next you'll be telling me that my parents aren't REALLY brother and sister. (ha ha)

Cangaroo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm thinking Bo and some of us travel in truly different circles, LOL. I live in the NW now (and yes, Msreiziger, I've finally learned to NOT just ask for coffee, lol)...but soda is still "coke"...and like I said before..."Bandaids", "Crayolas" "Kleenex" (and shh...even "Tampax") are still name brand names we use for all those particular products, no matter what company produced them.

Cangaroo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Clio...and now they've mixed the best of both worlds for Southerners! Carbonated iced tea with fruit flavorings...

Cangaroo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFl Clio...then I'm betting you know the old joke about "relative humidity"...but this is a family oriented site...so I won't go there.

Maris

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nobody ever says I will have a Rum and Pop, or a Rum and pepsi. Its Rum and Coke. How many of those drinks are really coca-cola???

Cliotheleo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
(Clio ponders Maris' question while she goes back and makes her another gin and "coke") :)

Cangaroo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Also...same logic...7 and 7 (yum)...which is not always 7Up but many times Sprite

Cliotheleo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
.......... but who can relate to the discussion about Nate's penchant for saying "fixin' to"? My mother HATES when I do that! (she's spent many years trying to overcome her 'Bama-ness.)

Cangaroo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
and when a Southerner asks for whiskey and soda...they mean club soda...not "coke", LOL or they would have said whiskey and coke.

But now I've gotten quite carried away.

Cangaroo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ohhhhhhhhh Clio! We said that in Texas too! It was never just "I'm going..." or "I will do...", it was always "I'm fixin' to..." That one took years to go away, heheh.

Cliotheleo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 10:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
............ well, now that you mention it, I don't say "fixin' to" as much as I say "gonna go" as in "I'm gonna go get me some more gin" but my mother hates it just he same.

Curious1

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 11:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just wanted to add three things.

1) While serving in the military I did run into many young guys and gals who did in fact use the word "coke" to refer to any type of sodapop.

2) I now live in the midwest and I agree with Dan that Poutine is indeed a fine cuisine. The only reason I even know what that is though is that they serve it at our local minor league hockey stadium! Ha-Ha nothing like Poutine and Hockey, Canadian orginials

3) Jan I just wanted to let you know that it's true what someone said earlier a Kumquat is indeed a fruit they sell in grocery stores here, maybe your aunt is a bit "fruity" LOL

Cangaroo

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 11:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kumquat preserves are yummy on home made biscuits hot out of the oven with a cuppa.

Azriel

Monday, July 21, 2003 - 11:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ummm...Bohawkins, I've lived my whole life in Texas and Louisiana. It's not a myth unless my whole life has been a myth. Perhaps you have only had contact with the prissy crowd in the south, which I will admit I've heard a few ask would you like a soft drink? BUT, the vast majority of Texans and Louisianans just ask, would you like a coke? and then they ask you, which kind?

C'mon my brothers and sisters from Texas and Louisiana could ya please back me up here!

Honey51

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 05:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"I someday hope to visit that place where people call all soft drinks "coke." It sounds idyllic."

Come on down to Baton Rouge and when you ask for a COKE, the response will be "What kind?".

Yesterday we had a bar-b-que and told everyone to bring COKES. The 'COKES' began arriving, and our ice chest filled with everything from RC Cola to Barq's Root Beer.

Dogdoc

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 05:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I had an English roommate in college who could not understand what a pardy was, as in " Are you going to the pardy tonight." Someone had to spell "party" to her and she said "oh, you mean a potty." I was at a meeting in Philadelphia and an English girl attending got stared at when she asked us to "knock her up" the next morning so wouldn't miss the meeting. When we explained what we thought she meant she said in England they gave the same look to a girl from the States who got up from the table and said she was "stuffed."

Lostintheglades

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 06:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have always said "Coke" when refering to a soft drink....then I specify with Coca-Cola-Pepsi, Sprite, 7-Up, or for those of us in the south...RC.

Just recently did I start using the word Soda....before that the word Soda made me think of Arm and Hammer.

Curtisahahahaha

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 06:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Here in Mass., we call all sodas "tonic." I'm not sure how regional that is.

Ketil

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 06:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I forget the comedian, but he said down south everyone referred to soft drinks as coca colers. He went into resturant and asked for a coca coler. The waitress asked what kind?

"Orange"

I can so relate.

Ketil

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 06:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, complete with definitions.....

Southern Slang Dictionary

Fixin'
Function: Verb
To get set : be on the verge Example: We're fixin' to leave soon.
Function: Noun
Customary accompaniments. Example: We had a turkey dinner with all the fixins.

Bohawkins

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 07:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Usually if someone asks for a coke and they mean a soft drink it is usually prefaced with the expression "them air" which is short for "them there" which is translated to "those."

example:

"Gimme one ah 'them air' cokes."

Jan

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 07:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually guys, I did know that a kumquat was a fruit..that's why I think my Aunt adapted it to her own purposes. She was a raunchy old lady and I think when she heard the name of that fruit, she just decided it fit the purpose for which she used it, if you know what I mean


Here in Ontario one of the favourite liquor drinks was always Rye and ginger. In the States, I have noticed that was (when I was younger) a relatively meaningless phrase. They did not know what I meant. Apparently whiskey in the States then meant Scotch or maybe bourbon..but in Canada we love our Rye whiskey. In the 80's to get that in the States we had to ask for CC or 7..ie Canadian Club or Seagrams 7, both Rye whiskeys. What's it like now?

BTW, the ginger, of course, meant good old Canada Dry Ginger Ale

Naja

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 07:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When I first moved here near Kansas City, I was totally thrown off by the phrase "put up". "Put up the groceries", "Put up the laundry". In Chicago we always said we "Put AWAY" things.

Carlie

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 08:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I was born/raised in Texas, and surely enough, coke can be used for any soda lol.. I'm in Maine now, and when I ask for coke.. I get a coke. They call them colas here.. I've heard of tonics.. but that could've been on one of the many trips to Mass. I've taken..

Jan

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 08:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I always thought "put away" was the norm naja..at least we always say we are putting them away. Must be a Kansas City thing?

A phrase I often hear but only from Canadians whose first language is French, is "pass the vacuum". My Dad, who only spoke English as a child but moved to Quebec 30 years ago and now only speaks French in the normal course of his day, will call me and tell me my Step Mom is passing the vacuum..and I always have a little chuckle about it.Do they do that in Louisiana too?

and they "open" and "close" the lights too