I know I blogged about this ages ago, but it’s worth revisiting. After all the red
stave versus blue state shenanigans, it’s nice to fight over something that really
matters – soda versus pop.
(Thanks, Jimmy
Akin)
Thou shalt say “soda”, not “pop”. Thus saith the Funky One.
Here endeth the lesson.
Ah, but you forget his Philly roots…
When I was in high school, we went to a soccer tournament where the dinner discussion between members of our team and members of an Ohio team turned into the dreaded pop/soda debate.
It went ’round for minutes, until one literate member of our team asked any of the “pop” crowd to show us where on the Coke can the word “pop” appeared — the word “soda” was there, but not “pop”.
In a stunning testament to the faith of the “pop” fans (or perhaps it was just stubbornness), they were still unconvinced, as they most likely remain to this day.
And you call yourself a Pittsburgher? C’mon now…
Sorry. It’s always pop to me.
Down South, they just end the debate by calling everything a “Coke.” If you go into a restaurant, you’ll hear people asking: “What kind of Coke ya’ll got?”
The argumentum ab Coca Cola is interested, but as a good Midwesterner, I’ll have to oppose that “sola Coca Cola” reasoning. While I have a great personal devotion towards Coke myself, I must still consider it within the context of a great oral tradition using the term “pop”. 😉
Yeah… well I guess that makes soda people Hyper Coke Can Literalists…