Comments on: yankees

By: dad

dad — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:07:54 +0000

When I was a kid many many years ago in Knoxville TN. they (cokes) were refered to as a “DOPE’.

By: matt fulghum

matt fulghum — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:27:32 +0000

Old folks around here (Tuscaloosa County, AL) call it dope as well, and refer to delivery trucks as dope wagons. That said, only employees of Buffalo Rock (the local Pepsi franchisee) call it anything but Coke, or the more colorful Co-Cola variation one sees in Centerpoint.

By: Metulj

Metulj — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:25:40 +0000

“I don�t know of any place else on Earth that calls it dope”

Henry County, Va, ‘cept you ask for a pack of Nabs.

By: Aunt B.

Aunt B. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:36:11 +0000

Just as a word to the wise, if your Grandma tells you that taking a soda bath will ease your chicken pox and you dump all your Dad’s pop into the tub, you will get spanked, sick or not.

By: J Richardson

J Richardson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:02:31 +0000

Pop vs. soda? Hmm, in remote parts of Haywood County, NC, we can go you one better. Instead of pop or soda it is called dope. As in, you’uns wanna a RC dope and a Moonpie? I don’t know of any place else on Earth that calls it dope.

By: Rock Spring Conservative

Rock Spring Conservative — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:37:31 +0000

Uncle — I love your blog, but you shouldn’t lump folks in WVa. and Western Pa. in the same “yankee” category as the coastal yankees in Philly, NYC and Boston. I’m southern born, but spent most of my formative years in rural western Pa. They may say “pop,” but they’re cut from the same cloth as most southerners and cling to their guns just as tightly as their brethren south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:21:50 +0000

Somebody actually mapped pop vs. soda:

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/

By: Gregory Morris

Gregory Morris — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:31:54 +0000

Where in WV? In Northern WV, where I grew up it was about a 50/50 split between pop and soda. Down in the southern part of the state, folks call it pop. Those same folks will also likely shoot you for referring to them as yankees.

But I must agree with you about Pittsburgh drivers. Not the worst in the nation to be sure (have you driven in NJ?) One thing I’ve found driving in Pittsburgh is that to be safe, you have to learn to drive like they do. You are either one of them, or you are the enemy.

By: rightwingprof

rightwingprof — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:22:37 +0000

To be fair, Pittsburgh doesn’t suck nearly as much as Filthadelphia, and Pittsburgh drivers aren’t nearly as bad as New Jersey drivers.

By: nosmo

nosmo — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:52:08 +0000

I grew up outside of Pittsburgh, and even sort of claimed it as home when in the Military, since no one ever heard of where I lived. But seriously, Pittsburgh stopped sucking! It is completely full of Suckage and now is expelling it outwards into Western PA in ever widening circles. It is exporting its assholes and politics into the red country surrounding that pestilence filled hellhole. The sooner the city and county surrounding it implodes and returns to farmland the better for everyone.

The Countryside up here is much nicer than any place I lived/visited in the south, and I only skipped one state – Mississippi. I only lost one thing in Dixie,my Damn-Yankee Ex Wife and you guys can keep her! I’ll take the rolling hills an hour north of the rusting buckle of the steel belt.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:30:28 +0000

It’s always been pop, and it’s not just drivers, but all of Pittsburgh that sucks and not just because I’m from Cleveland.

By: Jay G.

Jay G. — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:47:05 +0000

MAhole, born and raised. I’ve never called it anything other than “soda”…

By: The Comedian

The Comedian — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:09:21 +0000

IIRC, the transition from Soda to Pop occurs as you head west in NY, with Rochester being the eutectic point where it is called “Soda Pop.”

So, Chris, I guess it makes you a Rochestertonian.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:05:46 +0000

I call it soda pop. What does that make me?

By: doubleplusundead

doubleplusundead — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:48:09 +0000

Those are Pittsburgh Yankees. Here we call it soda.

I was gonna say, we don’t call it pop here in northeast PA.

Oh, and here’s a map laying out pop vs soda vs coke,

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:21:05 +0000

Those are Pittsburgh Yankees. Here we call it soda.

By: firecracker

firecracker — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:23:37 +0000

If you hear the word, Pop…Run Like Hell!…you are in Yankeeland and muchlly despised! Your life is in danger. They hate everyone…but each other most of all, and it comes from living so close together. “When you can hear your neighbor, “FART” it stinks!”

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:21:28 +0000

Oh yeah, and where I come from, asking a waitress for “Sweet Tea” is a good way to get slapped for calling her “Sweetie” (unless, of course, she’s an Obama supporter, in which case she’ll bring you a nice, cold class of “tee hee”).

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:19:57 +0000

If calling soda “coke” is a Southern thing, I must be a Southerner myself. Then again, I do live a bit to the north of where I was before I came to the South…

By: chris

chris — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:55:08 +0000

dont ask for sweet tea… the crap they will hand you isnt really sweet… and im not sure it is tea either.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:59:19 +0000

yeah, say pop the right way. although, if it is not New York, you are still in the South.

Just found out it is customary to tip at Barbe-cutie.

By: Donna Locke

Donna Locke — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:27:34 +0000

When I hear someone refer to it as something other than a “cold drank,” I know I’ve left the neighborhood.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:28:10 +0000

That depends where you are. I grew up in Milwaukee (pretty damn far North), and it was always “soda” or (far less often) “soft drink.” Of course, most people I encounter in the South don’t call it “soda,” either: they call it “Coke,” irrespective of what it actually is.

And, on this count, the numbers don’t lie.

By: Justin Buist

Justin Buist — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:21:34 +0000

Welcome to the neighborhood.

Remember: Don’t ask for grits at breakfast. You’ll confuse the heck out of the waitress.