You must have gotten a flat batch. Because imo, the only time Coke was ever better than RC was in the pony bottles. Its a lot like burgers; no one has ever compared a Big Mac to a Manners' Big Boy, or a Five Guys' Double, but sometimes you just want a Big Mac. That's how it was for me and Coke - usually I liked RC, Pepsi, and Coke in that order. Except when they had the pony bottles - then it was Coke.
Grew up in NW Ohio calling it pop. Now I call it soda. Though I barely drink the stuff anymore. If/when I do it's Coke bottled in Mexico where they use cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Occasionally I'll have a Vernors or another brand of ginger ale. It's all just kinda bad for you. Especially the high fructose corn syrup stuff. Hollow calories without a lot of reward. I'd rather get my sugar fix from chocolate or other such actual desserts.
I probably haven't had a sip of anything besides water for about 15 years. I decided that "pop", juice, Gatorade, etc just wasn't worth it
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Y'all better call it pop at the dinner table today, DT'ers.
Happy Thanksgiving!! I'm thankful for pop!!!
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I used to call it pop before the military, after being around so many others that called it soda, I catch myself calling it by both names. It one of those things that just doesn't rank high enough to matter.
back in the late 50's early 60's my aunt worked at the counter at woolworths . we got to go in and eat and it didnt cost us anything. also my grandpa was captain of the sand boat out of sandusky. i was on all the great lakes except ontario before i was in first grade
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
jfanent i see you live in oregone ohio. do you know where the waste water treatment plant is on york. i built that along with the generator plank there, but still never had a tony pockos hot dog. drove but it alot.
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
jfanent i see you live in oregone ohio. do you know where the waste water treatment plant is on york. i built that along with the generator plank there, but still never had a tony pockos hot dog. drove but it alot.
You were right there, bro. You really missed out on some royal goodness.
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A trip to Tony Packo's 1.0 is a must. It's worth the trip just to view all the sandwich buns autographed by famous people. The food is top-notch, too.
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I do have to add this, however: a trip to/through East Toledo is one from which you may never return!
I've never been anywhere in this world with a more chaotic and senseless street grid in my life...and I actually spent 4 days driving in and around Boston! I actually have nightmares of never getting out of the shadow of the refinery there. Oregon is fine. GETTING TO Oregon is... [shudder].
Last year's holiday concert trip to your neck of the woods was EPIC: closed Interstate exits/on ramps. Through-town detours. In-town traffic gridlock, due to closed routes. Bad weather. Stupid drivers. Honking horns. Road/street rage. I left my house 1.5 hours before The Downbeat, and barely got there with 10 minutes to spare! (Dawg- it's supposed to be a 30-35 min commute...)
I hate My Town the instant I cross the Maumee River. Can't help it- y'all's traffic infrastructure is totally messed up!
BTW: We'll be back at Clay HS on 12/2. 7:30 PM. I'm even narrating a very cleverly-written piece that is based on "The Night Before Christmas" [hint].
Maybe this time, you'll get to introduce me to your lovely wife
I don't drink it but, I used to call it "pop" but then moved around and got into the habit of calling it "soda".
My dad always called it "Coke" no matter what it was. Even if he wanted (and preferred) Pepsi it was still "a coke" to him. He was born in Delaware...maybe that is a mid-Atlantic thing?
If people suggest otherwise ask them is it a pop bottle or a soda bottle? Is it a pop bottle rocket or a soda bottle rocket?
It's a soda bottle and it's just a bottle rocket, in case you need to use a beer bottle.
Soft drinks (to use a more neutral term) were originally made fizzy with sodium bicarbonate.. baking SODA.. that's how they got the accurate name of soda. At NO POINT have any soft drinks ever been made with an ingredient called "Pop".. So y'all fringe radicals that call it "pop" are just making stuff up and should have your first amendment right to free speech revoked for being wrong.