Twice in the last week I've been asked if I want a soda

[HEyHEY]

How the hell is this yankee slang managing to infiltrate my city?

[mcctatas]

1. Silly Canadian....

We are the Borg and you will be assimilated! ;)

[lost-in-nj]

2. Slowly but surely

we will overtake you....

a peaceful coup....

we will talk in a different language
and you will never understand us.......
then we will strike....

make you sign ze papers....


:rofl:

lost

ps
do you want fries with that soda?????

[HEyHEY]

4. I actually think that

Because there're so many tourists here, the servers are picking it up.

[PBS Poll-435]

3. What do you call it?

Pop?

A carbonated beverage?

A soft drink?

[ghostsofgiants]

5. It's called soda. Accept it, fool.

[JBoy]

6. Travellers should consult this map, to avoid an embarassing faux pas

http://popvssoda.com:2998/images/smalldrawn.gif

[HEyHEY]

7. dude, fellow Vancouverite!

Have we met here before?

[JBoy]

8. I think we traded hellos on DU once. We may have met, if you spend any time here

:toast:

[HEyHEY]

9. I was likely near that cop car when that photo was taken

If that's the shooting there a couple months back.

[deucemagnet]

10. What's with the white areas on the map?

Does the majority of Nevada not yet have carbonated beverages? :shrug:

[Ikonoklast]

11. The white areas are for 'milk'.

Big milk drinkers, them Nevadans.

[Breeze54]

12. NV is mostly desert and unpopulated.

The populated area's drink pop, soda, water, etc. and a lot of alcohol. ;)

Well, a lot of visitors drink a lot of alcohol too.

[Mojambo]

13. I'm a soda guy in pop country.

Pop just seems like something a little kid would say.

[greenbriar]

15. I say pop and Pepsi

as Pepsi is the only "soda" I drink

[zanne]

14. Do you call it "tonic"? nt

[npk]

16. What every hapened to, "Would you like something to drink."

:toast:

[HEyHEY]

17. pop

[MorningGlow]

18. Aw, it's like when I was in London in the mid-'90s

On a menu board at a PUB for gods' sakes: "fries" instead of "chips". NO NO NO NO! Do not cave to the Murkins! We are an evil plague!

[DarkTirade]

19. Umm... that's not slang. That's what it's called.