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Seattle Enthralled By Fancy Soda Machine
What to even say? There's more on this vitally important story here, but I am mostly surprised that they call it "pop" out in the Emerald City. I thought that was just a midwestern thing. Anyway… what a world. [Via]
Who said journalism is dead?
Pop. Pop. Pop. I grew up midwestern but have migrated to the British method of just saying what I want (i.e. Coke, Dr. Pepper, Ginger Ale). So much more efficient.
Where I grew up we called it "maize".
Ancestral home Seattle area: we called it pop.
Fizzy drinks.
We've had these in Austin-area Scholtzkys for at least a year now. What gives, Seattle? There can't still be that much of a journalistic hole to fill since the Sonics left.
I love those machines.
I really, really miss Taco Time's Crispy Bean Burritos. They justify existence.
I was about to get nostalgic over calling soda pop (definitely an Oregon thing too) but now I'm sidetracked thinking about Taco Time.
Never seen anyone so excited by a can of pop.
Native Seattleites also call flip-flops "thongs" which led to an extremely awkward encounter at a sporting goods store when I moved to California.
I thought everyone used to call those squishy beach sandals thongs. I assumed it was still common practice until the late ‘90s convergence of mainstream g-strings and people starting to wear those shoes in non-beach situations.
"A squadron of PR people—some local, others airlifted in from Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia—hand out Freestyle®-branded zip drives packed with information about the new machines."
Is this a misprint or are Coke's PR people under the impression people still use these horrid things?
I had always thought that “pop” was a Canadianism, or at least a Britishism that we had inherited. Learned something new today.
I grew up in Montana saying "pop" but switched to "soda" when I moved to Seattle 10 years ago. Most of us just say "kombucha" now.
I live in Seattle and this is possibly the first time I've watched the local evening news. Atrocious.
Fucking foreigners.
I haven't seen local TV news this excited since the multi-part series, complete with copter live shots, covering the opening of the first Krispy Kreme franchise in Denver.
I wish I was kidding.