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Regional variation? When I was growing up (in California, in the 1970s and 80s), we called them chalkboards because, you know, you used chalk to write on them.
by e0 4y ago
Regional variation? When I was growing up (in California, in the 1970s and 80s), we called them chalkboards because, you know, you used chalk to write on them. Also, they were often green.
Do you call it 'soda' or 'pop'?
- echelon 4y ago> Do you call it 'soda' or 'pop'? 'coke'
- keithalewis 4y ago'Obesity juice'
- datkam 4y ago"Fat-free"
- dkdbejwi383 4y ago> Do you call it 'soda' or 'pop'? Soft drink
- euroderf 4y ago"Soda pop" is also a valid answer.
- ghaff 4y agoOr "tonic" (which was already a somewhat archaic term for soda generally in the Boston area when I was going to school). Boston had a number of those. Frappe was another--which you still see now and then at old-timey ice cream places. (A "milk shake" was just flavored milk.)
- michaelcampbell 4y ago"pop" where I grew up in the midwest, but now that I'm in/near Atlanta, it's mostly "coke" regardless of variety.