Coke isn't Texan!

[aichambaye at yahoo.com]

Penny and all:

I lived in Arkansas most of my life and everyone in calls it "coke". 
As in, "get some Coke at the store, ok?" or, "What kind of Coke do 
you want?" (and they don't mean diet or caffeine free, they mean 
Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew.... you get the idea). Arkansas is pretty 
close to texas... But I believe that they do it in Atlanta too (at 
least the real Southerners do, and not the Yankee invaders). 'Course, 
ATL is the home of Coke Co. It's a Southern thing - In NC they 
sometimes call it all "Pepsi" (pepsi is from here).

Heather M.

PS. Penny, I hope your labor is free and easy and the baby is 
healthy!!

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 
<pennylin at s...> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> Gee Catherine -- you've made me look silly.  *I'm* the one who told
> Carole that Brits wouldn't use patio/grill, Coke as a generic term 
for
> all carbonated beverages or margaritas.  <g>  Don't I feel stupid 
now!!
> 
> Well .... my husband & I were both just positive that the Brits 
don't
> refer to it as Coke, but as fellow-Texan Amanda noted, very cool if
> true.  Referring to all soft drinks as "Coke" is a uniquely Texan 
thing
> in the US (I think ... Amanda thinks so too).  I am bowled over 
that the
> Texans have something like that in common with the Brits.
> 
> Margaritas aren't all that common in the UK though, are they?  Maybe
> it's just that I tend to avoid margaritas when outside the great 
state
> of Texas (not trusting that anyone can brew up a decent marg anymore
> than they can make a decent salsa ....)
> 
> Penny