Pepsi in the South

[aichambaye at yahoo.com]

Hey Ebony, Pepsi - It's from in North Carolina and you'll find it in 
nearly every eating establishment (ick ick ick). So it is consumed in 
the South. You wouldn't tell me NC is not the South, would you ;-)

An aside:
Florida (most of it) is not the South. It's a Yankee place. Luckily 
you were talking about n. fla, which is the South. ;-)

Heather M., who can't start the day without a Diet Dr. Pepper.

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Ebony AKA AngieJ" <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
> Truthfully, I thought everybody drank Pepsi until college.
> 
> I remember being a kid and everybody making fun of the 
> disgusting "new Coke".  In the 1980s in Detroit, Coke was 
considered 
> too syrupy, too sweet, and too uncool for consumption by normal 
> people.  I mean, *Michael Jackson* drank Pepsi.  Enough said.
> 
> My dad drank a bottle of Pepsi with dinner every day until he 
died.  
> I am not making this up.  The few times my mother forgot to buy 
some 
> and the house didn't have a drop of Pepsi, he would grab his keys 
and 
> leave without another word... he'd return after a while with a case 
> of Pepsi.
> 
> My parents' Pepsi jones ran so deep that for most of my childhood, 
my 
> sisters and I were not allowed to drink that ambrosia.  The rule 
> was "Kool-aid for kids and Pepsi for adults."  So I make it a point 
> to pour myself a tall glass of Pepsi whenever I'm over my mother's 
> house... I'm working through childhood issues of deprivation, I 
guess.
> 
> When Pepsi (and everyone else) stopped making glass bottles, my 
> father saved the last one in the case and placed it in the china 
> cabinet as a shrine to his favorite drink.  It's still there.
> 
> And then I lived in North Florida for four years and some change... 
> and found out that nobody in the South drinks Pepsi.
> 
> It's all Coke... and RC... and Chek... and all sorts of other weird 
> drinks.  In order to get a taste of Pepsi, you had to go to KFC or 
> Taco Bell... and it *still* didn't taste the same.
> 
>