I spent 9 years in the Midwest, and everyone called it pop

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Apr 15, 2021
5:05:26pm

HiLife Truly Addicted User

I now live in California, and people look at you like your an idiot if you call it anything but "soda".

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HiLife

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Phrases or words that I never heard before until moving to Utah. Some background

JamDownSouth

4/15/21 4:21pm

Pop not just a Utah thing. Fry Sauce is a western thing.

Baron

4/15/21 4:23pm

For the most part, isn't Utah a "Soda" state?

BYUtka

4/15/21 4:26pm

I guess it depends on which map is more accurate.

Baron

4/15/21 4:28pm

Anecdotally, I pretty much only hear Soda around here.

BYUtka

4/15/21 4:31pm

Wow, Pop is used more than I thought.

JamDownSouth

4/15/21 4:31pm

I would say the first map is more accurate

HiLife

4/15/21 5:11pm

I haven’t heard someone actually call it a “pop” in a long time.

mobomanjoe

4/15/21 4:33pm

Yeah I think it’s more of a mid-west thing.

cheezedawg

4/15/21 4:50pm

I spent 9 years in the Midwest, and everyone called it pop

HiLife

4/15/21 5:05pm

My folks had some midwestern roots and called it pop, but I’ve been living in CA long enough now that pop sounds weird

cheezedawg

4/15/21 5:12pm

DTR? Old guy here.

PJMort

4/15/21 4:25pm

Yup

JamDownSouth

4/15/21 4:26pm

"Define the relationship". Not a Utah thing.

JuicyJam

4/15/21 4:29pm

but ramped up like crazy here with college aged kids getting married which is

Mayor of Cougartown

4/15/21 4:30pm

I agree, probably more common in Utah. Just not unique.

JuicyJam

4/15/21 4:35pm

I think it’s “sloughing of skin” and I don’t think that’s a Utah thing.

mobomanjoe

4/15/21 4:25pm

You could be right. That's how my wife explained it to me and she's from UT

JamDownSouth

4/15/21 4:27pm

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BYUtka

4/15/21 4:27pm

Came to say this. 👍

m0resn0w

4/15/21 4:32pm

"butt" in line, Oh my heck

D.T. Survivor

4/15/21 4:26pm

I've never understood calling all soda a coke. It makes no sense

shakavaka

4/15/21 4:30pm

Calling a product by a brand name isn't unique to Coke.

JuicyJam

4/15/21 4:34pm

I knew I was going to get this response...

shakavaka

4/15/21 4:39pm

They'll ask "what kind of coke" you want

JuicyJam

4/15/21 4:45pm

So if you want a coke tho, do you say "cola" or "classic" to that?

Gunga Galunga

4/15/21 5:20pm

You just respond “coke”.. second time around locks it down

cougfanz

4/15/21 5:21pm

Haha 👍

Gunga Galunga

4/15/21 5:25pm

If you say it three times tho...

rcbyufan

4/15/21 5:48pm

Levi’s for denim pants

RC Vikings

4/15/21 4:45pm

Don't forget Bandaid

HiLife

4/15/21 5:02pm

There’s a term for this: generic trademark. Q-tip, Kleenex, bandaid, etc. But

Jay Rick

4/15/21 5:16pm

My wife says the said thing when she moved to Idaho after growing up in the east

BigEasyCougar

4/15/21 4:40pm

I grew up in Utah but moved out of state in my 20s.

Brutus216

4/15/21 4:40pm

I had no idea that was a Utah thing

Great38

4/15/21 4:51pm

Having made the opposite move as you, from Utah to Texas about a year ago I

TrueBlue1

4/15/21 4:44pm

Mmmmmm... pastraaami

Gunga Galunga

4/15/21 5:21pm

You won’t find tri tip either in Texas

WDaddy

4/15/21 5:51pm

Pastrami is an Eastern European Jewish food

Nat Gas Man

4/15/21 6:45pm

Is it sluff or slough?

SpiffCoug

4/15/21 5:07pm

For school, sluff

HiLife

4/15/21 5:14pm

I'm talking about the spelling. I called it ditching too.

SpiffCoug

4/15/21 5:29pm

cougfanz

4/15/21 5:20pm

Explains F chicks

Nat Gas Man

4/15/21 6:49pm

Oh yeah that was one I learned about from my wife. F chicks are

BYU Grounds

4/17/21 12:26am

So people really refer to Sprite as coke?

Great38

4/15/21 5:23pm

Yep

HiLife

4/15/21 5:25pm

NCMO takes on a whole new meaning when your board name is Jamdownsouth.

Nakedbootleg

4/15/21 5:33pm

NCMO is not a Utah thing. It appears to be a Provo thing or for those who have strong ties to BYU and or Provo.

Zach Morris

4/15/21 5:40pm

Yes. Ncmo is a BYU thing specifically.

Jay Rick

4/15/21 5:42pm

other places the college students have sex with no commitment so yeah

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