When we were visiting relatives in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia we went to a fast food restaurant and I ordered my meal and told girl that I wanted A DIET POP...Her Response: DO YOU MEAN SODA? My Reply...."Just bring me a Diet Coke"....
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Generally, I would want the OP subject line corrected, but in this case, it seems appropriate for it to be "not quite right."
Why would you order a “diet pop”? That’s like saying “ I want to order some food”.
Because usually there is only one diet option at any given establishment.
NOT IN MARIETTA GEORGIA THERE IS ONLY ONE POP/SODA AND THATS COCA COLA....which of course is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia....We visited the Coca Cola Museum in downtown Atlanta.
Hey Gunnerclone your on to something LOL....could it be Diet Coca Cola?
Diet Coke, Diet Pepper the ones I go to. Some also have Diet Sprite IIRC.
Heres another: "Youse guys"
Its the dubuque version of y'all
Its the dubuque version of y'all
But they'd classify a diet sprite which is a thing as a diet coke.
There are a million different southern accents. Not all sound like Georgia or Virginia. There are a lot of people in Southern Iowa with a a southern accent. It's pretty strong with my dad's side of the family. But then, they migrated to southern iowa from Eastern Tennessee in the 1850's. A lot of Southern Iowa was settled by people from Tennesse, Kentucky and Virginia in the mid 1800's. It's stronger with some than others, but I've heard plenty of older people (60's/ 70's) talk like Derek from New Sharon.
Yeah, I've only spent a lot of time In NW Iowa (almost all of it), DesMoines/Ames and Iowa City. Maybe southern Iowa does have it, I know southern Illinois does.
NW Iowa definitely doesn't have a major southern accent any more than white kids who listen to hip hop also pick up that sort of slang/speech pattern. There's a little bit of difference between rural speech patterns and people in Sioux City/Omaha/Sioux Falls but to call it a southern accent just isn't true. I waited tables in NW Iowa, Central Iowa and Chicago. I would never have mistaken an Iowan in those areas for a person from the south or vice versa.
He's gotten better, but apparently you forgot the time Ross melted down on air about Iowa's "strength of schedule". Thought he might actually be crying on air.
As far as "clearly you don't know Ross", most of us only know him from his on air persona, so we can only go off of what we hear.
Kind of like when a sports talk guy says, "Just ask (insert famous athlete's name here) about..."
How the **** would I ask (insert famous athlete here) that question?
The ones i have gone to only have Diet Coke. Got rid of Diet DR Pepper a couple years ago.
