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Originally Posted by natickdan
Growing up in Boston, we never heard a soft drink referred to as a "pop" or "soda". If you wanted a soft drink, you wanted a "tonic". It was only after I entered the military did I, to my surprise, learn about the term a "pop" or a "soda". It is interesting how much product naming changes from one part of our country to the other. Another example is bowling. I grew-up knowing only one kind and that was candlepen bowling.
I should have known something was up when I was down south and a military friend suggested we go bowling and grab a couple of pops along the way.
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Yes, sorry Dan. I meant to say tonic in my last post. I just changed it.
There are lots of other strange local words in RI such as 'cabinet'. No it's not a piece of furniture - it's an ice cream shake/frappe.