dolari | Since they left, they've had a Subway Sandwich, a Grinder AND a Hoagie!

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I love regional stuff like this. Here in Syracuse and Onondaga County, everyone says soda. Drive less than half an hour west of here, and everyone says pop. When I attended the University of Rochester (western New York, in the map's blue part of NY), people would spent ungodly amounts of energy debating whether the proper and correct word was soda or pop. It became a minor matter of pride and one-upmanship on campus and, undoubtedly, throughout the region. It became something like rooting for your favorite football team and strongly identifying with them ... hard to explain to those who don't watch football, but makes every bit of sense to those embroiled in the game.

Steve likes to tell me about when he was a kid, his father took him to an ice cream parlour in the Northeast somewhere and his father asked for a soda. After giving him a weird look, the server poured him a glass of seltzer water! The locals had never heard of "soda."

The funny thing is that while I was growing up, every Syracuse-area Wegmans supermarket overhead aisle sign said "POP" instead of soda. It was kind of odd, seeing that sign as a little kid and wondering why they used the wrong word! Now that I'm thinking about it, I have to go shopping pretty soon; when I go to Wegmans (whose headquarters are in Rochester) I'll make a rare trip to the soft drink aisle and see what the overhead sign says. :)

Have you found anything similar regarding coneys? Er, those white hot dogs that have a bit of spice in 'em? Here in Syracuse, we call them coneys. Then again, we also eat mass quantities of salt potatoes and spiedies...