I'd like to make a King Cake to bring in for everyone at my workplace on Fat Tuesday, so I'm looking for a fabulous recipe...any suggestions?
Speaking of Mard Gras...here's a great New Orleans Red Beans & Rice recipe I found - enjoy! http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/11359
Looking for ideas for a signature New Year's Eve alcoholic drink to have for the evening at a party I'm hosting. Nothing too complex; just a simple, tasty, seasonal drink. Thanks in advance!
Looking for a fabulous recipe for Butternut (or Acorn) Squash and Apple Soup to warm me up on these increasingly colder nights. Thanks in advance!
Being a "born & raised" Minnesotan, it's always been "pop" for me. But now that I've been transplanted to the Boston area, every once and a while "soda" will slip out. Then I mentally scold myself lol.
I recently moved to Boston myself and haven't had a chance to try these out, but they are suppose to be really good and have been recommended to me...
Oleana Restaurant - www.oleanarestaurant.com
Kashmir Restaurant - www.kashmirrestaurant.com
Troquet - www.troquetboston.com
Tangierino - www.tangierino.com
@chisia - sorry to hear about the breakup...recently went through one myself, only to find out he had been kind of seeing someone on the side while we were together (with whom he's still with)...ugh!
After a breakup, I mentally tell myself that I'm going to get into the best damn shape ever, to impress the ex and show him what he's missing....which usually ends up never happening, as usually I grab for the pint of ice cream, spoon readily in hand!
@PumpinBear and Nelson - I agree, getting sloshed with friends is always an excellent cure for a bad day - for me vodka cokes or gin & tonics are the drinks of choice!
Spicy homemade chicken chili...mmmm...perfect for a cold winter day!
I'm up for using any sort of liquor, though my personal favorite is vodka.
Growing up in New York, we called it "soder." Moving to Boston (OK, Somerville) in 1988 to be with my girlfriend, I had to get used to "tonic" or "pop."
In 1990, I moved with my sweetie Andi from Somerville to Seattle. Here, it seems to be "pop," "soda" or "soda pop."
I'll have the house fizzy water, as I usually say.
In Texas, we call it coke unless you are ordering and then you request whatever the name of the drink is.
I'm from New Jersey and I say "Soda-Pop." No one else around here does. It makes me feel special.
Another Chicagoan chiming in with a resounding Pop (not the sound).
@Alm25 & @misseditor........my father called "it" sody-pop when he was a little boy in the Poconos. He might have continued, but we teased him unmercifully.
You can get a huge pop out of plastic bottles of soda when you forget to bring them in from the garage and they freeze. You just don't realize how sticky that stuff really is until you have to wash it off of everything within 200 square feet, from floor to ceiling.
I said that pop is the noise when you open a can of soda, but there is no pop sound with plastic bottles of soda. What an argument, huh?
@ Alm 25. "but my grandfather says sodie-pop"
My grandpa says the same thing out in the country in Northern Calif. We say soda here of course, but when I went to school in Oregon, they all say pop. I actually argued with one of my new Oregon friends about whether to say soda or pop. My husband, who's from Oregon, quickly adapted to our soda ways.
Hehe I've always loved this debate: It's totally pop! I don't know what you non-Chicagoan/Midwesterners are talking about!
Hillary
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I think it depends on where in Massachusetts you are--you might not hear it called tonic in restaurants or stores, but go to a baseball game or a swimming pool in the summer and you'll probably hear it, it is pretty old-fashioned though!
From NYC
soda is any bubbly beverage. if it has no flavoring it is seltzer, or club soda (which is really seltzer w/ salt)
cola is a flavor for soda
coke is a brand of cola
pop is your father, or what someone does to you when they hit you w/ their fist
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