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I'm hungry.
HellStorm:
I think the correct word is 'sarnie'
And the other one is '<insert drink here?>'
Boro_Bandito:
--- Quote from: thehollow on 11 Feb 2008, 23:15 ---Sorry, apparently I didn't give my analogy enough thought. This better?
You don't see people ask for a Budweiser, and then have to further clarify that they want a Guinness, do you?
--- End quote ---
Not really, since its not as if Budweiser was one of the first beers ever invented. See, Coke however was one of the first mass-produced carbonated non alchoholic beverages on the market, and so its name in the South is synonymous with all carbonated beverages. Why can't you just accept that its the way we talk?
redglasscurls:
Because honestly, it's disheartening to see them consciously continuing the stereotype that southerners are stupid rednecks.
RedLion:
It also makes no sense. If someone said "Get me Coke," and I brought them, you know, a Coke, and they responded "What? No, I wanted a Mountain Dew!" I would punch them.
In the eye.
Repeatedly.
Boro_Bandito:
no, ya see, that doesn't happen, due to the further clarification rule of you saying "What kind." The conversation would actually go thusly:
Waiter: "What can I get you to drink?"
Southerner: "I'll have a Coke."
Waiter: "Okay. I'll be back with your drink in a minute."
Southerner: "Now wait a minute, aren't you going to ask me what kind?"
Edit: And really, that's what depresses you about the south and the reinforcement of the Southern stereotype? It can't be any of the other obvious myriad problems and stereotypical things that we do or are said to do?
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