# Fridge in the garage during winter

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridge-in-the-garage-during-winter/265337 "2004-09-21T15:56:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crafty42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@Crafty42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafty42)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridge-in-the-garage-during-winter/265337/41 "2016-04-08T12:53:48Z")

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Soda is more prevalent in the big cities like NYC and LA. Google “Pop Vs Soda” and there are plenty of maps showing what’s used where. I grew up in SW PA, in the country, and I call it pop. Friend of mine not far from me, calls it soda, and he’s just as country as I am. According to the maps. I grew up awfully close to the border between where Pop and Soda are used. Vermont and NH used Soda.

There are exceptions as to any rule. A college friend of mine from Rochester, NY once asked me to get him a Coke, and when I did, he asked me why I got him an actual Coke because he didn’t specify what he wanted. Somehow, even growing up where Soda is mostly used, he called all pops, “Coke.”

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridge-in-the-garage-during-winter/265337/42 "2016-04-08T13:17:34Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Well, hell.
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> Who says, “pop”?

Michiganders.

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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridge-in-the-garage-during-winter/265337/43 "2016-04-08T13:31:22Z")

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Had boughten is the double past participle of the verb ‘to buy’.

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**Author:** ![Crafty42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@Crafty42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafty42)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridge-in-the-garage-during-winter/265337/44 "2016-04-08T14:03:52Z")

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> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#):
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> Had boughten is the double past participle of the verb ‘to buy’.

“double past” is that two pasts ago, like a previous life?

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**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fridge-in-the-garage-during-winter/265337/45 "2016-04-10T03:48:58Z")

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> [@Atamasama](#):
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> This Yankee says “soda”…

I don’t know any yankee that says “pop.” Soda or genericised “coke” (the latter is my preferred).

Born & raised in Boston  
Currently living in NH

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