# What is a 'Lodi'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 15, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123 "2004-04-15T06:13:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/21 "2004-04-15T19:32:16Z")
Seems like it’s been sorted out, but the “extended period of destitution” caught my eye since in Swedish, the word for “bum” is _lodis_ … Pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/22 "2004-04-15T23:00:05Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Just for the record - there’s also a Lodi, Wisconsin. Home of Susie the Duck Days! And that guy who was on pukes of hazzard. The dark-haried one. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/23 "2004-04-16T04:06:55Z")
If Fogerty was trying to suggest a “small” town, then he HAD to be referring to Lodi, Ohio(population 3,000), not counting the sheep. NOT Lodi, California, population 58,000. In a hick state, Lodi/OH is about as smalltown as they come. ---
**Author:** ![MrO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@MrO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrO)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/24 "2004-04-16T05:29:54Z")
[Lodi, Texas](http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/hll52.html), with approximately 164 souls, is even smaller than the one in Ohio. I grew up just down the road. It’s also close to Louisiana, which Fogerty seemed to like so much. Still, I feel sure he was referring to the one in California. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/25 "2004-04-16T05:45:37Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > NOT Lodi, California, population 58,000. Got a cite for the population of Lodi in the late 60s? No way it was 58,000. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/26 "2004-04-16T06:01:40Z")
> [@Ponster](#): > > Lodi (pronounced LOH-die) is the name of several places: > > in the United States of America: > > Lodi, California > Lodi, New Jersey > Lodi, New York > Lodi, Ohio > Lodi, New Jersey There’s _two_ of them in New Jersey? Huh. That must get confusing. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/27 "2004-04-16T11:06:00Z")
[here](http://www.kissthisguy.com/) is the Kiss this Guy website of misheard lyrics. It will save future embarrassment. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/28 "2004-04-16T14:30:54Z")
Speaking of misheard lyrics, before I actually read the lyrics to this song, I was sure it was about a town in Minnesota. Why? Because I misheard the lyrics as: “Oh, lord, I’m stuck in Illodi, MN.” Of course, I never could find a town named Illodi, Minnesota, so at some point I looked up the actual lyrics to see where I went wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Blornx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Blornx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blornx)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123/29 "2004-04-16T15:07:49Z")
To me, [Lodi](http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=5419) is a rarely-seen 60th level giant turtle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-lodi/240123.md?page=1)