Food and Beverage
Pop or Soda?
I don’t know about you but I for one love me some soft drinks. There’s just something about that bubbly sweet beverage that hits many spots. I like many flavors of it. I like diet and full-strength varieties. But this post is not about that, I’ll go into that at a later date.
This post concerns what you call it. Seems like a simple thing but people take very seriously what you choose to call it. There are those that call it pop, there are those that call it soda, and supposedly some even call all flavors of soft drinks Cokes.
A person’s choice of names has a lot to do with where they’re from. Midwest and Western (USA) folks tend to call it pop. Northeast, southwest, and parts of Florida call it soda. A lot of the south calls all carbonated soft drinks Coke.
I think coke is the only weird one. What do you want to drink? A coke. What flavor of coke? A Dr Pepper. That’s how I guess it would go. Don’t make no sense, no sir.
I like to drink and say pop. I’m from the west I guess, Colorado to be exact. It’s actually not west or Midwest as far as I can tell, but either way we say pop where I’m from. It’s just the way it feels the best. I’m gonna go have a pop. A dang ol pop. That’s what I say.
There’s a website, appropriately named PopvsSoda, that has been conducting a survey for a long time about people’s word choices. Here’s a map showing all their responses.
Very interesting stuff and I’m glad you took the time to read it. It really means a lot. Feel free to leave a comment on this or any of my other posts!
I think coffee is pretty good. I’m not a coffee snob or anything but I do like a good cuppa. I typically get drip coffee when I’m ordering from a coffee shop. At home, I use an old percolator that was my grandparents’ to make my bean juice mainly, with the Keurig and its re-useable K-cups occasionally being put to use.
That all changed last month when I tried espresso for the first time in forever and had a great experience with it. It was on the next-level from what I had been having. So good and tasty and even gave me a little caffeine buzz.
So I thought I’d take a look and see what it would take to get that experience at home. I searched my usual places to search for things to buy, Amazon and Walmart, and you know what I found? Espresso machines are very expensive. Well, expensive to me, I’m sure you find them to be a great value. But I can’t spend a hundred, or hundreds of dollars for a coffee machine.
After scrolling for a bit I came across this simple but brilliant device, which I just today found out is officially called a Moka Pot but you’ll find it listed as a stovetop espresso maker. The particular one I got cost me less than $10. You can pay more if you want, I don’t really know the differences between the different price points and I’m not sure there is. If you know feel free to let everyone else in on it in the comment section!
The only thing I’d change is that I’d get one that can make more at a time. I got a 6 cup capacity one. I know espresso is supposed to be served in smaller cups so the 6 cups makes about 2 decent sized regular cups for me. It’s fine if it’s just me having it but if anyone else wants some we have to do two batches. It’s pretty easy cleanup so not a huge deal.
In conclusion, you should try this if you like coffee.
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