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The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture
One of the clearest regional differences in the U.S. can found by tracking the words people use to refer to soft drinks, which is in fact the map you saw at the top of this story. Pop or soda, or even Coke, these small linguistic differences are not as small as we might think. While “soda” commands the Northeast and West Coast (green) and “pop” is in between (black), “Coke” reigns in the south (turquoise). These small distinctions can often act as touchstones for larger cultural differences.
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I live in west PA and it’s fighting words if you don’t say soda.
I thought everyone said coke.
What’s wrong with you people.I didn’t even know this was a THING.
>calling something that isn’t coca cola or cocaine ‘coke’
what the actual fuck is wrong with you hahahaha
i dont even say coke omg even when talking about coca cola
i dont even know anyone other than adults who say just coke
its always just the name of the soda unless youre referring to more than 2
unless thats just the people i know idk
lmfao why would anyone say Coke. That’s only one type of soft drink.
…well unless southerners think Coke is the only soda in existence. o.O
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what the fuck
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OH MY GOD
What do plants eat? They eat dead animals; that’s the problem. For me that was a horrifying realization. You want to be an organic gardener, of course, so you keep reading “Feed the soil, feed the soil, feed the soil…”
Alright. Well what does the soil want to eat? Well it wants manure, and it wants urine, and it wants blood meal and bone meal. And I…could not face that. I wanted my garden to be pure and death-free. It didn’t matter what I wanted: plants wanted those things; they needed those things to grow…
So, I sort played a moral hide-and-seek in my mind. I was left with this realization that I could eat an animal directly, or I could pass an animal through a plant and then eat it, but either way there were animals involved in this process. I could not remove animals from the equation.
I had to accept on some level that there was a cycle here, and it was very ancient, and ultimately very spiritual. It was really hard for me to accept the ‘death’ part of that equation. Years. It took me years to finally face it. But there wasn’t any way out of it if I was going to grow things.
Lierre Keith, on gardening as a vegan; October 8, 2009 on Underground Wellness Radio (via weeta)
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