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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
If you had used “pop” instead of “coke” I would have had to fight you
I have been a reader/looker (both maybe) for a while. The first time I saw this, I was like, finally, a good use for circles (aside from the wheel and hula hoops of course). And I swear you graphs should be included in math texts just to make the topic more relatable.
You’ve actually started to influence some of my work.
Come take a peek if you have a minute.
http://www.slantlab.com/create/and-then-i-flat-lined/
Keep up the funny!
Pop/Soda makes sense to me. Even though I prefer one over the other, they both are valid descriptions of a type of drink. Coke on the other hand is an interjection of confusion into any conversation; it is also a specific brand of said type of drink. Because of this situations can occur where you don’t know what they mean.
@Byron
In my travels about the countryside, I have found the generic title associated with that flavored fizzy drink is regional. In TX, it was called Coke. It was understood that the menu would come after. In PA, it is Soda. In a drive through Colorado &/or Arkansas, it was Pop.
I’m not from an area where “jimmies” is used, but isn’t that the term for the chocolate sprinkles? Not-so-affectionately named after Jim Crow laws?
Correct me if I’m wrong. Love the website, but, no, doesn’t seem like the same thing to me.
I agree with your comic in the world at large, but I grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania where ‘jimmies’ always referred to the longer candied toppings and ‘sprinkles’ were the small colored pieces of sugar:
| = jimmies
. = sprinkles
Where the names came from, I honestly don’t know, and they are used synonymously everywhere else I have lived, but ‘back in the day’ I used to think they had meaning.
Yay! After 16 years in the South, this life-long Coke lover has gotten some strange looks here in Seattle.
Yeah, “pop” just sounds weird to me. It’s what my father-in-law calls his dad. It’s not a drink.
@John–It’s not called soda in PA, it’s called pop. It’s soda in New England. (Admittedly, PA is a big state so maybe it is in parts of it, but in western PA, it’s definitely pop.)
1: I called it pop when I lived in western New York State, then I started calling it soda when I went to college in central New York State. Also, people who refer to anything other than Coca-Cola as “coke” are horribly incorrect and they have to stop doing that, they really have to.
2: I respect most people (even the lazy ones) but I love very few. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.
3: I’m now craving sprinkles and/or Jimmies. This has never happened before.
Here is a good map of pop vs. soda vs. coke vs. other: http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html from http://popvssoda.com:2998/
Pennsylvania is split, as it turns out. I grew up in eastern PA and it was soda there. My sister married a guy from Pittsburgh, and it was pop to his family.
Yeah, the use of the term “jimmies” is a propagation of subtle racism, and most people in the deeper south are aware of that fact. People in other parts of the US who use the term are often unaware of the origin.
This should go in the same bucket as “The N word”.
Coke is a type of soda.
Jimmies are a type (chocolate) of sprinkles (racist or not).
Love is a kind of respect.
This makes more sense to me than “same difference” …but I appreciate the analogy.
From Urban Dictionary, for what it’s worth:
“Jimmies were first developed by Just Born Candy Company, which was founded by Samuel Born, who immigrated to the US from Russia around 1910. Born opened a small candy-making and retail store in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1923. Soon after opening the Brooklyn store, Born invited his brothers-in-law, Irv and Jack Shaffer, to join him in the business. With his capable partners handling the factory and growing sales, Born was free to direct his energies to his many candy-related inventions.
“In 1930 James Bartholomew was lucky enough to acquire a job at Just Born, Inc. Bartholomew operated a machine that produced Born’s latest invention, tiny hot-dog shaped chocolate sprinkly things. But what to call them? Born briefly pondered that question before deciding to accredit the name to the producer, Jimmy Bartholomew. The new product was named JIMMIES, which is still a trademarked name, but no longer made by Just Born.The dictionary definition for JIMMIES used to be “decorative things.” They have also been called toppettes, shots, fancies, trimettes and sprinkles.
“When they came to Boston, (circa 1947) Brigham’s was the first to promote JIMMIES and did not charge for them. In Boston, JIMMIES are to ice cream like mustard & relish are to a hot dog. Brigham’s has continued the long tradition of serving JIMMIES free of charge on ice cream cones and dishes.”
Doesn’t seem racist to me.
When I was a kid in rural New England, back in the previous century, fizzy drinks were generically called “tonic,” presumably because they used to be promoted like patent medicine. The corner grocery that sold them was called a “spa.” Both terms seem to have been lost now.
Agreed with Mandaliet. I would think that peopel you love would be a small subgroup among people you respect. And Coke to soda (or pop)? Definitely a subset.
The problem with coke = soda/pop/soda pop isn’t just that it’s technically wrong. It’s the same problem with every garbage bin being called a Dumpster(tm). Or the growing trend of calling every MP3 player an iPod(tm).
@rog that ipod thing is pretty irritating to me. everytime someone refers to my music player as an ipod i make a point of telling them it is not an apple product.
and perhaps coke/pepsi could be considered close enough. or coke/cola as both of them are technically cola.
and as a pittsburgher i have to say that we call it pop here. but i thought we were about the only ones that did that.
Am I the only one who grew up calling it ‘soda pop’? (This would have been in Kansas City)
Coke is either soda or pop, but if you asked for pop or soda, a waitress/waiter would have to ask you for what kind, whereas if you ask for a coke, you should get a Coke, unless there is “No Coke, Pepsi.”
In this article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02FOB-onlanguage-t.html?ref=magazine is a fairly convincing argument that “jimmies” comes from a 16th century term “jim-jams” meaning “little doo-dads”.
Gotta say Jessica, this is one of the most wonderful websites ever. Hope you had a great gallery opening.
Born briefly pondered that question before deciding to accredit the name to the producer, Jimmy Bartholomew. The new product was named JIMMIES, which is still a trademarked name, but no longer made by Just Born.The dictionary definition for JIMMIES used to be “decorative things.” They have also been called toppettes, shots, fancies, trimettes and sprinkles.
Are you implying I essentially love my boss?