Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Swamp Water?

For those that were kids in the 90's...do you remember "Swamp Water"?

Swamp Water was a mixture of all the pop (or "soda" as Finns call it) at the party or wherever you were drinking pop.
Coke, Pepsi, Sprite/7-Up, Root beer, Cream Soda, Ginger Ale, Mountain Dew...whatever was there - you mixed it in together to create "Swamp Water".

Well, I found a mixture of orange and Coke-a-Cola....it's called Mezzo Mix and doesn't taste too bad.


So may this be a lesson to you - whenever you go out and ask for a "pop" - Finns will give you the "WTF?!" eye (unless they know the word).
It's not called "pop" here...it's "soda".
Or just simply stick with "a drink of ________".  I often forget that "pop" is an odd-ball word here and then when I'm about to grab a cup at Subway, THEN the cashier is like, "OH you meant soda."


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