Troubadours of pop
My Grandmother used to refer to tap water as corporation pop…
… I realise that it might need a little translating for some of you:
From corporation (British: a local authority) + pop (a drink, usually sweet and desired by children)
It’s a common phrase of Manchester (other regions use terms like council juice to the same ends) or at least it was at some point… You never can tell with old people whether the slang they use is ancient or so modern even you haven’t heard it yet.
The phrase was used, I suspect, to encourage children to drink (the very cheap) water rather than the (comparatively expensive) pop.
Pop… great onomatopoeia… fizzy isn’t bad either.
Do children still drink water?
I think they may have been turned away from corporation pop… oddly, by the pop corporations.
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The town I live in, Adelaide, is renown for being one of the few ports in the world, along with Bombay, where ships won’t replenish their water from the local supply. Because it’s so bloody horrible to drink. It’s the kind of water that’s so hard that when I travel to other cities I spend twice as long in the shower, not because their water is so fantastic, but because I’m still trying to wash off the soap and get that squeaky, cheese-grater feeling back into my skin.
I had heard that, that your water is a little poor.
It’s bad when water is served as slices rather than cups.
i’ve encountered tap water that smelled and tasted of sulfur, brushing teeth as the worst
Hello, Fellow Radelaidian!
Have you ever noticed that if you don’t use a bath tub for a while around here, it smells as though someone has been farting down the plug hole?
Has anyone ever seen the film Idiocracy? this comic reminds me of an on going joke in that movie about gatorade. People only drink it because its got electrolytes. The people of the world don’t exactly know what electrolytes are, but its what the crave! LOL I guess you have to see it. great comic though.
I certainly have… It’s another wonderful thing from Mike Judge.
It’s one of my favourite sayings, ‘it’s got electrolytes’… works with pretty much everything.
Oh, and the ‘logical endpoint’ of Reality Television that they came to In Idiocracy was hilarious. And Starbucks! So wrong, but so funny. The first thirty minutes of the film were especially good, then it got a bit gratuitous and slap-stick, and the idea of the smartest woman in the world being a stay at home mom rubs me a bit the wrong way. But a good film, nonetheless.
Speaking of funny dystopic future movies: Anyone seen Brazil?
Hm.
I actually don’t drink pop. Because I hate the way the carbonation feels in my mouth. And my favorite brand of bottled water if Fiji, because it tastes exactly like my tap water.
The best water I ever tasted bubbled from the
ground in an almost-wilderness area of Idaho.
It gave me stomach cramps and “intestinal”
discomfort. Thats why I drink coffee.
Haha. That’s why they make water purifiers.
Actually, in general the water was the best part of hiking the AT: spring water every day, fresh and still cold from the spring. All except that one time in Massachusetts, which, contrary to popular belief, is actually an entire state full of swamps and bogs. That one time in Massachusetts we drank water pumped out of the bog, and it tasted… well I’d rather not dwell on what it tasted like. That evening we came to a lady’s house who let us camp on her lawn and get water out of her taps, and it tasted so sweet and wonderful by comparison. In the morning we realized that it had that rotten-egg-strong-sulfur taste you get from well water some times. But it was still so much better than the bog water.
The best water I’ve ever had comes from an artisan well at my grandmothers cabin!
I love when someone says “It’s got electrolytes” to me. So has salt water.
That is hilarious, I’ve never heard such a term used for tap water. And in my experience, it doesnt matter what you tell those evil little brats what something is, they still dont drink it. A good punishment will force those kids to drink what their supposed to!!