OK. My mother is from the South, so that's probably where we got it.

My originally-from-Gulf-Coast-Texas grandmother always says "cold drink," but I always assumed it was because she's a teetotaller (how do you spell that, anyway), and doesn't want anyone to think she's offering a cocktail.

BF has a french press and a Braun grinder for his beans and he ADORES his coffee that way, although he only drinks one cup a day.

I'd offer someone a cold drink, but I'd ask for a Coke. Soft drink seems more like a written on a sign thing.

I've been pretty good at sticking to one cup of coffee a day. One and a half since I can't let the little bit of Blue Mountain that's in the press after we've had our one cup each go to waste. Yum.

I have never heard anyone say "BOW-tique" and I think I would have been very confused (before today) had anyone done so. That's just crazy talkin'.

We have the reverse problem wrt coffee and visitors - we have to buy Sanka for mr. flea's mother when she visits - she doesn't like brewed coffee. More crazy.

Today is the 10th anniversary of my First Real Date (we had a leadup of meetings and lunches that felt weird and not-datelike, probably because they weren't dates, since mr. flea had not broken up with his previous girlfriend yet) with mr. flea. We went to an Irish Pub (Murphy's in Clifton) and played darts with two very drunk guys both named Dave, one of whom said, "she might be good, if you'd teach her how to throw."

I grew up with "pop," but recognize that, in my neck of the woods, Coke=any non-alcoholic carbonated beverage. Now I refer to it as "soda". I think if I asked for a cold drink around here, there's a chance I'd end up with iced tea. And I really don't like iced tea. Pity, 'cause it would be a cheap way to get my summer caffeine buzz.

Calli, don't you mean sweet tea? What is this "iced tea" of which you speak?

Empress

Ok, so I had to know, so I threadsucked COMM and came up with this:

ita: I think I'm opposed to queens. I'm not sure why. You should be an Empress instead, Aimée. And I'll be Captain of the Guard. There will be uniforms, but then we won't wear them, so no one will know when we're around, just waiting to smash their everloving rebel heads in.

This is an open book test, right?

Timelies,

Don't like coffee, so I don't have a preference. I recall being similarly charmed with the noises my grandparents' perculator made as a kid, though.

Neither boo nor bow sounds wrong to me.

Grew up calling it pop, changed to soda somewhere around highschool/college. Coke for everything sounds ridiculously wrong to me.

Worked retail in Wisconsin for awhile and was very confused by customers asking for where the bubblers and Tyme machines were at first.

Stainless steel is really hard to break. IJS.

Unless you make a sword out of it. That doesn't work so well.

don't you mean sweet tea? What is this "iced tea" of which you speak?

Isn't all tea "sweet tea" unless otherwise specified?

Usually Liptons, with an inch of undissolved sugar in the bottom of the pitcher.

And happy 1st Real Date anniversary!