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Journey/Survivor wrote:In northern Ohio we mostly call it pop. But we are well aware of it also being called soda. A few years back a friend of mine who is from the Cleveland area like I am myself, went on a business trip to Boston. While he was there in one of the hotels in Boston he asked one of the hotel employees if they had a pop machine in the hotel. The hotel employee asked him to repeat what he was asking, so my friend again said "Do you have a pop machine in the hotel?" The hotel worker then asked my friend "What's a pop machine?" My friend said "You know, a machine that has Coke or Pepsi." The hotel worker then said "Oh, you mean a soda machine." Regardless of whether you call it pop or soda in your area, how can anyone not know that a pop machine is a soda machine, or vice-versa?

When I was a kid, my family and I were on a trip to Chicago, and my mother asked an employee in a Chicago grocery store where they have the cottage Ham, and the grocery store employee did not know what Cottage Ham is, and when my mother explained to the person what it is, the person said that they don't call it that there in Chicago.

I'm also from Chicago....what IS cottage ham?

Nevermind, I just looked it up......I think we call it smoked butt here