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I was travelling with my family for the holiday last week, and we stopped at a Chick-fil-A outside of Montgomery, AL, for lunch. In line, we overheard this conversation from another family:
Mom: What do you want to drink?
Daughter (probably 8 or 9 years old): Water.
Mom: No, I'll get you a Coke.
Dad: Why can't she get water?
Mom: All she'll have to drink when we get to Nanna's is water, so I want her to have something else now.
That is unbelievable. Finally a kid smart enough to ask for water, and the stupid parent tries to force soda on them! WTF? Water and milk are all my kids get at home. Soda is a RARE occasion, as it should be.
Funny I'm reading Don't Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock and it talks so much about how it's usually the kids that whine and cry for junk food, sugar, pop and parents cave...here a kid is making healthy choices and the mom is telling her to get Coke???
That is unbelievable. Finally a kid smart enough to ask for water, and the stupid parent tries to force soda on them! WTF? Water and milk are all my kids get at home. Soda is a RARE occasion, as it should be.
x2!!! My kids beg for pop sometimes, and we buy the little 6 oz cans sometimes as a treat - but one can counts as dessert then!
Don't care if "coke" meant sprite, still - SMACK that mom!!!
Um...........Yeah, we REALLY shouldn't judge people. HONESTLY! what if there's a water shortage in Alabama?! huh!? For all we know the mother could have been trying to help preseve what little there is.
HAH! fat chance.
Some people......I tell ya.
I was travelling with my family for the holiday last week, and we stopped at a Chick-fil-A outside of Montgomery, AL, for lunch. In line, we overheard this conversation from another family:
Mom: What do you want to drink?
Daughter (probably 8 or 9 years old): Water.
Mom: No, I'll get you a Coke.
Dad: Why can't she get water?
Mom: All she'll have to drink when we get to Nanna's is water, so I want her to have something else now.
At that point, my head exploded.
I'm going to play devil's advocate and resist the universal knee jerk "bad mommy" response. I'll assume that Mom knows her own offspring pretty well, and therefore knows that said offspring is going to badly want some sort of soft drink at some point. Once they get to "Nanna's" there will be no option but water, so better to satisfy the urge now, then later when the request for "coke" comes up she can respond that offspring has already satisfied quota for "coke". Some fights are easier to head off at the pass, and some just aren't worth fighting.
All "coke" is 99% water, and while it's certainly can't be called healthy, it also can't be universally dismissed as unhealthy either. It's neither, and in moderation it's just fluid with a little bit of sweetener. Climb down off the soapbox, have a coke and a smile, and lighten up.
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But there are subtle nuances of context in Southernese and was just pointing out what sounds "right" to my ear and what doesn't. I've never heard anyone say "what kind of Coke do you want" when offering someone a choice of drinks. But it would be perfectly normal to say, "let's go get a Coke" as a generic way of saying, "let's go get a soda."
I'm going to play devil's advocate and resist the universal knee jerk "bad mommy" response. I'll assume that Mom knows her own offspring pretty well, and therefore knows that said offspring is going to badly want some sort of soft drink at some point. Once they get to "Nanna's" there will be no option but water, so better to satisfy the urge now, then later when the request for "coke" comes up she can respond that offspring has already satisfied quota for "coke". Some fights are easier to head off at the pass, and some just aren't worth fighting.
All "coke" is 99% water, and while it's certainly can't be called healthy, it also can't be universally dismissed as unhealthy either. It's neither, and in moderation it's just fluid with a little bit of sweetener. Climb down off the soapbox, have a coke and a smile, and lighten up.
I was thinking the same thing. The mother might have just been thinking ahead to future tantrum. LOL. Also, when I was a kid we were only ever allowed to have soda when we ate out (not often) and on holidays, so when I was allowed to have it, it was a treat. But I doubt that is the case here because then the child would be excited about getting to have a soda, and not begging for water. Could be all she gets at home is soda. Still...this could have been an opportunity to praise the child's healthy choice. Wouldn't it have been nice if the mother had responded instead with, "Ooh, you know water sounds good. Let's all have water!" LOL.
But there are subtle nuances of context in Southernese and was just pointing out what sounds "right" to my ear and what doesn't. I've never heard anyone say "what kind of Coke do you want" when offering someone a choice of drinks. But it would be perfectly normal to say, "let's go get a Coke" as a generic way of saying, "let's go get a soda."
I'm from Louisiana and sounds about right to me.
I hear this conversation a lot when visting someone's house:
Person 1: Do you want a drink; a coke, water, or something?
Person 2: A coke sounds good, what kind do you have?
Person 1: Coke, Dr Pepper, Mountain Dew....
Also, I learned on a trip Colorado that as soon as you leave the south you might at well not even ask for a sweet tea at a restuarant. The waiter will just laugh at you.
Yep, nobody knows what sweet tea is once you leave the area. And anyone that comes to visit is always disturbed when they order tea and it's already sweet when it gets to the table.
I hear this conversation a lot when visting someone's house:
Person 1: Do you want a drink; a coke, water, or something?
Person 2: A coke sounds good, what kind do you have?
Person 1: Coke, Dr Pepper, Mountain Dew....
Also, I learned on a trip Colorado that as soon as you leave the south you might at well not even ask for a sweet tea at a restuarant. The waiter will just laugh at you.
I'm from NW Florida, with lots of family in Al- that sounds exactly like conversations I regularly have.
FYI- I learned many years ago (also in Colorado) that Cracker Barrel everywhere has sweet tea .
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I'm from NW Florida, with lots of family in Al- that sounds exactly like conversations I regularly have.
FYI- I learned many years ago (also in Colorado) that Cracker Barrel everywhere has sweet tea .
Good to know about Cracker Barrel! Olive Garden nowhere (at least that I have been to) has sweet tea by the way. No I don't want strawberry peach tea, I don't care how good it is.
I really wouldn't put too much stock into something that you overheard. I'm not taking up for the mother, or trying to put you down in any way, but there is a possibility that you may have overheard just a portion of the overall conversation.
I have a 4 year old daughter who, when giving the opportunity to make a choice for herself, will be so wish-washy one way or another that I usually have to end up making the decision for her.
Case in point, I made a deal with her that if she was really good at pre-school yesterday, she could have a treat. She wanted Bug Juice (sugar with a tad bit of koolaid in a bottle) or an ice cream cone. She debated, and debated, and finally decided on the ice cream cone although I knew that she would want the Bug Juice later. Two licks into the cone she decided that she would rather have the Bug Juice instead and didn't want anything to do with the cone at that point. She even handed the cone back to me and began pouting about not getting the bug juice. I threw the cone out the window and proceeded on.
All parents go through similar situations. Maybe their daughter is like mine and often changes her mind on things. Maybe the mother would prefer that she had "pop" during lunchtime instead of during the evening so that she wouldn't be on a sugar high before bed time. Who knows.
I know one thing though, if you would have saw me throw an ice cream cone out of the window yesterday without knowing the reason behind it, you may be warning people not to eat ice cream at McDonalds for no reason.
I don't drink sweet tea, so I would be happy not to have to distinguish between sweet and unsweet! Hell, around here it's not unusual to order unsweet tea and still get sweet tea!
I don't drink sweet tea, so I would be happy not to have to distinguish between sweet and unsweet! Hell, around here it's not unusual to order unsweet tea and still get sweet tea!
I hear ya brotha. Here you're not allowed to decline the free sweet tea from Bojangles, either.
Overheard in Chick-fil-A
Water and milk are all my kids get at home. Soda is a RARE occasion, as it should be.
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