Day. May. One.
Yesterday Kathryn and I went to the pool to celebrate Memorial Day. We memorialized Memorial Day by lounging by the pool and getting pounded by the ferocious sun (the sunburns are not pretty). While lounging, we witnessed a game of Categories being played by a group of female youths nearby. You all know this game - One person stands out of the pool with their back turned and begins working through certain "categories." The other players are in the pool trying to make it across without getting caught by the player standing outside of the pool. Their cue to begin moving from one side to the other is when the player standing outside shouts out their chosen item from the given category. Ok. You remember.
One poor girl was not getting anywhere. She was working through the category of colors. She said - Silver, Yellow, Beige (BEIGE?!?!?), Black....uh......Yellow. None of the girls were crossing. And this girl was apparently running out of colors to call out. She kept turning around and none of the other girls were moving, so she had to keep taking steps forward. She really was stinking at this game. So...I got involved. A few moments later she called out "green" (she should have just worked through ROY G BIV) and one of the girls quietly dipped underwater and began her silent crossing. So I shouted out, "Uh oh!!!" The girl turned, jumped in....and didn't catch her. Hey, I tried.
Another weird thing from this game. At one point they were working through the category of "Soda" and the first two sodas that this girl named were "Sun Drop" and "Cheerwine." Honestly - is that the first two sodas that come to your mind?!? Kathryn and I were shocked. I don't think Coke or Dr. Pepper even made it into the mix. Just weird, off-brand, generic sodas. I think she even included "Dr. Thunder."
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"Honestly - is that the first two sodas that come to your mind?!?"
Same reason why if it were "Cigarettes" you would have heard Kools and Salems and not Marlboros. Same reason why if it were "Beer" you would have heard Old English and Schlitz and not Yuengling or Blue Moon. It's all a part of marketing strategies that dictated and formed cultural preferences for certain products so that even generations later a young girl will think drinking Dr. Pepper is "splurging", or even worse, "selling out".
about the soda comment also...
they're from the south. in my hometown, all people drink are cheerwine and sundrop. the gas stations sell both in the frozen form. that's just the way it is.
maybe we need more cheerwine and sun drop at YG.
matt, again, you disappoint me. You should know that after many months of fetching me sundrops and cheerwines out of my mini-fridge, that is simply how NC rolls (to use the language of the young people).
gosh, i hope ya'll were at our neighborhood pool. sounds like it! catch you there this summer!
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