Funny, I grew up in the wilds of Southern Oregon but my parents were from Bakersfield, CA and we called everything coke too. We had Mountain Dew. I just never saw someone with a DIET version of it. What's the point of cutting calories when you're drinking radioactive waste?
"the Whites" is not something a white person should say, and there's not a thing about us as a group that is unknown, we've studied ourselves so thoroughly.
I don't drink soda & don't care about Mountain Dew or the diet version.
And does he really think that's a real hillbilly thing, like his book?
I once went to a cafe and there were so many educated whites there, I asked for a Diet Mountain Dew and the barista fainted, a woman wearing a Wellesley shirt called an exorcist...
When she's done with all that, can she tell me what my favorite soda being Dr. Pepper says about me? I'm curious what the MA-holding daughter of a Berkeley professor who thinks she's the voice of the working poor can divine about my place in the class war based on a beverage.
I’m a white person from an educated family and have no idea wtf she’s talking about. And also no idea how that’s supposed to explain why it’s ironically racist to drink?
I’ve heard it before, my sister’s now-husband is from NYC and he used to joke about people drinking Mountain Dew upstate. It’s probably not a common stereotype nowadays but Vance didn’t make it up.
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That one’s good too
“Too Bushwood”? #Caddyshack ⛳️
I don't drink soda & don't care about Mountain Dew or the diet version.
And does he really think that's a real hillbilly thing, like his book?
Maybe the theory is that this was triggering to the north atlantic liberals who were the stereotypical Hillbilly Elegy readers
It just can't.
Or around here RC cola and A Treat.
And the *only* soda I really heard any stereotypes about growing up was grape. For obvious and terrible reasons.