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   LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 02:33:23 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

   • clacke
   @clacke Sweden's water sounds great.
   
   I have worked in 15 US states and I have never found a place where tap water tastes good. I always have to buy a filter or just buy bottled water.
   
   The worst places were in #Mississippi (Jackson, Starkville #MS), #Louisiana (Baton Rouge #LA) and #California (Irwindale #CA).
   
   In Irwindale, the water came out looking like diluted milk ... and stayed that way several minutes later. It is an old rock quarrying town, so I suspect it was just rock debris suspended in the water.
   
   In Mississippi, the water came out yellow for a few days before getting clear again. The same thing happened in #Baton_Rouge, but it was only one or two days and it only happened once.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 02:40:48 JST GNU Too

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     @lnxw48a1 @clacke You've never found a place where tap water tastes good in the states? Dude, you need to get out of the city. Plenty of good well water out in the country.
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     @gnu2 I tend to work in smaller cities, like Salina Kansas and Starkville Mississippi, or in state capitals. Many of them aren't horrible, but neither are they particular enjoyable. That's when sodas and other drinks become attractive.
     
     When you drink from a mountain stream (or a bottle of Fiji water) there is a deep pleasure in every sip. You don't want any other beverages, just water.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 22:46:19 JST GNU Too

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     @lnxw48a1 soda is something you drink when you have an upset stomach. Are you referring to pop?
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     @gnu2 "soda pop", but in the Western US, it is usually just "soda". I usually only hear "pop" if I am in the Southern States.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 04:57:10 JST GNU Too

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     @lnxw48a1 in the midwest its just pop. When I moved to Houston nobody had any idea what I was asking for when I asked for a "small pop" damn Texans called everything "coke." Proves once again the midwest is the best.
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     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 05:05:30 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @gnu2 Ah, I've spent a few years working in MO, KS, NE, but never encountered "pop" there. I'd guess someone probably made a map of which term is heard in which states, but I'm not goin to look for it right now.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 05:54:01 JST GNU Too

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     @lnxw48a1 none of those are the midwest either
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     • GNU Too
     @gnu2 #CensusBureau disagrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
     
     > The Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 06:16:22 JST GNU Too

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     @lnxw48a1 don't trust the government, ever. The midwest is Wisconsin and all the states that touch it. Maybe Indiana if they are nice today.
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     @gnu2 Tears in Ohio, learning that they've been kicked out of the Midwest.
     
     It's pretty odd how wide the variations are of people's definitions of that particular subset of the US.
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 07:51:23 JST GNU Too

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     @lnxw48a1 Most of Ohio is in the South
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