Carbonated beverages

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 05:40 PM 9/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>So limited (Chicago) is Mike's experience that he believes that "soft
>drink" is only a written form (or an "explanatory" one for non-native
>speakers).
>
>If he would get in his old VW Peace bus and drive south of
>Indianapolis (where he could even find that Bar-B-Que is not a
>synonym for "cookout" or "grill"), he would discover otherwise.
>
>dInIs

I lived in Bloomington ten years but don't recall a distinctive meaning for
Bar-B-Que???  Now Gnaw Bone and Bean Blossom I DO remember.