Enit? being non-native

[Mike Cleven]

At 05:01 AM 6/23/99 -0700, Jeffrey Kopp wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:17:50 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>>Well, can you at least narrow it down to a Pepsi tribe or a Coke
>>>tribe?
>>
>>You guys are walking on thin ice...;-)  In Canadian slang, a "pepsi" is an
>>extremely derisive term for a French Canadian......
>
>Good heavens... that means I'll have to stick to rye and Coke when
>I'm up there, I guess.

Matter of fact, I don't recall having heard anyone _ever_ order "rye and
pepsi".....

Pepsi's in use as a brandname, even a sub-generic for cola; it's just that
in reference to human beings the connotations are somewhat
unfortunate...... (Pepsi-Cola had quite the grip on Quebec, apparently)