What do you call the flavor explosion that comes from splashing some soft drinks from every one of a restaurant’s fountains into one cup? A suicide, a graveyard, swampwater? Any special recipes, or do you just wing it? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Soda Suicide”
Do you remember in 2008 when we talked about suicides?
Yeah, where you go down the line at the fountain and you put all those different…
Tab, Coke, Diet Coke, Mountain Dew, and just put them all in there.
Yeah, put them all in there.
Well, in most of the country, they’re called suicides.
But in pockets here and there, they call them something else.
And we heard from a lot of people, but there were two terms that I just came across that I’ve never heard before.
Some people call them graveyards.
Graveyards.
Have you heard that?
And other people call them swamp water.
Well, gee, I wonder why.
There’s sodas that you make at the fountain with a little bit of everything, right?
Yeah, when you’re in elementary school, right?
Are you doing that?
Yeah, elementary school.
What do you call that when you go down the taps in the restaurant and make yourself a mixed drink with all the different sweet sodas?
Or the bar.
Or the bar.
I think that’s called a visit to the bathroom.
This is super interesting to me. I grew up in northeastern Montana and everyone I knew called it a Graveyard. In fact, I had never heard anything else until I moved to Billings in southcentral Montana where I have learned that most people call it a Suicide. I only move about 250 miles, but the slang changed. I thought that was pretty weird. And interesting!
It’s a “suicide,” mostly cola, about 1/3 root beer, with a splash of Dr. Pepper, for me.