Hunting wild game in the big city

[Jamie (K)]

Here are a story and video about a man who hunts wild animals in the middle of my city and eats them. Not only does he eat them, he even has a business selling them.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904020395

[Skrej]

Well, first I had to Google 'red pop' to figure out what that was. Sounds suspiciously close to Big Red, which I've had, and is nasty. Weird aftertaste.

Then, I'm not sure what this means. Either it's a typo, or some sort of regionalism I've not heard.

[Jamie (K)]

Detroit is in "pop" country, which extends, if I remember correctly, from the western part of Pennsylvania out past Colorado, before you run into "soda" again. Chicago is a dot of soda in the midst of a big sea of pop, but people who move from pop country to Chicago assume that the whole rest of the US says "soda", when it really doesn't. Based on old movies, it appears to me that Californians used to say "pop" but switched to "soda" at some point or other, probably due to a huge influx of people from New York in the '40s or '50s.

Anyway, "red pop" (pronounced "RED pop") is what Detroiters call that red-colored pop that has an unidentifiable fruit flavor that's not berry, not cherry, but nonetheless tastes like it should be red. It tastes something like cough medicine, but it's more pleasant. The "coon man" is drinking "Rock & Rye" from the Faygo company. It's a red cream soda that's only available in or near Michigan, and it doesn't taste like anything I've tasted anywhere else. It's actually quite good, more "full bodied" than a typical red pop, to use wine connoisseur's lingo. That and Vernor's ginger ale are the two flavors Detroiters miss when they move, and you can't get anything similar anywhere else.

I have no idea what "gaze" is supposed to mean there. It could be a typo or a dialect word brought up from the South.