Originally Posted by cjaye44
Back in VA it was a couch and we said soft drink for anything like Coke or Pepsi. I remember my mother saying "slow as molasses running uphill in January" when we kids didn't move quick enough for her.
The phrase here is "as slow as cold molasses" .
I find it very interesting that so many phrases from all over North America/Australia/UK are so similar even though we are very geographically diverse!