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- orenthal, on 10/22/2007, -1/+206you must not be a native alabamian. in alabama if its coke, its coke. if its sprite, its coke. if its pepsi, its coke. if its fanta, you will probably get your ass kicked.
- Kielrandor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+91I grew up in Canada and all my life we called a Coke, "Coke", a Sprite, "Sprite", etc. But when I was in my teens we moved to Texas. The first restaurant I went to I asked for a "Coke". The Waitress said "What kind?" and I said, "No Diet!, I hate Diet" she looked at me funny and said, "Ok hon, I won't give you diet, but what kind of Coke do you want?"
I just looked at her and she looked at me for like 30 seconds as I tried to figure out what other lkinds of "Coke" there could be. I meekly replied "Regular?"
She wrinkles her brow for a second and then says "Well if you just wanted a Coke why didn't ya just say so!"
I think that was the last time I ever drank Coke, ever since I've drank "Sprite" - Desolite, on 10/22/2007, -5/+59the people i ask for coke usually give me some sort of white powder...
- HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53@Canth: You just want your goddamn liter of cola? =P
- ryan_merket, on 10/22/2007, -8/+45@Canth
Why do you order Coca Cola in a bar? - Canth, on 10/22/2007, -10/+44I'm from the Netherlands, and in a bar you'll order "Cola". And you can expect either Coke or Pepsi... But they won't tell you "We only have Pepsi".
I have since moved to the US. And here I'm tired of ordering a "coke" and having them tell me they only have pepsi.. I want cola damnit.. I don't care what brand it is. (well, there are some brands (grocery store brands) that are too disgusting to mention) - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30Kleenex? Walkman? Everybody does that
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28and right now I'm posting on a Slashdot
- diulei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I bet you also call milkshakes "Partially Gelatinated Gum-Based beverages" hehehe.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Why doesn't "pop" make any sense?
Both terms "soda" and "pop" are derived from the older term "soda pop"... - ejfisher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Repoplicans, and Sodacrats.
- apocalizer, on 10/22/2007, -0/+18Up on the Canadian border here we use Coke & Pop interchangeably but people who use Soda remind me of my physics teacher.
P.S. Why do so many Canadians migrate to Texas? I sell Canada shirts on my Cafepress store and most end up in Texas... - NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Okay, lemme get linguistic on your asses.
1. Language is ARBITRARY. Something a lot of people don't understand. Therefore, they're all correct with respect to...
2. Dialect! Personally, I live in Western PA, and here, it's pop. Travel 30 minutes west or 3 hours east and it's soda. Talking to my cousin from Texas or my uncle in Atlanta, it's Coke.
Guess what? It doesn't matter! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18@nodong
Q-Tip, Band-Aid, Frisbee, Xerox.. - drunkbeard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19@MasterGrief:
In one of my business classes a few years ago, we did a blind test between Pepsi, Coca-Cola Classic, RC, and Sam's Choice (a class of about 25 people). Turns out, the class actually voted Sam's Choice as being the tastiest! I think RC may have come second, though I can't remember - all that matters, is that Sam's was #1...a very big surprise to all of us. It's rather surprising how little people would expect of such an "off-brand," despite the fact that many people actually think it tastes better. Quite amazing what marketing can do.
Anyhow, I think I'm one of very few native-born Chicago'ans who use "soda". On the other hand, a friend of mine told me that in more rural areas, people refer to different carbonated beverages as "white coke" (Sprite), "orange coke" (Fanta), and so forth. Generally, I tend to order drinks by their brand name, but the broad terminology stays. While I was growing up, I could never quite figure out where the hell people got "pop" from. Even now the term sounds weird to me. - jer4202, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18@nodong
What kind of ignorami call an entire class of people based off the select few that live around them?
Oh, bigots. - sinfree, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22I am that one person in Alabama that says something other than coke ;). I say soda.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -18/+33IMHO Soft drink is the correct term.
Pop is tied too strongly to popular music.
Coke is brand specific.
Soda implies soda water, which is carbonated water. Unless you eat baking soda? :p - friend18, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16How come the people like me who call it carbonated hydrogenated corn syrup are on the map?
- GreyDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13When I was young, everything was a coke. I was amazed when I learned that there was another kind of coke called a "pepsi." Later, I asked a clerk what kind of cokes they had, and my dad chewed me out for causing trouble.
- madkow420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13We use pop here in pittsburgh. And gumband (rubberband), MAC (ATM), yunz (y'all), red up (fix up/clean up), buggy (shopping cart).
Though if you use soda/coke/soft drink we know what yunz mean :)
Well heck if you want more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburghese - tgilber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Just to be clear (for those who may take the above comment and draw some conclusions about Texas and/or the South)... in all of my years (in Texas and/or the South) of generically referring to soft drinks as "coke" I've never had anyone ask me "what kind of coke do you want" when I asked for a coke. When ordering at a restaurant, a coke is "Coca-Cola Classic." When I ask my wife to grab me a coke, it's a "Diet Coke" as that's all that's in the fridge.
- HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I call it soda, myself, but I've found that if you order a coke, you'll usually get a coca-cola. Generally, you order specifically what you want, and waiters know that. Coke becomes generic when you're hanging out with your friends and you're just asking them to grab you whatever is in the fridge.
As for only us Texans calling things by their brand names, I'd like to add frisbees and band-aids to the previously mentioned ones. A lot of people call generic products by their brand names. It's only a problem if you're not used to it or don't expect it. I've never had any of that sort of thing be an issue, and I've lived most of my life in Texas. - Feanor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17POP!
- jabelar, on 10/22/2007, -0/+11Moe: The "garage"? Hey fellas, the "garage"! Well, ooh la di da, Mr. French Man.
Homer: Well what do you call it?
Moe: A car hole! - martalli, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15I thought it was properly called "diet mountain dew". Go figure...
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12In Soviet Russia soft drinks name you!
- nodong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I always supposed that this was an issue of economic class rather than geography. I guess I was wrong. Soda and Pop both work fine for me, but what is wrong with southerners that they'd call a can of 7up, a coke?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm from Alberta, and I've never had any trouble in western Canada when I refer to it as a pop. Of course, though, when I'm ordering I refer to a pop by brand name. Traveling south of the border, I try to call it a "soda pop". Haven't had any troubles with that either.
IMO, soda pop, pop, soda, and soft drink are all acceptable terms, though I grew up calling it pop. Making a blanket statement and calling all flavours Coke, though? That's kind of whacky. - moracity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Because you're an idiot and there is plenty of pop not made with cane sugar instead of that nasty high fructose corn syrup.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Dumbest areas? How many New Yorkers know how to stirfry possum roadkill?
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Most Houstonians I know call it soda.
(I'm from Houston, TX)
It says we call it 'coke', but whatever. :p
BTW, you can click each state for more detailed results. - florin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13according to the map, coke = bible belt
wtf? - breezy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20IMHO there is absolutley nothing soft about the carbonation when it hits my mouth.
Soda it is. - Lanser84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Although I appreciate the attempts to decide rationally based on the meaning of these terms in other contexts...I think this phrase is too fargone to be anything but just a sound. And, when it comes to that, all sounds are equal in terms of how well they can represent a class of objects. (With notable exceptions for onomatopoeias.)
Unlike many issues (see: the desire to establish world-wide Calipahate under Sharia) on this one we I think we can agree it's purely a matter of taste and tradition with no further importance and no need to do violence to the opposition. - nyccharlie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Someone should do the same map for beer.
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8here in new york, if you say coke, you mean coke or pepsi. Soda's everything, coke is specificalyl coke or pepsi and pop will get you a dirty look. Cola is rarely used too. Keep it in mind if your in ny. Soda Water as someone mentioned is called Seltzer.
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Soft drink can mean uncarbonated things like lemonade or KoolAid as well, though.
- moracity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I grew up in the military and always said soda. When I moved to the northwest in my teens, I got teased because everyone said pop. Now I say pop and when I moved to the south, I get teased for that. Now, I use either or, with no preference towards one or the other. Sometimes I go old-school and just use the proper full name of soda-pop.
Calling everything coke, well that's just ignorant. I about died when I moved to Atlanta and asked for a Coke for the first time. The server asked me "what kind?" --not referring to Diet, Cherry,etc. - ippersiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8From Canada as well and also refered to it as "pop". Long form, soda pop.
- Warlon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10It's a lot easier when you just call the specific carbonated beverage by its name. Coke is coke and Pepsi is Pepsi.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13No, it just -sounds- correct. Blade is right; the correct term is soft drink.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Canada gets lime and vanilla colas but not cherry. :( When my sister was little she tried Cherry 7up and fell in love, and for years she would ask for it in Canadian restaurants to no avail. One restaurant actually juiced some fresh cherries and poured it in and she loved it so much she couldn't stomach the stuff in the can anymore!
Canada has weird laws about soft drinks - particularly caffeine. For instance, caffeine is a naturally occuring drug in cola so it's allowed, even if it's added. However, other soft drinks, even Mountain Dew which is second in caffeine content in the US behind Jolt, may not have caffeine. As a loophole, Mountain Dew and some other soft drink manufacturers have started marketing caffeinated pop as "energy drinks" and even have dosage recommendations on the cans (most say "Drink 2 of these double-caffeinated beverages per day"). - diulei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Although I agree, that would be the same as "Popsicle" or "Kleenex" which refer to generic items as well. I bet you use those terms, no?
- distrbnce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Counties are ***** huge in the west.
- DiggerDave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7In Canada...BC to be specific, it's always "pop."
Pop refers to any soft drink...
I've never even heard of "different kinds of coke" =S - maino82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8as an out-of-stater who attended penn state for far too many years, i always hated getting involved in the inane east PA vs. west PA soda vs. pop discussion. my friends and i eventually had to add a new bar rule following the "no politics" rule that stated that anyone who brought up the soda vs. pop debate would have to go home sober. unfortunately it was a hard rule to enforce, especially in state college.
- rorrison, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15@Canth: I hate ordering Coke and getting Pepsi. If I didn't care what I got I'd ask for a cola.
- skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Pop is tied too strongly to popular music."
The word "Pop" meaning a soft drink has nothing to do with music, and I don't think many people who hear it without context necessarily think "pop music." In that phrase, "pop" is short for "popular," like "pop culture."
But there are many other senses of "pop," including popcorn, the popping of balloons or bubbles (like carbonation), another word for father, etc., which are all at least as ubiquitous as "pop music." I believe "soda" and "pop" are shortenings of the phrase "soda pop."
The short answer is, there is no "correct term." Language is what it is, where it is. There's no stopping it, and to try is folly (not to mention futile). - oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7it looks like the link is about to go, it was really slow for me, so i grabbed it and put it on tinypic here:
http://i7.tinypic.com/21n1nd5.jpg -
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