soda vs. pop vs. coke

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article: http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/807082.asp?cp1=1
---vote: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/

Hmph.

Everyone knows cool people say "soda".

"Soft drink" is reasonably acceptable.

To me "coke" literally means coca cola, and if you meant something else well that's what you asked for so shut the hell up.

::snicker:: ... I'm sorry, but if someone actually came up to me and asked if I wanted "pop", I'd probably laugh in their face.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

I just told elfgirl in IMs that I now have to smack you down.

I am a three-year Atlanta resident. Before that, I lived in Texas for the first 25 years of my life. (Born and raised in Dallas, college at Trinity U. in San Antonio, then two years in Houston.) Oh, and I also lived in London for a year, but that's not the point.

Carbonated beverages are "cokes". When you're feeling generic, you say "soft drink". "Soda" is the stuff you put in the icebox to keep it from getting smelly.

SO THERE.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

::hand flies to forehead dramatically::

Alas! I fear there is now a bone of contention between us!

::hands go to hips:: if when you say about stuff not smelling bad is what I think you're saying, then the label is "baking soda," dearie.

But at least you didn't say "pop".

Let's agree on "soft drink" and call it a day, huh?


Besides, it probably wasn't your fault you spent your first 25 years in Texas. Do you like Atlanta? I had an online boyfriend once who lives in Georgia. I'm waving to you now from pleasant Northern California (San Jose), and I'm quite happy here, where the spiders are small, the deserts are pretty, and in summer its *dry* heat.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

ok, and I forgot to add--- I love your piccy there, with the creek.

[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

Thanks! I took it last autumn when I drove up to the mountains. Sigh... now I want to go back up there ;).

[janus-74.livejournal.com]

Have to agree with Wisteria. Even when I know I'm not going to get Coke, I'll ask for one.

Speaking of which...We were in Atlanta a few years ago, saw Coke World (whatever it's called). Fun place.

[ipomoea.livejournal.com]

Using "coke" to describe all carbonated beverages, whether or not they're actually a Coca-Cola product, seems to be an exclusively Southern thing. I do it, everyone I know does it, but we know better than to go to a restaurant or something and do it. We specify then, and only then. Never really thought of it as a weird thing before.

But pop? Definitely weird.

[ex-kimera823.livejournal.com]

*frowns*

POP! it is POP, damnit!!!!!

I think "pop" is mostly a Canadian thing. 'Cause up here, if you asked for soda, you'd get soda water, which is really just gross on it's own.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

yeah, it is icky on its own---soda would be a genreic term though, after which you'd specify for sprite, pepsi, coke, orange slice, etc.


What is good though-- club soda with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup--- SODA FLOAT!