So what do you call soda?

[Stormbringer]

...or pop, or soft drinks, or coke...?

http://www.popvssoda.com/

[StormShaman]

Diet Rite. :)

(that stuff is actually pretty good)

[Jeff O Rocks]

I call it by its name Coke, Pepsi, Sprite. I guess if I referred to all of them as a group, I would say soft drink.

[Ashleygirl]

I've all around the country and have heard it called all three (Coke, even if it were Pepsi or Sprite!), but I call it soda.

[Turbulence]

Diet Rite. :)

(that stuff is actually pretty good)

Can't beat it...and it's calorie/sugar/caffeine free too!

Soda is anything carbonated...including coke, pepsi, root beer, selzer water...the works.

[tommy]

I tend to say 'soft drink'... people down here say 'soda', and where I was born, they say 'pop', so I guess I'm a hybrid or something.

[Stormbringer]

I've been all around the country and have heard it called all three (Coke, even if it were Pepsi or Sprite!), but I call it soda.

I have to admit that seeing the site/map I linked to for the first time surprised me with all of the people they claimed called all soft drinks "Coke". I can understand calling Pepsi "Coke", since other than taste, (IMO, Coke is a little sweeter.) the drinks are similar. But calling Sprite, 7-Up, Sunkist, Dr. Pepper, Fresca, Jolt, Ginger Ale, Root Beer, etc. "Coke"? :crazy: With a good chunk of the county map at the Pop vs. Soda site covered in tan, red, and dark brown, I can't help but wonder if a lot of Coca-Cola collectors and advocates saw the survey offered at that site as a way of giving their favorite drink a voice...those who do call all sodas "Coke", I can't imagine them doing that all the time, especially in a restaurant. I've yet to hear someone ask a waiter/waitress "What kinds of "Coke" do you serve?".

Speaking of Coke, here's some interesting lore regarding the actual stuff... :)

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp

[hyena]

i've always called it "soda".

*sips diet coke* :D

[Ashleygirl]

I have to admit that seeing the site/map I linked to for the first time surprised me with all of the people they claimed called all soft drinks "Coke". I can understand calling Pepsi "Coke", since other than taste, (IMO, Coke is a little sweeter.) the drinks are similar. But calling Sprite, 7-Up, Sunkist, Dr. Pepper, Fresca, Jolt, Ginger Ale, Root Beer, etc. "Coke"? :crazy: With a good chunk of the county map at the Pop vs. Soda site covered in tan, red, and dark brown, I can't help but wonder if a lot of Coca-Cola collectors and advocates saw the survey offered at that site as a way of giving their favorite drink a voice...those who do call all sodas "Coke", I can't imagine them doing that all the time, especially in a restaurant. I've yet to hear someone ask a waiter/waitress "What kinds of "Coke" do you serve?".

Speaking of Coke, here's some interesting lore regarding the actual stuff... :)

Yes, it was akward when someone asked for a "Coke", you had to remember to ask "what kind?" "Get me a Dr. Pepper, please!" Don't know why they just didn't ask for what ever type they wanted. Now I just ask for soda and am happy even if it's "club"!!

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cokelore.asp[/quote]

[SouthernCaniac]

Coke, pretty much. I can't even bring myself to say the word "pop"! And when I was doing the Adkins diet last year, i tried diet rite. It tastes fine, but once i realized it had NO CAFFEINE, I switched to water. I just couldn't bear it, it was too much of a tease.

[RIO]

I call it "Burp Through My Nose and Singe Off My Nose Hairs". :beatup:

[Stormbringer]

I call it "Burp Through My Nose and Singe Off My Nose Hairs". :beatup:

http://smilies.crowd9.com/otn/realhappy/xxrotflmao.gif

Oh Rio, you never fail in making me die...laughing, that is. :D

[nccanes]

I spent 20 years of my life in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Baton Rouge is a "coke" town - the vast majority of restaurants, etc serve Coke products rather than Pepsi. I think that's somewhat true of places south of Atlanta (don't know for sure, but it seems that way).

Anyway, I wasn't born there and use the term "soda" to describe carbonated beverages, but all my friends in BR used the term "coke" to describe all sodas. And yes, I've had conversations where people said "I'm going to get a coke, do you want one?" and if answered "yes", the next question was "what kind?".

I think it's a deep south thing.

[Canesluver]

Well, I was born and raised in Northern Virginia, just outside D.C. When I say, "Coke," I pretty much mean anything carbonated.

My husband, who grew up in Kansas, says, "pop," which really makes me laugh, for some reason. . . . .

Funny story: In the mid- to late-80's my husband and I worked with a summer theater company in Virginia. It was a professional summer-stock company that used the theater at the local university. As part of the deal, our company was given a small dorm as our housing for the 2 1/2 months we were there. The actors were always pretty young, just graduating from colleges up and down the East coast and just starting their careers, usually.

Well, my husband made a map/floorplan of the building that he put up in the lobby, showing where the kitchen was on each floor, where the elevators were, vending machines, etc.... Well, where he showed the vending machines, he wrote, "Pop Machine," (i.e. the Coke machine, to me). A few days later, someone drew in another box next to it and wrote, "R&B machine," then a few more days later, another box appeared next to it saying, "Country & Western Machine." And on and on it went all summer, until there was this cluster of little boxes.... Reggae machine, Jazz machine. . . . . :D

[nccanes]

I love your stories Canesluver! :D

"Coke Machine" made me realize that that term is pretty standard usage is it not?

[Jeff O Rocks]

I love your stories Canesluver! :D

"Coke Machine" made me realize that that term is pretty standard usage is it not?

Me too..

and I haven't seen it mentioned here, but for many soft drinks here, they are called Co Colas....no coke...just Co.. ;)

[Stormbringer]

I love your stories Canesluver! :D

"Coke Machine" made me realize that that term is pretty standard usage is it not?

Me too..

and I haven't seen it mentioned here, but for many soft drinks here, they are called Co Colas....no coke...just Co.. ;)

Me three...as for many soft drinks called Co-Colas, my grandparents did that, especially my grandmother and great grandmother on my dad's side. But I can't recall them calling all sodas Co-Colas, just Coke. I seem to recall my grandmother asking me and my brother if we wanted soft drinks whenever she had more than just Coke...

[Jillsdad]

Although not really a generic term because it is copyrighted I have always called soft drinks "Coke".

[Shattered]

I grew up in WV, where we used Coke and pop interchangeably - both as generic terms. Now I usually am very specific - i.e. diet vanilla coke.

Here's a neat all-around survey if you have a few minutes -

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/

Favorite new term - eye sh!+ ;)


Edited to include - the survey is now gone, but the results are still there.

[Caniac]

It's called "coke". Whether you want a Pepsi, a Sprite, or a Diet Lite Fanta, it's a coke.

[RIO]

That was great!! It was fun comparing the way we say things to other states, particularly other southern states. We have some pretty distinct variations in dialect, even from a state or two over, like SC for instance.


I liked some of the choices. Water Bubbler for "water fountain"...LOL!!! :D

[1Irbegirlforever]

I've always called it soda and if I wanted a specific kind, i'd ask for it by it's actual name...(coke, sprite, dr pepper, whatever)
it is pretty neat to find out who says what... :D

[HockeyPat]

I've always called it "soft drink", except for my favorite soft drink "Mello Yellow" which I call "nectar".

My office is pretty much split between coke and soda. If someone asks if anybody wants a soda this one yankee boy always says "I'll have a chocolate malt". They laugh at me for saying soft drink. They tell me I must drink too much because to them a hard drink would be whiskey or liquor and I must be trying to differentiate between the two.

BTW, do any of you ladies know how to hold your liquor?

[Shattered]

BTW, do any of you ladies know how to hold your liquor?

Only if it's brownish and from Scotland - occasional exceptions made for juniper-flavored clear liquors :evil:

[HockeyPat]

By his ears. :angel:

[Jeff O Rocks]

By his ears. :angel:

ok...where is that smiley that does the shamey fingers?? :D :crazy:

[Shell]

I've never heard "soda drink" before..

From the Toronto Sun:
REJECTED: Sprite, the soda drink made by Coca-Cola, has announced it is dropping Kobe Bryant as its commercial spokesman.

The company said the move has nothing to do with Bryant's legal problems.

Right. Whatever. Maybe they caught him having an inappropriate affair with a Big Slurpee.

[Stormbringer]

I've never heard "soda drink" before..

From the Toronto Sun:
REJECTED: Sprite, the soda drink made by Coca-Cola, has announced it is dropping Kobe Bryant as its commercial spokesman.

The company said the move has nothing to do with Bryant's legal problems.

Right. Whatever. Maybe they caught him having an inappropriate affair with a Big Slurpee.

:laugh:

Or maybe being in the same state as the Pepsi Arena was enough to give him the boot...

[Alicia]

By his ears. :angel:

ok...where is that smiley that does the shamey fingers?? :D :crazy:

Here...http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/3/nono.gif